A half an hour sch toolkit from an ex healer.

I'll be honest, I never really played much sch compared to whm or ast but I always appreciated having a competent sch with me back when I used to heal in hw and sb.

But whatever this thing is, its not sch. Its an awful anti synergistic mess held up by energy drain and the whole thing falls apart without it. where's the dots, wheres the debuffs, where's selene?
This isnt the badass job that had my back in the coils, nor the teacher that showed me shield healing for when I picked up noct ast.


So...here's a sch idea from a none sch.

Note: I am not going to give potencies. That's on SE to balance


Goals
1. Add in dps buttons without compromising too much on hotbar real estate (there's room thankfully)
2. Significantly improve the synergy of the kit, the capstones in particular.
3. Return popular removed actions, selene and sch's previous identity as a dot based shield healer with two fairy stances (and fill out the levelling curve)
4. Increase the skill ceiling for both healing and damage without hurting the floor
5. Make sch's healing more shield/burst healing than regen.
6. Make the fae gauge actually useful for more than just a build/spend.

Gauge changes
-Fae gauge now focuses on healing, aetherflow on damage
-Excog, lustrate, indom and soil now cost fae gauge instead of aetherflow
-Aetherflow now usable outside combat. Restores max fae gauge and aetherflow
-In combat, aetherflow now gives 50 fae gauge
-Quickened aetherflow trait returns. also functions on Fae gauge heals.

Fairy changes
-Selene returns. Summon eos now changes to summon selene and vice versa. Summoning a fairy is cast, swapping fairy is instant
-Selene shares her actions on the hotbar with eos
-New pet commands: targeted embrace, embrace (lowest hp), embrace (nearest)
-Summon seraph. Seraph now uses both abilities of the fairies at once during her summon.
-New action: Sustain. While using Selene, converts 1 aetherflow to 30 fae gauge (60s cd). Shares a hotbar space and cooldown with Storm
-New action: Storm. While using eos, converts 30 fae gauge to 1 aetherflow. (60s cd) Shares a hotbar space and cooldown with Sustain
-New action: Seraphic Spur. Restores 1 aetherflow and 30 fae gauge. Can only be executed while summoning seraph. Replaces Sustain/Storm during use.

Healing actions
-Deployment tactics changed to the pvp version. Upgrades from bane (30s cooldown if not 15s from pvp)
-Dissipation now has you go double time with the fairy. Every time you execute a heal, the fairy mirrors it with her own potencies. During execution, broil becomes instant cast
-Seraph mentioned above
-Aetherpact now functions as follows: Costs up to 50 fae gauge. Restores hp to target equal to twice the amount of fae gauge used (so 50 gauge restores 100% health, 30 restores 60% and so on)
-Sacred soil no longer regens. Instead it grants a healing buff to everyone inside the circle in addition to the mitigation
-Eye for an eye returns, upgrades to protaction
-Leeches returns instead of esuna. Restores 10 fae gauge upon cleanse
-Rouse returns, upgrades to seraph
-Succor and Adloqium change so they restore shield and any extra hp is carried over into actual healing
-Emergency tactics makes it so the next fae gauge heal now costs 1 aetherflow instead. (useful if you're out of fae gauge)
-Physick upgrades to Adlo

Dps actions
-Miasma 1/3 is back
-Miasma 2 is back
-Shadowflare is back. Still costs 1 aetherflow
-Bane returns, upgrades to deployment tactics.
-Fester returns, upgrades to contagion. Damage based on dots. Costs 1 aetherflow
-Contagion now functions as fester but as a targeted aoe like energy siphon on smn.
-AOW now a gcd cd. Changes ruin 2 to ruin 4 for 5 attacks and adds 20 fae gauge.
-Energy drain upgrades to energy siphon. Adds 20 fae gauge and restores 800mp
-Broil now 2s cast time. (gives ruin 2 a use and dots for weaving)




In short, the goal is the more you dps and heal, the more you are able to keep dpsing and healing.
You have two pools of resources, and can convert one to the other with the right faerie periodically so as not to abuse it. The levelling kit is filled out, and more synergy is added to the job. Many old actions that were moved higher are now put back to where they were to make levelling smoother.

The healing style is to try and make it less reliant on regens and more like a shield healer albeit one where SE hates shields. You still have a regen in whispering dawn though.


