Physick is too weak for lvl 60 casters?

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Originally Posted by justinjarjar

and thunder 1-3... and drg has feint and you use keen flurry in niche times since parry tends to suck. What is your point?

Also it works fine now thou, is it less useful? Yes, but it was never used much in the first place anyways no SMN is taken for phys. they are taken for being a caster dps.

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My point is, why give a caster a healing spell if isn't gonna be effective at all.

Those are very situational, and I havent leveld my blm 50+ so I don't know whats going on with thunder, they buffed thunder last patch iirc
Phsyic was situational but worked okay if healer had a hard time even keeping tank up, so healing myself help healer. But now that it doesnt scale with lvls its getting useless too.

I only see phsy. used like post 30 past that almost never see a point to it, just saying that most classes have outclassed or useless skills (or just so niche they barely matter) at this point I would want them to fix feint to something that is not complete trash for DRGs. Phsy. is also there for SCH since SMN/SCH branching is left over form FF14 pre ARR. It just comes with the funkyness that is2 jobs out of one class. (and Thunder is still broken for the most part.)

I think... The easiest way to "fix" Physick (and Sustain) without making Scholar too overpowered... is to change the MND stat for casters. The only thing AFAIK it's used for is healing, so the easiest way to fix this issue for casters is to change how Mind scales with levels for them. We already know that they can add different bonuses to jobs, since SCH and SMN have different stat bonuses and stat growths, so this wouldn't affect SCH. So if they add a Mind growth so it's at approximately the same level percentage-wise to Intelligence as it is at level 50, it should fix it.

However, that would be tricky as gear ilvl increases... So... Why not add a small amount of Mind to caster gear? Similar to how they added Accuracy to healer gear at level 50?

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Originally Posted by Sylve

Because a DPS Job that is simultaneously Tanking, healing and DPSing is perfectly balanced right? The very fact that were able to keep Titan alive in that situation speaks volumes about its value in its current state.

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A tanking pet that can't tank isn't balanced either, and it's certainly less balanced than Tank job doing more DPS than a DPS job while simultaneously tanking (proficiently) than said DPS job doing no DPS (except by pet) and tanking (barely) with a pet. Even with a Physick spam, Titan can't survive most boss FATEs. He barely survives normal FATEs.

No one really cares if Titan can't tank a dungeon or trial. But it's a DPS loss to even use Titan in the field, and a massive DPS loss struggling to keep him alive in any situation he should be relevant. It's not unbalanced for Physick to keep him alive without spamming.

And that's ignoring that it's nearly a useless spell on BLM.

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Originally Posted by Nepenthe

But what about when HP grows even higher? Let's say it used to be 10%, went to 5%, and then to 1%. Eventually it would be hopeless.

Also I hope I don't come off as argumentative, I am enjoying the discussion :(

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Are we talking straight up gear progression affecting VIT levels or actually leveling up in a new expansion?
BLM and SMN already has a percentile boost to its heals via Traits. I imagine the easiest way to handle the latter would be a simple increase in base MND amounts.
As for gear progression making it worth less, That could be fixed by adding a small INT -> MND conversion into the Magick and Mend Traits.

If we maintained Physik heals at a MAX of 5% of current HP for the Caster even as we progressed gear, it'd keep it away from the realms of OP in pvp while keeping it useful for emergency situations (Though in raids thats never gonna help much lol)

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Originally Posted by Saggo

A tanking pet that can't tank isn't balanced either, and it's certainly less balanced than Tank job doing more DPS than a DPS job while simultaneously tanking (proficiently) than said DPS job doing no DPS (except by pet) and tanking (barely) with a pet. Even with a Physick spam, Titan can't survive most boss FATEs. He barely survives normal FATEs.

No one really cares if Titan can't tank a dungeon or trial. But it's a DPS loss to even use Titan in the field, and a massive DPS loss struggling to keep him alive in any situation he should be relevant. It's not unbalanced for Physick to keep him alive without spamming.

