"Phrasing" boilerplate shortcuts have arrived!!
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Everyone is busying setting up their shortcuts, leveling to hit the new level cap of 330, and preparing thei
Shortcuts-For-Dummies (like me) YouTube videos.
And I'm joining in on the action.
The shortcuts give us a lot more freedom of what we can do. It allows minstrels to be a lot more creative with our equipment to and xtals and al. We don't have to use dex if we don't want to now.
And now I can finally use no quick cools while using dragonewt. Plus I can use a full drop set in boss fights. Plus I can buff with a full hate set. And finally...
I can heal myself.
Now.
As we know, all of minstrel's skills (at this point) take both MP and HP, except for humming.
As explained before here and on many other blogs and sites, each song will take a fair amount of HP from you--basically more % the lower your HP goes down unless your HP is 1.
It's tricky.
Let's look at the best ways to fix this problem.
1. Items
Items are the best way to recover HP mid-boss fight as a dragonewt spam-type minstrel.
There are several options you could choose from, but I believe these are the most practical:
- Thick Revita (M): 15% of max HP+1000
They are easy to farm quickly on jacobs and will heal quite a bit
- Revl(XL): 2000 HP
These are easy to obtain from the Dirty Gears Quest (Pilaneza, level 240+ only) and are better for you unless your HP is over about 9k (in which case, Thick Revita (M) is better)
-Fruit Revita: 10% of HP + 5% more if VIT is greater than or equal to 200
Fruit Revita can be obtained 5 at a time from the Underground Bailune merchant's Secure the Transport quest. It's not bad but not great unless your HP is greater than 20k.
- Regera (L)/Light Green Eggs: Both of these consumables won't help much in healing you, but they can help "revive" you
Of course, there are a lot of choices you can ultimately decide on. For example, watermelons from kijimu near lunage heals as much as revlx.
The problem with these other types are their inaccessibility. I say you should use the type that is readily available, easy and quick to farm, and heals sufficiently for those moments when you're bish can't heal you in time.
2. Humming
Many minstrels use Humming to recover HP...
but humming recovers very little, even if you have max INT.
So I wouldn't personally count on humming unless my HP is much less than 1k.
In the same way, I wouldn't recommend counting on only joy and sorrow, either, if you plan on doing anything other than buffing.
But ... later on I will post more on joy and sorrow. With what is currently out, joy and sorrow isn't very helpful but it can be with future updates.
3. Petite Heal
Without any INT, petite heal will only recover about 50-60 HP.
Which is even worse than Humming.
But!
We can stack up on Heal Reward gear in order to increase that amount to about 3.5k+
Before, I would not have recommended this, but now that we have "Phrases" boilerplate-shortcuts, this can actually work!
(Jade Rix isn't out yet so we have to deal with Eclaire instead
ジェードリクス
ATK:131-146 HP自然回復+1000 HP自然回復+50% MaxHP+20% ヒール受け+10% アイテム回復+10%
入手:生産【彫金】Lv178)
Current Equipment:
Eclaire
Leather Coat Re-upgraded
Miselatis (veltria)
Fossil Ring
This, without any xtals or ☆ gives u about 3.5k heal reward.
For xtals, Botaniga is your best bet but I'm simply too lazy to farm it.
This setup works great when soloing (or when your bishop is M.I.A.) and you don't have vampire or blow or if your vampire blow can't 1-shot the target.
4. Huge Cherry Blossom
Huge Cherry Blossom heals. a. lot. So if you're an up-close-and-personal minstrel (looking at you throw, nail, and swordy types), huge cherry blossom will help a lot.
But you'll need quite of bit of ☆Automatic in order to procure the drain from huge cherry blossom enough to live in boss fights.