What if we changed the way cures were scaled?

[Cabalabob]

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.

Sch wouldn't need to be retooled as physick would be the only spell INT based, they would have cure as a cross class to take its place as their primary MND based cure. As for Blm being better, as alberel said, it's 1 spell, Blm wouldn't have nearly as much power as sch for healing with their entire healing toolkit.

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

Pld already has access to clemency which is a healing spell far more powerful than cure that is based on their WD and attack power, so there's no reason that they couldn't use other healing spells effectively the same way. And looking at it from a classical standpoint PLD has always had access to cure spells that it could use effectively even if less so than whm, which would become the same case here with this change.

btw Cure has a trait that gives you a Cure 2 for free. so it makes no sense to use physick instead with my whm

If you're in cleric's stance doing some dps and a party member doesn't dodge an AoE, instead of dropping cleric's to do a 2.9k cure with a chance to proc a cure 2 you won't use, you can stay in cleric's and use a 2.5k physick.