And that's ignoring that it's nearly a useless spell on BLM.

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Except Titan wasn't built with Tanking anything that hits much harder than a regular mob. His entire purpose is to keep things from hitting you in Solo.
He can easily Tank FATE mobs provided you're not in a zerged FATE that scaled the damage up too high. At that point, even real tanks struggle without a Healer.
The only argument you really have is that perhaps Sustain needs a tweak for lvl 50+, but I'm not sure how well his HP scaled.

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Originally Posted by Sylve

Except Titan wasn't built with Tanking anything that hits much harder than a regular mob. His entire purpose is to keep things from hitting you in Solo.
He can easily Tank FATE mobs provided you're not in a zerged FATE that scaled the damage up too high. At that point, even real tanks struggle without a Healer.
The only argument you really have is that perhaps Sustain needs a tweak for lvl 50+, but I'm not sure how well his HP scaled.

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Well no, that's not true. Most 1-49 content he did just fine on bosses, a lot of dungeon bosses too. At 50, he could tank just fine most FATEs. I mean, I saw it, I was there. It was slower and less efficient, but it was fine. The FATEs Titan struggled at were obvious group efforts like big ones at the end of FATE chains. SE seemed to think it was fine too, since for a nominal DPS loss you got a functioning tank.

We could say "Titan was for trash only" all we want, but with no official statement, that's not what experience shows.

Obviously, this was different for endgame dungeons and trials, and like I said, most people didn't expect or care for Titan to shine there.

Come HW, 50-59 leveling content, he gets wrecked by scaling, hard. Damage scaling far outpaces the Titan's HP (since it's tied to caster gear VIT), which ruins his viability as a tanking pet. And since Sustain is HP% and a HoT, it can't, pun not intended, sustain Titan.

You want to tweak Sustain, but for it to be a viable it would need to be on the order of 15-20% of Titan's HP a tick in order to keep up with damage. It's actually more balanced to improve Physick's effect on Titan than it is to supercharge Sustain.

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Originally Posted by sirDarts

You are a caster, a DD, you are not supposed to heal yourself!
Let us healers do our job, and focus on your job, then we won't need more "Should healers DPS?" threads.

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This is about out in the world when you're on your own.

We're basically glass cannons out there, and Physick helps.

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Originally Posted by Averax

This is about out in the world when you're on your own.

We're basically glass cannons out there, and Physick helps.

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good news!!! for the low, low price of 36gil, you can have your own personal healer for 30 minutes.

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Originally Posted by Kiara1

My point is, why give a caster a healing spell if isn't gonna be effective at all.

Those are very situational, and I havent leveld my blm 50+ so I don't know whats going on with thunder, they buffed thunder last patch iirc
Phsyic was situational but worked okay if healer had a hard time even keeping tank up, so healing myself help healer. But now that it doesnt scale with lvls its getting useless too.

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That heal is because arcanist class also goes into scholar.
Hence why it is the only dps class that actually got a spammable heal.

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Originally Posted by Saggo

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Titan only did so well 1 - 50 due to the comparative ease of the content he was used in.
Consider also we generally outgeared every dungeon as it came out.
Titan didnt change, what changed was the difficulty of the content you were using him in. Compare a standard level 50 mob in 2.0 to a standard level 60 mob in Heavensward. Rather large difference in said mobs power and hp.

They don't even have to tweak Sustain directly, All they would need to do is give Titan a higher VIT multiplier past 51, similar to how suddenly the power of the Chocobo's jacked up on hitting 51 (Mine went from 2k hp and 300~ hp Cures to 6k hp and 700+ Cures, without even altering my own gear)
At 50 my Titan has 8k HP to my SMN's 4k, given that my SMN has i88, it could be said that his VIT nearly doubles mine.
I do not know how much HP a level 60 i180 Titan has. However, If we altered Titan to have 2.1x Caster VIT at 51, 2.2x at 52 etc etc until he was sitting on 3x caster VIT at 60, That makes Sustain a whole lot stronger post 50 without requiring buffs to Physick.

