SCH, Energy Drain, and 6.0

[Anhra]

This is literally the point of being a healer in pvp, to slow down the incoming damage and force the opposing team to change their priorities to remove that roadblock. I fail to understand how this is bad when this is literally the point of being a healer in a pvp setting.

No, it is not. Only someone who never played PvP outside of FFXIV can answer with nonsense like this (I am not blaming you for that, mind you.)
The Skillkits of each Job in FFXIV when it comes to PvP, is waaaay too small in oder to function properly for duels, there is no depth, multiple versions of raw dps Skills with different potencies, almost no additional effects that influence other Players in one way or another in a serious matter, No Status ailments aside the most basic one's such as a insignificant stun/sleep for each Job and the worst of all, rechargeable Potions which only serve to stall for time.
The lone fact that we have to endure a seperate Skillkit for PvP, only proves how inexperienced and naive Squeenix is when it comes to balancing Jobs. FFXIV is the only MMORPG i know that has this feature, and to noone's suprise, it only works in Group Fights, because when it comes to group battles, anything works as long as the damage numbers are acceptable since those indicate how long you spent inside content and be done with it.

In order for PvP to work properly, you need a foundation of Skills that is capable of responding to any situation to a certain degree that includes fighting back, or else you cant even have properly functioning duels. Take a look at Summoner for example, if you look at him, do you think he is summong anything? to me, its just a ordinary caster who just has alot of oGCD skills to faceroll on and nothing else.

I recomment that you take a look at youtube and watch from any MMO of your choice, be it WoW or any other MMO one or two PvP videos, and see how Healers can still be Healers, WHILE having at least the chance of killing other Classes, you'd be suprised how fun those look compared to FFXIV's version of "PvP".

And before anyone says it, balance has no place in PvP. The key to a good PvP experience is to break the "balance" while maintaining a equilibrium on all Jobs to a point, where any Class can say "Class X is better than Class Y in doing Z"

Hope that helps in any way.

[Kabooa]

And before anyone says it, balance has no place in PvP. The key to a good PvP experience is to break the "balance" while maintaining a equilibrium on all Jobs to a point, where any Class can say "Class X is better than Class Y in doing Z".

So, keep it balanced.

FF14 isn't a duel game. The PVP is designed around 4v4 for competitive play. Everything else that scales up from that is effectively no different than duel systems in zerg combat.