5.0: How will SE screw us over this expansion?

[Reiryuu]

Disclaimer: This thread is meant to be sarcastic. The OP is not responsible if any of this comes true.

So, WHM has been crapped on just about every expansion now with abilities getting taken away, given to the other healers as role abilities, or just taken away for a less effective version of itself at a higher level. What can we expect SE to do to WHM this expansion cycle?

Cure III - Ah! With all the new abilities the healers are going to get, obviously we need
to get rid of this one. I mean, no one actually uses it, right?

Cure I now upgrades to Cure III. Cure II now upgrades to the new ability Cure IV. There is a 25/50/75/100% chance the Cure III or Cure IV will spread to nearby allies for 1/2/3 /4 lilies... Yes! Now with FOUR lilies! Wait, scratch that. That would make lilies useful. We can't have that. Cure III and Cure IV now just consume all your lilies if you cast them when you have 4 lilies. You can keep the extra lily. Don't say we never gave you anything nice.

Holy- It is far too difficult for new healers to use holy and heal their party. To make things easier, Holy has been removed from the game because #PureHealer.

WHM gains the awesome new abilities: Stone V and Aero IV. Stone V uses the FFT- Rock toss animation to save animators time. Aero IV uses the same animation as Aero III-- please don't notice.

WHM gains the new ability Pearl at 80. It costs the same as Holy would have at 80, with the same cast time, with the same enemy number fall off, but has a 2 minute cooldown and no longer stuns enemies and has 5% less potency.

So, how will SE screw over your healer class? =p

[Kidria]

"Adlo potency and MP cost is doubled but can no longer crit."

[Seidaku]

I would not mind seeing whm go solid healing with the absolute minimal dps. Give other jobs tied in cooldowns for dmg mitigation or healing bonuses like pally has to some extent. Then other classes if grouped with whm can prioritize dps skills rather than healing cooldowns or if grouped with ast or sch will have to forgo some dps skills to help them heal themselves. Now it is not just the healers that have to dance back and forth if we dont want to. Pure healing class for whm is the best option imo.

[Shurrikhan]

I would not mind seeing whm go solid healing with the absolute minimal dps. Give other jobs tied in cooldowns for dmg mitigation or healing bonuses like pally has to some extent. Then other classes if grouped with whm can prioritize dps skills rather than healing cooldowns or if grouped with ast or sch will have to forgo some dps skills to help them heal themselves. Now it is not just the healers that have to dance back and forth if we dont want to. Pure healing class for whm is the best option imo.

I thought we were talking about how SE could screw over job design/balance?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I would not mind seeing whm go solid healing with the absolute minimal dps. Give other jobs tied in cooldowns for dmg mitigation or healing bonuses like pally has to some extent. Then other classes if grouped with whm can prioritize dps skills rather than healing cooldowns or if grouped with ast or sch will have to forgo some dps skills to help them heal themselves. Now it is not just the healers that have to dance back and forth if we dont want to. Pure healing class for whm is the best option imo.

A pure healer will be a dead job. Content simply doesn't demand nearly enough healing, which is why we have healers combining for upwards of 10k DPS. A pure healer is effectively useless unless it can solo heal. Except now we have the opposite problem since the meta immediately becomes five DPS and a WHM.

[Yuyuka3]

I would not mind seeing whm go solid healing with the absolute minimal dps. Give other jobs tied in cooldowns for dmg mitigation or healing bonuses like pally has to some extent. Then other classes if grouped with whm can prioritize dps skills rather than healing cooldowns or if grouped with ast or sch will have to forgo some dps skills to help them heal themselves. Now it is not just the healers that have to dance back and forth if we dont want to. Pure healing class for whm is the best option imo.

Can I have some of whatever you smoked there? Must be some good stuff...

[SwarleyMcSwarls]

I would not mind seeing whm go solid healing with the absolute minimal dps. Give other jobs tied in cooldowns for dmg mitigation or healing bonuses like pally has to some extent. Then other classes if grouped with whm can prioritize dps skills rather than healing cooldowns or if grouped with ast or sch will have to forgo some dps skills to help them heal themselves. Now it is not just the healers that have to dance back and forth if we dont want to. Pure healing class for whm is the best option imo.

Feels like we have a winner. Rip whm forever if they actually did this...and kind of all classes (now that i'm thinking about it) if the other healers aren't strong enough to take care of healing duties w/o a white mage.

[Shurrikhan]

Feels like we have a winner. Rip whm forever if they actually did this...and kind of all classes (now that i'm thinking about it) if the other healers aren't strong enough to take care of healing duties w/o a white mage.

Tfw even SE cannot unironically imagine so great a calamity with which to plague WHM as our own playerbase...

[Duskane]

gotta love the optimism here

[HyoMinPark]

Holy- It is far too difficult for new healers to use holy and heal their party. To make things easier, Holy has been removed from the game because #PureHealer.

I don’t even play WHM and this hurt me.