What Role Skills would you like to see for Healers?

The Role Skill choices we have currently are stuck between being mandatory and useless at the moment. Personally I would love to see skills like:

Forced Induction
Ability - 3 min Recast
20 Sec Duration
Create a temporary bond with target allowing them to be affected by your spells as if they were in your party.

(In Raids this would allow a Healer to assist an allied Tank in an emergency with their full arsenal of skills.)

Absolute Mastery
Ability - 10 Min Recast
Duration 20 Secs
Your next Ability Cast will have no Recast Time. Can only be used once while engaged in Combat.

Dragoon's Blessing
Ability - 6 Min Recast
Duration 30 Sec
Automatically revive target to a weakened state upon ko.

These are all just fun ideas. Anyone others would be cool to see.

I'd say let's fix the current cross role actions first before thinking about new one.

If they do, we'll have more place for things like rescue, surecast, cleric stance, eye for an eye.

I was gonna say Re-Raise, with an extremely long cooldown, but Dragoon's Blessing is a vastly superior name for.


That said, there should never, under any circumstances, have an instance that forces the use of Rescue.

Im sure the SE Developer's have noted the many threads on every forum about fixing the existing Role Skills and thr system in general. I'm still hopeful that the Healers will all get their individual animations and sound effects back for Esuna.

Gotta think back to White Knight Chronicles days while reading this *-*

Not really a wish, since it would be rather OP than balanced (I guess), I was a mage-heal-tank-dps back in the days, and besides evade-tanking we had skills (as if I could recall the names of those skills x.x), similiar to stoneskin, but one time use only, one was a barrier to completely absorb the next physical attack, the other one was basically the same, but for magical attacks.

tl;dr - two modified stoneskin-skills as a "only next incoming attack for each physical and magical attack with 100% absorbtion"

Doubt this would work in FF14 though ^^

I'd rather healers had a bigger toolkit for enhancements and enfeebles. I would also prefer that bosses spat out more status ailments on the players. As much as I love dpsing on healer I'd also like us to be more support/healer. I personally would find it more fun buffing/de-buffing the players, enfeebling the mobs and doing some dps.

I don't find Esuna a fun ability with the current way they handle debuffs. You just kinda use it when you need to and it's a gcd tax when people fail a mechanic (or worse o5s, a one and done esuna if you don't have a faerie).

I am patiently waiting for the "Shell" Ability/Spell to come back to the game. It was weird to me that they made such a huge fuss about Protect being included but dismissed Shell as irrelevant. I wish it was a placeable effect that the party could stand in for increased defense.

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

I'd rather healers had a bigger toolkit for enhancements and enfeebles. I would also prefer that bosses spat out more status ailments on the players. As much as I love dpsing on healer I'd also like us to be more support/healer. I personally would find it more fun buffing/de-buffing the players, enfeebling the mobs and doing some dps.

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Agreed. Even if the buffs are short like the norm on FFXIV, where - besides Protect - there are no buff wich time is greater than 60 seconds.

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Originally Posted by MiepMausi

... tl;dr - two modified stoneskin-skills as a "only next incoming attack for each physical and magical attack with 100% absorbtion"

Doubt this would work in FF14 though ^^

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BLM used to have that.. but it was too easy to abuse mechanics with (so yeah, doesn't really work).

As for cross-roles:
Lethargy - Inflicts target with Heavy and Slow (oGCD)
Charge - 50% chance of 10% MP recovery (Instant cast, 15/30s cooldown depending on if it worked)
Barrier - Creates a shield around you that absorbs a single hit of up to 50% max HP (oGCD)
Decoy - Increases targets enmity, for all enemies in combat, to your current enmity +1 and prevent enmity generation for 5s
Repose - Single target sleep (if crowd control is going to be a thing all healers should have it)