Scholar Healer Tips for Abyssos Savage - Endwalker 6.3 (2024)

Last updated on Dec 31, 2022 at 10:57by Zyrk5 comments

This page will outline Scholar-specific optimization for theSavage difficulty of Pandaemonium: Abyssos. It assumes, at minimum, abasic understanding of the job and how end game encounters work.

Abyssos is the second raid tier released in the expansionFFXIV: Endwalker and consists of four fights, with the fourth fighthaving two phases and being split with a checkpoint:

1. Mythic Creation: Proto-Carbuncle (P5S)
2. Hemitheos: Hegemone (P6S)
3. Hemitheos: Agdistis (P7S)
4. Perfect Imperfection: Hephaistos (P8S)

If you are looking for more generalized guides,you should take a look at our Savage guides written by Lyra Rose, linked below each section.

Disclaimer: This document contains suggestions. As with all fights, you should coordinate with your co-healerin order to come up with an organized healing plan that minimizes DPS lost to healing.

This fight is quite a large step up in incoming damage compared to the firstfloor of Asphodelos. Tanks take fairly consistent damage throughout the fightbetween auto-attacks and the DoT busters, the latter of which will be a consistentfeature for most fights this tier. Raid-wides will often come in pairs, so it'simportant to make smart use of your mitigations to cover multiple damage instances.

Prepull: This fight starts with two back-to-back raid-wide damage, followed by a longperiod of no party damage, but there's long strings of autos and two sets ofdouble tank busters within the first two minutes of the fight. I recommend thatyou pre-shield with an Adloquium into Deployment Tactics,and put a Recitation plus an Excogitation on the pulling tank.

• Double Rush 1: A fairly hard hitting physical raid-wide,meaning it will deal additional damage to your casters and healers comparedto melee and physical ranged dps. The first Double Rush is also followed bya set of Sonic Howl/Ruby Glow double raid-wides making this the highest burstof party damage in the fight until the soft enrage. I recommend making useof both Summon Seraph and Expedienthere to help with the incoming damage. Consolation can shieldtwo of the hits, and a well timed Expedient will cover both Double Rushand Sonic Howl. Sacred Soil can cover Sonic Howl and RubyGlow as usual.
• Devour: This mechanic is a wall for many parties, and while it shouldhave no incoming damage until the towers after, Expedientcan help slow players to not get hit if they're struggling. Ideally your party members wouldjust use Sprint here instead, but in less than optimal environments like Party Finder, Expedient can save wipes.
• Ruby Glow 5: I know it's confusing to keep track of what every RubyGlow mechanic is, this is the one with Venom Squall during it. It's asignificant amount of damage while the party is separated. This is the bestmechanic in the fight to use a Recitation buffed Adloquiuminto Deployment Tactics. Summon Seraph isvery strong here as she can hit both light parties during the mechanic ifshe's placed center.
• Sonic Shatter: This is the fight's soft enrage mechanic. The bossdoes five raid-wides in a row, with 3 seconds between each raid-wide. This mechanicwill often be skipped, but if you see it, do whatever is needed to keepthe party alive. Pop Sacred Soil alongside any remaining cooldownsand GCD shield each hit.

• Sacred Soil is incredibly strong on this fight for progression,easily covering the back to back raid-wides and double tank busters.
• Remember that the tank hit by Toxic Crunch will also be taking autos whiletheir DoT is ticking. Consider using Excogitation or Aetherpactto help keep them alive.

This fight has a very hard hitting raid-wide in Hemitheos Dark IV, but very fewinstances of actual back to back damage. Use your cooldowns to mitigate Dark IVand you'll find the actual healing pressure in this fight is lower than P5S.

Prepull: This fight starts with a Hemitheos Dark IV raid-wide followed by a ChelicSynergy shared tank buster. The tank buster will usually be mitigated andinvulned by the pulling tank so that there's only one DoT. I recommend thatyou preshield with a Recitation buffed Adloquiuminto Deployment Tactics. Recitation will come back duringthe fight's first major mechanic.

• Pathogenic Cells (Limit Cut): This mechanic looks more threateningthan it is. It hits each player once for non-lethal damage. I typically used Summon Seraph to heal up and shield for this, but that's mostlybecause Summon Seraph doesn't have many great uses in this fight.
• Cachexia 1: The wall in this fight, but most deaths here won't bepreventable by you anyways. The party is fairly spread out here though sodoing a Recitation buffed Adloquiuminto Deployment Tactics can provide a nice buffer. Summon Seraphis good here for the same reason. Of note, if someone does die here andgets raised, they need to be healed before Ptera Ixou if it hasn't gone offalready, as it ignores Res Immunity.
• Cachexia 2: Many parties will just use Tank LB3 here if they seethis mechanic. I recommend using a Recitation buffed Adloquiuminto Deployment Tactics here as well for safety if yousee this. Make sure you don't do it too early, you can use your Purple/Greendebuff timer to help time it (wait until there's less than 30s on it.)

