What if we changed the way cures were scaled?

[Malzian]

Right now cure and physick are very limited as cross classes, as they rely on the magic damage and MND stat which only healers use, making it too weak on other jobs and not needed on healers as they have their own version. So what if SE changed up how cures work to make them viable to other classes and even useful to other healers as cross classes?

What if physick was INT based?

If physick were INT based then you would have to change the SCH gear from a main stat of MND to a main stat of INT. Also, if a BLM cross-classes physick in their top-tier INT gear, with the way it specs out now, they would actually heal better than a SCH does now. This pretty much would cut SCH out from the game entirely.

What if cure scaled off of both weapon damage and magical damage and Attack power and healing magic potency (whichever is highest on the job using it)?

This would make it a viable cross class for PLD again while still being weaker than whm cure, due to weapon damage and STR on pld being lower than magical damage and MND on whm. This would allow pld at 60 to keep up in self heals with war having storm's path, equilibrium and inner beast and drk having souleater and abyssal drain, with something other than clemency.

For this one, if you look at it from a classical standpoint the weapons that the mages wield in the FF games is never the source of their power. Magic is wielded through the weapon, but does not come from the weapon. With a few rare exceptions (RDM), mages in the series have typically had the weakest weapons which is still the case in XIV. If you make this the case then it is also likely that classes aside from healers will be able to do comparable healing with the dedicated healers we have now and thus...

Then what's the point in having healer jobs if anyone can heal?

Summation: It's problematic from both a balancing standpoint, a class efficacy standpoint as well as generally not fitting in with the over-all lore that the Final Fantasy series has established.