Quote Originally Posted by Aravell View Post
I personally would love to see fights designed in ways that make certain jobs shine more than others. Such as in P3S, people were so angry that Macrocosmos negated the heal check of Death's Toll that they completely ignored the fact that Lilybell completely negated Fountain of Fire as a mechanic too. Of course, if some jobs shine brighter than others, there also has to be balance, not like back in HW where PLD was rendered almost completely useless because most bosses did magic damage and DRK is basically better at everything.
Yes, but the problem with P3S was that it wasn't 'Lilybell negated FOF', it was 'several things negated FOF, and Lilybell was one of them'. SGE could Panhaima it after one hit (to get the big heal buff), SCH has Fairy stuff, WHM has Lilybell, and AST has CO big regen, and Earthly Star. Contrast to Death's Toll, where only Macrocosmos 'negated' to the degree that Macrocosmos could. It would probably be less of an issue if WHM was able to completely negate FOF to the extent that AST could negate Death's Toll, because then each of them has a mechanic that they can trivialize and it balances out (and dissuades SCH SGE comps), but instead we got 'WHM can make a mechanic comfier, AST can straight up delete one' hence the 'imbalance'

It's like having a 'heal this thing to full check', WHM can just Benediction it and job's done. You'd think 'oh so WHM is best for this fight' but since every healer has so many healing tools to use now, WHM's 'strength' there is infringed upon. You'd think raidwide-bleeds we keep getting now would help incentivize WHM because Lilybell, but AST has 2 regens on a 60s CD, so that kinda evens things out too. I've said for a while, we should do something like removing a stack of Lilybell, and reduce it's CD to 120 or even 90s, so that it's niche is 'it's up twice as often'. 4 stacks every 120s (or even 3 every 90s) would feel way better/more versatile to use than 5 every 180s, unless it's a raidwide bleed, or the final Styx of P11S, not all the stacks will get used. It's currently 2000p, 180s CD. that makes it 666p per minute, which is comparable to AST's CU (600 total cos of the placement tick, 60s), CO (700/60s), and Star (720 when charged/60s). If we reduce it to 3 stacks/90s, that's 1200p of healing on a 90s CD, or an average of 800p per 60s. Asylum is 900/90s, Pneuma/Zoe is 900/120s. If we remove the 'early detonation penalty' too, then WHM could actually lean into it's supposed identity of 'big bursty heals', while also being able to keep the versatility of spreading the healing out into 3 smaller bursts to avoid overheal if needed

Yes I'm suggesting WHM get 'more healing power' it's a weird world