Dear Devs, you wanna perfect healing spell balance? Easy!

[Nailkita]

Can't tell if troll or just... brain hurts...

Did you actually lvl to 50? because there are a lot of mobs that cast things, and all DoM have cast times. I really appreciate the cast times because I can cancel a heal if I think either a) it's not needed because yay mitigation. or b) oh shi~ I'll pull aggro if I heal now, I think I'll just stoneskin or eye for an eye instead.

As is with regen and benediction, and as healers should have swiftcast and surecast(mostly for ifrit/titan HMs) the cast times should rarely be a problem.

There is a reason Quicktongue materia is so expensive outside of the relic quest and alchemy 50 quest.

[toussaint89]

It's called SOS learn to use it. Not only does it reduce your threat but you also get mana back

[Maku]

Comparing an online game to a not online game is silly cause they are simply way too different. So lets compare the other online FF game that being FF11. Cast times existed AKA not a new thing.

I am most confused when you think all the CNJ/WHM abilities are not used. Big AoE hit but you don't want to/can't run in for a medica then hit Presence of Mind to speed up your single target heals or hit Divine Seal to make them worth more or hell both if it is that OH KITTEN kinda moment. Holy = Amazing. Benediction has its uses. SoS = Amazing. Repose = Amazing. SS is kinda lack luster but easy to put on between fights and it does help a little. Cleric Stance = Amazing.

You have to be a troll.

[AlBhedMoog]

And like someone else said, enemies also have GCD and casting time.

Any proof? (You are welcome!)

And yeah, anyone's 'white paladin' mentality does not solve anything and is not any helpful ...

By the way, just for the notice, yet again:

GlobalCoolDown and MP costs are just fine. Only thing that is a real issue, is Cast(ing) Time;
any (Disciples of War) are mainly not bitching aroud that 'cause they rarely use those spells for healing and
they basically on another kind of duty ...

Well, any of the high-end Dungeons and Primals right now are just waste of time and not even worth it :/.

This is a game, I'm supposed to be having fun and feel rewarded for my actions.

So: Please. No. Casting. Time. For. Heals.
(casting time for damage spells looks like to be reasonable and totally OK :/)

[Raminax]

Any proof? (You are welcome!)

Pick a fight with any Elemental Sprite in the world. Their cast times are very quick, but they're definitely there and can be interrupted with a well-timed Fluid Aura or Repose.

Other examples is Ifrit with Eruption and Hellfire, Garuda with Aerial Blast, Titan with Earthen Fury, Landslide and Weight of the Land, (Dhorme) Chimera with Voice of the Ram, Voice of the Dragon, The Ram's Keeper, The Ram's Breath, The Dragon's Breath and The Scorpion's Sting. Treants with Canopy and Arboreal Storm, Golden Fleece with Aero, Cure and Stoneskin...

Really, you must've done some damn fishy levelling or hidden your cast bars to never notice cast timers on enemies.

[Selemar]

Please, allow instant cast for healing magic! ... at least for Conjurers / WhiteMages :P.

"Some of poor PS3 users I know who are doing healing jobs are restlessly overstrained now"

It is the non-instant that is allowing the PS3 users to stay in sync... if they made our heals "instant" without global cooldown/etc, they wouldn't have enough time to cycle to the right target compared to mouseover.

(that.. and our cast times would be so fast, you'd see a troll thread about us needing more mana within 2 days, lol)

[AlternativeOne]

I think WHM is the best class/job in the game. Love and use all job skills to the fullest.

[Pentt]

Yeah let's just take away cast times on healing abilities.

Why not take away cast times for casters too? That's not very FF like, not fun for the BLMs and SMNs, I play for fun not to stand still.

Hey let's make melee attacks hit from 20 yalms away as well, my sprites in FF1-6 did it, this game should be more FF like.

[Vittorino]

Please, allow instant cast for healing magic! ... at least for Conjurers / WhiteMages :P.

Actually, ther are only like 2, of around 20, useful CNJ / WHM abilities those are any effective in dungeons or at Primal battles ...

Some of poor PS3 users I know who are doing healing jobs are restlessly overstrained now: they have to heal the tank, need to keep party members alive AND heal themselves at same time while, gaining the most enmity, dodging any mob spam and imba AoE spells/skills!

And own AoE skill are waaay to long to cast and basically imposible to cast most of the time :/.

No wonder that no main healer wanna to go help fight through those instances anymore!

Thank you for fixing.

MoogZ

LOL your comment amuses me, you want an instant cast get a THM to 26, or roll a scholar 3 stacks of atherflow and Lustrate! GG there is your fix reroll!

[abeltensor]

youre plan wrong. I play scholar and i can do all these things easily in the hardest raid in the game, Coil. As for WHM they are very powerful. Heres a tip, get quickcast.