Quote Originally Posted by Grimoire-M View Post
I do like it but if someone has a better idea for a healer DPS rotation that works alongside how they heal I’m all ears.
Here's a really cool idea for SCH's DPS Rotation:

Returning Actions
- Broil: This can stay as the basic DPS button
- Biolysis: This can stay as a 30 second DoT
- Ruin II: We can upgrade this to a new spell and have its DPS be the same as Broil's but be double the MP. This lets you use it as a better weaving tool when needed, but isn't optimal to spam.

New Actions
- Miasma: This can be a brand new DoT with a cast time on a 24 second cooldown. This adds more fluctuation between your rotation as you maintain keeping it and your other DoTs up. Additionally, it also reduces the amount of HP restored by the target. It's not a very common thing we see, but a nice touch for the few times it does apply.
- Pain: This can be another DoT, but this time on an 18 second cast time. This one will be instant as well. By having 3 DoTs of 18 seconds, 24 seconds, and 30 seconds, you have a fairly light rotation of just managing DoTs, which is something that we haven't seen in XIV yet and could be really interesting.
- Deployment Tactics: We add an effect where, if you target an enemy with it, spreads all your DoT spells from them to nearby enemies at 50% of the potency. This applies to Biolysis, Miasma, and Pain.
- Shadowflare: Shadowflare is a common spell in Final Fantasy Lore, and I think adding it to FFXIV would make a lot of sense. This can place a zone on the ground that deals damage over time to enemies in it and also inflict a slow effect to combo as an offensive tool that also offers some mitigation.

Additionally, we could enhance this brand new poison-focused identity with some additional tools such as...
- Virus: This can be an OGCD debuff that lowers damage dealt and better compliments the mitigation-style of healing SCH has.
- Eye for an Eye: This would be a really unique OGCD action that allows you to buff an ally. When attacked, that ally has a chance of spreading a damage dealt down effect to the attacker.

I feel like something like this would work really well on SCH and give it more identity than it currently holds.