[Dev Team] Please Re-consider Medicine Items Cooldowns/Effectiveness.

[RygaenYuui]

Howdy,

So I do understand that the development team is always looking at "balance" in regards to combat related content in FFXIV:ARR, and that you guys were highly concerned about players being able to solo through content by stocking up on medicines and pretty much using them to solo difficult content back in 1.0.

Thus said, now we have items implemented which look like this:










The concept is awesome, but the use of most of these are not at all practical with how the game's current mechanic works.

Honestly? 1.0's mechanic was much slower than ARR's. Kinda feel as though there really isn't much of a reason to use medicines as it stands except for rare specific instances. I'm not saying that these kinds of items should ever replace the need for a main healer, but it would be nice if other party members could give them a helping hand. There are many instances in certain fights where the healer may have to make a tough choice and decision between making sure the tank is topped off and other DPS don't die from DoT from some stray AoE attack they failed to dodge or evade.

Is there any possibility that the cooldowns might be lessened in the future or that crafters will be able to craft special medicines that lower the cooldowns on these kinds of items? And if for whatever reason if the cooldowns are unable to be shortened, can the effects/duration at least be doubled without upsetting too much of the game "balance"?

I think, if say, stat+ potions were doubled from 15 to 30 seconds, the 5 minute cooldown could be justified, or even increasing the cap of hi-ethers to 24% (max 240~ points). But as it currently stands it's kinda ridiculous.