Ideas for Healer Rework.

[Connor]

The SCH changes I think would be better done if given to a new class. Too much of the changes wouldn’t make sense.

Hasn’t Aetherflow healing been the staple/core mechanic for Scholars? I mean, when you choose the SCH plate for portraits, you get a literal Aetherflow icon on the picture (not a DoT icon lol). I feel like completely removing that mechanic would be like taking Astrologian’s cards or Black Mage’s fire spells.

Where do the extra fairies come from when only two exist (except when they’re one)? Not only that but they all seem to do more or less the same thing besides two having some minor healing and two having dps. That’s not to mention (because I’ll be eaten by the SCH wolves), a ‘DPS’ fairy simply won’t work, because unfortunately it won’t ever be a choice. Maybe if you’re doing like, ultimate, but otherwise it’d be ‘use your dps fairy or suffer the consequences’, not ‘make a tactical decision based on the context’, so the healing ones may as well not exist.

You’ve also removed Scholar’s sole means of gcd aoe healing (Concitation) which I imagine would cause a range of problems (especially in lower levels). I don’t really understand why either. What’s the purpose of making Concitation an oGCD? Having it stack with Adloquium does sound hilariously broken though lol (imagine putting Concitation shields over a Deployed Adloquium).

Additionally why do we need to cannibalise skills from other healers? There isn’t any need for Scholar to have Lilybell or Haima when Seraph is effectually the same thing. Likewise is there a need for it to steal Convalescence from 2.0 tanks when Protraction does functionally the exact same thing (except also provides effective mitigation with max HP boost).

I don’t understand locking a damage combo behind Chain Stratagem either because then you have a damage combo with 2 minute cool-down. If they automatically replace it with no cool-down, couldn’t you potentially lock yourself out of using Chain if you used Seraph of War while it was off-cool-down?

Lastly frankly I’m already going to put on an international SCH watchlist for saying I don’t believe in dps fairies, but I don’t think Physick should be deleted. I’d rather see it do something that actually gave it some value, like having it restore more HP to a target with Adloquium to incentivise using it for triage (which doesn’t exists in ffxiv lol). Or making it increase the potency of Embrace on the target (lower healing potency as necessary)

Again I think a ‘new healer’ with this kind of design would be cool, but too much of it wouldn’t really make sense with how Scholar works now.