A summary of healer issues

[Mimilu]

This is a nitpick considering the other issues healers have but does anyone else hate how sacred soil and asylum are 200ft tall now? I don't mind them being wider but they're so tall its like the entire arena has a hazy blue filter on it the whole time. It's so distracting.

You know, a nitpick about those two abilities I've been thinking about for a bit now is "wouldn't it make more sense for WHM's bubble to be called Sacred Soil and for SCH's to be Asylum?" (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))

[Beddict]

You know, a nitpick about those two abilities I've been thinking about for a bit now is "wouldn't it make more sense for WHM's bubble to be called Sacred Soil and for SCH's to be Asylum?" (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))

Sacred Soil is Field Treatment Camp in JP, at least when translating it using DeepL. I dunno why they decided to call it Sacred Soil, but yeah, it sticks out quite a bit.

[Renathras]

The exact same goes for...

I do agree that a lot of naming conventions are...off...but I don't think this one is.

"four letter (tetra) name of god" fits the "holy priest", which WHM's still are in this game, even considering the CNJ roots (the Amdapori very clearly did use Holy aspected magics and had one of the Twelve as their patron). And Lustrate as purification here still applies to SCH in the sense of "disinfectant" or "cleaning" when working as a healer of people. Even before the discovery of microorganisms, people realized value in cleanliness when caring for the sick (if nothing else, it decreased them getting sick), and this kind of works with the lost Leeches (SCH's Esuna spell pre-SB). And recall that a lot of caregivers WERE religious persons at the time (a lot of early medical and scientific discoveries related to things were by priests, like the guy that discovered the recessive-dominant gene thing we now do with Punnett squares), so the cleaning might have been ritualistic. And, lest we forget, Nym also had a patron god, Oschon (hence Wonderer's Palace), so the idea of the SCH's of Nym having a FEW religious-esque rites doesn't seem entirely unfounded.

Before SGE, SCH was the "doctor" healer. Leeches, Physick, and arguably Succor could all be argued to be based in that.

Sacred Soil is weird, but I think the argument here is "holy soil as a reagent in alchemy" rather than "hallowed ground" (which...is a PLD ability name). Asylum, on the other hand, wouldn't make sense for SCH since it started as a religious convention way back when, as far back as the asylum cities in ancient Israel and in the Medieval period, was practiced by the churches and generally a privilege extended to them by European secular governments. In FFXIV's world, most of the city-states of the 5th era, those that weren't ALREADY conquered by Mhach, sought asylum/protection from Amdapor, which was the "big brother/protector" nation of that era. Sort of a less passive Sharlayan for the time.

Sacred Soil is Field Treatment Camp in JP, at least when translating it using DeepL. I dunno why they decided to call it Sacred Soil, but yeah, it sticks out quite a bit.

Huh.

So basically, "M.A.S.H. Camp"?