"job adjustsments" from the live letter speculations

[Liam_Harper]

As strange as it sounds, I hope we get nothing.

Healing as a role needs a rework and quite possibly even parts of the game itself and encounter design. That's much, much bigger than patching up a single job, like NIN. That's just not something they can do in a patch, nor should they. They need to hire staff to the class design team who actually play and understand how healers function and make some big changes.

Random tweaks would likely go badly. In terms of balance healers are doing fine. AST does not need another random buff because it's not popular enough, nor does WhM need a nerf because people play it. I know we want changes, but throwing a token potency tweak at us to keep us quiet will just throw balance out. They need to do this properly.

[Vitreus]

As strange as it sounds, I hope we get nothing.

Healing as a role needs a rework and quite possibly even parts of the game itself and encounter design. That's much, much bigger than patching up a single job, like NIN. That's just not something they can do in a patch, nor should they. They need to hire staff to the class design team who actually play and understand how healers function and make some big changes.

Random tweaks would likely go badly. In terms of balance healers are doing fine. AST does not need another random buff because it's not popular enough, nor does WhM need a nerf because people play it. I know we want changes, but throwing a token potency tweak at us to keep us quiet will just throw balance out. They need to do this properly.

What's disappointing is that they just did this. We made a major overhaul for only one class AST with respect to one job mechanic and it was a contentious outcome at best. I don't have that much confidence in SE overhauling all three healers.

[Heilstos]

Hey Amalia Simasil and hey healer guys,

Mhhh. I belive Whm is great and the commuity plays this job much so I think SE can be happy.

I think AST needs help with Mana economy. With my ilvl 500 BiS I have only a manareg from 249 mana/3s.(And I use piet Bufffood).
I fell in love with a PVP idea from stormblood for AST. It was the case that every time "Draw" was used, 500 mana was returned. You can do this every minute and you get two times 500 mana (1k exactly the same as "ether flow" from the scholar.).
I would like to see that see that SE give Ui element, that make the card play easyer to play.

For SCH it feels like the SCH healing way can make fun. But its a aktiv way to heal and a lot of sch liked the sch because the healing was more passive. I would to see that the SCH gets a small dps push. I would like to see that "Broil III" has a 290 DP (instand from 280 DP) if Biolysis on the taget. (The schplayer should be rewarded for a good Dotplayment. In the same way like SMN)
I see the Problem that Chain Stratagem is not a safe way to push dmg. In the worst case its no dps push for 2 min.

So I see that SCH needs held in that way. And if a sch makes more rdps (+ adps) than its a bit more luck base and is not a playerskill playstill.

Thanks for reading my post and maybe you have a other idea.

[Ceasaria]

Nothing.
They are (I hope) too busy with the 4th job and rework SCH & AST.
So no point to do adjustements on this current failed version of healer.

[EaMett]

For SCH it feels like the SCH healing way can make fun. But its a aktiv way to heal and a lot of sch liked the sch because the healing was more passive. I would to see that the SCH gets a small dps push. I would like to see that "Broil III" has a 290 DP (instand from 280 DP) if Biolysis on the taget. (The schplayer should be rewarded for a good Dotplayment. In the same way like SMN)
I see the Problem that Chain Stratagem is not a safe way to push dmg. In the worst case its no dps push for 2 min.

So I see that SCH needs held in that way. And if a sch makes more rdps (+ adps) than its a bit more luck base and is not a playerskill playstill.

Thanks for reading my post and maybe you have a other idea.

If broil gets buffed in any way, ruin II would break as a weaving tool (it was already borderline from launch). I'd like to say it's therefore unlikely broil would get a buff but sadly this is exactly the kind of change I could see SE making.

[Corbeau]

Just give Scholar Ruin IV procs already.

[Videra]

I'm not sure I can predict as well on account of ditching my Ast when 5.0 dropped, but I'm fairly certain we will get one to three of the following

1. Another unneccesary nerf to holy
2. Sch changes supposedly to make it less clunky but makes it worse
3. Another unhealthy buff to Sch and Ast potencies to try and delay more people leaving the jobs.
4. A nerf to Blood lily
5. Meagre buff to ast's nocturnal sect that's not enough to close the gap between diurnal sect
6. Refusal to acknowledge healing boredom or apologise for it

We have a winner. If there's more than this, I will laugh and cry.

[Osmond]

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.....I play SCH main..I can say that it needs a QoL change..mainly dissipation. They should just keep the fairy up in the field and unlock the fairy gauge while having the healing buff and the aether stack refill. Yet, I don't expect that to happen, but it'll change the game for SCH alot.

[SpiralMask]

the "only in combat (and only if YOU'VE hit something, not just the tank/party members)" limitation continues biting SCH (aetherflow/dissipation) and AST (seals) in the ass, could be a nice QoL change/revert

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

AST does not need another random buff because it's not popular enough, nor does WhM need a nerf because people play it. I know we want changes, but throwing a token potency tweak at us to keep us quiet will just throw balance out. They need to do this properly.

What's disappointing is that they just did this. We made a major overhaul for only one class AST with respect to one job mechanic and it was a contentious outcome at best. I don't have that much confidence in SE overhauling all three healers.

What Astrologian needs is a complete rework from the ground up, it's an abject failure at being a "hybrid" healer, and with 6.0, assumably, bringing a new healer, it will no longer have an excuse of being a hybrid. Astrologian has been a problem since its incarnation and has remained so throughout. If diurnal sect is buffed out the voidhole AST runs the risk of wiping WHM out. If nocturnal sect is buffed out the voidhole AST runs the risk of wiping SCH out. If neither are good AST is left in the dust.

They have to give AST a meaningful rework, not just useless potency buffs or cast-time changes that actually hurts healer balance in the long-haul, for the betterment of all the healers and whatever the future healer will be.

(Stella being reintroduced and changed from a 100 potency 2.5 cast time GCD with a heavy debuff to an instant cast GCD, no heavy debuff and 100 or so potency would have solved the Card clipping issue instead of reducing Malefic's cast-time by 1 second and causing AST to out-damage WHM at the end of 4.0, AKA a Ruin 2 equivalent. WHM shouldn't/wouldn't need a Ruin 2 equivalent if they just made it's DoT do comparable damage with Ruin 2 weaving, WHM still doesn't have any damage boosting utility so it can afford to have a DoT that actually does a moderate amount of free damage.)

(And sidenote not related to AST, if they really wanted WHM to be the "direct GCD healer" it's damage should have all come from DoTs, and oGCDs, not direct damage casted GCDs, unlike SCH who has almost always been an oGCD healer and should have had all its damage come from casted direct damage GCDs and shouldn't have even had a DoT)