Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

After removing most of White Mage's support abilities and making them cross-role, many healers are now using a macro to cast Protect and then take a different ability instead for the rest of the dungeon, effectively giving them access to 6 cross role abilities during all content at the expense of extra button clutter. It's awkward to do this without a macro, and it's not fun to have to 'cheat' the system, but it's a logical way to treat long duration buffs as cross-role skills. I would prefer it if Protect was completely changed to a temporary buff (like the PVP version). Has that been considered? It would really help White Mages in pre-Stormblood content especially, as we have no shield capabilities at all now Stoneskin is gone.

In addition, Scholar's Eye For An Eye has been put in the cross-role list yet it has synergy with Scholar specifically (Deployment Tactics) and is a signature Scholar ability in PVP. Do you plan to rework the healer cross-role abilities? There's a lot more shuffling needed with the healers than any other role, and I'm finding it tiresome.