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    rachcouture's Avatar
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    Nov 2014
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    Character
    Taylor Swiftsong
    World
    Mateus
    Main Class
    Paladin Lv 90
    From the perspective of a longtime omnihealer main...

    White Mage:

    • Lilies are more pointless than ever. Afflatus Solace and Afflatus Rapture–exact clones of Cure II and Medica tied to a slow charging meter and thus negating their lack of a cast time–have no reason to exist outside of stacking to use Afflatus Misery, a pretty offensive spell that would have been better off as a trait-based upgrade to Holy. Special meters aren't needed for every class, and this is one of the best examples as to why.
    • Bring back Aero III. Give it a trait that turns it into Dia II.
    • Get rid of Fluid Aura already. Why is it still a thing?

    Everything else is honestly fine, especially Temperance; all future WHM skills should aspire to it.

    Astrologian:

    • Revert the cards to the original system, just with the necessary change/removal of The Spire. I can't stress this enough. There is no salvaging the rework when it contradicts the development team's desire to streamline all existing jobs. Not only has the identity of the class been entirely gutted in the process by turning every card into a single target damage boost, but it's extremely unintuitive and unwieldy, especially on controller. I spend more time fishing for seals/arcana conversion than I ever did trying to build the buffs I wanted pre-ShB.
    • An AoE DoT spell would be really, really nice.

    I have no other issues with this job. It's healing and shielding abilities were never a problem, and that still remains true.

    Scholar:

    • Let each fairy have its own unique skills. Pet micromanagement was a major component of this class. Not only that, but Selene's speed buff and AoE cleanse were far more useful than anything Eos has to offer nine times out of ten; I don't even have a use for her outside of the occasional mega pull as a safety net. Anything 70 and under is an absolute bore right now.
    • Art of War is a nice gesture after the loss of Blizzard II as a cross-class years ago, but please, bring back Miasma II.
    • I really don't understand why so many useless skills like Ruin II were left in, but essential abilities like the above were gutted.

    Still, it's probably my favorite this expansion; more interactive than WHM, but without being convoluted like AST is now.

    General:

    • Every healer should have four basic offensive spells: a single target attack, an AoE attack, a single target DoT, and a DoT AoE. This covers all the essentials without taking away from the role's intended priority.
    • Reinstate Protect as a cross-class skill, but in its PvP iteration: a 20% damage reduction for 10 seconds.
    • ... what happened to bringing back Stoneskin?
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    Last edited by rachcouture; 08-16-2019 at 10:08 PM.