Balance was balanced

[fantasticm]

We got the nerf that everyone's been hailing for and people have STILL found something to cry about. Go outside and play if this game is making you so unhappy. Pick a flower. Chase a butterfly. Find your happy place. At the rate this is going, they could prune all of our healing spells and make us an auto-attack job and people would still complain that our Star Globes are too damn shiny.

They are a bit too shiny, aren't they? They could really use a nerf, and I'm really not sure about the ones that have spikes that clip the cards rotating around them. I don't think such a thing would be approved in any self-respecting casino. A little ostentation never hurt anyone, but if it gets in the way of the cards, what's the point? A good, simple star globe benefits the whole raid.

[Lastelli]

This was necessary. As was necessary the buff to 20% in hw to save ast from the bad reputation it got since 3.0. I feel like the healers now are pretty well balanced.

[Lunafreya]

They followed the proper pattern for Heavensward, not so much for Stormblood. But buffed AST so much through Heavensward, and added so much going into Stormblood that AST became the Preferred Job. Hence, nerfs needed.

they just got nerfed though.

[Warr_of_Lint]

cross class skill esuna : Mp cost reduced

I think the dev is reading that esuna thread

LOL. I cannot fathom the supercomputer-level, actuarial calculations that were so compelling that they had change esuna's mp cost. But here we are.

[Cyrocco]

they just got nerfed though.

The pattern stands. It's a good pattern. I still don't see where you're coming from with this response.

Edit: This was a different response chain than I thought. I get quoted so often. Very fashionable.

[Novak_04]

I'll complain about my main as much as I like. And you were just hailing how the Card changes are great, so I don't see how this is a bad "rate" for the balancing to be moving at.

The rate at which people are constantly calling for nerfs. Doesn't matter what it is, they'll never be satisfied. As previously stated, they could take away every ability we have and people would still want to nerf us for some reason.

[amihavingfunyet]

To be fair, for those of us who played on controller, it wasn't easy to just right-click the status effects of Spreads, RRs, and Draws off, so we had to use macros. The three skills isn't anything different from what we used before. That being said, I do like the gauge because it makes my Arcana more visible, something I can appreciate.

There is a little difference, you could click off buffs/use the macros while you were casting, with the new abilities this isn't possible.

[Enla]

This was necessary. As was necessary the buff to 20% in hw to save ast from the bad reputation it got since 3.0. I feel like the healers now are pretty well balanced.

I'd have to agree. Yes I'm still annoyed that Noct stance has a higher potency and usage than my Succor or Adlo, but with these new potency buffs it doesn't feel like I'm left out in the cold if I end up with an AST who absolutely refuses to change stances. All in all I think the healers are much closer to being balanced than they ever have been. Is there room for more balancing across ALL the healers? Always, yet for right now I think everything is pretty well in hand. Besides that new Spear potency buff will be amazing if it stacks with my Chain Strategem.

[simiii]

they just got nerfed though.

No they didn't? It's potency was half ed but duration was dubble.

[Cupcakesu]

No they didn't? It's potency was half ed but duration was dubble.

I don't know what you're reading but duration wasn't touched. Balance pre-nerf: 20% buff (10% AoE) for a 30s duration. Balance post-nerf: 10% buff (5% AoE) for a 30s duration.