"job adjustsments" from the live letter speculations

[YusiKha]

DoT spells need to have greater potency period. The whole point of a dot is it's supposed to do high damage over time to compensate for lack of upfront damage.

Having a dot only be twice as strong as a direct damage spell is pretty bad. It needs to be in the 3x - 5x range.

The damage of a DoT is the least important part of the DoT, so long as it's higher (even 1 potency higher) than the nuke that it's replacing.
What makes a DoT a DoT is their restricted, but flexible, recast times. If unclipped, there's no difference between a 30s DoT that deals 700p in total and a spell that deals 700p with a 30s recast time.

This is best compounded with multiple DoTs and varying duration timers, or status effects/spells that rely on the number of DoTs active or their remaining time left.

[YusiKha]

WHM weaving tools are really awkward. Sometimes you don't need to heal so Afflatus Skills and Regen are wasted to throw in an oGCD and sometimes you also don't get any benefit from overwriting your DoT so you basically just pick what you want to waste your time doing or just clip into the GCD. They definitely NEED a filler spell for weaving. Give them Instant Cast Faith that increase the potency of their next spell by 25% so instead of wasting your time healing unnecessarily or clipping your DoT you recoup the wasted GCD a bit on your next spell. If you want to get fancy it could stack up to 4 times allowing a WHM to charge up during downtime and move freely without feeling useless and really cement them as the GCD healer.

Afflatus skills aren't wasted if they're used solely to weave, as they contribute to Misery regardless.
Also the only spell that would benefit from Faith, at that value, would be Misery. And it's still the same worth as using any Afflatus (~225p).
It would be 75p on Glare and 180p on Dia. Both worse than clipping Glare, or clipping Dia after 1 tick.

Letting it stack up to 4 times would be neat for downtime, but a spell thats literal only use is to press 4 times in downtime is too situational for slot that could be occupied by a more interesting skill.

If you wanted to be a pure healer this would be ideal since you could hyper tune your spells by charging up for burst healing every damage spike.

pure healing anti-contribution is a mentality from a different game that has nothing to do with the way FFXIV's combat mechanics work, and needs to die off

[Videra]

pure healing anti-contribution is a mentality from a different game that has nothing to do with the way FFXIV's combat mechanics work, and needs to die off

It isn't even a thing in WoW anymore. Healers do DPS, end of story. Preach it.

[NobleWinter]

Afflatus skills aren't wasted if they're used solely to weave, as they contribute to Misery regardless.
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Letting it stack up to 4 times would be neat for downtime, but a spell thats literal only use is to press 4 times in downtime is too situational for slot that could be occupied by a more interesting skill.

I just threw out a random number for the Faith potency increase but even still that version of Faith is more interesting than the almost useless Fluid Aura we have now. It could just as easily be 100% increase to your next spell and have less stacks possible but for me movement is the most important feature although clearly maximizing DPS is important too. For me WHM should be able to react to sudden changes in an encounter without feeling useless at low levels and high levels alike and the fact they have nothing to cast for movement specifically bothers me. Afflatus skills have to actually restore HP to contribute to the Blood Lily so they aren't always an option unless I'm mistaken. I wouldn't mind having a Ruin 2 clone either but anything to differentiate healers is much appreciated in my opinion.

[Deceptus]

pure healing anti-contribution is a mentality from a different game that has nothing to do with the way FFXIV's combat mechanics work, and needs to die off

This. Even Everquest WAY back in the day understood that Clerics (their healers) needed to be able to do SOME damage because you have to level somehow.

But certain FFXIV players magically forget those spells when they join a group.

[YusiKha]

Afflatus skills have to actually restore HP to contribute to the Blood Lily so they aren't always an option unless I'm mistaken.

Afflatus skills always contribute to the Blood Lily, even when cast out of combat (Confirmed it ingame as well). It was StB Plenary that required healing to go through to work.

For me WHM should be able to react to sudden changes in an encounter without feeling useless at low levels and high levels alike

The only time there are 'sudden changes' in a mechanic is the first time you experience it, or like 3 people die to a mechanic. That's never going to be an optimal setting where you're prioritising DPS over safety.

anything to differentiate healers is much appreciated in my opinion

So if there was a healer with limited movement options, like Black Mage, that needs to preposition for mechanics and manage a limited movement resource.
Would that be distinct from the healer that can move 50% of the time, like Red Mage, but needs to hold skills for longer stretches of movement.
And a healer that has on-demand full movement, like Summoner, which needs to hold a damage resource to move efficiently.

[Truen]

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 they did to healers wasn't a reworking, it was the single worst dismantling I've seen in 20 years of gaming. Scholar went from being a really fun job to a wretched, broiling mess.

[Crushnight]

What they did to healers wasn't a reworking, it was the single worst dismantling I've seen in 20 years of gaming. Scholar went from being a really fun job to a wretched, broiling mess.

Remember when the community regarded sch as one of the best designed jobs in the game if not the best designed job, fallen so far, where is that designer now I want them back they at least understood healers better.

[Shurrikhan]

If I were to be idealistic (read: a fool)...

1. WHM: Lily growth and the recast timer of Divine Benison now scale with GCD speed.
2. SCH: Button efficiency and pet responsiveness changes. Dissipation again increases all magic potency. Fey Union can now restore the health of barrier effects remaining on the target to a maximum of most recent application's original value.
3. AST: Now gives 3 of same Seal type the same value as 3 different types, so it's impossible to get a minimum-value Divination and that much fewer Redraws are likely necessary to get a maximum-value Divination. Divination just reads: "Effect increased by a further 2% damage increase if 3 of the same seal or 3 different seals are present."

[Shurrikhan]

if dia lasted 15 seconds with the same total potency it has now, it wouldn't have any mobility or weaving issues, as itd line with assize

If we didn't want it to feel as invasive as a 15s DoT (though I'd be fine with, heck, getting back the full slew of Aero I, II, and III, personally), we could also just siphon some of the periodic potency towards the initial potency instead so the damage loss for clipping it short would be reduced.