If I recall, Sustain heals the pet at a rate based on the Summoner's HP for a few tics... why it works off the Summoner's HP and not the pet's HP, I don't know but that could be part of the problem. Sustain, along with Physick, just aren't scaling well with Titan's Hp that, by design, is larger than mine and while the difference in HP may be proportional, sustain and Physick just don't keep up with the incoming damage. The difference between before and now is when I tackle open world mobs with Titan at around my level, he usually has a limited lifespan, and the only reason he lasts through most of my solo encounters is because, along with using Sustain, I manage to kill targets before they kill him... but his HP bar will be like only half full from a quick encounter, like with fighting 2 mobs in Azys Lla, or for an extended, solo target high difficulty encounter (yet one still designed for a single player) he'll be at 25-50% and that's where just one Physick, at most two, on top of Sustain would have made the difference but now it sucks and Titan wasn't designed to be a dispose-a-pet with every fight being a doom/reprieve type encounter. I've had to premptively swiftcast a new Titan and use quelling strikes when I've had its hp get so low I knew I was about 10-15 seconds from becoming the next thing on something's lunch menu.

It's saved me a few times.

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Originally Posted by Natashio

Let me count the number of times I saved a party because I threw physicks around to help out the healer in dire situations... Well..jeez.. I can't cause I don't have enough fingers on both hands to keep track of the count.

Seems to me a lot of people in this game jump on the bandwagon that thinks, that when ever players find creative ways to use their job abilities that apparently aren't appropriate for their current job..it must be frown upon.

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Brings to mind the amount of hate NIN receives now for bringing up their unintended ability to blink tank in FFXI. The healing thing is a bit tricky though, compared to that.

Generally speaking, you don't want to have some sort of DPS class/job that can literally take over a different crucial role (healing in this case). Remember what happened with Titan-egi tanking Ramuh? Even for small-time content like 4-man dungeons at lv60, you probably don't want to overpower a job to the extent that it can go both ways with ease. It's one thing to be able to simply help (see the non-existent support role), but it's another to allow this helping capability to get out of hand. It's something they probably want to be more apparent in having Physick be weak for anyone not fit to fill a healing role. Think of it like BRD not having the healing LB anymore. I've saved 4/8/24-man content many times with it. Doesn't necessarily mean we needed it though.

Plus, buffing Physick on a base level might be a bit much for anything under 60 lol. It'd be another story if they could scale it based on level, but your stats are what determines that with this game. Seeing as how you likely have zero extra MND as a SMN, it's not surprising that the output is weak in the face of such a huge HP increase.

Heals are based on MND, and guess how much mnd dd casters have? you guessed it, hardly any, and that is your outcome.

Start gearing for mnd on your dps caster then.

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Originally Posted by basketofseals

I dunno why anyone is against this. What's wrong with usable cross class skills? There's few enough as it is.

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Because the problem is not the spells, but the missing mind on casters. Buff the spell and healers are running around with 8k HP cures, while casters still have only 1k HP heals.

Don't ask for a cure/physick buff, ask for a mind buff

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Originally Posted by Buff_Archer

If I recall, Sustain heals the pet at a rate based on the Summoner's HP for a few tics... why it works off the Summoner's HP and not the pet's HP, I don't know but that could be part of the problem.

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Sustain does 8% of the pet's HP a tick, and at 10s duration, you'll get about 3 ticks in, for 24% of the pet's HP healed. 24% every 10s is actually pretty slow in this game, especially 50-60.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Because the problem is not the spells, but the missing mind on casters. Buff the spell and healers are running around with 8k HP cures, while casters still have only 1k HP heals.

Don't ask for a cure/physick buff, ask for a mind buff

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I mentioned literally nothing specific, and neither did the OP. I don't know where you're inferring this from.

