Potential Fixes to SCH's Ongoing Design Problems

[Semirhage]

I think we can further split the healers into simple and complex healers as well.

A simple job is a job with a low skill floor, even for more difficult content. It's easy not only to pick up, but to play proficiently. A complex job on the other hand, while it may or may not be easy to pick up, it is more difficult to play at a high level. But rather than simply meaning that the skill ceiling is higher, it's more like it requires more effort to play at a raid level.

"Simple and complex healers"
Oh no. This is "Keep White Mage boring and make Scholar overpowered again" isn't it?

SCH was one of the few that never got one, and the only one of those that has needed a rework for years.

Getting whittled down to the point where you have effectively nothing interesting to manage is pretty bad design, isn't it? Scholar is the only remaining healer suffering from this catastrophe. Nobody else has seen such horrible game design for years. Wink wink. Wink wink.

[Dearche]

"Simple and complex healers"
Oh no. This is "Keep White Mage boring and make Scholar overpowered again" isn't it?



Getting whittled down to the point where you have effectively nothing interesting to manage is pretty bad design, isn't it? Scholar is the only remaining healer suffering from this catastrophe. Nobody else has seen such horrible game design for years. Wink wink. Wink wink.

Simple and complex doesn't mean boring vs overpowered, though admittedly it can.
There's actually a perfect example already in FFXIV that does this, and nobody really complains about it. The Casters have RDM as the simple and SMN/BLM as the complex.

What I'm pointing out is that, since we're going to end up with two pure healers and two shield healers, we might as well make one of each a simple, and the other complex.

And if you want an example of how to make WHM simple without being boring, how about if their GCD heals are buffed a bit, and each time they're casted, they give blood lilies? Afflatus Misery would have to be weakened a bit to compensate, and most of their oGCDs would have to be removed, but they'll turn into a slower healer with weaved offence that can be used a ton.

In fact, it would even help solve their boring DPS problems while making them entirely unique in play, all without making WHM newbie unfriendly.

[Deceptus]

Simple and complex doesn't mean boring vs overpowered, though admittedly it can.
There's actually a perfect example already in FFXIV that does this, and nobody really complains about it. The Casters have RDM as the simple and SMN/BLM as the complex.

Unless you're min maxing BLM is ridiculously simple as well.