Healers need an overhaul

[MiaShino]

Wait what? In what way was Swtor healing comparable to FFXIV? Was this a late thing? I played pretty hardcore for maybe the first 6 months of release and then gave up when I realised that EA were making the same mistakes with this that they had not long made with the prior failure of Warhammer Online.

SWTOR was the game I just left for FF14 land. Played umm, mostly Sage/Sorcerer with friends leveling Operative and Mercenary.

Not only did we have talent trees and skill evolutions there we could select perks still. Ohhh right! Armor sets and tacticals carried bonuses most varied. DPS sections of our kits were somewhat of the lacking compared to Aion but more complex then they are here. I miss Aion.. Aion would give most FF14 anti healer dps people a stroke.

Storms Succor tactical is the one this Mia chose. Allowed our single target burst nuke skill to generate healing orbs. Skill had three charges and consumed additional force per consecutive blast however output more deeps and healing each blast. Went for regen spec armor giving regens applied chance to proc multiple times, am forgetting to remember the name.

Sorcerer had multiple defensive cool downs that were practically requirement for higher level content. Damage in Swtor was fairly consistent and rather fricken painful. If specced correctly Extrication (SWTOR Rescue) could reduce target aggro while also giving the defensive cooldown for your target. This skill functioned instantly plus allowed for vertical movement too. Twas skill most incredible especially when combined with Sorcerer telewarp. Yes.. telewarp. We could leave marker down then teleport back to our marker effectively allowing us to be in multiple places at once!

Healing skills were all GCD based but had rotation. Cure 1 equivalent comboed into Cure 2 equivalent (think 1,2,3 combo) making it instant cast. Could also combo Cure 2 > Aoe regen for instant aoe regen or aoe regen backwards into instant single target heal. Wandering mend (kinda like excog) tis skill that will bounce from target to target if they take damage. Buuuuuuut if you applied single target regen first wandering mend will bounce instantly changing from delayed on damage bounce to aoe burst heal.

Could spec the Sorcerer bubble to apply hot effect or explode when expiring to blind effected mobs. Ops had hard hitting trash with bosses summoning ads pretty consistently there (CC good!). Yup yup! Healers had CC skills and interrupts. This was one year ago. Last thing we were doing was progging Gods from the Machine with group that was umm.. how to place this, not ready for difficult content. We were nine hours into prog when I quit doing ops (Savage raids) most varied. Took my Sorcerer into all content including high end stuffs.

SWTOR healing > FF14 healing any fricken day for complexity. This was abouts one year ago so uncertain if anything changed again with 7.0. The two were nothing alike.. I still miss my Sorcerer. Bestie one misses her OP too and the ability to cloak parties past entire Flashpoints (dungeons) straight into the boss. Soooooooo fun to do!

Anyone claiming SWTOR is similar to FF14 and healers deal no damage there is misremembering at the best and being disingenuous at worst. Asked the uncle about WoW and he did one better by pulling up footage of big raids from when he played. He would not accept healers into his static who could not deal damage and outgoing damage there was miles ahead of FF14.

Unless someone is willing to tell me I am one remembering things incorrectly. Played SWTOR for almost two years and Aion for much of the longer. Some extended family have been mmo veterans for decades. Was recently talking bout muds with them when Usenet was still thing. Many apologies for wall of words and text most sloppy. I have just awoken and coffee to blood ratio too low.

[IDontPetLalas]

SWTOR was the game I just left for FF14 land. Played umm, mostly Sage/Sorcerer with friends leveling Operative and Mercenary.

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I just wanted to say that i wish we could steal huttball from SWTOR . all we would need is to add Rescue back to our PVP skills and -boom- nice new CC map.