Summoner Heal…did I miss something?

[Kandraxx]

Healing Power 400 heals me for ~700 at Lv.90 with 44k HP, while RDM Vercure heals me for ~7k at Healing Power 350, exactly same gear ilvl 575. What did I miss?

Is Physick on the Summoner supposed to be an RP skill?

[Baxcel]

Physick is based on mind

Vercure is based on Int

Summoner main stat is int so they don't get a heal bonus on physick

[Myon88]

Is Physick on the Summoner supposed to be an RP skill?

Pretty much yeah. Why physick still exists in its current state after three expansions of revamps is one of the big mysteries of the game.

[Corbeau]

No idea why it's in the spellbook in it's current state. It's certainly not on my bars.

[Adonan]

I remember FF Tactics had a moogle summon that healed everyone in an AoE. They could probably add a trait that turns physick into that, or something like it, while changing the scaling to int.

[PaulH]

The old days of scholar and summoner when you had to consume a keepers hymn to reset stats between INT and MND to play .

[SieyaM]

Physick is one of those skills that just kind of hangs on to SMN even though it is completely useless. There is a real regen with the Phoenix summon but since firebird trance is only available at certain points in the rotation, and you aren't going to hang on to it to save it for a situation where you need it, it's going to simply be a matter of luck if you use it when it might be needed.

[Raikai]

I remember FF Tactics had a moogle summon that healed everyone in an AoE. They could probably add a trait that turns physick into that, or something like it, while changing the scaling to int.

Now this would be a cool idea.

While at that, they need to make the base carbuncle just a cosmetic spell, and have the Radiant Aegis and Searing Light summon Obsidian and Diamond carbuncles respectively. Nothing worse like needing your shield to help a healer with the damage... oh wait, the base carbuncle is gone because there's an egi right at that time.

[wereotter]

It's a handy skill for low levels when you unlock it but quickly becomes useless for reasons stated above.

At level 80, you unlock two legitimate heals.
Rekindle is a 400 potency heal that does scale in int that also gives the target the effect that if during the following 30 seconds, their HP drops below 75% they also get a 200 per tick potency regen for 15 seconds. However, this can only be used under summon phoenix windows, so it's pretty niche.

Also at level 80, you apply Everlasting Flight to the party when you do summon phoenix, which applies a 100 potency per tick regen on the party for 21 seconds.

[Legion88]

Physik, as well es Ressucitate, are remnants of the Arcanist Class, which splits into SMN and SCH and has parts of both kits, healing and damage.
Despite Physik being a "real" healing spell and scales with Mind it has its uses in Dungeons below level 50 when Healer and Caster share the same gear and SMN has an overburden amount of Mind available.