I feel like the most elegant solution would be giving summoners a trait which turned physic into a % heal or an increase in potency.

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Originally Posted by Natashio

Let me count the number of times I saved a party because I threw physicks around to help out the healer in dire situations... Well..jeez.. I can't cause I don't have enough fingers on both hands to keep track of the count.

Seems to me a lot of people in this game jump on the bandwagon that thinks, that when ever players find creative ways to use their job abilities that apparently aren't appropriate for their current job..it must be frown upon.

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Really? No offense, but I'm doubtful. I can heal for about 400-500 at lvl 60. That's like a quarter of a dungeon boss' autoattack.

I don't doubt that you threw out some heals at dire times and got through it, but I think you might be overestimating how much of that was because of your 445 physick.

Edit: Unrelated note, why does everyone in this thread seem to be under the impression casters heal for 1k? We heal for about half of that. I'm not convinced that many of you have any idea what you're talking about.

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Originally Posted by justinjarjar

No healer worth their salt should need heals from a dps to sustain health.

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Because everyone plays perfectly every time? Sometimes shit happens, and those piddly arse cures from a caster/PLD saves the day.

Also, Physick started on ACN, which is SMN. The at least should have a trait that boosts it a little bit. Not to the level of SCH of course, but a smidge. Nothing wrong with a job being able to heal itself decently. Anyone against this may as well remove Second Wind/Clemency/Equillibrium from their hotbars.

I just did the lvl 58 BLM quest today and thank goodness for sleep and physic or I would not have beaten it.

Physik what's that?
I main sch, nor heard of it lol

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Originally Posted by Malevicton

Really? No offense, but I'm doubtful. I can heal for about 400-500 at lvl 60. That's like a quarter of a dungeon boss' autoattack.

I don't doubt that you threw out some heals at dire times and got through it, but I think you might be overestimating how much of that was because of your 445 physick.

Edit: Unrelated note, why does everyone in this thread seem to be under the impression casters heal for 1k? We heal for about half of that. I'm not convinced that many of you have any idea what you're talking about.

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The way I interpreted their post was in reference to their pre-HW SMN career and in any content <= lvl 50 that's before the usefulness of Physick really starts to drop off.

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Originally Posted by Saggo

Sustain does 8% of the pet's HP a tick, and at 10s duration, you'll get about 3 ticks in, for 24% of the pet's HP healed. 24% every 10s is actually pretty slow in this game, especially 50-60.

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Ah ok I probably read the tool tip as '% of Summoner's HP' when it must say '% of Summon's HP'. And it does make more sense to have it be based on the pet's HP, I remember thinking WTF when I read the tooltip and thought it said it was based off mine.

Just use X-potions.

TLDR: I want my caster to be able to heal, dps, and tank.


You do realize that letting caster dps cast heals means that healers will be replaced and typical dps expected to heal. It's almost like you want to roll a healer... Wish that was in the game.../sarcasm

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Originally Posted by Aegrus

TLDR: I want my caster to be able to heal, dps, and tank.


You do realize that letting caster dps cast heals means that healers will be replaced and typical dps expected to heal. It's almost like you want to roll a healer... Wish that was in the game.../sarcasm

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Get off yer high horse. Scaling on a couple of things since expansion has been borked(sup 14k FATE in new areas), this is one of them. Nobody's asking for a caster to be able to heal like a healer, but to have the spell work like it did at 50. You remember that right? How SMN/BLM's physick healed a decent chunk of HP to help in "oh shit!" or while soloing? But it didn't heal enough to replace healers? Remember that?

By Altana, some people will say "NO!" to even logical requests.

