Healer role design change?

[Shurrikhan]

That's oddly specific and not at all comparable to "remove this one set of mechanics from the Job and watch it be entirely non-viable".

But that's what you're asking for there. You're asking for the removal of 3 uses per minute of 800 ST or 400 AoE free cure potency per minute. That'd be huge... on anyone.

Yes, that much happens to be stored in one mechanic on WHM, but strip Fairy skills from SCH, Kardia from SGE, etc., and... no shit, it's going to be a lot. Because they're supposed to be. It's why their core elements.

What are you talking about? SCH current meta is devoting as many AF as possible to pathetic 100 potency Energy Drains. Without AF, SCH would still work just fine. It still has an abundance of healing tools that can clear every encounter in the game right now. Again, the current design meta for SCH is "use no AF on heals".

Sorry, yes, fairy skills would be the more apt comparison for healing output.

Regardless, though, without that extra 300 potency per minute, it wouldn't likely be hard meta. And it's only even able to waste the healing potential of all its AF, anyways, because healing requirements in general are so low. That is the core issue.

So we've got a litmus test healer that tells us the modern condition has gone basic-bitch; shouldn't we be addressing the condition, then, rather than just going straight to homogenizing that healer / ignoring whatever that test tells us? The more we roll over with/to the problem, the less we can contest it in the future.