Favorite healer change previewed for 5.0?

[Knoahl]

You do realize you can cast Holy 30 times in the time it takes to get the 3 lilies needed to nourish the blood lily to cast Afflatus Misery once. If I remember the tooltip right, Holy is now 180 potency with no drop off? That's 5400 potency compared to 900. Of course, you're unlikely to have the MP to cast holy 30 times, but it only takes 5 to equal the 900 potency of Misery plus Holy will stun which means your tank won't take as much damage while you're spamming it. I don't really see the potential in dungeons. And because of the time and GDC limitations, I really doubt it's going to make a whole lot of difference in the raid situation you mentioned.

Why are you feeding words into their mouth? I don't think she said she'd go out of her way to get misery to pop, my assumption is if she gets it from healing she'd just save it for said add phase.

[Ilenya]

Offhand, what was/is the Recharge on Assize, anyways? 45 seconds? Just thinking of things.

[althenawhm]

Offhand, what was/is the Recharge on Assize, anyways? 45 seconds? Just thinking of things.

Last time we saw a build, it was still at 45 seconds, no charge system on it which is silly though.

[Ilenya]

Last time we saw a build, it was still at 45 seconds, no charge system on it which is silly though.

Mmm, I'm not sure charges on things like that is a good idea from a balance perspective, but I can understand wanting it. Either way, 45 seconds makes my timing off.

[CaesarCV]

While I think that the changes are underwhelming for the most part, I am excited about Seraph! For once it feels like SCH has a capstone that actually feels like a cool final ability! Shame that all of the other changes are pretty bad though.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I didn't say they were good, but at least they do something other than looking pretty. If it's anything like the 4.0 fiasco, I could see the Afflatus spells being turned into ogcd eventually.

The Afflatus spell caught me completely by surprise. Finally, something which works with lilies in a positive way. It's a Tetragrammaton without a 60 sec cooldown, and when you cast it, it fills up another resource bar.

That's cool. I can accept a 2.5 sec GCD for that.



This new development is exciting and I'm going to attempt to play through Stormblood so it's worth my while buy Shadowbringer.