Making All Healing Spells DPS Neutral

[Renathras]

White Mage: PvP skill seraph strike is now in PvE.

God please no! I hate Seraph Strike in PvP. "Yes, let me the squishy healer with NO MOVEMENT ABILITIES WHATSOEVER AND ONLY ONE ONE MITIGATION WITH AQUAVEIL rush into melee range in a combat mode that lets people 100% - 0% healers in 3 GCDs!" It's the single dumbest ability in PvP and I'd honestly rather it not exist or be a ranged Holy or something instead.

Sage: Toxicon's potency is now 660. E. Diag still grants a sting as it does now. Diagnosis grants a sting if used on a party member below 60% HP. E. Prognosis grants a sting if four of the barriers applied by E. Prog break. Prognosis grants a sting if at least three party members healed were below 60%.

This, on the other hand, I like.

Astro: New effect on combust. Any time you use a GCD heal, your combust explodes on the target and deals damage to them equal to one cast of malefic.

I kinda like this, too.

Scholar: Miasma 3 is back. Any time you apply shields you get a buff which increases the damage of your next miasma 3 equal to the potency of the broils you didn't cast. So if you used two adlos, you'll get two stacks, your next miasma 3 will deal extra damage equal to two casts of broil. If you use adlo, you'll only gain a stack if the person you shielded didn't already have a barrier from you. If succor, only activates if four or more party members didn't already have a barrier. Stacks 3 times.

I feel this might be a bit too complex in both programming and in execution. But you could do something akin to a Thundercloud proc on BLM, where casting Adlo/Succor/Physic (heh...?) makes your next Miasma 3 instant cast, have no DoT, but do full damage all at once, and the buff can stack 2-3 times or something like that. Good SCH's could use this for both burst and to set up movement opportunities.

EDIT: ...actually, I guess that would depend on Miasma 3's damage vs Broil IV or whatever. If, for example, Miasma 3 did 4x Broil's damage (making Miasma 3 damage neutral at 4 ticks vs Broil), then you might make it where GCD heals cause a stacking buff. When the buff stacks to 3 (hence damage neutral with Misma being cast as the 4th GCD), the SCH is granted the buff "Enveloping Miasma", making Miasma 3 instant cast, full damage, all that stuff.

Though this sounds a bit like Misery, it's a twist on it, and SCH would have the non-buffed Miasma 3 (an extra DoT) to upkeep in general, so it's more giving SCH another DoT and letting that button pull double duty for periods of high damage requiring GCD heal casts.

...though I can't think of many times on SCH I have to cast 3 Succors in a row...I CAN think of a few in which I COULD do it (e.g. ZodEx's stack multi-hit mechanic), but using GCD heals on SCH is honestly rather rare and niche as it is because their oGCD kit is just so amazing.

(Bleh, I'm not mathing this right at all. But whatever. Point is just giving SCH Miasma 3 back and letting them use the button in conjunction with GCD heals to make casting GCD heals damage neutral, I guess is my point.)