Dawntrail Healer Change Predicitons

[Amenara]

My only prediction is that the devs are gonna skip Glare and Holy 4 and give us Glare and Holy 5.

[MintnHoney]

My only prediction is that the devs are gonna skip Glare and Holy 4 and give us Glare and Holy 5.

Nah, we're hitting level 100! We should treat ourselves.

WHM will get Glare, Holy, and Cure X at level 92, and then X-II at level 100 as an ultimate upgrade for reaching level 100, with a whopping 5 potency increase for each step as compared to their previous incarnations, but at least they made a fun reference to another FF game, right?

To that end:

SCHs will get an ability that eats their entire book, disabling them from using any abilities other than Eos-based abilities for 30 seconds, but increasing Eos' healing output by 30%. This will be in contrast to SMN, who will eat their book and become an avatar of their summons.

AST will get what WHM was originally supposed to get at level 100, Arise, but they'll call it Equinox and it will only provide its full healing potency (2-4% of max HP on target's incapacitation) based on an internal RNG that improves if the target was a melee DPS or ranged DPS at the time of casting (based on Eorzean time of day), meanwhile AST will lose a flat 50 potency on all of their personal damage tools to compensate, taking effect as soon as they get the ability.

At level 96, SGE will get the ability to perform a melee-ranged, single target "surgery" (translated: shoot another laser) in battle to inflict a context-sensitive debuff with no major effects attached to it, and later get a trait at level 100 to increase the potency of Pneuma by 5% if the enemy has that debuff. The debuff will last for 10 seconds, and the surgery will be on the GCD and deal no damage of its own.

/s, I hope

[Renathras]

SCHs will get an ability that eats their entire book, disabling them from using any abilities other than Eos-based abilities for 30 seconds, but increasing Eos' healing output by 30%. This will be in contrast to SMN, who will eat their book and become an avatar of their summons.

I mean...not gonna lie, that sounds a lot more fun and...well...GOOD than current Dissipation.

For 30 seconds, I can't use Adlo, Succor, or (lol?) Physic, and my Faerie abilities hit like a truck? I mean...that sounds kind of cool, actually. Would need a little tweak. For example, my SCH idea (shameless plug: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...e-Proposal-SCH ) was to have Energy Drain and (basically) Lustrate use Faerie Gauge (Lustrate being what Aetherpact turns into in this case), so your example mixed with that, add one more thing "for the 30 seconds, you have unlimited Faerie Gauge) would be amazing. For 30 seconds, you can rapid fire off Energy Drains while spot healing with Lustrate and still have Fey Blessing, Fey Illumination, and Whispering Dawn?

That...doesn't actually sound BAD, honestly. I'm sure it wouldn't be balanced at all and would screw with people that judge their worth by always having a GCD rolling, but it actually sounds fun machine gunning Energy Drains and Lustrates.

The SMN one is honestly what we do already. Just stand in melee range when you do Titan Phase and you have that same experience.

[ForsakenRoe]

I mean...not gonna lie, that sounds a lot more fun and...well...GOOD than current Dissipation.

For 30 seconds, I can't use Adlo, Succor, or (lol?) Physic, and my Faerie abilities hit like a truck?)

I read it as 'Ability' type skills, ie, no SCH-based OGCDs, so no Indom, Soil, Protraction, etc, which would be rough to work around, as Eos alone isn't gonna keep up even with 30% boosted healing

If it works like as you said though, that'd mean that it's every non-fairy skill regardless of it's weaponskill/spell/ability flags, in which case, no Broil for 30s? lol

[Renathras]

I read it as 'Ability' type skills, ie, no SCH-based OGCDs, so no Indom, Soil, Protraction, etc, which would be rough to work around, as Eos alone isn't gonna keep up even with 30% boosted healing

If it works like as you said though, that'd mean that it's every non-fairy skill regardless of it's weaponskill/spell/ability flags, in which case, no Broil for 30s? lol

What's that meme? "Stop! I can only get so..."?

I mean, it'd be one way to cut down on Broilspam.

I guess it depends on how often you're using that other stuff. A lot of stuff you can heal with Whispering Dawn and Fey Blessing. (Like...way more than we've any right to be healing with just those things alone... <_< ), but yeah, you're right. I was just thinking of something that let you machine gun Energy Drains while throwing out bomb Faerie heals on people 1/4th of the time. Still sounds way more fun than current Dissipation.

[BRVV]

X-II
"surgery" (translated: shoot another laser)

Glare X-2: Yuna's story

Sage will get "Lobotomy" - makes you forget the decline of FFXIV /s

[MintnHoney]

Glare X-2: Yuna's story

Every WHM:

Sage will get "Lobotomy" - makes you forget the decline of FFXIV /s

Soon(tm).

I read it as 'Ability' type skills, ie, no SCH-based OGCDs, so no Indom, Soil, Protraction, etc, which would be rough to work around, as Eos alone isn't gonna keep up even with 30% boosted healing

If it works like as you said though, that'd mean that it's every non-fairy skill regardless of it's weaponskill/spell/ability flags, in which case, no Broil for 30s? lol

To answer both of you, my original intent was that it would disable anything that wasn't a "pet action" according to the Job Guide. I guess, as a bonus, attributing to Squeen's famous short-sightedness with SCH, we could make an exception and allow Dissipation to be used during that time, but it would not end the 30 second "buff." We'll call that skill "Frolic" since that's basically what you will be doing for those 30 seconds.