A summary of healer issues

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Originally Posted by Kissune

By 'weaker' I mean just a heal amp, no extra stuff added to the other abilities. Effectively turn it into a less interesting neutral sect with no opportunity cost, decision making, or reward for optimizing aetherflow usage.

Which is exactly why I expect it to happen :P

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Oh I know I mean if they make seraphism an improvement over dissipation with no opportunity cost what are they going to add to seraphism to make that upgrade worth it. That’s the scary part

Adding some instacasts to GCD shields as a level 100 capstone of a level 60 skill seems weak, are they going to buff the healing amplifier further, that’s the scary part

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Oh I know I mean if they make seraphism an improvement over dissipation with no opportunity cost what are they going to add to seraphism to make that upgrade worth it. That’s the scary part

Adding some instacasts to GCD shields as a level 100 capstone of a level 60 skill seems weak, are they going to buff the healing amplifier further, that’s the scary part

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100 capstone is gonna be dissipation upgrade to seraphism.

Effect reads. Upgrading dissipation to seraphim’s and lets the fairy stay active while using this ability.

Would be hilarious and mega sad if they do stuff like this.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Oh I know I mean if they make seraphism an improvement over dissipation with no opportunity cost what are they going to add to seraphism to make that upgrade worth it. That’s the scary part

Adding some instacasts to GCD shields as a level 100 capstone of a level 60 skill seems weak, are they going to buff the healing amplifier further, that’s the scary part

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Interestingly enough it seems like the very act of activating Seraphism is not an oGCD, at least judging by the fact that there is no teal whoosh effect in the trailer. So it's a GCD that makes your GCDs instant and presumeably more potent.

https://i.imghippo.com/files/s0iVd1716643390.gif

It is quite likely not to be an oGCD.

Then again, today's Afflatus Misery also have that windy teal VFX on their caster when used despite being a GCD, hence one of the examples of outliers in that case. So who know. :shrug:

Bump for clarity

I would say at the very core of it all is two issues.

First is that as they keep adding new OGCD heals, tank heals and the combat design exclusively centers around short bursts of damage from the boss... Healers keep getting excessively more downtime in fights, but they absolutely refuse to give healers anything to do in this downtime other than spam their one attack spell.

Second is that most healers don't really have any way to really use their Job Gauge in a positive manner... AST cards being a damage boost were always useful, but you need good RNG for Astrodyne and Minor Arcana is a 50/50 to be useful... SCH being the best healer class, it can get rid of extra Aetherflows to do damage so you can always make full use of them, but the attack is a 100 potency one.
The other two are completely shafted as WHM has to overheal with lilies to get to use Afflatus that they had to buff multiple times to not be a DPS loss compared to Glare spam. And SGE has to overheal with Druochole to recover MP.

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Then again, today's Afflatus Misery also have that windy teal VFX on their caster when used despite being a GCD, hence one of the examples of outliers in that case. So who know. :shrug:

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Might be because the Afflatus skills are always instant, even if they're technically GCDs.
I can't be bothered to check but what VFX does Aspected Benefic have?

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Might be because the Afflatus skills are always instant, even if they're technically GCDs.
I can't be bothered to check but what VFX does Aspected Benefic have?

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Aspected Benefic doesn't have the windy teal VFX either upon execution.

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Aspected Benefic doesn't have the windy teal VFX either upon execution.

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Then I'm out of ideas.

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Might be because the Afflatus skills are always instant, even if they're technically GCDs.
I can't be bothered to check but what VFX does Aspected Benefic have?

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To know wether a skill is GCD or oGCD its also useful to check the cathegory.

Spells and weaponskills are always GCDs
Abilities are always oGCDs