Healers need an overhaul

[ASkellington]

Lets put it this way:

1. Pick a solo duty where you play as yourself.
   
2. Play any one of the 4 healers.
   
3. Complete the duty.

If you think that completing said duty is tedious as a healer, congratulations you have now discovered what it feels like to be a veteran healer. That is legit what it feels like when we get good at our job. Yes, there is more healing involved, but frankly? Just healing yourself reflects how it feels (pop a HoT/hit a button you're back to full).

[QooEr]

Personally I'd like if the devs added a status ailment that hit healers that could "lock" oGCDs, forcing only GCD healing for a bit.

it exists, its used in potd. its called amnesia


its a huge bummer that thers so many status effects and the devs use them almost never. i very much would prefer if failing mechanics didnt do any damage at all but instead gave debuffs, and instead the unavoidable damage was vastly increased in frequency and potency.

[RyuDragnier]

it exists, its used in potd. its called amnesia


its a huge bummer that thers so many status effects and the devs use them almost never. i very much would prefer if failing mechanics didnt do any damage at all but instead gave debuffs, and instead the unavoidable damage was vastly increased in frequency and potency.

Gods yes, I'd love that so much. And Amnesia definitely needs to be used more in raids. I'm actually surprised they never used it in E12 considering the fight was pretty much "erasing memories." I know it was just a specific individual's, but having it effect the party would have been pretty cool, especially if it was during the add phase (and during a part of final phase).

[Rolder50]

Really, the only reason more content isn't solo healed is because they specifically design mechanics that do things like target tanks and healers, or in P4S Part 1, required 2 healers in order to soak things like role specific towers. Like, DSR can be solo healed but there is something like a 2/7 chance I think it was you just wipe to a specific mechanic that targets healers.

[Shurrikhan]

Gods yes, I'd love that so much. And Amnesia definitely needs to be used more in raids. I'm actually surprised they never used it in E12 considering the fight was pretty much "erasing memories." I know it was just a specific individual's, but having it effect the party would have been pretty cool, especially if it was during the add phase (and during a part of final phase).

For that not to feel pretty badly, too, though, you'd have to have enough outgoing damage to actually deplete most of your oGCDs before the amnesia phase, such that you're getting some cooling value over said phase. That in itself would be quite a turn from the norm.

Getting a debuff whereby just your next oGCD cast gets locked out, or is placed on an extended (flat, proportionate, or combination of both) recast time, could also be interesting.

[Silver-Strider]

Gods yes, I'd love that so much. And Amnesia definitely needs to be used more in raids. I'm actually surprised they never used it in E12 considering the fight was pretty much "erasing memories." I know it was just a specific individual's, but having it effect the party would have been pretty cool, especially if it was during the add phase (and during a part of final phase).

Amnesia: exists
WHM: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILY

[Shurrikhan]

Amnesia: exists
WHM: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILY

With stuff like P3S Macrocosmos being a thing, I don't mind WHM having a rare free-healing advantage relative to other healers (especially if one can shuffle their oGCD CDs partly around Amnesia phases).

[Silver-Strider]

With stuff like P3S Macrocosmos being a thing, I don't mind WHM having a rare free-healing advantage relative to other healers (especially if one can shuffle their oGCD CDs partly around Amnesia phases).

I wouldn't mind it either but I doubt that they'd implement something like that since SCH/SGE combinations would potentially suffer from such mechanics since their shields don't stack and cutting off access to something like Emergency Tactics or Pepsis during a GCD heal check would either be potentially problematic or the heal check is so easy what little advantage WHM has would be joke.

[RyuDragnier]

I wouldn't mind it either but I doubt that they'd implement something like that since SCH/SGE combinations would potentially suffer from such mechanics since their shields don't stack and cutting off access to something like Emergency Tactics or Pepsis during a GCD heal check would either be potentially problematic or the heal check is so easy what little advantage WHM has would be joke.

SGE doesn't have to activate their shields. They can cast their heals without Eukrasia active and they'll just be heals, not shield heals. SGE/SCH wouldn't have a problem, per say. Maybe have to throw out more of the heals, but not a problem with the shielding.

[pikalovr]

SGE doesn't have to activate their shields. They can cast their heals without Eukrasia active and they'll just be heals, not shield heals. SGE/SCH wouldn't have a problem, per say. Maybe have to throw out more of the heals, but not a problem with the shielding.

the real question is since fights are supposed to be done with one regen one shield healer shouldn't we be more worried about WHM being chosen over AST?