What would I know though. I didn't put much thought into this. Then again half an hour is more than SE will.

The tryhards incessantly complained about jank and their precious balance and SE gave them exactly what they were asking for.

Are you not entertained?

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Deployment Tactics will be subject to a 120 second cd. Bane, I assume, will not since it's mainly used in trash pulls. If Bane upgrades to Deployment Tactics, then will Bane require a cd adjustment in that sense? Or will the CD adjustment to Deployment Tactics only occur as a debuff?

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Deployment Tactics will be subject to a 120 second cd. Bane, I assume, will not since it's mainly used in trash pulls. If Bane upgrades to Deployment Tactics, then will Bane require a cd adjustment in that sense? Or will the CD adjustment to Deployment Tactics only occur as a debuff?

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As mentioned, its upgraded to the pvp version which has a 15s cooldown. Though I'll edit the op for clarity. I think a 30s cooldown would be sufficient for pve

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Originally Posted by ChonkGoblinSuprem

The tryhards incessantly complained about jank and their precious balance and SE gave them exactly what they were asking for.

Are you not entertained?

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I don't believe Square Enix listened to the "tryhards" more than veteran healers in terms of feedback. No camp somehow has S.E.'s ear over anyone else.

The current state of healers has come about because they have listened only to fellow employees who play healers. Hence, Square Enix isn't seeing the problems they are creating.

You can see this whenever a question about healing pops up in one of the live Q & As. Yoshi always appears stumped then gives a "corporate" answer. Notice how Yoshi will talk for minutes about damage dealers but anything healer related is rushed through.

It's a classic "White Tower" situation and it's a big cause of failure in the gaming industry. FFXIV desperately needs a team devoted solely to the role of healers, people who will take the time and effort to make healing fun, and bring back the core identities of the healer jobs.

"FFXIV desperately needs a team devoted solely to the role of healers, people who will take the time and effort to make healing fun, and bring back the core identities of the healer jobs" that fits with the game design.

All of the above won't work if someone (or several people) are brought in with good ideas, and are dedicated to healer job design, but it doesn't fit with the other job designs and the way that group and solo encounters are designed.

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The tryhards incessantly complained about jank and their precious balance and SE gave them exactly what they were asking for.

Are you not entertained?

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SCH mains of old: "This action has a high chance to ghost, doing literally nothing by wasting its CD without being used. Could we, idk, fix this?"

Kevin: "Simplifications are the community's fault!!"

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Originally Posted by Recon1o6

-Fae gauge now focuses on healing, aetherflow on damage

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Can't say I'm a fan of this. I feel like all healers ought to have their outputs made a bit more flexible again, between damage and healing.

Note that this doesn't have to come from shared resource costs like that of Energy Drain opposite other AF spenders, but simply that with so much of each Healers' potency per minute being locked into healing alone due to the glut of oGCD heals (which in turn tends to balance down healers' maximum offensive contribution) we're given considerably less dynamism or available swing in our outputs than we used to.

Even if a limited feature instead, I like that SCH is able to make at least some use out of its otherwise excessive healing.

At a mere 100p of offense vs. at least 700p of healing, it's not as if Energy Drain gets competitively/optimally used unless that healing would, after all, be excessive, as cost of a single lost Broil is so much more than what Energy Drain produces.

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-New action: Sustain. While using Selene, converts 1 aetherflow to 30 fae gauge (60s cd). Shares a hotbar space and cooldown with Storm
-New action: Storm. While using eos, converts 30 fae gauge to 1 aetherflow. (60s cd) Shares a hotbar space and cooldown with Sustain
-New action: Seraphic Spur. Restores 1 aetherflow and 30 fae gauge. Can only be executed while summoning seraph. Replaces Sustain/Storm during use.

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Not sure what you're trying to accomplish with this part, and it's odd that you've inverted the former pet identities (Selene previously being offensive, as would suit FG->AF, and Eos being curative).

This just feels like a much clunkier / more bloated way to handle shifts in output than just leaving both healing and damage on AF.

I'd recommend instead just giving Eos and Selene some small further buff on their actions, such as Selene producing a small amount of shielding on Fey Blessing and Eos producing a larger-total-value HoT, and Eos providing mitigation on Aetherpact and Selene providing movement speed, or something of that sort. (Seraph could, again, just provide both benefits simultaneously.)

