Healer Suggestions Megathread

[TheDustyOne]

I've made a few changes to my Scholar.

Fey Wind and Fey Covenant have been removed and replaced with Fey Expedience, furthermore, Angel's Flight is also removed.

Fey Expedience
Ability - 120s Recast
Reduces damage received by 10%, 20s
Increases movement speed, 10s

Renathras I think is right here, better to not fix what ain't broke. However, I'm still keeping Expedient attached to the fairy, as I feel it fits well as a Faerie buff and can increase reach to parties split across a large arena if the Faerie is placed correctly. Angel's Flight has been removed and Seraph can now use Fey Expedience normally.

White Grimoire and Black Grimoire recast timers have been reduced to 1s.

A nice QoL change to allow someone to quickly change their mind on whether to swap their stances back within a single GCD window.

Embrace and Angel's Kiss have been added to Faerie Actions.

Embrace
Pet Ability - 3s Recast
Restores target's HP with a potency of 200
*Cannot be placed on the hotbar*

Was always supposed to be here, I was just forgetful.

Angel's Kiss
Pet Ability - 3s Recast
Restores target's HP with a potency of 270
*Cannot be placed on the hotbar*

Seraph's version of Embrace, replaces Seraphic Veil.

As a quick aside to better explain my changes to Sacred Soil and why I'm largely sticking to my changes; it has to do with what I feel better fits the fantasy that XIV Scholar is trying to do with having a healing companion that you work alongside. Having a healing field that pulses from Eos that empowers your shields or a mitigation barrier emanating from Selene protecting you while you're fighting better adds to that sense of comradery, like you're working together to make something larger than the sum of your parts, and gives a better tactical feel compared to placing the field down yourself, as if you're a commander timing your prepared strategy with your squad.

You can kinda picture Selene protecting a party from a magic blast while the Scholar is slinging spells from within, or Eos sharing her aether with the Scholar and friendly White Mage to make their shields and heals just that bit stronger.

The visual for Fey Sanctum would largely be the same as Sacred Soil now, it's just being channeled by Selene in a similar manner to how an Astro might channel CU.

That said, it's nice to hear positivity around the Grimoire stances, when I was poking around FFXI sites to see how the job was implemented there, it stuck out as a fantastic way to combine the faeries and otherwise high ability count into fewer buttons while also giving it that 'Tactician' feel.