Blu Healer

It is fun, much better in harder content than previously with the Pom cure spam while keeping all of its damage abilities.

This is what healers should be like have enough healing tools to comfortably get through most normal content while being pushed more in harder content but still manageable with skill, and having a fun and engaging downtime.

You can do it devs, Blu is proof you can do healers with engaging downtime while not forcing pure dps or pure healing spam, please look at Blu Healer as a template for the actual healers, obviously update each kit to suit they're job gimmick.

Yes that is just what Healers want a New Job that is a Limited Job.

I don’t know. I do think healers should have more dps options but not as many as Blu. Way to much button bloat as it is now with the healers. I agree that healers have way to many healing abilities and some should get removed/consolidated for more dps options but the healers also have support skills too. So gotta keep room for those. It’s a tough call because especially controller players are the ones that will suffer with to many spells.

Previously, blu disappointed me being a party focused job that was supposed to be solo but let me share a tale from yesterday

I went into O11n for a spell grabbing expedition with 7 other blus as the healer given I had no new spells beyond the open world ones. I was a solo healer for one of the harder normal raids.
My healing kit consisted of Pom cure, gobskin, exuviation, white wind and angel snack. (and angel whisper ofc)
My dps kit was electrogenesis (normal attack) devour, magic hammer, superkhana, j kick (gap closer) triple trident, song of torment (dot) eruption, shock strike and glass dance
not a perfect kit since i forgot to put sonic boom on for a reliable ogcd window to stick eruption in, but much more fun than anything I've had for a while.

Holy shit that was a blast, it certainly showed my rust too having quit healing since 5.1. Tank buster aside (the tank blu hadn't got either of the defensive CDs so he ended up tanking it with devour alone)
I didn't have too much in the way of problems when players were dodging correctly. Naturally everything got a bit harder after 3 of them got hit by the old star/larboard confusion but it was doable.

Despite being a solo healer, I kept folks alive and still had some ample time to keep my 30 second dot up and rotate through my spells when not needing to heal. I probably would have had an easier time too if the tank was actually at the top of the party list not in the middle (on ps4 controller, so scrolling sucked)

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Originally Posted by Recon1o6

I probably would have had an easier time too if the tank was actually at the top of the party list not in the middle (on ps4 controller, so scrolling sucked)

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Yeah, you pretty much have to go into Party and put the tank at the top of the list manually. Really sucks, and I'm hoping they can code it to where the icon color itself changes depending on your Mimicry. Meaning the BLU symbol becomes blue when as a tank, green as a healer, and red when staying DPS.

Both heals and tank roles for Blue Mages are in a bad place...

Healer because it’s way too boring! you do nothing but spam pom cure or white wind. It needs more spells to interact with defensive, and also some healing ogcd spells.

Tanks however just need to be less squishy. Their health spike so much that it’s impossible as a healer to not be casting pom cure all times because the loss of a gcd might mean a tank down depending on the moment.

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Originally Posted by SweetPete

I don’t know. I do think healers should have more dps options but not as many as Blu. Way to much button bloat as it is now with the healers. I agree that healers have way to many healing abilities and some should get removed/consolidated for more dps options but the healers also have support skills too. So gotta keep room for those. It’s a tough call because especially controller players are the ones that will suffer with to many spells.

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As a controller user, there is still space on the hotbar for more. If it truly is a problem, well the healer forums have been full of suggestions to cull/merge redundant heals and useless buttons and replace them with dps and utility buttons. The charge system is and can be better used with some heals

A controller has 32 slots. Naturally 1 of those will always be pots or raiders will riot so its effectively 31.

Whm for example has at least 5 of their buttons that can be changed or merged into something better. Namely cure 1, medica 1, fluid aura, plenary and cure 3.
Ast is similar. benefic 1, play, undraw...but we might as well ignore ast since the devs have stated their intent to butcher it further

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Healer because it’s way too boring! you do nothing but spam pom cure or white wind. It needs more spells to interact with defensive, and also some healing ogcd spells.

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Collect more spells. Gobskin is an AoE shield. Strotam is an AoE medica with no cooldown. Angel's Snack is a 2 minute cooldown 400 potency Medica II that anybody can use (but only healers get the Regen out of).

I had a chance to give it a shot. It's not that amazing. Too few healing options for one. What made it a little more interesting was that the tanks are a little squishier than normal, and healer dps is pretty gimped so less of a focus. With that said, I did enjoy actually having a dps kit.

Downtime are great as BLU, but the healing kit still feels incomplete.
A bit more of option would be great, especially some oGCD

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

Collect more spells. Gobskin is an AoE shield. Strotam is an AoE medica with no cooldown. Angel's Snack is a 2 minute cooldown 400 potency Medica II that anybody can use (but only healers get the Regen out of).

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You would still be spamming Pom Cure. Gobskin is way too weak to be worth. Strotam basically fills the same usage niche of white wind.

Again, blue mage healers need actual ogcd healing and spells that interact with each other. Or at least more durable tanks so you won’t have to spend every single gcd on pom cures.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

You would still be spamming Pom Cure. Gobskin is way too weak to be worth. Strotam basically fills the same usage niche of white wind.

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Not really. White Wind is not meant to be cast regularly. It functions better as a tank/dps self-heal used only on occasion when near 50% hp. Strotam works much better as a regularly cast AoE heal.

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Again, blue mage healers need actual ogcd healing and spells that interact with each other. Or at least more durable tanks so you won’t have to spend every single gcd on pom cures.

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I'd argue the reverse. Blue Mage demonstrates that the problem with the healers is actually having to many ogcds.

While too many oGCDs would be awful, BLU deserves at least one. I wonder what would be to ramifications of Angel Snack (and by extension, Dragon Force and Matra Magic) being oGCDs

I have taken White Wind out of my DPS rotations and just put my trust in the healer. There’s nothing more obnoxious from a healers perspective to try to top the party off only for the DPS or Tank for that matter to throw in their completely unnecessary White Wind.

My eyes are 100% still looking at Angel Whisper and Transfusion when it comes to perfecting the Healer BLU. Both of the spells are outrageously painful to play around when they should actually be working in tandem. Angel Whisper needs to be adjusted to be a normal not-300-effing-second-cooldown when you are a Healer. How is it that a bunch of spells got role adjustments and AW didn’t. And if not, then Angel Whisper should be self targetable for the effect of Reraise, in so that Transfusion can be properly used as your Benediction spell.