Perhaps have swaps be oGCD (two charges, 20s recast), with resummoning (including automatically after Dissipation) resetting charges.

I’m a bit confused by some of the ability ‘upgrades’. Like Eye for an Eye upgrading to Protraction. Since they’re two different abilities, having all those effects - damage reduction when struck from Eye for an Eye, max HP increased by 10%, Restores difference as HP upon execution, and increases healing received by 10% - merged into a single ability might be a bit too much.

Similarly with Rouse and Summon Seraph, one buffs the fairy’s healing, but the other calls a new fairy. So either the fairy healing buff would be lost during the ‘upgrade’ or Summon Seraph would simultaneously increase their healing power, which could make Consolation / Seraphic Veil stronger than it’s meant to be.

I feel like the Art of War into Ruin 4 is a little strange too. Like what happens if you still need to AoE after the 5 casts? Assuming similar durations, I don’t think DoTs would need refreshed by that point so you’d still have to spam Broil while waiting for Art of War’s cool-down or another 15-ish seconds for DoT refresh. If Art of War’s cool-down only lasts 15 seconds / 5 casts, isn’t it a little arbitrary to have Art of War as the initiator?

I like the idea of Sacred Soil being changed to increase healing amounts, since it fits with the theme they’ve tried to go for with Scholar being the ‘buffs healing for bigger shields’ shield healer.

I also like the idea of Deployment affecting DoTs as well as shields, but it also runs into a bit of an issue there too regarding DoTs. Since the majority of fights only involve one enemy generally, outside specific add phases you’d never get to use Deployment for DoTs. Likewise, if there did turn out to be 2-3+ enemies, Deployment would just get both its charges blown on DoT spreading. I feel like an easy fix for Adloquium is giving an incentive to spread it beyond just shielding, like the PvP damage buff (though 8% would probably be way too strong for PvE lol). For the DoTs, maybe it could have the additional effect of increasing or resetting their duration, lower duration but more damage, etc so there’s incentive to use it outside of dungeon pulls and add phases.

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This is kind of what I was thinking about actually. Selene and Eos get their normal actions back and thus their identity. Selene is offensive, Eos defensive. But I wanted to avoid the situation where staying in one fairy is optimal, but I didnt want a constant back/forth either.

Storm/Sustain is therefore an emergency button AND an optimisation tool rolled into one. Under Selene, you can sacrifice an aetherflow to get some emergency healing resources while attempting to trigger quickened aetherflow.
Under Eos, the opposite is true, you convert excess healing gauge into an aetherflow to boost your damage output.

when Seraph is out, you simply gain free resources to spend as you see fit. You could theoretically get an extra aetherflow at the end of it when seraph goes and you return to eos, then convert the seraph fae resource to an aetherflow.


tbh im not really a sch player, I've not touched it much compared to the other healers.

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Some of the mergers/upgrades are designed to either make up for the loss of sch's regens and to give more unused buttons a place. I'm a big proponent of changing and improving abilities rather than deleting them

In protractions case, I didn't want to delete protraction despite never having seen it used once, yet I was conscious of eye for an eye which is a popular sch ability not having a place either given current circumstances. The idea of putting it on gave sch a unique single target buff to make them easier to heal and lower the enemy damage on them without making it directly a shield like benison.


Seraph does indeed have the rouse buff built in. This is because seraph was just rouse with a new appearance back in shb. Functionally it occupied the same role. This is also so it works with your other capstone at 60 and 70 for big heals. (if SE ever lets us do them :P)


The aoe rotation is supposed to be (Aetherflow), Miasma 3 (shadowflare), miasma 2 (bane), art of war (contagion), then several ruin 4s, then back to miasma (miasma 2 at least had a shorter duration iirc)

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This is kind of what I was thinking about actually.

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That's fair.

Accordant Counterproposals:

Goals

• Add greater downtime agency and frequent-CD agency to SCH without much increasing its button count.
• Tap more into the (de)buffing aspect of SCH, especially through the differences between Eos and Selene (and perhaps Carbuncle) and through returned offensive actions.
• Revamp the Fairy Gauge, though not necessarily to make it more involved in itself, but instead just to make more nuanced use of one's pet possible.
• Make MP more meaningful without significantly increasing the chances of starvation and thereby seemingly lost agency or apm -- through universal changes and ACN/SCH traits, both.

