Originally Posted by
Theytak
While I agree with your sentiments on asuran fists (we don't need it, shijin spiral and stringing pummel are both stronger, and it doesn't give us any new skill chain properties, because asuran fists and stringing pummel have identical SC properties (Gravitation/Liquefaction)), I know you've read my math as to the problems with maneuvers and why their delay severely hurts us in high haste situations, so I'd prefer you not ignore it, please. I also completely disagree with your stance on the issue in question here, but I'll respond to that with this,
I've spent just as many years dying because Caroline was being a derp as you have, and while I agree that any cure is better than no cure, I don't agree your "we should be happy with the shitty system they gave us because it's better than it was" sentiment. There are still several major flaws with Soulsoother/Stormwaker that really need to be worked out, and we shouldn't just sit by and idly accept that we got any change to them.
I've already explained my feelings on the issue of mp efficiency in this thread, so I'm not going to reiterate them, but I would also point out that for the most part, the -na over cure system IS STILL IN PLACE. If you have 1 light maneuver, your puppet will prioritize curing. However, if you're, say, in abyssea, and try to put up 2-3 LM to boost your cure potency for a bigger heal, this will cause your puppet to revert to -na's before cures. This is somewhat helped by cures and nas being on separate timers now, however there is still a universal delay and that can be enough to completely fuck you over.
Additionally, there are other issues. For example, we still can't force regen, and the puppet won't cast regen on the mobs where it's most desired; we still have to be fighting something DC+ to get regen at all, even though regen is all we need against most EP mobs, and TW mobs aren't even liable to touch us to begin with. They also removed our method of healing sleep when they took it off of eraser, which I still don't understand, and there's the ever present problem that our healer pet can only be used in combat, and with the separated recasts, this issue has been made worse because it's now more difficult to deploy the pet on a random mob you don't actually want to fight just to get your buffs up, because it'll cast slow or dia or something while the global recast is down, which means we need to spam deploy and retrieve, which is both annoying, and logistically stupid. It really makes absolutely no sense that we don't have an ability like, "Support" where the puppet acts as if it's deployed, but only casts healing and defensive magic. This would be so incredibly useful for both soulsoother and stormwaker being usable outside of combat, and also for allowing stormwaker to not drive you insane by starting the first fight where you don't need a buff with a damn thunder IV before you even get a chance to establish hate. I could go on, but I really don't feel like it.
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