A Change to Phoenix Downs

[ty_taurus]

One aspect about the ongoing healer debates is the need to keep the role easy and forgiving for casual and new players. In many ways, this need for easy-of-use has stifled the healers, but I believe there are ways that we can make healing more forgiving without needing to stifle their gameplay. In theory, creating more forgiveness elsewhere could help us push further back into healers having gameplay loops, essentially.

One thing unique to healers is that there's more pressure on them to understand mechanics and not die to them, as typically a healer dying can mean the party will eventually succumb to damage and fail. Recent tank changes have counteracted that by allowing the party to clear the fight without their healer more reliably, but I feel that's kind of an awful way to address that issue.

"If you fail, don't worry. The rest of the team will do the work for you and you can sit there and not play the game."

So I propose the following changes to Phoenix Downs:

1. Allow Phoenix Downs to be usable in combat with a cooldown of 180 seconds.
2. Allow players to carry multiple Phoenix Downs.
3. Award players Phoenix Downs for completing roulettes to ensure players always have at least a few off hand.
4. Add a new restriction to high-end duties that makes Phoenix Downs unusable and add this as a DF option alongside things like minimum ilvl and silence echo.

This change would relieve a lot of that pressure on healers, which in tern could hopefully placate some of this desire to handle healer players like infants from the game devs.

[Semirhage]

Major thumbs up. Why on earth Phoenix Downs are still unique items is completely baffling to me. It's like treasure maps. You can only gather one a day; why in the world are they one-per-inventory? Nonsense.

[DezereDawn]

Definitely can agree with this as an idea, Phoenix downs are an iconic ff item and it feels really weird to let them languish in obscurity here

[Nizzi]

Agree completely. Laying there dead watching everyone else slowly try to finish a fight, especially with tanks having the ability to sustain themselves nigh infinitely in normal mode content, is not fun. This would be a great change, and would make newer healers less of a "point of failure" in the party.

[Roda]

More recovery options also allow for more mechanics with teeth which I am totally down for.

[Imora]

The hell do you even get them?

[Duskane]

I think this is a good idea
be real nice for the groups that don't have a back up raise with RDM/SMN

[Lihtleita]

i think if each person had multiple phoenix downs content might be a bit too easy
but the ability to use them in combat instances would be great

[Liam_Harper]

Definitely agree.

Let's remember the main reason they refused Savage dungeons was that it "put too much pressure on the healer" not to die. This change would basically fix that.

[Bsrking5]

I think they should be stackable. Just take the normal long rez cast time to use with a 10 minute cooldown. Make the rez cast instant but on a charge system with a 2 minute cooldown. Resets in case of a wipe party. Non-healers with rez spells only get one charge, including blue mage.