Quote Originally Posted by Niroken View Post
What if "pure" healers had a slightly higher base amount of healing then barrier healers but augments them by HoT while "barrier" healers had a slightly lower base amount of healing that is augmented by damage reduction instead of straight up damage negation?
You could still have damage negating barriers but as capstone abilities and pure healers would have burst healing on their capstone abilities.

For future healers, I would love a non-casting healer. All our healers are magic based.
I think that was the original intention, Succor was 200p plus a shield, Medica was 300, Medica2 was 150, plus 50 per tick for 30s. Recovering HP took effort back then. Then over time they've boosted every facet of healer kits to be more 'burst heal', even the shield healers. Succor fell to the wayside as Indom was added, Fey Union helps to make Adlo less desireable, etc. On the other side, WHM got the trait that boosts every AOE heal from 300p to 400p, combine that with Plenary's +200 and you go from a raidwide that asks for two Medica's, to a raidwide that asks for one PI > Rapture, and Rapture's now also damage neutral. Lilybell can heal for up to 2000 if you're up against a multihit/bleed mechanic, Medica 2 does it's regen effect in half the time. And then you have SGE, the 'barrier healer', with a capstone that lets them do 900p healing in a burst, if they Zoe it. They need to just remove the Pure/Barrier split and be done with it.

I was thinking about things again recently, and I gave the examples of 'shield checks' like a debuff application you can block with a shield, or the 'already in the game' knockback prevention of Vulcan Burst. But then I remembered another shield check we already have: A11S Photons. The floor's on fire, you're taking damage over time constantly, and the boss has a mechanic that drops you to 1HP. If you're not shielded, you die to the next DOT tick. It's simple, it works, it's proven to get people to use shields. I guess the issue is now, we have so many sources of OGCD shielding that we wouldn't really care. Oh Photon's coming? Shake/Veil/Consolation/Panhaima/Holos, any one of these and problem's solved.