#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Rolder50]

Rather than 'channel' abilities, I think the more accurate comparison is how WOW's Evoker handles 'Empower' abilities. Press to start the cast, then press again to fire the spell at whatever 'empower' level you've charged up to.

Something I want to point out here is that Empower abilities often have reasons to finish the cast at a lower empower level. Like Dream Breath there, if you fire it off immediately it has a stronger Heal Over Time effect, but if you channel, the HOT effect is weaker but the upfront healing is more.

[ForsakenRoe]

Something I want to point out here is that Empower abilities often have reasons to finish the cast at a lower empower level. Like Dream Breath there, if you fire it off immediately it has a stronger Heal Over Time effect, but if you channel, the HOT effect is weaker but the upfront healing is more.

I considered mentioning 'DreamBreath/FireBreath always do 100% of their damage/healing, with more being shifted out of the DOT/HOT and added to the 'instant' part at higher empowerment levels', and suggesting the same for BLM's Flare. Always does, say, 240, but it's like, level 1 is 180 plus 3 ticks of 20, level 2 is 200 plus 2 ticks of 20, level 3 is 240 plus 1 tick of 20, and level 4 is 240 all instantly.

But then I thought 'oh wait, SE can't solve the debuff cap issue (only work around it by removing debuffs)' and decided to delete the paragraph

Though an idea does strike now. For Flare, it could deal 240p as it does now to the primary target (and 30% less to secondary targets) at LV1, but empowering it further reduces the penalty to 20% at LV2, 10% at LV3, and no penalty (regardless of targets hit) at LV4. Also, if FlareStar were given this system, the visual effect of the ball growing in size with each level of empowerment would make it look/feel very cool