Physick is too weak for lvl 60 casters?

[Minorinz]

Buffing physick wouldn't be a bad idea since physick consumes a gcd, but the thing is if they buff physick's potency they will be buffing scholar so that's not good. Changing physick or buffing wouldn't be possible, not even adding a trait to it because it will affect scholar in every possible way. The only thing we could do now is wait for the new pets and hope they provide some decent support spells/abilities.

[Noxifer]

First, 10% of a dps classes hp is about 1-1.2k hp atm. 10% of a tanks hp is almost 50-100% more. 2k is a wildly absurd number for a dps to be able to spam.

No one has said that Physick should heal 10% of a tank's HP. When people mention 5% or 10% of HP, they are talking about the caster's HP, not about making Physick percentage-based. Because the Physick that at 50 healed around 8-10% of the caster's HP, still heals around the same number of HP, but the caster's HP has almost doubled. So if they healed for around 500hp at level 50, that was okay-ish. It could save someone in a pinch, or actually keep yourself or your pet alive. At 60, it's not even an option.

Still making the "skill bloat problem we are about to have" problem known phasing out stuff like phys. on SMN is probably good. I also do not think it should do as much heal as my 120 second cooldown.

I... don't really know what to say about this. People are asking for proportionally equal Physick at 60 as they had at 50, meaning their Physick should heal for about 1000hp at level 60. And if your Second Wind only heals 1000hp as a STR-based DPS... I really don't know what to say. Mine heals me for around 1400-1500 (2k if critted). As a Warrior. (Plus Second Wind is an instant cast, whereas Physick means taking a break from DPSing in order to use it. Sure, it's "only" for one GCD, but that's one extra GCD we get to DPS during.)

[Vickii]

I think it's cool that a dps can heal the last % of a boss if the healer dies, or can heal themselves if they need to be out of range or see the healer is worked. Off-healing doesn't threaten healers at all, just makes their load lighter. It's also cool for solo content, and noone really should care what other people have or don't have in solo content.

Maybe SE doesn't want caster dps healing themselves in PVP. Just a thought. In which case they wouldn't need to nerf the amount of healing it does, just make using Physick an MP choice.

Also Minorinz makes a good point.. that buffing the spell would buff the scholar healing class. Which could be another reason for it.

[Noxifer]

Buffing physick wouldn't be a bad idea since physick consumes a gcd, but the thing is if they buff physick's potency they will be buffing scholar so that's not good. Changing physick or buffing wouldn't be possible, not even adding a trait to it because it will affect scholar in every possible way. The only thing we could do now is wait for the new pets and hope they provide some decent support spells/abilities.

Didn't notice this until Vickii commented on it.

And no, it's not really viable to change Physick in any way, or adding traits (since traits are for classes and not jobs, and thus would be shared with Scholar, and wouldn't even be there for Black Mage). But like I've said before, what they could do is add a small amount of Mind to caster gear. Not much, of course, but enough to give a little extra boost to both Summoner and Black Mage without affecting Scholars. Compare, for example, when they started adding Accuracy to healer gear at 50 (something I wish they hadn't stopped doing >.<) -- it wasn't much and it didn't help us reach the caster accuracy cap, but it did give an extra boost so we didn't miss quite as often.
Something similar for Mind on caster gear wouldn't, in my opinion, be bad. It wouldn't make healers superfluous, and it wouldn't make casters overpowered. And it wouldn't affect Scholar.

Because basically, the reason why the heal amount hasn't really gone up is because the only boost casters have gotten to Mind is what few points those ten levels gave them. And since no gear gives Mind for them, and the stats on gear only goes higher and higher, the proportion between Int/Vit and Mind has drastically changed =/