What Role Skills would you like to see for Healers?

[Kurando]

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It could be quite confusing to new players to have multiple actions that do the exact same thing. I mean i know they can read the tooltips, but it's generally easier to keep things similar across the board. Also it seems to make WHM the must have healer for content again, if they are already a powerhouse then let's give other healers more of a chance eh. The other casters use Sure/Swift cast too so that's more wording to think about.

[Sylvain]

I'd like ClericStance to also reduce the mp cost of offensive spells by 25-50%

I find the 5% dps buff just laughable but at the same time I don't think buffing that number would be a good idea.



I think they also should add traits to the role skill system.

Things like "when you're rezzed you have 15% additional mp" or "rez is now instant but with 60sec cd" you know things like that.

[Selvokaz]

Prayer or something like prayer, a party wide heal ability that cost no mp and recovers moderate damage. Healers who've died and been resurrected know what I mean when I say, I wish raising someone brought them back with their resources at the levels they had before they died. Prayer would go a long way in allowing us to do our job after being raised and having no mp or lucid dream is on cooldown, but the party still needs healing.

[Brightamethyst]

Prayer or something like prayer, a party wide heal ability that cost no mp and recovers moderate damage.

So basically you want Assize, Indomitability, and Earthly Star.

[Kurando]

So basically you want Assize, Indomitability, and Earthly Star.

Aside from those, I think they wanted something like a cheap but little healing top-up outside of the respective toolkits that all the healers could use after they resurrect someone. Perhaps it's an action that can only be used on a target with Weakness - that's really the only way I could see it working. Use Pray on a Weakened target and they get 10% HP back maybe otherwise the action is ineffective without weakness.

[Ordoric]

give refresh and convert back to rdm and give ballad mp regen for brd shroud for whm atherflow to smn/sch with an native auto refresh not affected by combat aspir to blm and ast get ewer

[Acidblood]

Don't Aetherflow (and Energy Drain), Ewer, and Assize already exist?

True, but they are not sufficient... i.e. SCH/SMN Aetherflow used to be 20%, it's now only 10% (because Lucid Dreaming). WHM and AST used to have Lucid Dreaming (or close to it) built in, they must now buy it back from role actions because they got zero compensation when it was taken away.

As I alluded to in my post, a much better ability (for cross role) would be something like Charge (inspired by FFXII), which would help you 'top-up' at cost of GCDs; handy to have, but it would not be a full on replacement for built in MP sustain the way Lucid Dreaming is. (Not to mention Lucid Dreaming doubling as an enmity drop).

[Ordoric]

fine sublimination would be fun

[Dogempire]

I wouldn't mind seeing a sort of meditate similar to Samurai, where instead of restoring the kenki gauge you can restore your MP up to a certain percentage.

Mostly for use between boss phases where you're doing nothing but you're still in combat, so you might as well have something to do in the meantime.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Ahem..

Whack 'em In The Nads

Caster whacks character where it counts with their staff.
This does no damage but stuns character for 2 secs.
Bestows Mark of Shame up character for 10 mins
Mysterious figures appear and point at character to the sound of laughter.
Effect continues after exiting dungeon.

Acquired Healer Level 8 Spell Casting Instant Recast 90 secs

Best used against tanks who use no cool downs and damage dealers who stand in avoidable damage.