Which healing job are they gonna gut for Sage?

[RyuDragnier]

And it hasn't gotten better recently either. Like the changes a couple patches ago where they nerfed Energy Drain because the dev team was unhappy that SCH's were using it for the majority of their Aetherflow stacks instead of it's intended purpose of being used for healing. Instead of, you know, trying to understand why the class is being predominantly playing in an antithetical way to it's intended design they simply doubled down on their skewed perceptions. They legitimately have no idea what they're doing.

It doesn't help that most encounters we don't have to heal outside of specific moments that are so timed to where we could never have time without a stack because it's that easy. At this point they'd be better off removing Aetherflow from SCH, turning the Fairy Gauge into our resource management, and changing Aetherflow costs to Fairy Gauge costs, where each heal by the fairy fills it slowly. Because at that point it's better design, the Fairy Gauge isn't useless, and overall keeps to our tactical roots, especially if Energy Drain has a hefty price attached to it (should they rebuff it and keep it) to turn it into a true high risk high reward move.

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Or that, but it would be best if they then took advantage of those weave windows to add a good range of oGCD abilities and dps to weave in, particularly for WHM.

If only. But adding cooldowns to healers that deal direct damage seems like total heresy to the devs. Oh, how it would be more fun to see healers have many more abilities like Assize (but without the healing portion).

[Duskane]

I honestly feel WHM and Sage will get short end of the stick and SCH/AST will be fine.

[Allegor]

It makes me wonder... if healing is only just getting worse and worse... what would it take for those unhappy with it to finally drop it?

6.0: we're removing your one dot, and your one dps skill will have its potency increased but now has a cooldown to compensate. Also Holy no longer stuns

[Enla]

6.0: we're removing your one dot, and your one dps skill will have its potency increased but now has a cooldown to compensate. Also Holy no longer stuns

This will pretty much be what makes me drop healing outside of my static. I can grit my teeth and bear with our current state but any more of this and I'll switch classes entirely, queues be damned.

[ItMe]

6.0: we're removing your one dot, and your one dps skill will have its potency increased but now has a cooldown to compensate. Also Holy no longer stuns

This will pretty much be what makes me drop healing outside of my static. I can grit my teeth and bear with our current state but any more of this and I'll switch classes entirely, queues be damned.

Wow so it would actually take a lot to make you quit then.
Short of having healers designed to literally stand there and do nothing people'll just grit their teeth and keep with it, huh.

[Enla]

Wow so it would actually take a lot to make you quit then.
Short of having healers designed to literally stand there and do nothing people'll just grit their teeth and keep with it, huh.

Healers are masochists by trade after all.

[LisSquid]

Healers are masochists by trade after all.

In a perfect world, they'd learn to synergize a healer's dps and healing toolkit. I look at the damage of assize and earthly star and thing.. how novel. Damage and healing working in tandem. Made me feel hopeful for the future that they might make healer kits more active and interesting. I was a fool. I'm still a fool, since I am still hopeful.

[RyuDragnier]

Healers are sadists, we have the power to doom runs by our whims. We decide who lives and dies. The less we're able to do outside of healing, the more we'll play the "HP game", where we see how low we can get your health before we have to actually heal you before you die.

[WhiteArchmage]

Healers are sadists, we have the power to doom runs by our whims. We decide who lives and dies. The less we're able to do outside of healing, the more we'll play the "HP game", where we see how low we can get your health before we have to actually heal you before you die.

Sometimes, our healers like to play "Swap the Melee": when we have to divide into Light Parties and stack, they just... Swap the Melee. The screams are a symphony to my ears.

I also liked to Swap spots with a random person right before Suzaku's DDR phase... it's so much fun...