What’s the point of Physick for Summoner?

[MellowMink]

Has the director ever actually specified why the heal spells for Summoner versus Red Mage are based off different stats? I’m still weirded out by Physick being on his job layout while he was demoing the newer Summoner before Endwalker’s release if it’s not intended to ever be used outside of maybe the first dungeon instance and almost nothing else. I wonder what it would take for this to at least be addressed during a live letter.

[Flana]

Has the director ever actually specified why the heal spells for Summoner versus Red Mage are based off different stats? I’m still weirded out by Physick being on his job layout while he was demoing the newer Summoner before Endwalker’s release if it’s not intended to ever be used outside of maybe the first dungeon instance and almost nothing else. I wonder what it would take for this to at least be addressed during a live letter.

Because SMN and SCH used to share all their class abilities, which made it an absolute nightmare to balance (you can't touch one without touching the other). In Stormblood this became a moot point because Scholar got their own exclusive version of Arcanist abilities. Literally the only thing SCH inherits from ACN anymore is the raise. Everything else is SCH exclusive, including basic Ruin and Physick.

And yet they never bothered to fix the ACN, and thus SMN, version of the spell to be useful for more than 20 minutes of your total playtime. People have asked, frequently, but the question is always dodged in official QnA's and content creators don't care about about a literal joke button to waste one of their questions with YoshiP over.