Drain: Delete It. Right Now. Bad

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Yes it is.

Just like its your job to supply mana to a starving healer if theres no bard around.

Just like it was/is your job to apoc a tank on pull.

If you see someones suffering from a status and the healers too busy it becomes your job as a dps to ease the groups problem while dishing out dps.

In a dun scaith I did as a bard prior to the expansion.
I saw doom on two party members, we had a healer down, and the other healer was busy with the kerfuffle going on...

I popped paeon on the other bard, clearing his doom, and...
They didn't cleanse the other player and that player died shortly after....

:/

Oh well, I tried.

[Serilda]

The healer might not even have Esuna now. It will happen. So if you have Erase set and they don't have Esuna you're going to feel silly for not helping if it would save a fight.

I wish it was usable on all others, not just party members. It's fine not to be self-castable (it wasn't in FFXI IIRC?) but the devs get a bit tunnel visioned on instanced content - it was nice being able to save random new players dying in FATEs with Physick!

[Vivi_Bushido]

How about they give us back sustain to so can heal the pets.

I don't quite understand why so many people even care about Sustain. I am under the impression it had very little uses and you still technically have it as physic. It healed the same potency for the same MP cost, the only difference is it was an insta cast and a regen. In addition, doesn't AoE heals from the party healer also hit the pet? Forgive me if I seem naive to the benefits that were Sustain.

[Daralii]

I don't quite understand why so many people even care about Sustain. I am under the impression it had very little uses and you still technically have it as physic. It healed the same potency for the same MP cost, the only difference is it was an insta cast and a regen. In addition, doesn't AoE heals from the party healer also hit the pet? Forgive me if I seem naive to the benefits that were Sustain.

Physick doesn't scale off of INT for Summoners, so all they can do if their egi gets low in a fight is either let it die and swiftcast out a new one, or try to spam a ~400 heal on it.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I don't quite understand why so many people even care about Sustain. I am under the impression it had very little uses and you still technically have it as physic. It healed the same potency for the same MP cost, the only difference is it was an insta cast and a regen. In addition, doesn't AoE heals from the party healer also hit the pet? Forgive me if I seem naive to the benefits that were Sustain.

Sustain was a %hp heal over time.

And, as stated, physik scales off summoner's low mind stat.
If it was scaling off int instead, that could be a viable replacement...

[Hamada]

Oooh so that's how it works. Thank you. Good to know that I'm just crazy

It is an interesting fact but 1100 w/e HP and 1100 damage is still trash for the cast time, if it was an ogcd I can understand but this is a waste of hot bar space while they took out the useful sustain?!?!?!!?!?