SMN Physick

[Awarewolf]

I think they should just fix the spell and make it an actual heal that works.

The two main reasons for why it doesn't work and why they won't remove it are that it scales with mind instead of intellect so that Scholars can use it. And if they got rid of it apparently it would leave low level Scholars with no heal.

Here's my solution.

Either give us a trait at L32 that completely switches Physick to Physick II which will be a completely new spell which can then scale off of intellect.

Or

Give us a trait at L32 that increases Physick's potency to 8,000.

Currently Scholar's Physick heals for 20x the amount that Summoners does. So instead of having the spell scale with intellect, just increase the potency of Summoners Physick by 20x to match a base Scholar heal.

We know they can do both of these. Ruin gets replaced by Broil which scales off of mind, so we know they can completely replace spells and their scaling mechanics.

They also have traits that simply increase the potency of spells, so we know they can do that too.

Doing either one will fix Physick and put Summoners on par with Red Mage and Paladin.

It’s possible they don’t want to do it for that exact reason. Red Mage can raise and heal, Summoner just raises, and Black Mage can’t do either. The trade off is that less utility means more damage, supposedly, but we all know that’s not always the case.

Personally, I’d like to see Physick replaced with A Call spell. Calls could be GCD summons that have utility effects. Call Lakshmi (just an example, thinking of the FFVI Esper) to appear and cast a regen on the whole party. Stuff like that.

Plenty of hotkey space for abilities like this.