FFXIV Healer Strike and the 'How would you fix it?' line

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So many people think they can be an arm-chair game designer.

People say “give constructive ideas not complain” then someone goes to this much effort to provide a constructive idea and people dismiss it out of hand

No...you...think you can...

Anyway, I'll focus on SCH, which has been my favorite Healer to play since ShB. See, it all comes down to personal opinions. Me? I play healer to heal. If I want to have involved DPS thoughts...I play a DPS (this is also far and away the most common approach in Japanese culture - which is a *huge* thing for you to consider). I wasn't a fan of Cleric Stance. The whole Offense/Defense/Emergency thing you have going? Yeah, I just don't like it. Simple as that. When I play a healer, I have no interest in juggling stances for different effects. (For the record, the same was true back in the day when PLD had Sword vs. Shield stances or whatever they were called - when I play a tank, I do so to tank, period.) There's a reason it took me forever to try leveling AST, just to find they reworked the cards again substantially and changed it from a system I could get into to one I just plain don't like (the difference is I simply stopped playing AST, I didn't see a need to shout it from the housetops and make it about me). I'm also not a fan of your Seraph ability happening simultaneously with other Faerie skills; that's one of the few "strategy" elements I really like about SCH right now, that tradeoff of the extra burst group heal vs. losing your other abilities for a bit. Lastly, I'll add that with the extra DoT you put back. For me, one is enough on a healer. Now I have to juggle two DPS DoT spells? I want to do that, I'll go play a DPS. Same with the AoE component of ShadowFlare...why do I as a healer have an AoE DoT when actual DPS classes don't even do that? Give that to all of the DPS classes first. Lastly, I just think it's a missed opportunity to not move Art of War up to be learned at a much lower level. One of the biggest slowdowns early on is the disparity when different classes get their basic AoE ability. Let's move them earlier.

There, are we happy now? Notice how I didn't say any of your changes were "bad," "terrible," "atrocious," or any of the other belittling words the echo chamber around here likes to throw around. I just accurately noted these are my opinions and why I personally wouldn't enjoy the setup you proposed for SCH.

1) 2 dots give that to the DPS first- BRD and GNB already have that and SMN used to have that before the remake you have championed before
2) nobody else has an AOE DOT- PLD and GNB, RPR functionally as well