Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[ForsakenRoe]

(Also I'm sorry. It's hard for me to read your walls of text in one sitting so I've just been reading it chunk by chunk and pressing Like on the thing. This one's a little bit shorter tho so here's a reply lmao)

On the one hand, here's the full list of my proposed skills/changes/stuff for WHM. The SGE one is okay too, but you can ignore the AST and SCH ones, they're kinda bad. On the other hand, it's less a 'wall of text' and moreso a barricade so you might need to take a break or two part way through. If nothing else, I think the most important thing is to check the two linked videos, as they demonstrate that even two relatively small changes (shortening Dia duration, adding a 15s GCD) can actually have quite a large shakeup on the rotation, thank in advance

Is the point that this is just esuna-able scamiglione’s cursed echo or not?
Maybe a tank vuln would work here too, shield through it or chuck a regen on to counter the increased auto damage. Also put autos back on bosses.
Similarly it would be interesting if doom was cleansable by healing to 100% inclusive or esuna to provide choice to the player. Except the one you stand on glowing things to fix.

Scar is one example, sure. Also, bringing up the doom is an interesting one, because we could also have that be blocked by shielding. For example, if you were to shield someone enough to take zero damage from the doll in Lapis, under this idea, it would block the doom. You'd also be able to Esuna the doom, or as you suggest, brute force heal through the doom and get the player to 100% to remove it. But I'm also thinking about the harder content where 'shielding blocks certain debuffs/effects' can be leveraged more. Vulcan Burst is the tip of the metaphorical iceberg on what it'd allow for, I think