• After the initial raid-wide and buster at the start of the fight, sets ofSynergy/Chelic Synergy into Hemitheos Dark IV occur about every two minuteslike clockwork. Sacred Soil can cover both the buster andraid-wide, use it around midway through the buster's cast bar.
• Expedient can help with movement on some of the Exchangeof Agonies mechanics.

The third fight this tier is fairly basic in the first half, both mechanicsand healing wise. Most of your planning will be for just Inviolate Purgation.

Prepull: This fight starts with a raid-wide into either a shared or doubletankbuster, all of which inflict a bleed. It is recommended that you use an Adloquium into Deployment Tactics. Considerputting a Recitation + Excogitation on oneof the tanks (as both will be taking autos), or just use Recitation to buffyour Adlo before Deploy.

• Inviolate Bonds: A much less threatening version of the laterInviolate Purgation, but it does follow a Spark of Life bleed raid-wide. Expedient and Summon Seraph are both goodhere.
• Inviolate Purgation: The most healing intensive part of the fightby far, it follows a pattern of Stack/Spread>Stack/Spread → Light of Lifeand then repeats. The Stack/Spreads each do reasonable damage, but Lightof Life deals catastrophic damage and needs multiple mitigations to besurvivable. You'll want to use all of your cooldowns here. Be prepared touse Ruin II and Swiftcast for movement. Here'sa sample Scholar heal plan to use as a base. Remember you'll need to moveyour fairy to keep her in range of the party. Every hit should have Succor on it during prog except the one where you use Deployment Tactics, but I won't include Succor repeatedlyfor the sake of space.
  1. Debuffs go out
  2. Use Fey Illumination shortly before first debuffs happen
  3. First Stack/Spread happens
  4. Use Whispering Dawn
  5. use Expedient shortly before second debuffs go off
  6. Second Stack/Spread happens
  7. Use Indomitability
  8. Use Recitation
  9. Use Adloquium
  10. Use Deployment Tactics
  11. Preposition a Sacred Soil on the platform you're running to
  12. Light of Life goes off
  13. Use Fey Blessing
  14. Third Stack/Spread Happens
  15. Use Summon Seraph
  16. Use Consolation
  17. Fourth Stack/Spread happens
  18. Use Consolation
  19. Use Indomitability
  20. Preposition a Sacred Soil on the platform you're running to
  21. Light of Life goes off
• Harvests: Often a wall for prog, but not healing intensive at all.Just put up a shield before each of these in prog for safety.
• Ending Heal Check: Agdistis ends the fight by doing a Spark of Life,Light Party Stacks, and then two additional Spark of Life raid-wides. All of yourcooldowns should be back from Purgation by this point. Make sure to save somefor the last Sparks if you're going to see them. Play safe if you're seeing thispart of the fight, use Sacred Soil and Succoras needed.

• Once again Sacred Soil is very strong on the tankbusters in this fight.Make sure you position it on the tanks properly though.
• Both tanks take autos throughout the fight. Use Aetherpact, Protraction, and Excogitation wisely.

This fight has two different possible timelines, so you'll need to adjust your healingplan a bit based on RNG.

Prepull: This fight starts with a hard-hitting raidwide followed by Spreads ortwo person Stacks. I recommend using a Recitation buffed Adloquium into Deployment Tactics. If you'regoing to use Summon Seraph during Manifold Flames, as I'llsuggest later on, you can use her for prepull shields as well, but you'll needto Away her and resummon your fairy before pull to do a Dissipation firstopener.

• Reforged Reflection 1: Beast/Dog: This mechanic can occur either beforeor after Manifold Flames. You can handle it similarly either way. The vastmajority of the damage here is physical, so casters are the most at risk.The best way to handle this is to use Sacred Soil at thestart of Rearing Rampage, and then use Expedient after thesecond hit of Rampage so that it lasts through all of Stomp Dead. Thisrequires pretty tight positioning that most parties won't do however, inwhich case I recommend using Expedient at the start of Rampage and Sacred Soilfor Stomps instead. Use Indomitability and Succorhere as needed, and remember that fairy abilities can hit everyone hereeasily even if you yourself cannot.
• Reforged Reflection 1: Gorgon/Snake: Not a very complicated mechanichealing wise, but be aware that the Poison puddles can one shot even at i630if they're not mitigated.
• Manifold Flames: I recommend using a Recitationbuffed Adloquium into Deployment Tacticsto prep for this. Summon Seraph is also excellent here,and anything you use here will be back for Fourfold Flames.
• Fourfold Flames: I recommend using a Recitationbuffed Adloquium into Deployment Tacticsto prep for this. Summon Seraph is also excellent here,easily hitting everyone when they run back mid after the first Flare goes off.If Beast happened first, Expedient will also be back here.
• Reforged Reflection 2: Gorgon/Snake: You'll want to prep pretty wellfor this as it's easy to get overwhelmed during the mechanic so minimizinghealing required will help. If this is the Beast first pattern, you cando a Recitation buffed Adloquium into Deployment Tactics and use Summon Seraphas well. Either way prep a shield here and use Expedient.Fairy skills are helpful since they can always come from center.

