Ideas for Healer Rework.

[Karowolus]

Scholar

A healer that makes use of fairy familiars and seeks to maximise damage dealt. High end damage, shield healing and support.

• Primarily shield healing
• Makes use of terrain via fairy pets
• DoT damage

“Don’tcha wish your Scholar was hot like Sage? Don’tchaaa”
But the fairy sure does! That’s why we’re bringing in a few fairies up. I personally find Scholar to be pulled in three different directions. Aetherflow (read, Sage but worse), Fairy (read, Summoner but worse) or normal skill healer (read: any healer, but a lot worse).

Let’s make Scholar consistent for once, yes?
Sooo.... First things first, yes? Aetherflow, you’re fired. Eos, you’re promoted. Shields…
…

• Broil stays, Biolysis stays.
• Adloquium remains the same, with its chance to crit giving people Galvanize.
• Succor works as normal.
• And pretty much nothing else stays because it’s all getting changed!

First, the fairies!
Upon changing to SCH, their innate passive is “Dawnservant”, which instantly summons Eos.
Eos stays on the field and acts as a supportive unit. Eos cannot be unsummoned.
Eos has access to the following skills:

• Embrace: Auto-Heals the party member with the lowest HP.
• Whispering Dawn: Changes the following 5 Embrace casts to be party-wide.
• Sit: Places Eos where the SCH is. If the SCH moves away from her Sit range, she returns to following the SCH and is not unsummoned.
• Heel: Has Eos follow the SCH around. Replaces Sit.

You want a healbot? Here, have a healbot. It'll have a bit better use every 2 minutes anyway. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Flying Fairy
Scholar gets summons now, similar to Summoner. These are a one-use only that enable further skills. Specifically, there are two buttons that change whenever a Fairy is used, overwriting the actions:

• Fey Echelon
• Fey Schiltron

Three additional actions called Gonfalon will be unlocked and can be used outside the fairy’s influence.

Summon Selene:
The Scholar summons the Selene fairy who casts Indomitable Moon on the party, casting a shield on them with a burst of light, dematerializing soon after. The SCH gains the Lunar Aura, which unlocks the following skills, all cast from the perspective of the SCH:

• Lunar Echelon: A 4-stack attack similar to Titan, which applies a Lunar Echelon shield on the party with each cast. The shield will be lengthened with each cast if they haven’t broken. It does not heal them while the shields are applied.
• Lunar Schiltron: Applies a small Lunar Schiltron shield to a single target. It does not heal them while the shield is applied.
• Lunar Gonfalon becomes Standard of the Moon: A banner is dropped on the floor for 10s. The banner will tether to people and cast a shield on them. It does not heal them while the shield is applied. If the shield breaks while Standard of the Moon is still present, the banner will recast the shield as long as the party member is within reach. Standard of the Moon buffs the party’s Critical Hit rate when dropped.

Summon Hemera
The Scholar summons the Hemera fairy who casts Daybreak on the party, healing them with a burst of light, dematerializing soon after. The SCH gains the Daylight Aura, which unlocks the following skills, all cast from the perspective of the SCH:

• Solar Echelon: A 4-stack attack similar to Titan, which applies a shield on the tank. Each hit does heal the tank. Similar to Lunar Echelon, the shield is lenghtened with each cast if it wasn’t broken.
• Solar Schiltron: Applies a regen on a single target
• Solar Gonfalon becomes Standard of the Sun: A banner is dropped on the floor for 10s. The banner will pulsate a regen for that duration to anyone within range. Standard of the Sun buffs the party’s Direct Hit rate when dropped.

Summon Astraea
The Scholar summons the Astraea fairy who casts Falling Star on the party. It reduces damage taken by the party, storing a portion of the damage mitigated for 10s, dematerializing soon after. This damage is being stored into Starry Gonfalon. The SCH gains the Starlight Aura, which unlocks the following skills, all cast from the perspective of the SCH:

• Starry Echelon: A single long cast similar to Ifrit. Upon being cast, the SCH applies Miasma to all enemies surrounding them. Starry Echelon applies Energy Syphon on SCH. Energy Syphon’s effect lasts 10s and during this duration, any Broil spell cast will heal the party member with the highest aggro on the target hit by Broil.
• Starry Schiltron: Applies Energy Drain on the party, converting a portion of damage they deal into HP.
• Starry Gonfalon becomes Standard of the Skies: A banner is dropped on the floor for 10s. A burst of damage emanates from the banner, dealing a portion of the damage stored by Falling Star to all enemies around it. It reduces the defences of all aggroed enemies when dropped.

• Physick is wholly removed. This may trigger some people, but don’t worry. Have you seen the new fairies?
• Concitation is an instant-cast OGCD, similar to how Holos is now. Stacks with Adloquium.
• The SCH has access to Consolation from the bloody start. Hallelloo. 2 charges.
• Lustrate has 3 stacks. No cost, just cooldown.
• Indom has no cost, just cooldown.
• Sacred Soil has no cost, just cooldown.
• Excogitation has no cost, just cooldown.
• Fey Blessing has no cost, is now a SCH action called Auxilliary Tactics.
• Fairy Gauge went to the store to get milk and won't be coming back.

New SCH actions:

• Retaliation: Remember Eye for an Eye? That’s pretty much it. For those who don’t know, imagine Arm’s Length, but instead of applying Slow it applies Reprisal.
• Contravallation: Haima.
• Convalescence: Since the fairy’s not being eaten for Aetherflow, we’re putting the effects of Dissipation here.
• Dissipation: Reworked into a buff on the party that takes the next hit they take and slowly spreads it out as a DoT instead.
• Phaetonic Hymn: Aetherpact tethering the Scholar to the party member. It has no cost, just a cooldown.
• Hyperion Hymn: Lilybell.
• Helionic Hymn: A fairy that applies damage reduction and a growing shield to people around it. Basically a second Sacred Soil but without regens.

Reworked Skills! Because good lord, stop fighting your own designs, Scholar!

• Recitation works on both Excog, Adlo and now also Manifestation and Contravallation.
• Deployment Tactics now works with Manifestation, Contravallation and Retaliation.
• Emergency Tactics does not work with Contravallation.

Seraph of War
The Scholar merges with Eos periodically once all Banners were unlocked, typically at the 2m window.

• The Seraph explodes with damage upon transforming.
• All healing will be increased.
• During this duration, Adloquium and Succor are buffed to Manifestation and Accession.
• The SCH continuously throws out Embrace passively. Will also normally execute Whispering Dawn. However, they will have the Seraph's upgrade which applies a small shield on every Embrace cast.
• Emergency Tactics becomes a toggle, turning all cast Adlos\Succors into heals until switched off.
• Chain Stratagem unlocks the following damaging combo on its own button:
• Baneful Logistic (deals damage),
• Festering Tactic (applies a poison),
• Biological Warfare (casts old Shadow Flare, applying a puddle of poison underneath the target).

[Raikai]

Astrologian

A complex healer with delayed mechanics and the ability to buff the party. Lowest damage

Lowest damage... This kind of sucks, and I don't mean in the party composition. If the overall rDPS is balanced among healers, I don't care if half of their dps is outsourced, however AST hurts a lot when soloing because of this.

What would be a fix? A niche action that consumes their damage buff cards to give the AST a buff that is bigger than normal, to compensate their individual low dps. A sprout trap? As much as a Dancer partnering a tank or the worst dpser option possible.

Speaking of which, Dancers would also need a similar thing with some sort of "Dancing on My Own" action to compensate the lack of a DP when soloing.