Healer Suggestions Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

They can’t just increase damage output or they will have to change mp costs for all actions and cd’s on the ogcd. Last tiers scholar 2.31 bis set ran out of mana after like 8 minutes, I know that’s hella optimized for dps, but if they had to heal 25% more (gcd heals) mana is poof. There would have to be a massive change in design philosophies and encounter mechanics, and I don’t think that’s happening. Healers just aren’t designed for attrition in this game.

At present they aren't, sure (because we removed all the flexible tools previously available for that purpose, such as old Ballad/Bishop).
But they very easily could be, with as little as a single trait or just through %MP cost reductions, rounded to the nearest multiple of 50, or just a simple LD buff. It's not that big a barrier to address, design-wise.

The question is simply whether we want more significant healing requirements (especially, between bursts), alongside greater engagement in downtime, or just to keep the floor capsized to pander to those who can't handle even the mildest real healing pressure.



There's no need, for instance, for a single single-target heal to consume 15 seconds of natural MP regeneration, or ~7.7 seconds of MP regeneration when averaging in on-CD casts of Lucid Dreaming. (Note, Lucid Dreaming grants 38.5% MP per minute, while natural regeneration grants 40% MP per minute.)
Frankly, there's no need for Lucid Dreaming to be a thing, either, as there's too few competing CDs right now to create any priority conflicts in getting that LD out almost precisely on-CD-refresh, at which point it simply becomes luck-based additional punishment for one's death being too close after LD's minute mark. From which point, we may as well have our attacks/fillers be slightly MP-positive.