Benediction

[Enesuia]

Benediction used to be a 2 hour ability in final fantasy xi. So 5 mins is just fine by me. lol Thought that's just my experience from transferring out of FFXI into FFXIV 1.0+ lol That spell is powerful, being less than 5 minutes is a bit too much. Only thing I do have a problem with it-- as well as some other spells. I don't know if this is intentional or it never been addressed. Though it takes quite a delay to do it's job when cast. I've seen it go off and heal the player targeted and yet fail, as it has like a 1.8 seconds delay in between the instant cast and healing the hit points. That make it not really a "Instant" Same with "Hallowed Ground".

So Benediction is pretty good as it is, excluding the awful cast on it and getting the hit points "Instantly" ;__;

[Cynfael]

5 min is too long. Benediction is powerful, but not so much so that it deserves that kind of cooldown. SE sometimes forgets that overly long cooldowns just aren't fun. It's like getting 50 DRG and finding out that your super-cool, non-gamebreaking Dragonfire Dive is on 3 minute cooldown.

If you're going to make players wait 5 or more minutes for skill reuse, it needs to be a game-changing strategy. Full heal sounds like (and is) a strong ability, but not so much stronger than what can be accomplished every minute with Swiftcast if so desired. Healing a tank from nothing to full is great, but usually the tank isn't in serious trouble unless the party is in trouble already. Benediction is fairly useless if everything goes according to plan, actually.

[monochromicorn]

If you're going to make players wait 5 or more minutes for skill reuse, it needs to be a game-changing strategy. Full heal sounds like (and is) a strong ability, but not so much stronger than what can be accomplished every minute with Swiftcast if so desired. Healing a tank from nothing to full is great, but usually the tank isn't in serious trouble unless the party is in trouble already. Benediction is fairly useless if everything goes according to plan, actually.

have you read anything thats been said? have you healed? benediction's cooldown is extremely justified and perfect the way it is. it balances out. you shouldnt have to use benediction. if someone suck so bad at healing that they need to use benny every 2-3 minutes, they shouldnt heal that fight, its that simple. benny is designed for emergency use, not full heal whenever i feel like it

[Leon_Stormrage]

have you read anything thats been said? have you healed? benediction's cooldown is extremely justified and perfect the way it is. it balances out. you shouldnt have to use benediction. if someone suck so bad at healing that they need to use benny every 2-3 minutes, they shouldnt heal that fight, its that simple. benny is designed for emergency use, not full heal whenever i feel like it

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[Hollowed]

The reason "some" of us want this on a shorter CD is because for a 5min CD (currently the MAX) its really weak, should you rely on it? Hellz no, but, the fact its on such a long CD motivates you to NOT use it. Longer CD = You dont want to use it often, and as a few people said earlier, if all goes the way it should you wont use it, i personally never have to use it in any content even T9. Fact is, for 5min CD, it sucks, DS cure II crit is almost just as powerful. At the very least make it an actual instant ability, using it when you need it is fine, but when it fails to proc in time cause I have to dance a stupid circle and the PT member dies and NOW i have to wait 5min sucks, it sucks D:

[Yumi_umi]

When benediction misses, my life is over.

[DreamWeaver]

Reducing Benediction's cool down by 50% but at the same time reduce it's potency by 50% will enhance this skill's utility greatly.

[Cynfael]

have you read anything thats been said? have you healed? benediction's cooldown is extremely justified and perfect the way it is. it balances out. you shouldnt have to use benediction. if someone suck so bad at healing that they need to use benny every 2-3 minutes, they shouldnt heal that fight, its that simple. benny is designed for emergency use, not full heal whenever i feel like it

Not sure what's up with the hostility here, but okay. If you had read what I actually said, your take away would have been that I was pointing out that overly long cooldowns aren't as fun for gameplay except in the case of game-changers (e.g. party full heal vs. single target) and that Benediction is overkill except when things go horribly wrong, anyway.

[MythToken]

They just need to fix benediction from not going off in time due to animation. The cool down is fine.

[Hollowed]

Reducing Benediction's cool down by 50% but at the same time reduce it's potency by 50% will enhance this skill's utility greatly.

So 50% 2.5min CD > 75% 1min CD....? Am I missing something?