Healer New Ideas Thread

[Nobuyuki_Sanada]

How about a healer combo involving dots with short cooldowns so you can comfortably try to do damage while giving yourself enough openings to weave at any time. Something like a tank combo with a dot on one end and a buff attack on the other. Could even be a buildup like broil -> broil II -> broil III then Bio -> Bio II -> Bio III, with three dots ticking and plenty of room to get necessary heals off. Fits well with the scholar aesthetic because you’d be incentivized to use proactive healing over reactive healing, so you can hunker down for your three cast combo.

I don't know if i'm understanding your idea correctly but if I am the first issue i would see is button bloat. Your taking 2 skills and making them 6 all with the purpose of doing more damage. The idea is that we want to actually heal more but we don't just want to spam cure 2 or healer equivalent all day. If you give a healer time to do anything they will just use those GCDs to do more damage unless they are absolutely required to heal in fear of wiping. This is why OGCDs are so valuable as they don't require you to stop your dps just weave in the heal and go to town. I could have gotten your idea completely wrong and if I did I apologize.

I would be happier with this. xD I'd be fine with turning WHM into the DPS to heal job, but I don't think SE ever will go that far for it. :/

So my idea was not to change the entire class, but rather just spice it up. You would still have your base heals but maybe they would be as potent and therefore require some of these new mechanics to top people off or assist in managing your mp. Right now your are wasting 3 gcd's on heals you most of the time dont need for 1 big dps skill, why not change that so that misery does less potency but it consumes a lily and the blood lily is used on one of the 2 Afflatus heals with a higher potency. This would feel better because you dont feel bad about spending a gcd on a damage move and it also gives you another big ogcd heal.