5.05 Healer Changes

[Crushnight]

SCH job guide updated to show energy drain with

"Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 150.
Additional Effect: Absorbs a portion of damage dealt as HP and restores MP
Additional Effect: Increases Faerie Gauge by 10
Aetherflow Gauge Cost: 1"

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/scholar/

It isn't giving us aetherflow. It's using an aetherflow.

so they are finally giving the same skill to 2 different jobs with 2 different effects so why can't smn have a useable physick?

[Crushnight]

Where did they say this?

My assumption based on current Energy drain on smn since it is the exact same named skill i thought was going to work the same apparently i was wrong

[Taika]

Yeah I can't believe they didn't even bother to rename the skill, and instead we now have two different skills on two different jobs that do two entirely different things but share the name.


Giving SCH Energy Drain as a DPS Aetherflow dump was something that was severely needed. But it needs much more than that to make it fun to play again.

[Billythepancake]

Yeah I can't believe they didn't even bother to rename the skill, and instead we now have two different skills on two different jobs that do two entirely different things but share the name.


Giving SCH Energy Drain as a DPS Aetherflow dump was something that was severely needed. But it needs much more than that to make it fun to play again.

I agree, I'm hoping 5.1 has more changes for healers, and I'm thinking maybe they didnt want to change them too much now because of savage being new.

[Enla]

SCH is still a boring, unimaginative, shallow corpse of a class it was before - in context of enjoyment of the gameplay. The joke potency changes (along with re-adding energy drain) are nowhere need bridging that ridiculous damage gap it's behind WHM.

At least you got your dump key back.

I'll take it as a step in the right direction honestly. Especially since I'm fairly, and sadly, sure the boring mess they turned healers into is here to stay. Having at least one small quality of life change is better than none - even if I desperately miss the complexity of old SCH and would jump at the chance to have it back in a heartbeat.

[nalol]

Yeah I'm mixed about ED changes.

lazy me liked that I didn't feel the need to use all my stacks when AF was up again (especially if didn't need mana)

also we get ED back but not the trait that lowers AF CD ... so my bet is we're gonna use dissipation more ... but not for healing.

it's just I feel ... there is some design issues .. what I'd do is put ED on a 30 sec CD but not use AF stacks ... or something similar

[Saefinn]

Yeah I'm mixed about ED changes.

lazy me liked that I didn't feel the need to use all my stacks when AF was up again (especially if didn't need mana)

also we get ED back but not the trait that lowers AF CD ... so my bet is we're gonna use dissipation more ... but not for healing.

it's just I feel ... there is some design issues .. what I'd do is put ED on a 30 sec CD but not use AF stacks ... or something similar

I think people wanted it on AF so they have something to dump excessive AF stacks on

[Sloprano]

Yeah I can't believe they didn't even bother to rename the skill, and instead we now have two different skills on two different jobs that do two entirely different things but share the name.


Giving SCH Energy Drain as a DPS Aetherflow dump was something that was severely needed. But it needs much more than that to make it fun to play again.

In the Live Letter thread here's been several questions about the Healer adjustments and also seen a couple about general feel about jobs outside of high-level content. Hoping this to be adressed and for me, Scholar in particular.

Best outcome I'm wishing for is they announcing a rejoining of ACN abilities and full fairy control or added back under other names. If not, I'm positive they can come with up something other than Ruin/Broil I/II/III and Biolysis (and now with occasional ED).

[Sanghelios]

Um, so? Making it meta again was never the point. It was to balance them with the other healers.
You shouldn't want any job buffed into meta.
Healers are, as of right now, pretty nicely balanced.

No, not really. AST is still far behind in rdps contribution and their healing kit still sucks compared to what WHM has. Even tho AST is much harder to play than WHM, this is leaving WHM in lead in both aspects by a large margin. This is by no means balanced.

[Ceasaria]

Energy Drain back, which mean more dps, more mana recovery, less boring (even if not as satisfying as before), SCH has now nothing to worry (Nocturnal AST, where are you ?).
But for AST, I just wonder how people can say it's fine now.
Half of their changes are artifices.
Sure, Divination, Sleeve Draw (still 3 min cd) and Celestial Opposition are better now, but compared to SB AST and other healers ? No, still underpowered in every departement.