To healers enjoying 5.0: a gil for your thoughts?

[Lynesse]

No, there is a cost, you are missing out on faery gauge.

Trust me, by the time you need the Faerie Gauge, it's maxed. You don't have to rush those 10 Aetherflow abilities. This also doesn't impact your DPS.

SCH literally had all these things before the expansion...just with more interesting decision making on facets like Aetherflow or being able to use Dissipation as a soft DPS cooldown when healing was not a factor to give a couple of examples. Not to mention more DPS spells to break up the monotony that is currently the "spam broil" phase.

Like nothing you just suggested couldn't be done or considered prior to the expansion...it's all just become more bland...

We used Miasma II to weave, not Ruin II. So no, it didn't work the same.

Miasma II was clunky and tacked on -- literally tacked on, in fact -- and it forced the player to reposition when they needed to use it, which was awkward when you were dodging mechanics, and only acceptable when something was on farm.

I'd say that the DPS abilities in Stormblood made SCH's raid opener more interesting, but that's it.

Rouse was just kind of there. Bane was very poorly programmed, where if you used it too soon after Bio II, it didn't apply the effect. Shadow Flare was a ground AoE in a game that lacks certain QoL elements of other games.

Stormblood SCH wasn't that great to me. It was broken at launch, and they fixed it somewhat thoughtlessly. We were spamming a DoT in AoE pulls -- part of the clunk is because it was rewarding us for what should have been considered bad practice, so it felt wrong to me.

I'm not trying to be confrontational. I'm not trying to say you're wrong. SCH had a nice rhythm, and I empathize with people who miss that extra layer of complexity. I just feel like the new SCH still has that same rhythm, we only weave different skills now, and admittedly, there's less to weave overall.

But what is there is a very solid, deliberate design.