Healing going foward

[Gemina]

We have been talking about this occasionally, though it's nice to have a thread on the subject.

I'm pretty sure it's going to be things like Protect, Cleric Stance, Stoneskin, Virus, Repose, Eye for an Eye and possibly Disable going into the shared role system. Cure, cure II and medica could technically all be bundled together with their Helios/Benefic counterparts since they're literally exactly the same spells with different names, but I doubt it.

What I'm worried about is what is going to replace all these abilities. Just looking at what I named, WHM is going to lose much more than both healers combined to this shared role system. I'm wondering if they're going to simply take but not give (like they did with Stoneskin and Protect) or give us some new toys to play with.

The abilities I bolded will likely stay with their respective classes. Both SCH and AST have their own damage mitigation tools to substitute for stoneskin. Virus is possible, but I doubt it since there is a trait enhancement tied to it with the ACN class. Repose is seldom used and might be replaced with another ability. Eye4Eye, again is a trait enhanced ability and will likely still need to be crossed until they completely do away with the cross class system. It's all about those mandatory cross class skills that make you go and level that class in order to progress your job. So the selective abilities like Aero, stoneskin, virus, etc. will remain as is.

However I do question abilities like Swiftcast which are mandatory, but belong to another role.