Universal Changes

• The global DoT/HoT tick rate has been changed from per 3 seconds to per second.
  
• The portion of time healing likely to be spent healing has been indirectly increased through certain nerfs to rein in free sustain.
• Raw Intuition, Bloodwhetting, and Nascent Flash now heal for a portion of damage dealt instead of a flat value per hit. Nascent Flash now only transfers overhealing, rather than healing also healing an additional target basically for free.
• Improved Equilibrium's and Shake it Off's heal over time effect have been nerfed. Heart of Corundum and Holy Shelltron's heal over time effects have been nerfed.
• Most AoE heals' value in 8-mans have been nerfed significantly, with roughly half their healing being split over all wounded applicable recipients in range.
• Healers have lost their +30% damage and healing traits. Their offensive potency has been increased in compensation, but most of their healing has not.
  
  Physical Ranged have likewise lost their +20% damage traits, though their potencies have been raised to bring about a similar effect. Enochian's damage bonus has also been removed, instead increasing spell potencies directly.
  
  In this way 800 potency on a tank is the same as 800 potency on a Melee is the same as 800 potency on a Ranger is the same as 800 potency on a Caster is the same on 800 potency on a Healer.
  
  
  
• All health bars now properly indicate remaining damage absorption.
• Periodic damage and healing to be taken upon the next tick, in the next 3 seconds, and in total are now indicated within the health bars on UI.
• Healing absorption (up to X points of healing to be nullified, instead purging that effect) are now indicated on health bars similarly to damage absorption.
  
  
• Lucid Dreaming removed. MP now instead ticks individually for each player, per half one's global recast time, for 200 per tick. Piety further increases the rate of MP ticks, rather than their size, as to keep the numbers more intuitive. Lucid Dreaming contributed 3850 MP per minute, while passive MP generation contributed 4000 MP per minute in combat, for a combined 7850 MP per minute. This increased MP generation only faintly, to 8000 MP per minute, while effectively solving the MP inefficiencies of Spell Speed.
• For each %MP below 50%, your output is reduced by 1% but your MP tick rate is increased by 2%. In this way, MP matters, but you do not have a hugely increased chance to starve.
• Most healing abilities now cost MP. Unless being used at above their previous rates of allowance, however, this is sustainable.
  
  
• ALL jobs now use MP, though at a wholly sustainable rate even when accounting for their abilities.
• Dying now costs one 50% MP. You will resurrect with the same MP as when you died, minus that 50%.
• Weakness and Brink of Death have been removed. MP instead makes that difference.
• A few MP-granting actions have been returned to the game.
  
  
• Skill Speed and Spell Speed consolidated into just Speed, and reduce global recast times such as that of Heat Blast and Enchanted Riposte now correctly scale with Speed. Most GCD-affecting abilities under 60 seconds' cooldown and nearly all abilities under a 20-second cooldown now also scale their recast times with Speed in order not to force delays due to drift.
• Critical Hit now again only increases Critical Hit chance, while Critical Hits deal a flat +50% output unless exceeding a 100% chance; guaranteed crits act as a +100% chance and excess chance is converted into additional effectiveness (a 120% chance to crit for +50% output becomes a 100% chance to crit for +60% output).
• Macros have been entirely ungutted, and a new more visually-appealing and user-friendly means of creating macros has been added in the form of Gamuts. All skills may now be queued, including Sprint and Potions.
  
  
• A new type of action, Technique, has been added. Techniques are affected by neither the "global" recast time nor the (truly global) "animation lock" (the briefer lockout period after using any action for which no further discrete action can be used). Sprint and all pet abilities are now Techniques, greatly improving their responsiveness.
• The options to have an ability go off at the target location or onto a target field or UI target upon releasing the targeting indicator has been added. Macro code: "cr" for "cursor-release", "mor" for "mouseover release", "ftr" for "field target release", "uir" for "ui target release".
• Macros and gamuts may now specify a preferred "snap-to" position for soft-target selection.
• The Schema system has been added as a sub-component of Gamuts. Schema allow players to set trickle-down target selections for different action types (say, UI-mouseover enemy > field mouseover enemy > target > focus target > target of target for an attack (with that being further sub-dividable into, say, single-target, no movement, direct damage, etc.). Gamuts/Macros may specify a Schema (including "Default", which is just what is used now) overall or per action, or can just use the Schema already set for each action type within the macro.
  
