Thread: 3.4 Healer Rebalancing Thread

Ever since AST was announced, I've been saying that I wanted it to be a healing zone-type job. Think Healing Wind and the like from the Tales series. Without a target you'd place it like you would a Shadow Flare, or with a target it'd end up right under that target. Various durations and widths depending on the ability and cooldowns used. Typically a short, powerful burst HoT effect before the circle vanishes. They could also have LoS healing tethers with a nicely animated beam for burst healing moments.

Yes, potentially awkward but also much more engaging. If you got the positioning right they'd be very powerful heals, and for group heals you could either have separate abilities or an "expand" cooldown that makes all existing circles larger or makes your next cast 25y in diameter.

I dunno, just tossing it out there. But right now AST is just this weird thing inbetween the established healers. Maybe this is something they could use for the next healing class. I'd certainly like to try to master it.

Can we make Stone Skin II a cross-job ability?

Originally Posted by Vexander

Can we make Stone Skin II a cross-job ability?

Definitly NO
It's useless XD

Originally Posted by Vexander

I always toss it up before a pull. I don't consider it useless at all. It'll fall off the tank in a second or two, but for the DPS, it's a little buffer if they mess up dodging an AOE.

Also, I'm curious. If MND affected Healer DPS spells like INT would (similar to the tank change with VIT causing damage to go up to remove STR tanks), and Cleric Stance gave an Accuracy boost rather than swapping MND and INT, would that be OP or not? With Cleric Stance lowering healing potency by like, 50% or something (I'm not a number cruncher, 50% might be too much or too little, it's just an example).

He means that using Stoneskin II out of battle would be a waste to cross class, since you can just stoneskin each party member and not wait a 30 second penalty to switch back. (Unless you did the swap with CS, but it would still be obnoxious.)

Yes I think it would be OP. Cleric stance has a 5 second lock out to punish you for DPSing, when you couldn't. I think its brilliant the way it is.

Hmmm

-Remove the dmg penalty from lightspeed. Reduce the CD of both lightspeed and presence to 120s
-Increase the range of CU from 5 to 15. The channeling is already a huge detriment, why limit the range as well?
-Increase bole to 20%, it might be more useful in progression that way.
-Make Sects switchable in combat. This is one of the only decent fixes I can see for noct sect. In a WHM/AST combo, you would be able to give the tank an extra regen, simulating a very very poor man's fairy. You would have shields when needed and would even be able to stack N. AH and D. AH for good mitigation and recovery.

CBellz those boost you give the the already powerful ast will only make him super strong
And whm will even more cry and whine

So no let's avoid that XD

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One huge thing i want
Remove the mind bonus of the whm and give him piety
Or give both mind and piety to ALL healer

We don't need whm, only the bonus !

Not really.

- Presence of mind is already more powerful than lightspeed, why add a dmg penalty to lightspeed when AST DPS already lags behind WHM (even taking into account the cards in some cases)?
- 20% bole might be very powerful, especially when enhanced, but isn't as reliable as a tank CD since it won't always be up at a critical time.
- Increasing the range of CU just means it'll be more flexible to use, but the main weakness (channeling) still exists.
- Switching sects mid combat does seem OP at first, but when you really think about it there's no reason to switch sects even mid combat if you're a diurnal AST paired with a SCH, since your shields will just override each other. Therefore, switching sects mid combat would be more of a niche for a noct AST paired with a WHM and will bring it closer to SCH in power.