A summary of healer issues

[ty_taurus]

Astrologian mainly. For example, in another thread you brought up Sage being very challenging sharlayan discipline and astro be on the simpler side due to cards.

In case you forgot, Astrologian too, is a challenging sharlayan discipline. The "easy" version of it is the one ishgard uses which is concerned only with the dragonstar.


Sage's challenge should be from managing eukrasia if we were to stick to lore. The other reason its tricky is just how tricky nouliths are to use. Meanwhile Astro's challenge in lore comes from its spells (time dilation for example) and the fact you need to be good at both physics and observing/interpretating natural phenomena. Especially now one of your primary reference points dropped on etheirys


reallyy though no healer has an excuse in lore to not have a high skill ceiling

Oh, I don't necessarily believe AST should be simple per say, but rather designed to appeal to players who want a more support-focused playstyle by having their GCD rotation involve setting up and activating their buffs, and in order to both function in solo content (and be fun) and to stay competitive with the other healers, the act of setting up and detonating these buffs would generate a stacking resource. When you attack, one is consumed to deal Malefic potency damage, and you can also pass these stacks over to other players to detonate for you. In solo play, you'd have a rotation of setting up your own buffs, then quickly bursting down enemies with effectively double potency Malefics. I do believe every healer should have room for optimization.