Shadowbringers Healer Role: Complaints, Feedback, and Suggestions

[Liam_Harper]

Anyway, the point is that giving SCH and WHM a quicker casting time would just be a bad move. Both of them are already terribly boring and trying to maximize uptime is their only form of optimization. Take that away and there would be absolutely nothing interesting about them.

What I was talking about isn't just tacking on a faster cast time and calling it a day. Healers will always be terribly boring if we don't address weave because you can't just tack on 5 more interesting oGCD's on a clunky turret. There's no room. There are other options for weave slots than the AST cast, but WHM/SCH would need significantly more free ones to have on-demand windows, especially when healing isn't always as predictable as dps if people take avoidable damage or die. The WHM/SCH casting just doesn't support a well designed toolkit. If we ask the devs to keep 2.5 sec endless Glares, we're hindering any potential to have enjoyable gameplay.

What I'm trying to look at is the broader picture, for example if they changed the cast time and then took the opportunity it provided to add an engaging toolkit and interesting oGCD's to weave into those new slots, and I feel most people are stuck using the current healers to judge any potential change. They're also looking at it from the perspective of the current heal design of 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 where if you opened up the way for a better toolkit, you'd ideally have multiple dps abilities, for example your main cast could be 1.5 sec, with some slower big casts, some procs, a mix of things. There's also the fact that GCD heals are often a full cast and in a better designed game we'd need them sometimes. So ideally you wouldn't just be spamming a Malefic clone.

I don't think a minor Ruin II buff and call it a day is a fix at all either. Ruin II is bland and almost an excuse not to give SCH any real weave. They could get creative and reward you with free windows for various things. Extra dots, procs from DoTs, an instant GCD hit that triggers from Aether heals, ED being a harder hitting instant GCD (not saying all those are good ideas, but you get what I mean).