First benediction last night...

[myndreach]

Wow...well I grouped with a lvl 8 bmage and level 9 thief/4war...

we went to the pal mines, and were on level one, and it was extremely easy, so we went to level two...the difficulty ramped up quite quickly to say the least lol...

we were pulling and killing for a bit okay, not getting much xp but having fun anyways...then we got adds...we had 3 tough Quads...it was tough, hp were dropping quick for all of us, then one quad went down.

Two left....im at half mp...im healing constantly as the thief/war isnt able to keep the hate off of the bmage or i very much...one quad is at half health and the other is untouched..then both my PT members hps drop to below 30....

i hit benediction, knowing it is suicide for me but hopefully will give them time...boom! we all heal up, both quads come on me, and im dead pretty quickly (T.T)

a couple seconds after i die, both PT members start saying "noooo!" and getting upset, and kill the hurt quad, leaving one.

they start to run, but i PT/tell them that they have to stay and fight, if they run they'll never make it out getting hit int he back the whole time...

they stop and fight and barely live...the thf has 9 hp, and dia on her...the bmg (also like level 2 whm i think) cures the dia right as the thf hits like 2 hp lol and they both live.

They tell me i did the most noble thing ever, etc. etc. (m_ _m) It felt really good, knowing I had done my job as a whm! I love helping people and a self sacrifice was the ultimate feeling of satisfaction...it was worth the xp loss knowing that the two of them lived (^_^)

I love this class!

[Wolfoot]

At the begining, I used Benediction when all goes wrong and I sacrifice myself for the PT's life.
After 3 or 4 death, I start to find an alternative to death Running :p
When you cast Benediction, you have about 1s to turn back before the mob jump on you, so sometimes you can flee. If the mob cast spells, you can easily take some advence and zone without been hit hard.

When you take some levels, Damages dealers and Tank start to give sufficient damages that anable them to regain aggro on the mob after few hits (but you need to do nothing).

Now, because I can Raise, I only use benediction when I'm near sure that my PT can finish the mob before I die and with Blink or Stoneskin, it give me 1 or 2 hit more than normal to die.
Never use Benediction when only One person is about to die, Divine seal Cure 2,3,4 is quite better and deal less aggro than benediction.
If well used, most of the time, The PT don't realize instantanly what append and "wow" start to come in the Party chan and if the mob die (most of time it's a 200xp)
I can tell, it's very gratefull for Whm

If most of jobs 2H are good, but not realy noticable by all the PT, Benediction can NOT be un-notice !

I love this Job

[Miriamel]

First of all, Dia is not cure-able unless you have Erase (lv32 spell and awfully expensive). Poison can be cured by using Poisona, which can't be accessed at lv2 WHM. Hence, I think the bad effect merely wore off without it being cured.

Secondly, you did a good thing by not running after Benediction. A lot of people just start to run pointlessly, without a zone close, which prevents the melees from hitting and hurting the mob. If a zone is close, though, I agree, zone and clear aggro.

[myndreach]

yeah it didn't cure the dia, just rose the hp to like 18 when they were at like 3 and about to die. (^..^)

[Issaac]

Hehe nice myndreach


Benediction will loose a bit of its scary factor over the lvls. You get some handy tools to hold yourself alife while the monster is punching you for using it.

Running was not an option in this situation so it was the right thing ) Yoou should group with somebody with lvl 5 warrior sub at least or a pure warrior. A tank without provokate is suicide for the white and blackmage.

but in the end all what count is, you had fun ^^