The Healers should be reworked? New player perspective.

[Renathras]

Semi, Roe - a question:

What if we made WHM the DoT mage (what everyone seems to want) and had SCH be the one that stays as it is? SCH's already the second most complex (after AST), and it pairs nicely with SMN for being "level this if you want something simple". (And, of course, SGE be damage focused BLM-like Chloromancer and AST be...the buffing one? Whatever at this point.) For a while, I've considered this the less logical choice given SCH's history, but there is _A_ logic to it considering being paired with SMN and that it remaining as is wouldn't be the "braindead" that people accuse current WHM of being.

(Granted, I would still make SOME changes to SCH personally - like having Physic upgrade into a less MP expensive Adlo, Lustrate into Excog without a CD, and probably combining a few things like Fey Blessing/Fey Illumination [lots of oGCD heals at this point have "heals a paltry amount and does X other thing] and doing...something different with ED, Aetherpact, and Faerie Gauge, maybe have ED run off Faerie Gauge instead since the new Excog could be used as an AF dump and the Survey did have decoupling ED from AF as a big thing people wanted. Oh, and SOMEthing with Dissipation, also a commonly hated topic from the Survey. Maybe replace Ruin 2 with instant cast Miasma. That might be interesting. Make it like Dia where it has a hit of damage on application but still instant cast and with a relatively short duration like 15 sec or something so it can be used as a movement tool. But meh. Details. Though...that could work...)

I think I might try this one out for a while, considering "leave WHM alone" is so toxic to people who praise current SCH (by comparison), and it has a certain type of logic to it I can appreciate.

Easy solutions, right?

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Nah, I know you'd oppose that, too. But at least you'd get your elementalist better-part-of-a-dozen DoTs per minute WHM out of the bargain.
(Half-dozen meaning 15/12 sec Aero duration - 4 or 5 x per min - and Aero III 2-3x per minute, with some Tornado mixed in should get close to a dozen...)


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Anyway, that aside, a General post if you guys feel inclined to comment on it: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...14#post6241914

I know plenty of you might have some input, and as much as we disagree, I actually do find your opinions interesting pretty often.