Healing going foward

[ADVSS]

well if they truncated physik,cure,benefic to a cross role ability similar to rampart/shadowskin it might do several things

remove that type of utility from dps like blm/smn, especially if virus and e4e go to the wayside of cross role,
i guess it depends on how ballsy this cross role thing is going to get... even potentially having raise/res be a cross role skill would change things.

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

It's unlikely they'll be doing things like giving cure spells to the other healers, it's not needed because each healer has their equivalent and it doesn't make sense lore wise either. From what i understand they want to consolidate certain cross class abilities and remove unused ones.

So regarding healers some things come to mind. It's highly likely stoneskin 2 will be given to everyone, personally i'd like it traited so whm can use it in combat. Swiftcast will probably be given to everyone without having to level thm, and surecast will probably be removed.

[Risvertasashi]

E4E, before Alex, was pretty essential to progression. You might look at it and say "It's RNG!", but the trigger event generally happened often enough that it's actually pretty helpful and reliable mitigation. Not reliable enough that "Oh this is what we need for that tankbuster", but it lowered the healing requirements and softened up the raid hits a bit. magic auto attacks do make it pretty useless, though.

Surecast is far more niche...

I think E4E is more of a skill that high end players use. But just because casual players forget about it or don't see the use, doesn't mean that it's bad or unimportant. I mean... back around HW release, we also had a few people with the notion that Asylum was useless xD

[Fernosaur]

You're right it's only physical. IDK why I had the impression that they had changed it after Deployment Tactics was added. Talk about delusional wishful thinking, lmao.

Well, making it activate off of magical damage would be a nice buff to Deployment Tactics, hahaha.

About Surecast: I often forget it even exists, cause that would imply putting it on my hotbars. I think it only fills a CC Skill on my WHM because there's literally nothing else to take.

[matteoxyz]

My impression was some lesser used buffs will be removed and their effects will be added to another buff so that buff now boosts you in two ways. I imagine some will just be removed entirely.

[KDSilver]

They should work on Stoneskin for White Mage.
While we all agree on the fact that White Mage isn't here to be the mitgation healer, we see how powerful it is to migate damages in any kind of content.

Imo, Stoneskin should remains a cross class, but WHM should get the 18% back.
They should also do something about Stoneskin II. WHM has it, but can only use it before the pull... making it ""useless""
I think it should be with a 90s or 120s CD so that, at least, WHM has a mitigation skill on his toolkit. Maybe the only one, but it could definitly help him a bit.

Well,that's my analyze so far for that skill.