AST's Suggestion: Gravity

IMO, Stella is fine with slow, but it should be instant. Seriously, I don't use Stella at all the way it is now. I costs more than malefic, has the same cast time and does less damage. People say it's good for PVP, but if it was instant it would be even better for PVP too.

Since I want Stella to keep the slow, I wish Gravity had heavy, making sense with the name. It would also make it good for PVP AND for dungeons. Also Gravity should be a Lv 46 skill and Combust II should be a Lv 52 skill.

Proposed changes;

Stella: Instant cast ability on 15 sec timer, 100 potency with a 10 sec slow effect

Gravity: Keep everything the same but give it a 10 sec heavy debuff

Stella is useful in A3s, would have been useful in T5 back in the day, is useful in PvP. To be honest I wouldn't be a fan of not having any kind of ST heavy in my kit as a healer, even though it's super situational.

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Originally Posted by Lastelli

It should give 10 secs slow and heavy imo. AST already is the weakest healer dps-wise, at least give gravity a slow effect so dpsing is a little easier during large pulls. I'd love an AST version of bane for spreading the combusts, maybe as an additional effect of CO so with a very long CD so we're sure it's not too powerful, but ofc it will never happen :/

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Celestial Opposition would finally be a good CD if it would spread DoTs/debuffs to targets in range in Diurnal and buffs/A.Benefic's Nocturnal Field to party members in range (similar to Deployment Tactics) in Nocturnal. But yeah, wishful thinking.

While not specifically related to whether Gravity should or shouldn't function differently or have an added effect, I do wish they came up with a more creative idea for a spell called Gravity. Originally I thought it would be cool if the spell behaved like an offensive version of Essential Dignity with damage that scaled in relation to each target's remaining HP. It would pack a punch early on, but gradually drop in power as the enemies lose health.

Gravity inflicting heavy makes a lot of sense since it is GRAVITY afterall.

I'd be happy if it just applied heavy, honestly. Slow would be more useful for dungeon trash, but I don't really care about dungeon trash...

Give gravity the heavy, and stella some other effect, like maybe the slow or something.

I think the devs gave Stella the heavy effect because it's their answer to WHM's "Stone" for, I dunno, solo'ing healers or something. It would be the only healer without a heavy'ing spell early on if it didn't. I doubt they'll change Stella just to buff a spell ASTs can't even use in High Level Roulette... Not without changing the available level of Gravity.

Having said that. Gravity does need something to catch up with how much more potent the other 2 healers are at with AoE (At 50, no less), so I think the "slow" effect on that is a good suggestion.

Would it seem completely broken to give them both heavy?

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Originally Posted by Cidel

Gravity does need something to catch up with how much more potent the other 2 healers are at with AoE (At 50, no less), so I think the "slow" effect on that is a good suggestion.

Would it seem completely broken to give them both heavy?

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Well, considering the fact that both Miasma and Miasma II have Heavy, I guess Stella and Gravity could also have it. But I still wish Stella was instant. AST has no instant damage skill to compare to Ruin II and Fluid Aura.

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

While not specifically related to whether Gravity should or shouldn't function differently or have an added effect, I do wish they came up with a more creative idea for a spell called Gravity. Originally I thought it would be cool if the spell behaved like an offensive version of Essential Dignity with damage that scaled in relation to each target's remaining HP. It would pack a punch early on, but gradually drop in power as the enemies lose health.

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You know that's actually a pretty cool idea. It's pretty in-line with some of the incarnations of gravity in FF.

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Originally Posted by ViDare

Proposed changes;

Stella: Instant cast ability on 15 sec timer, 100 potency with a 10 sec slow effect

Gravity: Keep everything the same but give it a 10 sec heavy debuff

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Prefer to have :

Stella : Instant cast ability on 2,5 sec timer. 80 potency + heavy effect. Can have a 15% chance to make the next Combust II instant. (good dps skill while moving, like Ruin II for SCH but instead of blind you have heavy effect.)