  
• Target of Target bar may now be separated from the Target bar. Length of the Target's health bar may now be adjusted. Length of Status Effects area may now be customized by pixel width and height, rather than only by icon count. Either can also be set to match the other.
• A new option, Target Swap, has been added to the Character Options / Targeting pane. When hovered over or selected, it reads "When targeting one's Focus Target, the previous Target will be swapped into the Focus Target position. Upon swapping to any other target, the Focus Target will retake its earlier position."
• A new option, Twin Targets, has been added to the Character Options / Targeting pane. When hovered over or selected, it reads "You can now hold one friendly and one unfriendly Target each."

Scholar Changes

• Aetherflow now generated passively. You just generate a stack of Aetherflow every X seconds as traits improve, much like as Addersgall, but to a maximum of 6 charges held (though you still generate only up to 3 charges outside of combat). These can be shown as 3 charges and then a further border and glow around doubled charges, or as a fly-out gauge that expands to up to 6 units shown.
• Further Aetherflow acceleration, either via CDR per action or just accelerating it to a stack generated per 15s (buffed from per 20s), via some new trait between levels 74 and 88.
  
  
• Energy Drain now suppresses enemies struck, causing them to deal 50% less damage or healing for up to a total amount absorbed equal to 400 potency. This total suppression value fades linearly over 8 seconds; time it well.
• Energy Drain can now be used on allies in order to purge up to 500p of periodic damage they would otherwise take over time and to cleanse a single cleansable detrimental effect.
• New trait: Leeches. Cleansing an effect from a friendly unit grants Leeched, which causes your next offensively used Energy Drain to upgrade to Energy Spike and cause it to inflict the stored debuff. Power of the stored debuff may vary from its original form. (It caps out around the value of 300p of damage.)
  
  
• Bio has returned to being an 18s DoT.
• Miasma has been returned, along with its various upgrades, as a 24s DoT.
• Art of War has been replaced by Perturbation, which deals both direct damage and a 6-second DoT. Inflicts 20 additional potency and refunds 100 MP for each of your afflictions on the enemy. Costs 800 MP, but has the highest ppgcd of any healer AoE, and still a competitive ppgcd even if spammed.
• Broil now costs a hefty amount of MP (1200 per cast) but refunds 300 MP for each of your afflictions present on the target. Damage increased (less noticeably as ranks increase).
• Each level that upgraded Broil now also upgrades Ruin, leaving Ruin of use as a more sustainable offensive action (costs only 300 MP) at lesser potency (never more than 90p less).
  
  
• Bane readded in the more versatile form of Propogate. Propogate doubles the total value of your beneficial effects on a target ally before splitting them among all allies within 8 yalms, or doubles the total value of your harmful effects on a target enemy before splitting them among all enemies within 8 yalms. Costs 1 Aetherflow. 10s CD.
  
  
• Chain Stratagem can now be recast as many times as you like within the 15 seconds, thereby changing its target. If that target dies, Chain Stratagem will rank up to Chain Strategem II and will move automatically to the next most wounded target within 10 yalms and offer an additional 2% critical hit rate. It continues to ramp up until rank V, at 20% bonus crit chance. Chain Strategem can be spread by Propagate. Note that only 1 enemy will be affected by the ranked up action, though, if it results from a spread. To get CS-V on all enemies, you'd need to specifically Propagate the CS-V, which means you'd have to hold Propagate for then.
  
  
• The Fairy Gauge has been replaced by simple Summon MP -- an MP bar... for your summon. Pet actions drain their MP. Summon MP regenerates over time, from Rouse, and from your MP-generating actions. Pet actions generally heal for higher amounts
• Rouse has returned, as a 60s CD. It grants your pet MP immediately and over time while increasing the power of your pet's actions by 40% for 12 seconds.
• The later trait, Fey Link, allows you to spend Aetherflow to cast Rouse even when it is on CD. This usage does not reset Rouse's cooldown.
  
  
• There are now three primary pets, Carbuncle, Selene, and Eos. Seraph just combines the most powerful but least interesting parts of each pet's kits for 20s as often as every 120s.
  
• Pet "potency" is now equal to Scholar "potency". The healing that 400 potency would put out from the Scholar itself will be identical to what 400 potency of pet healing could put out.
  