• Yet another fight with double bleed tank busters that Sacred Soilis good for.

This fight is very healing intensive. You'll want to be GCD shielding most oreven all of these hits in prog. Use Sacred Soil very liberally.If you're in a static, make sure your party has a mitigation plan established,as you'll want every mitigation to be used efficiently.

Prepull: This fight starts with a bleed raid-wide followed by a double tankbuster.I recommend doing just a prepull Succor, and saving your Deployment Tacticsfor Natural Alignment 1.

• Natural Alignment 1: Natural Alignment puts a fairly heavy (17k) DoTon two party members and then does various mechanics on the other six. Excogitation and Aetherpact are bothhelpful for dealing with the DoT at the start of the mechanic, once AoEhealing starts going out you generally don't need to worry much about thosetwo party members.
  To prep for the first Natural Alignment I recommend doing a Recitation buffed Adloquium into Deployment Tactics. It'spossible to get Recitation back in time for the first High Concept hit if usedearly enough. I recommend using it either 8th or 9th GCD, and then Adloquiumimmediately after your first Biolysis refresh.
  You'll want to use basically everything in your kit during each Natural Alignment. I recommendusing Summon Seraph to heal and shield after either thefirst and second hits, or the second and third hits. Expedientcan be used midway through the progress bar of the first Fire/Ice mechanic,covering both hits of Fire/Ice and the following Aioniopyr. If your partyis doing single tile Fire/Ice, Sacred Soil is excellent there,if not just use it for the Aioniopyr.
• High Concept 1: If you have Recitation back in time,I recommend using it to buff your Succor here, and use Sacred Soil here as well for safety. During the first High Concept you shouldbe using Succor between each hit, and Emergency Tactics Succor when you have time as well.
• Natural Alignment 2: Most of this is the same healing wise as the first Natural Alignment,you'll want to use all of your available resources. It's possible to doa Recitation buffed Adloquium into Deployment Tactics both here and the second High Concept. Use Recitationduring the Tyrant's Unholy Darkness cast bar, and Adloquium 2-3 GCDsafter the tankbuster happens, Deploying immediately afterwards.
  Expedient cannot cover both Fire/Ice and Aioniopyr likein NA1, so I recommend using it just before the first Stack mechanicinstead, as it should still be able to hit three instance of incomingdamage if timed well there.
• High Concept 2: Do a Recitation buffed Adloquium into Deployment Tactics toprep if possible. This is mostly similar to the first High Concept, use Succorfor each hit. The major differences are the Ifrit DoT two players will getand the full health check at the end. Like with the Natural Alignment DoT, Excogitationand Aetherpact are both great for dealing with the IfritDoT. Don't hesitate to Adloquium them if you're in range and have the timeto cast as well. For the full health check at the end you'll wantto use a Emergency Tactics Succor and Indomitabilityat the very least. Don't hesitate to do an extra Succor or throw in somemore if needed, you need to be full health when the Phoenix feathers mergeor you're dead.
• Post Ego Death: This phase is a heal and mitigation check. Deathshere are incredibly punishing as you lose the 100% damage up from Everburnon top of gaining Weakness. GCD shielding every hit in prog is non-negotiable.
  You can use Sacred Soil halfway through the first Aionagoniacast and then off cooldown from there so that it covers all three Aionagonias.I recommend pairing one major cooldown with each Aionagonia as well.
  1. Aionagonia 1: Use Expedient during the castbar,it will last through Dominion.
  2. Aionagonia 2: Use Summon Seraph while the previous Dominion's secondtowers are happening. Use a charge of Consolationto prep for the second set of Aionagonia and Dominion.
  3. Aionagonia 3: Do a Recitation buffed Adloquium into Deployment Tactics toprep. Use Swiftcast on the Adloquium if you're taking thesecond set of the second Dominion's towers to make sure you get the Deploy out in time.
  Use all of your other healing tools throughout this phase as necessary,and remember each Aionagonia bleed ticks twice, don't let the last Aionagonia3 tick catch you off guard.

• I recommend doing an Aetherflow First Opener in this fight, as it letsyou use Whispering Dawn in to heal the first raid-wideand the later Dissipation buffs your Adloquiumused to shield for the first Natural Alignment.
• Auto-attacks in this fight are tank stacks and hurt quite a bit. Talk toyour tanks about their plan for Tyrant's Unholy Darkness. You ideallywant one of the tanks to invuln the first and third tankbuster, as those are the onesfollowed by two auto-attacks rather than just one. If you have a Warrior,they can invuln the first and fourth tankbuster on their own, and their co-tank cando the third.
• If all of your casters and healers have 62k+ hp, Limitless Desolationwon't kill from full hp. It's fine to still shield it for prog safety,but this should be one of the first to go.