Scholar notes from E3 build - Titania Fight

[Dyvid]

Well to be fair, isn't this basically just Titania Story Mode? The real test is going to be EX @ 80.

[Jaelommiss]

Is it time to start arguing we haven't seen what it's like at level 80 yet?

No way. Surely in light of this evidence that nothing has changed people will be able to accept our complaints without moving the goalposts again. There's no way they could—

Well to be fair, isn't this basically just Titania Story Mode? The real test is going to be EX @ 80.

If these goalposts moved any faster I'd get whiplash trying to watch them.

[reyre]

Well to be fair, isn't this basically just Titania Story Mode? The real test is going to be EX @ 80.

Oh wow, people are trully stupid huh? I knew that yet it bemuses me everytime i see it. Let me guess once titania ex proves to be as easy (healing wise) as every piece of content so far, what will you say next? Lets wait until savage raids are out? lets wait until 5.4 then it will be better? or they will fix things in the next expac?

The funny part is titania story mode is giving people trouble, so ofcourse they are going to nerf it, its hilarious if you think about it.

[Dualblade]

Oh wow, people are trully stupid huh? I knew that yet it bemuses me everytime i see it. Let me guess once titania ex proves to be as easy (healing wise) as every piece of content so far, what will you say next? Lets wait until savage raids are out? lets wait until 5.4 then it will be better? or they will fix things in the next expac?

The funny part is titania story mode is giving people trouble, so ofcourse they are going to nerf it, its hilarious if you think about it.

Titania story mode at E3 which going by what people say they have done at past E3s is already nerfed compared to the actual story mode fight. So the one we'll get will in fact be harder, but also done by people with more time in the game.

Not saying Scholar (or healers in general) will find it more engaging. Healing is my least played role. Just it might be slightly more heal intensive in the actual game, and only slightly.

[Josco]

Well to be fair, isn't this basically just Titania Story Mode? The real test is going to be EX @ 80.

*sigh*

At this point, I'm not so much mad at these people as disappointed.

[Gaethan_Tessula]

*sigh*

At this point, I'm not so much mad at these people as disappointed.

For the ones that actually main healer at least, I want to know if they've actually played a triage/long term resource management healing paradigm MMO. If they haven't, I have a suspicion they might not like what a game that requires "pure" healers demands of the healer.

If they HAVE, I have to ask why they can't perceive either the clear difference in fight design between the two games, or notice the development team's inertia on ever moving out of the current design paradigm on healing.

[Josco]

For the ones that actually main healer at least, I want to know if they've actually played a triage/long term resource management healing paradigm MMO. If they haven't, I have a suspicion they might not like what a game that requires "pure" healers demands of the healer.

If they HAVE, I have to ask why they can't perceive either the clear difference in fight design between the two games, or notice the development team's inertia on ever moving out of the current design paradigm on healing.

I've mained healers in other MMOs, yes. This has been the most dps-focused of the bunch, and it took some adjustment. The other type of healing is fun, too, but what we're looking at here is the worst of both worlds--the lack of constant engagement from healing and the lack of engaging damage rotations.

For example, I was really excited to see a couple of my favorite DPS classes (and tanks) got more interesting AoE combos. This was something I was really hoping to see in healers, maybe bringing WHM and AST closer to SCH. Instead, everyone gets the AST kit, and even typing that makes me want to take a nap.

[Knoahl]

I've mained healers in other MMOs, yes. This has been the most dps-focused of the bunch, and it took some adjustment. The other type of healing is fun, too, but what we're looking at here is the worst of both worlds--the lack of constant engagement from healing and the lack of engaging damage rotations.

For example, I was really excited to see a couple of my favorite DPS classes (and tanks) got more interesting AoE combos. This was something I was really hoping to see in healers, maybe bringing WHM and AST closer to SCH. Instead, everyone gets the AST kit, and even typing that makes me want to take a nap.

Discipline priest says hi, and that isn't listing quite the few which are more dps focused than FF is, but carry on. I'd say it more comes down to how trivial FF healing really is at its core due to the slower GCD's, smaller raid groups and how DoT's work to name a few things.

As a Scholar main from 2.0, we were never a pure healer when played at the skill floor, but a very potent healer when played at the skill ceiling, honestly I'd prefer to have a toolkit like that over the current one. FF needs less healing tools to make it more difficult tbh, not more. Healing is going to be the easy job this expansion, as if it wasn't already going that way in SB as it was.

[Bastionus]

Well to be fair, isn't this basically just Titania Story Mode? The real test is going to be EX @ 80.

Yea but what about players who don't do EX? I get for EX healing may be needed but for the others who don't then healer may be just...boring?