Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
The Pure/Barrier split could never have worked out, but I'd assume that in true SE fashion, they'll hang onto it for another expansion before deciding that it failed. 'Lets split the healers into 2 pure, 2 barrier. Ok now we've done that, let AST keep shield via neutral sect, and let SGE pump 900p in one GCD. Just slap a big CD on it to 'balance' it'. The writing was on the wall as soon as it was announced, because they had already planned for the tanks to split into MTs and OTs, and then they immediately went back on the idea. So I don't really get what was going through their head when they did this one. Probably the same as whatever was going through their head when they designed MCH to work with cast times in HW, and then went 'oh yeh for parity, put cast times on BRD too'

And to think, Noct AST was apparently such an issue for them to balance that it had to be removed. Could have made AST a stance-dancer but nope
The easiest method would be to just have attacks that can be mitigated as usual, but then also have attacks that are set HP % followed by a heavy hit and cannot be mitigated or shielded against. Something that would require quick and powerful heals to get through, hard for a barrier healer but easy for a pure healer. They've already made fights with raidwides that cannot be shielded against, the skeletons exploding during the Dragon Zombie fight in LotA ignores shields completely, so making raidwides that work like that wouldn't be too difficult for this purpose. This makes the shields and mitigations worthless against the HP % attack but useful for mitigating the followup that comes afterwards.