  Main Features of Each...
  
  Carbuncle - Tricksy Utility
  Passive: Mana-Glutton - Your attack spells can be cast upon Carbuncle during combat, on whom they instead a barrier of equal value.
  
  Action 1: Glow - Increases healing received by the target by up to 50%, to a maximum bonus amount equal to 200 potency.
  
  Action 2: Burst - Carbuncle consumes its barriers to deal damage of equal amount to the target enemy and 40% of that damage to all enemies within 8 yalms. Cast automatically upon being unsummoned if there are enemies engaged in combat against you. Requires barrier.
  
  Action 3: Backlash - Instantly rushes forwards to knock back the target enemy and those near it towards a target point within 40 yalms. (If no target is selected, it will instead knock away all enemies within 8 yalms of the Scholar towards the direction the Scholar is facing.) 20s CD.
  
  Action 4: Reflect - Channels a fortifying beam into target ally's barriers, causing attackers to take damage equal to the amounts nullified due to barriers.
  
  Eos - Steady Sustain Throughput
  Trait: Illumination - Eos's healing temporarily grants an increase to Defense and Magic Defense based on the amount healed. This bonus fades linearly over 9 seconds, though multiple instances may overlap. (Only one instance at a time is shown, and its tooltip notes the amount of Defense and Magic Defense thus added.)
  
  Action 1: Dawn's Embrace - Heals the target for 150p, plus an additional 150p over 9 seconds.
  
  Action 2: Covenant - 90s CD - Bind the health of two allies together, marking both as Keeper of the Covenant, temporarily converting 20% of the maximum HP of each ally into a rechargeable barrier. Damage to the remaining health pool of either will draw from the other's barrier to replenish the health lost and convert the portion of barrier health drawn back into normal HP.
  
  Action 3: Zephyr - Spend up to 50% of Eos's remaining MP to spread a heal over time effect across up to 8 allies within 25 yalms, causing them to heal for 50p per second for up to 12 seconds. Duration stacks up to 20 seconds. (More MP = higher duration granted at a time, but you can still cast this multiple times in succession. Casting it with only 50% MP remaining (therefore just 25% total MP spent) will only add another 6 seconds.) Note: HoTs and DoTs now tick per second, per the universal changes.
  
  Action 4: Illumination - Channel Illumination, spending 8% of Eos's MP immediately and then an additional 1% per living ally within 25 yalms to increase their healing taken and healing done by 10%.
  
  
  Eos - Barriers and Offensive Utility
  Trait: Twilight - Selene's actions temporarily grants an increase to Critical Hit and Direct Hit. This bonus fades linearly over 9 seconds, though multiple instances may overlap. (Only one instance at a time is shown, and its tooltip notes the amount of each stat thus added.)
  
  Action 1: Dusk's Caress - Shields the target for 200p. If a barrier is already active, heals instead.
  
  Action 2: Midnight - 60s CD - Silences enemies near the target for 3 seconds, including the target if unfriendly. If used on an ally, also temporarily reduces their Enmity.
  
  Action 3: Moonlight - Spends 8% of MP per second channeling to provide the target ally with Moonlit. For every second channeled, the target receives 1.5 seconds of effect. Moonlit increases one's Attack Speed and Movement Speed by 10%.
  
  Action 4: Nightwind - Spends 8% MP per second to channel, increasing party members' movement speed by 15%. This amount stacks with other sources, to a maximum of 30% (the speed of Sprint).

Work still required:
- Some pruning of redundancies, maybe some universal-minded adjustments to barriers /barrier-stacking. May leave Haste effects to AST alone and just have Selene grant Crit only.
- May remove Seraph outright for being less interesting than Rouse (since Rouse enhances choices instead of temporarily negating the need to make them).
- And tons else, of course. Per the thread's premise, I stuck to just some 30 minutes of work.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

I don't believe Square Enix listened to the "tryhards" more than veteran healers in terms of feedback. No camp somehow has S.E.'s ear over anyone else.

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If they listened to tryhards, healers would already have more DPS options.

And the problem isnt even lacking dps options, its lacking healing opportunities in fights. Not enough healing moments means more time has to be spent on dps.

More dps buttons only has 1 effect that is beneficial: in case there is no healing to be done, you have a bit more button variety. But it doesnt solve the root cause at all.