Quote Originally Posted by pinkbubblegum View Post
This is the same as Lillybell during FoF though haha. That's 4 GCDs your bell is covering for an entire area every fountain soak that neither healer has to do anything other than DPS xD

Only thing Lily can't do is shield for the next 2 Scorches but like honestly, one job having an advantage over one part of the fight is fine for me.
So...why does Benediction, which is a far, far weaker, jankier ability than Macrocosmos, have the same cooldown? Why does Astrologian get AOE Benediction plus damage on the same cooldown as Benediction? Could it be because healer balance is in the spot it's been for literal years, i.e. Astro has a whole flying boatload of free healing, infinite MP, higher total damage output than a "selfish" job, buffs, mobility, and a partridge in a pear tree?

Awful design decisions aside, the balance within the healer role has always been pretty bad ever since Astro was introduced to the game. You don't have jobs complementing one another with different strengths in different places. You have one or two jobs that can do everything extremely well with zero weaknesses, and one or two jobs that are strictly inferior in almost every single category except maybe one or two. That's not balance.