when are we gonna get an edgy healer class?

[VitalSuit]

AST and WHM can both stun (the cast is long enough for swiftcast + holy) and - i don't know if it works for that attack - but SCH has a silence.

Yes silences work on that cast too.

[Tint]

Course, the tank and any melee DPS are already standing right there and can just use an instant, which is going to be a lot easier than Swiftcast Holy. It's not hard to have Low Blow as a tank in dungeon content, and some of them have GCD stuns they could use instead if it came down to it.

sure it's way easier for tanks and meeles to stun and they should do it.

but if they don't, why blame them instead of looking what you can do by yourself to help the situation first?

Yes silences work on that cast too.

thanks ^^

that means every healer can interrupt that attack. but i guess only once...

[Nyxn607]

How about a healing class that heals based on a percentage of the damage it does. The only reference i have is the shadow spec for priest's in WoW. The class would basically be a mix of summoner/blm, in that they would get 3 dot's, 2 DD, and 1 aoe ability. Each damaging ability the healer use's would heal the party for a certain percentage based on the skill used. I would say for the dot's it would 2% of the damage done per tick for a total of 6% if all 3 dots are applied.

For the DD spells, it could be 20% of the damage done goes to heal the party. and for the AoE it would be 5% of the damage done to each mob would heal the party.

This is just a rough idea, the percentages would change based on how over powered or under powered the skills end up being.

[Anova]

How about a healing class that heals based on a percentage of the damage it does.

I've seen this vampiric healer idea tossed around a lot, and I've seen them in a lot of games. WoW's shadow priests have been heavily nerfed in terms of healing now though, so there are some concerns with how well it fits into a themepark MMO (especially when the majority of your content is gated by dps checks instead of healing and tank checks).

If you do want a damage-based healer, I'd suggest you look towards the chloromancer from Rift. It's healing class that has some heals that heal based off damage, but it also stores and spends secondary resources that procs off its dots and attacks for burst healing. I think it's a better example of how healing mechanics can be combined with a play style that optimizes damage and maintaining your damage rotation instead of MP conservation.

In general though, I don't see SE making a DD healer until there's a substantial change in how they design trials and raids that can't benefit from a higher dps check as much as they can from a healing and tank check. They did try something new with the Susanoo and Sri Lakshmi trials, but Omega seems more of the same dps check, with a lot of progress still being gated behind damage gear (all the tank materia is still STR, not VIT).

[Silver-Strider]

Idk about you guys but when I think of a Necromancer healer, I think of an inverse to SCH.
There would be a corpse of some sort that follows the Necromancer around and they siphon the life forces of their "pet" to heal party members with. The corpse would have abilities like drain so that it would attack enemies to recover its own health so that the necro could continue to pilfer its health for the team. Ofc for this to ever work the pet would need substantial amounts of support to ever be viable and even then I can't imagine it going over well due to how clunky the current pet system is that it would be an outright nightmare to get functioning.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I like Silver Strider's idea but with a twist.

How about an empathic healer who heals by taking on the damage another person receives? This could be very edgy if said healer had to wound themselves and use their own blood in order to cast a heal spell.

This healer would have a couple of direct health transfer spells spells for the party plus a special personal regen spell to recover from their self-inflicted injuries. In addition, with their blood magic, the empathic healer would be able to set up areas on the ground which the party would have to interact with to receive a set amount of healing. Basically, the empathy injures themselves ahead of time and the party can gain that health by clicking on the blood circle. Once the blood circle is drained, the healer can start recovering their health.

I'm too tired to go into more detail but if someone likes this idea please feel free to take that ball and run with it.

[MahoSenshi]

but if they don't, why blame them instead of looking what you can do by yourself to help the situation first?

Because when you that tank didn't took Low Blow its already too late to switch fairy and force her to silence.
Ofc you can just heal through damage, my salt was from tank laughing/trying to wipe instead of taking advice.

[Mirakumi]

If they ever add Vieras
I would really love to see a healing class with
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I need that glam in my life

[Ftail]

How about a healing class that heals based on a percentage of the damage it does. The only reference i have is the shadow spec for priest's in WoW.

Discipline Priests have been completely overhauled in Legion and Shadow Priests are mostly just a ranged DPS class now.

"The Discipline specialization relies on healing players through dealing damage (thanks to the Atonement passive), but also has traditional heals and absorption spells. Healing through dealing damage allows them to contribute to the raid's DPS while still performing well as a healer. Discipline Priests provide the greatest burst healing in the game, and they are also able to contribute DPS to the raid.

Atonement: Plea, Power Word: Shield, Shadow Mend, and Power Word: Radiance also apply Atonement to your target for 15 sec. When you deal spell damage, you instantly heal all targets affected by Atonement for 40.0% of the damage done."

[Venur]

Personaly I think we miss a plate/cleric like healer.

Something weilding a mace/flail + flail.

For a dark healer I can't think of any FF character suiting the desciption (but I haven't played all of the franchise game).

I guess some blood mage could do it but we already have 3 cloth wearer healer. SE should really be thinking about making a plate/mail character IMO.

For blood mage if any of you played vanguard they had a nice one. They taged teamate so easy time they damaged an enemye (mostly via DoTs) the dmg was multiplied as heal on the taged teamate. They could also summon organes player could click for heals. But again I don't think it could be relyed to any FF character.