I would healing to be more like DCUO Nature Healing!

There, I said it!

Just to explain. Nature healer since DCUO (when I last played like 2 years ago) had multiple abilities that produces "Spore" effects, which essentially caused healing over time. The more stacks of Spores, the more healing over time the entire party would receive.

Anytime a nature healer wanted to cure a person, it would consume those spores, and based off the number of stacks, would get a potency bonus based off that.

So what I'd like, and who knows, maybe Astrologian is like this, is a healer that focuses on healing over time effects, and has a single target heal that consumed healing over time effects for a big heal. (But I kinda doubt it)

Though another thing I liked was that in DCUO, you attacked the mob doing combos and contributed to damage seemlessly while healing. Part of this was that your single target heals auto-targeted the person with the lowest % health. You never had to worry about targeting someone, cause the game did it, so you could keep attacking the boss full time.

Anyhow, was alot of fun to heal that way. You never did as much damage as DPS or tanks or support jobs, but you definately helped.

I don't think it'd work for this game because of the AOE spam from enemies, especially in the late game content. Even if it wasn't an issue, it'd make healing extremely boring.

I'd like to have something unique for once. I actually hope Astrologian is not like that. Just my opinion, as you have yours.

I want people to stop wanting the game to be another game.

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Originally Posted by Squa11_Leonhart

I want people to stop wanting the game to be another game.

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Yeah, it seems like every other "suggestion" or "proposal" is "You know what would be great? If this game was like (insert game)!"

I can see how that would be an intriguing way to heal. I'm not a fan of the auto target someone with the lowest % HP though. I also wonder how that would work between pulls. Leaving a HOT up all time time is a great way for healers to die. And if you have to build your stacks up from 0 every pull that would make it difficult to respond in high damage situations. However I'm sure there are ways around that and I think it's worth at least looking in to.

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Originally Posted by Picchu

Yeah, it seems like every other "suggestion" or "proposal" is "You know what would be great? If this game was like (insert game)!"

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Yeah, I play this game because it is NOT, those other games.... and people want it to be like them...

its called diversity people, stop wanting everything to be what you want.

whats that acronym in the title of your OP?

DC Universe Online

well i mean.. most of the existing classes kind of have some analogue in another MMO, nature of the business really.

Hopefully in the future we'll get to see some of the more weird ones games have dared to explore.


Edit: and i don't mean something like "both games have a tank" i mean both games have a class with the same role,play style and even a very similar rotation.

Saying this game shouldn't be like other games doesn't make sense because it already borrows a lot from other games of its genre. But then again, so does almost any game in any genre. It just happens that way. I'm not saying SE should only take things from other games, just that an idea isn't inherently bad just because it comes from another game.

As for astrologian, it would be cool to see it have something unique that makes it feel like something more than just a healer with new names for the same types of healing abilities that the other two jobs already have. Since you can clearly see its weapon having cards, maybe there might even be luck-based elements to its support abilities. Something along the lines of your next spell or current effect being enhanced depending on the face of the card being drawn, etc.

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Originally Posted by Squa11_Leonhart

Yeah, I play this game because it is NOT, those other games.... and people want it to be like them...

its called diversity people, stop wanting everything to be what you want.

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This game is like so many games.... Every game in existence has borrowed something from something!

Get off your high horses folk. We all know that everything Final Fantasy, was originally stolen from InfoCom's Zork! :P

Kidding aside... they LITERALLY said when creating this game that they drew inspiration from WOW and Other MMO's when creating this game.

As for the auto targeting healz bit. That was just how that game was because you were busy doing a combo system and you only had 8 powers at a time to use for anythign else. You had to have that feature because you were focusing on combos. Not saying that feature needed included.

Was more about being a HOT (healing over time) healer, that had burst heal mechanics.

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Originally Posted by Steady

This game is like so many games.... Every game in existence has borrowed something from something!

Get off your high horses folk. We all know that everything Final Fantasy, was originally stolen from InfoCom's Zork! :P

Kidding aside... they LITERALLY said when creating this game that they drew inspiration from WOW and Other MMO's when creating this game.

As for the auto targeting healz bit. That was just how that game was because you were busy doing a combo system and you only had 8 powers at a time to use for anythign else. You had to have that feature because you were focusing on combos. Not saying that feature needed included.

Was more about being a HOT (healing over time) healer, that had burst heal mechanics.

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You're just mad because you're too big to ride a horse.

So wait auto attack, tank, healer, dps is an original concept that ffxiv created and replenishing other characters health bars and tank doing abilities to mitigate damage/hate and dps doing skills to deplete you opponents health to 0 is new to any game besides ffxiv cocaine is a hell of a drug. The only difference is the look of the animations those skills do, beyond that mechanic wise it the same for almost any game you can name.

It's an "original" kind of healer but seems to me totally uninteresting way to play healer because you just have stack pre-heal over time on the other players of the party and don't really have to care for them anymore.
Sure you can spend all your time to dps but if you like to dps, why didn't you roll dps.

I'd like a battle system like Mortal Kombat please.

My distaste of "can't we just do [x] from [y]" suggestions aside, I can sort of see Astrologian playing like what you brought up, if not solely because it would carve it a fairly distinct niche from White Mage (identified by its powerful burst heals) and Scholar (identified by its damage prevention), so a class that outshines the other two in heal-over-time effects would carve itself a distinctive niche. And "bursting" those effects is definitely a mechanic I've seen in a number of places that could be an effective way to add more complexity.

Only time will tell.

I'd rather have a healer that can target two people and while he damages the mobs, he would heal the other targetted one. Ofcourse nothing game breaking, their healing and damage potency should be about 20 points less than a dps and healer.

The thing I hope with astrologian is something special with the tarot cards. Certain combinations will either be a healing, debuff, buff or damage attack.

Cure 3 can already heal multiple people for less potency. Same for both medica spells.