dev1024 - healing magic

[Tazz]

Sad to see that still no cure V for red mage or scholar

[Daniel]

I'll second that

[Seriha]

I'd rather have a unique RDM over going back to the pink mage days.

[Hyrist]

I'd rather have a unique RDM over going back to the pink mage days.

This.

Additionally they said they were trying to find more unique means of assisting curing and support rather than just giving higher tiers of cure around.

[Sygnus]

I agree with the OP. Party dont want redmage and scholar anymore bc of the lack of healing power. Even if our debuff is godlike, no one care i had to recycle myself in blackmage to enter seal's party and no i dont want to be whitemage. I like hybrid caster. We dont ask for cure VI we ask for cure V. think about it. We didnt received any new cure since level 48. Forget regeneration 2, we get it too late. And more now they give addle to whitemage... oh not like i care, this spell is useless by most standard. Raise 2??? what a joke. yes great we have another raise... that it.. no one care now of exp lost. No serious, we need CURE V now, not in 8 month at level 99.

Maybe a please can change something? PLEASE!! PLEASE!!

[Bubeeky]

I'm thrilled that they didn't give sch or rdm cure V...back at 75 whm was all but obsolete because rdm and sch could match our cures and were so much better at mp efficiency, then they'd turn around and complain about only ever being asked to main heal parties....I can't even count how many rdm's complained to me about having to main heal meripos :P now we whms have a hold on the top of the healing hill with cure V and everyone else wants it...keep it whm only SE!

[cidbahamut]

If Cure V is the only thing keeping White Mage at the top of the hill then the game has some serious design issues to work out.

[Bubeeky]

not disagreeing there cid, but that's how it is....I for one would be thrilled for rdm and sch to be able to contribute to the healing scene...every other MMO has 3-4 healers easily, but each one brings something unique to the table that the others don't...that's what I'd like to see here, where sch and rdm would get their own unique brand of cures, not just a copy/paste of whm cure V and I think that's what SE is trying to work towards. Besides, SE already said that sch and rdm would not be getting cure V right now, and that they were looking into other options, so it really shouldn't have surprised anyone....

[cidbahamut]

Well the other options generally consist of pre-emptive damage mitigation or healing over time, both of which White Mage has a stranglehold on at the moment. So unless SE is willing to radically alter that, I don't see there being any healing options other than White Mage as we make our way to the 99 cap. It's an issue that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. Doesn't necessarily have to be with Cure V, but that is the most easily recognizable solution to the problem.

Work with me here, how do you see things playing out if Cure V remains exclusive to WHM?

[Bubeeky]

well, one thing that EQ2 did that I liked was reactive cures, where it worked like a buff, and everytime the target got hit, the buff healed them a little bit...sch/rdm could also take on aspects of a time mage, and master the heal over time spells...seeing how sch's thing is spell manipulation, they could also combine the lesser cures with something like a regen effect or something, I dunno...

could also take sch in the route of combat general, since the RP concept is a strategist and give 'em JA's that gave the entire pt a regen/regain/refresh, or give them JA's that were modeled after battle formations some how, to give the pt some kind of bonuses