Hypothetical ultimatum: Yoshi P comes to the forums

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

First contender would be definitely Scholar, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to revert it to Stormblood days, having an actual DOT system and DOT spread, Faerie skills being usable during GCD casting, Shadowflare. The only thing I'd not want from those days is the original 100 potency Ruin II, that one sucked.

Astrologian probably 2nd, but I wouldn't go carbon copy from Stormblood because my main gripe with it was that offensive and defensive cards shared the same draw, therefore being an inconsistent utility. And even if, I still think them being the original 2-button-rotation Healer will forever feel awful, so I wish there to be more... substance during downtime DPSing.

Last slot is a good question. On one end, I want decent GCD usage that doesn't suck for DPSing similar how WHM has it, on another I want a meaningful DPS rotation or DPS tools which both could use. Maybe with WHM if Thin Air was returned as a buff window rather than single use I'd be cool if there was another button that burns excess MP for increased damage (+50-100% MP cost increase for +x% damage). Dunno, third slot is a difficult pick.

[Naoki34]

He comes into this very forum on his official account. Coming to us all right now (via translator), he says:

"We will change 3 healers and leave 1 the same. This is non-negotiable. Choose which."

Which would you pick to leave as it is, and why that one?
Which would you pick to change, and why those three?

You want WHM changed to a former incarnation.
You want SCH changed to a former incarnation.
You want AST changed to a former incarnation.
SGE has had no former incarnation, but you also want to have it for your class fantasy.

So which would you pick to not change?

Note that the alternative is NOT to change all four: If you don't pick one, then all four will remain as they are today.

Note that "not picking" isn't an option, unless you would prefer NONE changed to only three changed. Sort of a "If I don't get everything I want, I'd rather get NOTHING" extreme absolutionist position.

If so: Why would you prefer the current system over one where three Healers were changed?

I don't know and I don't care.
What do you think of the Pampers characters?

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

I don't know and I don't care.
What do you think of the Pampers characters?

If you don't care and don't intend to contribute , why are you here? And what is up with that cringe off-topic question? Yikes.

[Icecylee]

Sure I'll play along.

I'd throw AST under a bus. Largely because it's the one I have the least amount of confidence in them redoing well.

[Renathras]

If you don't care and don't intend to contribute , why are you here? And what is up with that cringe off-topic question? Yikes.

I'm not even sure what that question means. Though I do appreciate your post, thank you.

Sure I'll play along.

I'd throw AST under a bus. Largely because it's the one I have the least amount of confidence in them redoing well.

The irony being, that's the one they are going to redo in 7.0, and intended to redo, lest we forget, in like 6.2 or something. I'm even a little scared for it, and it's the one I play the least.

[Icecylee]

Having to push it back the rework that far certainly didn't install *more* confidence in me, no. lol

[AnotherPerson]

Having to push it back the rework that far certainly didn't install *more* confidence in me, no. lol

At this point I'm just hopeful for whatever changes they made to the job toolkit. Surely AST's update should be pretty substantial if they're willing to delay the release of AST until 7.0.
Hopefully there's at least some changes to lightspeed - either gain charges and/or lower the cooldown to be more readily accessible as in the case of BLM's triplecast because weaving on AST can feel terrible when there's a bunch of abilities you want to use simultaneously, but don't have the weave slots to do so without drifting.

Well.... if we're using a technicality.... AST is already getting a rework, then I'd rather see changes on SCH and SGE. I'm not sure if there's any former incarnation of WHM's gauge that's better than the current Endwalker lily system, but disregarding that -- changes to WHM would also be nice to see.

Surely throwing AST under the bus is fine because it's not possible to make AST even worse than it is already in 7.0? Don't quote me on this.

[Naoki34]

If you don't care and don't intend to contribute , why are you here? And what is up with that cringe off-topic question? Yikes.

For the same reason of you, Why are you ugly?

[ASkellington]

Surely throwing AST under the bus is fine because it's not possible to make AST even worse than it is already in 7.0?

Oh it absolutely is with this dev team. 5.0 and 6.0 have proven that.

[ForsakenRoe]

'The people who got the class into this mess are going to be the sole arbiters of what will get the class out of this mess' is not exactly a thought that inspires confidence in me either

All we can do is hope they have enough common sense, and enough willpower to put their damn pride out of the way for once, and admit 'ah yes, the class was more popular in 4.0, and stopped being as popular in 5.0. Maybe something more like 4.0 would be better'

Instead we're going to get a third rework to cards, which still keeps the Seals system and it'll still feel super tacked on