Option for Pet healing

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Originally Posted by Capriana

All this talk with Physick and Sustain, in all honesty, I have never, EVER used sustain, even back in the day when I was an ARC. On PS4, never had it on my hotbar.

If you NEED sustain to perform Solo, then you are doing it wrong. Also, Physick is just there for SCH, its a joke heal on SMN.

They dropped the spell that was least used by all SCH, SMN and ARCs. And that was Sustain.

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Tri-bind still exists.

hell, they gave RDM a version of it for some godforsaken reason.

(seriously, why did ESUNA of all things get made cross-role, yet Tri-bind, Tether, and Freeze didn't? "you know, I think all casters NEED an ability that stops mobs moving but not attacking, and breaks on damage. A debuff remover for healers? Nah, that's optional.")

The lack of Sustain (but the continued presence of Tri-Bind aka That Utterly Useless Thing That Has Never Been On My Hotbars Ever) has been a little frustrating. I started out as ARC as my very first class and SMN is still my main; having Sustain to throw on my topaz carbuncle/titan-egi was damn useful when I bit more than I could chew with pulls while soloing or in solo instance duties where I probably should have some better gear before tackling. Soloing as SMN is by no means impossible in Stormblood, but, again, it's frustrating no longer having a utility to keep my summons up and about. I don't like having to waste time (or swiftcast) and mana to re-summon mid-fight, and the increased healing proc for Rouse is a bit useless when we don't have an effective heal for our pets anyway!

Ideally I'd like to see Sustain returned for SMNs, but I'll take anything the devs come up with to fill this gap, even if it's just our chocobos being able to throw choco-cure on the summons.

All of SMNs problems stem from the fact it was lopped in with the ACN/SCH class. With each patch since it's like SMN is trying to evolve into something of it's own, but each and every patch is like an experiment that is bittersweet, ugh.