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Originally Posted by Ayanno

Get off yer high horse. Scaling on a couple of things since expansion has been borked(sup 14k FATE in new areas), this is one of them. Nobody's asking for a caster to be able to heal like a healer, but to have the spell work like it did at 50. You remember that right? How SMN/BLM's physick healed a decent chunk of HP to help in "oh shit!" or while soloing? But it didn't heal enough to replace healers? Remember that?
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First. OP

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Originally Posted by Sunako

Do anybody else have that feeling Physick have so horrible scaling at lvl 60? In lvl 50 it healed like 10% your max hp, but now it heal only 5% max hp. Yah I know you should not need use it in most of content, but still.. Especially in pvp it make huge impact if there is not healers around.

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He want's an impact similar to healers. So yes, he is asking for heals like healers (for physik/cure).

And, apparently you don't think about wider impacts. If a blm for example, can heal for 10% or more of someones life, with infinite mana due to Umbral Ice (much like they could at low levels) balance at higher levels goes out the window. This is especially important if you want to keep the game "balanced" and doubly so for "pvp balance."

This is a very obvious reason for splitting caster gear into int and mnd pieces because having gear that gave both gave healers too much damage and DPS classes too much healing potential (lesser but still relevant issue)

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Originally Posted by sirDarts

You are a caster, a DD, you are not supposed to heal yourself!
Let us healers do our job, and focus on your job, then we won't need more "Should healers DPS?" threads.

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Could not agree more. If dps were doing their job correctly then us healers should never have to dps and the only reason why we need dps skills is so we can do solo content

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Originally Posted by Aegrus

First. OP


He want's an impact similar to healers. So yes, he is asking for heals like healers (for physik/cure).

And, apparently you don't think about wider impacts. If a blm for example, can heal for 10% or more of someones life, with infinite mana due to Umbral Ice (much like they could at low levels) balance at higher levels goes out the window. This is especially important if you want to keep the game "balanced" and doubly so for "pvp balance."

This is a very obvious reason for splitting caster gear into int and mnd pieces because having gear that gave both gave healers too much damage and DPS classes too much healing potential (lesser but still relevant issue)

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Nowhere in the OP is he/she asking for casters to have Physick heal similar to healers. Learn to read. They asked, specifically, if the scaling of the spell could work like it did at 50, now that we're 60. This is not unreasonable. Nobody bitched about SMN/BLM's physick's being overpowered at 50. Nobody stopped bring healers and loaded up on casters because "they could heal, dps, and tank all at once!".

Nobody did ANYTHING your saying they'd do now at 60, when we were 50 if the spell were scaled properly to account for the 10 extra levels and near 100 item levels. Why would they now? Oh, right, they wouldn't. Yer just pulling shit out of the aether to say "NO!".

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Originally Posted by Ayanno

Nowhere in the OP is he/she asking for casters to have Physick heal similar to healers. Learn to read. They asked, specifically, if the scaling of the spell could work like it did at 50, now that we're 60. This is not unreasonable. Nobody bitched about SMN/BLM's physick's being overpowered at 50. Nobody stopped bring healers and loaded up on casters because "they could heal, dps, and tank all at once!".

Nobody did ANYTHING your saying they'd do now at 60, when we were 50 if the spell were scaled properly to account for the 10 extra levels and near 100 item levels. Why would they now? Oh, right, they wouldn't. Yer just pulling shit out of the aether to say "NO!".

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You are on some sorta SJW kick... Tone it down, I am not trying to assassinate your crippled asthmatic kitten. Just because someone doesn't agree with a point, doesn't mean you need to get all angsty. Chillax.

.....so....you're resorting to "umad bro?" now that your argument has been trampled? *shakes head*

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Originally Posted by Ayanno

.....so....you're resorting to "umad bro?" now that your argument has been trampled? *shakes head*

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I believe the developers made a very good call and nipped a potential issue early on in development. Its an opinion, I'm not just saying No. I actually am supporting my arguments with logic and reasoning, you are bringing up issues and projecting them on me. Please stop and actually read the prior posts. Again, relax and accept others may not agree with you. I would love to know why you believe they should and how my concerns aren't valid. Any actual argument would be nice instead of attacking me.

