Thread: Some 4.3 feedback from a healer

My main job is scholar, and I sometimes play (noct) astrologian. I want to provide feedback on how each of the jobs feels to play now that I've played as each, regarding the changes.

Scholar's fairy responsiveness change is great! Fey Union's change (can be interrupted with other commands) fixes my biggest problem that made its usability kinda trash to me. Overall, scholar's power went down but ease-of-play / QoL went up; fair trades imo. What I'd like to see in the future is a rework of Dissipation. I nearly never have a reason to use it and would like it to be replaced by another ability that uses the fairy gauge.

I have mixed feelings about AST. My personal damage has gone up significantly in 4.3, and I feel like it might be a bit overtuned. AST's clipping was so bad that they lost multiple GCDs over the course of a fight, which they now have back. If I had to pick between getting the clipping back, or having Malefic's potency reduced to compensate for the extra GCDs, I'd rather have the potency reduced. I don't have a strong opinion about the Lightspeed change. I have an odd side effect to the Malefic change, though. I'm used to the rhythm of my casts being "press the button when the previous cast finishes", but that's too soon now. The next Malefic won't queue if I press with that rhythm. I suppose I just need more practice to adapt to it, though, hopefully.

White Mage could use some help catching up to the other two healers. Their healing kit is mostly fine aside from a few things (job gauges should be interactive in some way to be worth screen real estate; lilies are not. also, their lv68 passive is very weak.), I think the other aspects of their kit need love though.

PS please remove protect and give everyone their esuna back

Originally Posted by Gravagar

What I'd like to see in the future is a rework of Dissipation.

I really wish people would stop saying this. It always feels like a holdover from HW when it was (usually) bad.

Look at it now without that lens:
Embrace's potency has been lowered, reducing the drawback of not having the fairy.
Summon's cost and cast time have both been reduced, making Swiftcast no longer mandatory and no longer requiring 2 uses of Energy Drain just to break even on it's MP cost.
In addition to the 3 Aetherflow stacks it grants you, it also accelerates your Aetherflow cycle by 15 seconds every time it's used, thanks to Quickened Aetherflow.

I'm not saying that it's some amazing ability that should be used on cooldown, but... it doesn't need to be. SCH's entire thing is having a diverse set of tools with very specific optimal use cases, and Dissipation fits that perfectly.

Originally Posted by Elamys

Lightspeed shouldn't be a DPS cooldown.

Yeah? Then tell me; why does Lightspeed shouldn't be a DPS cooldown and Presence of Mind should, if both were made, intentionally, to heal in a critic situation?

Originally Posted by Seraphor

I agree. The MP bonus for lightspeed is great, but they shouldn't have removed the offensive debuff entirely. Maybe still kept a 'reduces offensive power by 20%' effect.

But then, again, ASTs would use it to weave 1 or 2 oGCDs or heals and then gotta click it off making the ability clunky.
Seriously, people keep comparing AST to WHM so let's do it! Why does Thin Air (which has lower cooldown than Lightspeed) don't have damage penalty? Both, in fact, were made to save MP.
The Lightspeed changes were needed, not only because AST's ridiculous MP problems, but also because nobody ever used it in a fight more than 1 or 2 times. They don't have to change it back. I would rather have a nerf on Malefic 3 than reverting Lightspeed to the clunky state again.