Healer Suggestions Megathread

[ForsakenRoe]

While others have some issues they're raising about various things (and I have my own but maybe another time), one thing I do want to draw attention to and commend is the Black Grimoire, and how it solves the main issue the old Cleric Stance had, while retaining it's 'feel'. Since Broil is unaffected, only the DOTs are, swapping to Black Grimoire is a 'only when you need to refresh a DOT' thing, not a 'camp this until you absolutely need to heal' thing. Further, rather than the 'all or nothing' effect of old Cleric, where you would either hit like a wet noodle without it or heal like a wet noodle with it, Black Grimoire would only boost the DOTs by 20p per tick each, which, yeh sure, adds up over a full fight if you forget to BlackGrim every single one, but one missed 'BlackGrim>apply DOT>WhiteGrim' is very low punishment. You could even drop the potency difference even further if you wanted, ie by raising the base potency of the DOT, so BG adds +10 per tick instead of 20 for example. Also, I like the idea of 'shielding access' being an opt-in thing, because sometimes you need the pure healing and being the shield-healer you just can't do anything about it. IE, SOS's first attack, that drops everyone to 1hp and you have to heal to full. You get 2 SCHs thanks to DF, it's kinda annoying to deal with, compared to having one of them being a WHM or AST

Bonus points for giving everything 'tactics' in the name I appreciate the theming. One thing I'd suggest though as a 'pet peeve' of sorts that cannot wait until 'maybe some other time': Black Grimoire/White Grimoire's CD of 3s, change it to 1 or 2s. Reason being, if you weave it hella late, do another Broil, then by the end of THAT GCD, it's still not up, forcing you to spend another GCD before you can swap again. It always feels kinda bleh to get 'locked out' re: stances, just look at Cleric. Making it eg 2s (or better yet, 1s so you can go GCD>Black>oops actually I wanted White>GCD) means you can freely go eg Black>DOT>White>Adlo>Black>DOT>White>Kaustra with a rhythmic flow to it, which I'd argue befits a master tactician effortlessly moving between offensive and defensive maneuvers