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Also, something I haven't seen mentioned yet, but Benediction. Sometimes when you cast it at critical HP, the delay is still atrocious and the person you cast it on dies anyways. The reason it is set at INSTANT and you can cast on the move, is so that you can cure them up at THAT SECOND. I'm not talking like the player is at 10 HP or anything, I've seen the person at over a quarter HP and s/he still dies before the benny registers? Can we fix that please?

Pet macros and Raise invulnerability were addressed, and are coming. I wish (hope) they would do away with the tractor effect, it's annoying getting a raise mid-fight and finding yourself clear across the arena. This fix may help with when you are moved into an AoE or w/e, but if you just didn't move and have to go through a 5 second loading screen you could raise without the need for invuln.

Cure III could stand to be reworked (really just a range increase, 4y isn't far enough for most encounters to be worthwhile, most bosses all members are further apart than that to deal with AoE mechincs) and renamed > Curaga, Keep the Cure spell chain single targets with increasing potency, A curaga chain of targeted AoE heals, the medica chain as self-targeted AoE heals.
In any event none of the healers I do stuff with spend any time on Cure III, and any action that is more or less unused needs to be fixed.

Whm enmity generation is brutal too, I've actually told Whms to just let the sch heal, or in 2x Whm groups 1 heal 1 regen/stoneskin and flip-flop for hate control early in the encounter. No other job, except maybe overzealous DDs that pop all CDs and land a first hit (bards i'm looking at you) before I actually pull a thing, have issues with hate control like Whms.

Beyond that I think that Sch and Whm actually came out of the gate in pretty good states, pet mechanics were(are) a little dicey, but 90% functional classes with nearly every ability being useful is better than most roles ended up.

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Originally Posted by farkinbastages

Also, something I haven't seen mentioned yet, but Benediction. Sometimes when you cast it at critical HP, the delay is still atrocious and the person you cast it on dies anyways. The reason it is set at INSTANT and you can cast on the move, is so that you can cure them up at THAT SECOND. I'm not talking like the player is at 10 HP or anything, I've seen the person at over a quarter HP and s/he still dies before the benny registers? Can we fix that please?

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This should be addressed for all instant cast actions, make the effect take place at the start of the animation rather than when it ends. How many Hallowed Grounds have I hit only to die midway through the animation ... what's the point of an "Oh Shit" button if hitting it has a delay of 2 seconds.

The spoon is a lie. There is no whm aggro issue. Granted there is often an issue with tanks not using any cd´s or dd´s not moving out of voidzones but thats not the whm ´s fault. Even Seline will draw aggro then.

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Originally Posted by sharazisspecial

People dying mid raise is frustrating and completely out of my control.

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It can be annoying, yes. I mostly view it as an extra thing to take into consideration when you rez someone + they need to time when they rez. You don't want to rez someone into plumes on say, Ifrit, but if they're smart (and you communicate if not a pug) they can delay when they accept the rez until it's safe. The buff lasts a full minute (the time it takes for Titan HM to do a full rotation, interestingly enough).

In battle rez is so easy with Swiftcast around that there has to be something to balance it out. Requiring a bit of judgement/knowledge on the person doing the rezzing (where to stand/when to rez) and the person getting rezzed (knowing the fight to know when not to rez right away) is a decent compromise.

I wish they'd just rework Cure III entirely. Heck even if they turned it into a Chain Lightning type heal entirely and that it jumps 7yalms between each member or something.

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Originally Posted by Vortok

It can be annoying, yes. I mostly view it as an extra thing to take into consideration when you rez someone + they need to time when they rez. You don't want to rez someone into plumes on say, Ifrit, but if they're smart (and you communicate if not a pug) they can delay when they accept the rez until it's safe. The buff lasts a full minute (the time it takes for Titan HM to do a full rotation, interestingly enough).

In battle rez is so easy with Swiftcast around that there has to be something to balance it out. Requiring a bit of judgement/knowledge on the person doing the rezzing (where to stand/when to rez) and the person getting rezzed (knowing the fight to know when not to rez right away) is a decent compromise.

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Weakness debuff,mana and dps lost while dead is the compromise. The person dead would still need to be ressed in a safe spot with the current planned changes .

The ability macro pet abilities is too awesome for words and is one of the many things I'm looking forward to about 2.1. It should fix so many annoying issues, leaving us SCHs (and SMNs) with only a few minor pet AI gripes to be sorted out going into the future.

Re-Raise <Can I have it?> I mean...really, it would be soo, soo, nice to have this again a fave from FFXI days and even in this game wasn't it?

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Originally Posted by Enfarious

This should be addressed for all instant cast actions, make the effect take place at the start of the animation rather than when it ends. How many Hallowed Grounds have I hit only to die midway through the animation ... what's the point of an "Oh Shit" button if hitting it has a delay of 2 seconds.

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Not even the biggest issue. Lustrate as the same issue (also note that it takes your stack in front of the animation, but heals behind the animation).

Adlo/Succor has a near 1-2 second delay of SHIELD ACTIVATION. Therefore, you can never pre-emptively cast it vs. any boss skill that has <2s cast time. You need almost perfect timing against Twintania to properly shield against DS. More often than not, you rely on a "feel" for when the skill is coming rather than waiting for the cast to come.