Heals casted by non healers need a substantial cost. Paladins get this in that clemency costs almost half their mp and don't have rapid regen mechanics. Balancing a boss fight when casters can mitigate large damage intakes by sacrificing one or two gcd's to essentially double raid healing output is game breaking if it can be done for every large mechanic.

The developers have a clear goal for group setup, and increasing caster dps heals breaks their design.

Again, I would appreciate it Ayanno if you actually read prior arguments and responded instead of dedicating a whole post to attacking me and instead provided an actual counter-arguement. The attention is flattering, but my ego doesn't require stroking.

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Originally Posted by Aegrus

I believe the developers made a very good call and nipped a potential issue early on in development. Its an opinion, I'm not just saying No. I actually am supporting my arguments with logic and reasoning, you are bringing up issues and projecting them on me. Please stop and actually read the prior posts. Again, relax and accept others may not agree with you. I would love to know why you believe they should and how my concerns aren't valid. Any actual argument would be nice instead of attacking me.

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Alright! Since you asked:

At level 50, SMN/BLM were capable of using the spell Physick(native to SMN, more on that later), for moderate self healing, as well as moderate heals to tanks/pets. At the time, neither one of the two casters were able to cure another for anything more then "decent". Your healer died? Good luck surviving that tank buster with SMN/BLM cures. At no point were either job brought to any content because of the power of their heals. The heals were for solo work, and in a pinch, toss a Physick on that healer who just didn't make it out of that Orange Circle of Death, allowing the healer to get his/her OWN cures off to stay alive.

The problem is, our HP totals at 60 is so much higher then they were at 50 cap, but the spell didn't scale up to accommodate this fact. A WAR with 20k HP isn't going to be "Hell yeah! That BLM just healed me for 2k! I don't need that WHM anymore! The BLM can heal and dps better!" Where'd I get the 2k? That would be the 10% the OP asked for, NOT to make casters heals better/equal/anywhere near the same ballpark as the actual healers.

I "attacked" you because you came in without even reading the OP(none of the things you've claimed were in that post, at all) with a smart ass comment basically saying "NO!" just for saying no. That sets my BS meter off, and I respond accordingly. Don't like it? Read the entire post/thread before commenting and you won't have people "attack" you.

Good day, sir/madam.

EDIT: Whoopsie! Forgot the "more on that later" part about SMN. Physick is native to SMN, they at least should get a trait that increases it to scale how it was for them at 50. I'd prefer BLM also receiving the trait, but wouldn't really be concerned if they didn't get it as well.

I think the main problem is that weapon damage do not make that big impact anymore than what it was lvl 50. Gears now have loads of more int/mind compared what was your weapon damage before.

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Originally Posted by Ayanno

Get off yer high horse. Scaling on a couple of things since expansion has been borked(sup 14k FATE in new areas), this is one of them. Nobody's asking for a caster to be able to heal like a healer, but to have the spell work like it did at 50. You remember that right? How SMN/BLM's physick healed a decent chunk of HP to help in "oh shit!" or while soloing? But it didn't heal enough to replace healers? Remember that?

By Altana, some people will say "NO!" to even logical requests.

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No, I really don't remember casters helping with their heals in "oh shit!" situations. I do remember SMN helping with Swiftcast + Revive, that one is great. But the heals? Never felt a positive impact.
On the other hand I have seen BLMs/SMNs healing themselves because I "neglected" them for 20 seconds while they were in no danger of dying, unless they walk into AoE, and that death would not be prevented by their 400 more HP anyways. This not only caused me to overheal them, which is completely useless in this game, but also cost a chunk of DPS.

First, 10% of a dps classes hp is about 1-1.2k hp atm. 10% of a tanks hp is almost 50-100% more. 2k is a wildly absurd number for a dps to be able to spam. For perspective, clemency, the aforementioned paladin specific heal, heals for 4.5k hp in full str gear, and about 3.3khp in vit gear and costs about 2.5kish mp. Cure, if it healed like you requested, would do half that heal, and cost 500ish mp. See a problem there?

