4.2 healer adjustments

[Risvertasashi]

patch notes: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...6a00adb9181007



My thoughts...
Divine Benison - not sure how I feel about this. I was always able to generate a lilly when needed with the 100% proc rate, and now using it will take no thought/planning. But I guess it will be better for clutch situations.

Excog - Seems decent enough. Probably more a buff for non-savage/extreme content, where tanks seldom fall below 50% hp.

Spear - More crit buff, more DPS buffing overall. Hopefully 4.2 raid healing requirements are high enough to keep all healers viable.
Earthly Star - Finally.

All in all the adjustments are minor and more QoL than changes in power -- I think, overall, showing that the healers are pretty balanced at the moment. Hope everyone enjoys Sigmascape and/or any other goals you might have for 4.2.

[Sebazy]

DB is nice but yeah, I wasn’t expecting that either. More it being locked to 1 Lily or some means to gererate a lily in the likes of O4S when everyone is already topped.

It’s a good change tho IMO and makes Benison significantly more dependable

[KDSilver]

Divine Benision change is definitly good.
Because having to cast an extra uneedeed cure to generate a lily if you didn't have one was boring.
Besides, to generate lily, your target need HP to restore. If they didn't, you couldn't proc.

There could be situation like that where you couldn't generate a lily to use Divine Benision.
Every others WHM oGCD consume lilies but don't need to have one to use so...

Otherwise, Spear to 30s is good. Never understood why it was at 20s like the other.

[Tridus]

The DB change is great. Now you can use it pre-pull every pull in dungeons. It was just a nuisance to have to get a lily.

That said, I can't believe they didn't look at Secret of the Lily II, again. How can they think that's okay?

[Deceptus]

Divine Benison is basically stoneskin AGAIN. .

[Alkimi]

You can basically remove the lily gauge from your UI now. There's no reason to ever look at it.

[inhaledcorn]

Divine Benison is basically stoneskin AGAIN. .

Stoneskin off the GCD, anyway. Stoneskin's downfall before was a cast time.

[Risvertasashi]

Stoneskin off the GCD, anyway. Stoneskin's downfall before was a cast time.

cast time, MP cost, MP efficiency....

But it was on demand so you could cheese certain mechanics (Twintania, Leviathan, Ramuh, etc)

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

The Secret of the Lily is that it was Plenary Indulgence on SE's part and never truly needed.

However comma free Benisons for all! Get splashed on!

[Yuyuka3]

Really like the change to Divine Benison. Often found myself in situations when I had to needlessly heal someone for a fraction of what Cure I restores just to get a Lily for the tankbuster... and then found that either my regen, the fairy, or something else topped of the target a fraction of a second before Cure I went through, so the MP ended up wasted anyway, and the tank without the extra shield on top of the Scholar's. This will definitely help in such a, and many, many more situations. As was said before, MP-free instant shield is nice, and it's HP dependent so it scales well with tank LP (which will be the most likely target).

What I wonder now is. Is it completely decoupled from the Lily-system, or will it still blow them uselessly? Or does it function like any other oGC now, with a CD reduction depending on how many Lilies you got? That would be sweet. Just hope they don't stealth-Nerf it in some way...