Prepare yourself for very little numerical change from the Media Influencer Release

[Silver-Strider]

I expect little to nothing to happen before launch.

Everyone will try out SGE and find it's more of the same with an extra step thrown in that becomes more tedious as time goes on.
Casuals will go back to WHM and find that they're hemorrhaging MP a little more than before but not enough to worry about it, yet.
SCH will feel somewhat better with Broil allowing weave space but, depending on if the fairy is actually more responsive, can go either way on if will be enjoyed any more than it currently is.
AST will be a mixed bag of joy and frustration. Joy from having some "new" tools immediately available in the form of Lord/Lady of Crowns and Astrodyne but frustrated they can't get the seals they need as easily due to the removal of Sleeve Drawn and Minor Arcana no longer being able to get rid of unwanted seals.

In 6.05, I expect some Cost reduction for WHM skills to be more in line to ASTs and maybe an MP buff to Assize to help it prep for Savage content but very little else to occur otherwise.

[MintnHoney]

In my most optimistic thoughts, there's a chance that the media tour builds that were provided to the various influencers was an even older build than what was usually provided, due to being unable to prep anything more current because of various reasons (most notably Covid). To that end, we just might see some of the things that were talked about but unseen in the media tour, and/or we might see those mp costs change, along with see more mp regeneration get added to a couple of jobs to increase their ease of use.

But in my most realistic thoughts, we're going to release exactly as the media tour build was shown, because they were too busy fine-tuning the rest of the game to bother with the healer role, which, they decided, could wait until after launch to be addressed.

And in my most pessimistic thoughts, it's going to be 6.0 AST all over again, but for all the healers except Sage, and they'll think it's fine until 6.2, when the healer population has dropped to >1000 per job (sans Sage, which holds onto ~10,000), per Data Center.

I can't wait to see which of these thoughts was closest to the mark.

[Sebazy]

A quick glance, but sadge looks entirely unchanged from the old media build on my first look?

GJ SE. GJ

[Sani2341]

A quick glance, but sadge looks entirely unchanged from the old media build on my first look?

GJ SE. GJ

seems so to me as well

[WaxSw]

A quick glance, but sadge looks entirely unchanged from the old media build on my first look?

GJ SE. GJ

They changed physis 2 and nerfed physis1/2 duration (to get it in line with whispering dawn), buffed pneuma heal from 400 to 600 but moved its mitigation to holos, haima shield went from 150 to 300 while panhaima went from 150 to 200 but its heals got lowered to 100 per unused stack, taurochole got a 100 potency buff and the mp restoration went from 5% to 7% but I think thats all

No changes in the dps side as far as I can tell

[Asdif_Laoeg]

I have found the following changes for sage (differences Mediatour to jobguide):
- The first shield of Haima went from 150 to 300, Panhaima from 150 to 200.
- The healing of Pneuma went from 400 to 600.
- Zoe went from 100% to 50% extra healing.
- Soteria went from 100% extra healing for Kardia to 50% (english jobuide) or 150% (german jobguide), and it went from 10 sec. to 15 sec. duration.

[Mortex]

Whm still dead on arrival

[Sebazy]

Oki that’s something at least++

The mp return is particularly noteworthy of those I think? Maybe they are intending us to need to spam heals more

[Recon1o6]

Looks like Sage is dead on arrival. Still a 1 button spam job since they couldn't buff toxikon to be equal or stronger than 2 regular dosis attacks

welp SE I'll wait for patch 6.1 for the emergency changes to see if you notice this major problem before I write off healing for good. Possibly this game depending on the msq.


i'll update the summary of healer issues at some point in the next few days for when the hype dies down
edit: wow, as if healing potencies weren't busted enough, regen got a buff to 250 potency
SE really doesn't get healing at all

[rewd]

They changed physis 2 and nerfed physis1/2 duration (to get it in line with whispering dawn), buffed pneuma heal from 400 to 600 but moved its mitigation to holos, haima shield went from 150 to 300 while panhaima went from 150 to 200 but its heals got lowered to 100 per unused stack, taurochole got a 100 potency buff and the mp restoration went from 5% to 7% but I think thats all

No changes in the dps side as far as I can tell

Haima and Panhaima are also 15s now, down from 30s.