Even a 1k heal, means that casters are preferred just to heal themselves through mechanics they weren't designed to live through without a healer being present. Again, this is just an attempt to explain the design choice, as it would allow for players to cut out a healer slot for another dps, bypass certain heal checks by stacking the same classes, and overall do fights in an unintended manor. While I have no personal problem with unorthodox strategies, the developers rather not trivialize an encounter in a way that eschews class balance and cheapens relevant content.

If they intended for casters to offheal occasionally, they would design a skill similar to paladins, which now fills that roll in a pinch healing situation. They would also balance fights around that being a possibility, and further requiring certain classes, which they tend to avoid. Oh, and it'll further confuse DPS classes, trust me, don't even hint that dps should be trying to heal in a fight, most have a hard enough time doing just the damage part.

While the intent the op, and assuming you as well, is well intentioned, I believe it is also shortsighted and doesn't consider the greater implications.

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Originally Posted by Aegrus

First, 10% of a dps classes hp is about 1-1.2k hp atm. 10% of a tanks hp is almost 50-100% more. 2k is a wildly absurd number for a dps to be able to spam. For perspective, clemency, the aforementioned paladin specific heal, heals for 4.5k hp in full str gear, and about 3.3khp in vit gear and costs about 2.5kish mp. Cure, if it healed like you requested, would do half that heal, and cost 500ish mp. See a problem there? Even a 1k heal, means that having that caster around to heal themselves through mechanics they weren't designed to live through without a healer being present.

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Last shot: I want you to show me a video of a group clearing actual content(no, dungeons don't count), I mean actual raids/primals where they benched there healers and brought along extra casters to do the healing. No, really, show me this video of someone doing this. ..........there isn't a video of a group clearing coil/EX primals with zero healers, instead using casters? Huh. Imagine that!

Now, we're not at 50 anymore, we're 60. WAR at 50 needed roughly 9-10k HP for content. Now? Double that. And yet, the power of Physick cures the same now as it did at 50, regardless of how much more HP everyone has. Or, in other words, the scaling needs to be adjusted, to accommodate the higher HP levels at 60 to be equal in HP% cured, like it was at 50.

That is what the OP asked for.

Well we don't have any defensive abilities to help ourselves unlike blms (manawall/ward) or second wind (all melee jobs have it including ranged) which is off the gcd. We have physic and it doesn't help with anything. Super virus is cool and all but has a long cd that can't really help me when im in trouble, 0 mitigation/recovery abilities for the oshit moments.

Yeah I've noticed that my heals are noticeably weaker than when I was lvl 50. I'm pretty sure this is entirely because SMN's mind stat either didn't go up at all at lvl 60, or went up so little that it made an unnoticeable difference to heal potency. And this is while our health has almost doubled, hence the 10% to 5% thing. If you want this to be "fixed" all that really needs to happen is to give SMNs (and BLMs I guess) a higher base mind stat at lvl 60.

I almost suspect that this was intended though, just to reduce SMN's solo capability and to make them less of a jack of all trades. Stronger heals would be nice (maybe so that we can heal for about 600-700) but I don't really feel like it's terribly necessary right now tbh.

You also can't really buff physick itself since SCH also uses it. The only thing I can think of that I would personally like is to give physick a, say, 100 potency buff, only for when you are healing your pet - just for when sustain won't tick fast enough or when I lose track of garuda and all of a sudden she's floating in range of the boss's cone AOE T_T

Why does everyone go ballistic on healers that don't DPS but if a DPS suggests they want to heal (albeit a small, emergency amount) then they're shot down?

There's a lot of solo only content in this game where you can't even take your chocobo. In that content you need to be able to damage AND stay alive via heals. What is needed is a trait for casters (trait, not action) that buffs physick when cross classed or used by a SMN (not ACN).