Thread: Healer Wishlist for 5.0

SCH:
General:
Balance MP disparity. Broil II shouldn't cost 20% more than Stone IV at less potency. Miasma II shouldnt cost 233% more than Aero III. I would put it at 150% the cost of Broil II.
Make Miasma II based on location, like bane/gravity so its easier to maintain good weave practices, instead of chaining yourself to melee range.

Fairy:
Seperate the role identity of Eos and Selene.
Just pick what it is and go for it. Personally I would say single target healing fairy vs AOE healing fairy. We shouldnt try to add more DPS buffing support to healers. It already causes too much one sided love to the healers than can up a DPS' numbers.

With this, Fey union could be AOE based (100-150 potency) with Eos and single target with selene (same potency as it is now.) Selene could replace her single Silent Dusk with a larger potency single target heal (to contrast with Eos party wide heal over time.)

Balance SCH DPS with fun gameplay. Right now it feels very clunky, but the overall DPS/RDPS is the best of all healers. I would rather they bring SCH closer to the other healers, but still flow.

WHM

Make lillies more relevant to gameplay. Don't make us go out of way to get them. Combine confessions with Lillies. Using Medica, Medica II, Cure III, Cure II, or cure generates a lilly. Every time a lilly is gained removed time from all abilities it currently Affects Potency is now affected by lillies instead of cool down. 5%, 10%, 20%. The only real downfall to this is how annoying it could continue to make gameplay, avoiding using tetra, for example, so that you can hit with a harder assize. Reduce the cool down of plenary indulgence. Based around WHM at 30 Yalms. Same potency as confessions.

AST
Ast is in a realllly good spot as is. I would continue to create skills that diverge from SCH/WHM playstyle. I really love everything theyve made so far for AST in SB. Just like previous posters, maybe they could add a "positive thinking" or "Will over the future" to draw specific cards outside of battle. It would be difficult to make without someone finding a way for abuse, but that's really all AST suffers from. Bad RNG prepull.

Healer general:

Balance role skills. Keep quirky skills, remove things that are mandatory or increase slots available.

I was thinkign about bringing healers back up for DPS relative to the max DPS and the tank's current DPS, but actually looking back, the classes just had such a large DPS difference within the tank and healing roles. The top Tank DPS was War at about 65% and the Top Healer was at 52% (compared to 45% now.) The other healers were in this 45% range.

My Wishlist:

New Healer - Dancer
I know this isn't new or special since Dancer's requested pretty heavily from a lot of people both as a healer or DPS, but I do strongly believe it will be such a great choice, especially because of its potential to not feel like the current healers. I love Astrologian, but it didn't do much in the way of giving healers something other than a mystical, robe-wearing spell caster to choose from.

Overall Changes:
Revamped Role Actions: Half of the Healer role actions are useless (i.e. Break, Cleric Stance, etc.) and the other half are imperative (Lucid Dreaming, Protect, etc.). Role actions have the opportunity to be interesting and unique mechanics that allow healers to further customize their style of play and should include more interesting tools.

The ability to equip specific glamour plates: I have multiple glamour plates for each healer, but it's slightly annoying to have to constantly change my glamour every time I swap jobs, especially if I'm in an area that won't allow me to.

Job Specific:
White Mage -
Replace Fluid Aura: Not only is Fluid Aura basically useless, but could we please just get an offensive water spell? Conjurer's are supposed to be about this natural trinity of Earth, Wind, and Water, and the first useful water ability White Mages get is Asylum at level 52. Really? But speaking of elements...
Quake, Tornado, and Flood: I'd love to see these integrated into the White Mages kit, but not as a potency upgrade of Stone, Aero, and Water. I'd like to see these play a more interesting role in the White Mages ability set and somehow compliment their healing nature rather than just be for DPSing.
Reworked Lilies: Lilies are currently the most uninteresting and uninspired gauge mechanic in Stormblood while also having nothing to do with the White Mage's lore besides that they look pretty. I want to see this get overhauled into something more thematically appropriate, and could even play into that Quake, Tornado, Flood thing I mentioned.

Scholar -
Update Ruin, Bio, and Miasma spells: Just like how Broil replaced Ruin, I'd like to see the other Arcanist DPS tools get updated and renamed into something that helps Scholar further differentiate itself from Summoner. I was thinking of some of the spells from 11 like Choke, Rasp, and Frost for Bio II, Miasma, and Miasma II respectively, and Drown for Ruin II. The Ruin II update should also be stronger than the Miasma II update since Miasma II is just flat out better in everything except MP management.
Make Selene feel more satisfying: Selene's Fey Wind is basically carrying her kit right now. Yes, Fey Caress can be useful at times, but its still super situational compared to Eos' Fey Illumination or Fey Covenant. I want something that makes Selene's kit feel just as satisfying in regards to either Fey Caress and Silent Dusk being updated or replaced altogether.
Make Dissipation feel more satisfying: I know this argument has been beaten to death, and I'm not going to argue that Dissipation is useless because its updates have at least given it a niche, but it still feels horrible to use. I never want to use it even in situations where it could benefit me because of how bad it feels to use. I want something that feels great. Indomitability feels great. Bane feels great. Chain Stratagem feels great. Fey Union feels... acceptable. Dissipation feels awful. Maybe make it so that the fairy doesn't disappear, but simply channels her energy into you to empower you? That would feel better, especially if you could choose to end it like Fey Union.

Astrologian -
Spire Change: I'd like to see Ewer drop its MP refresh and tack that onto Spire. Spire's usefulness would still be niche, but if it applied both the MP and TP refreshes, A) The card would now be applicable to every job like all the other cards, and B) spreading it to the entire team would (still be useless) actually provide something to each recipient (Not that anyone would do that, but at least it wouldn't only impact 2-6 members of the team). You could also rework Ewer into something more interesting. I'd like to say a HoT effect since that would maintain Ewer's duality with Spire, but I'm not sure how good or bad that might be.
That's it for Astro, actually. They're in a really great spot and feel pretty good to play across the board.

A new healer ^^"

Got tired of the actual mechanics and I'm really hopping for something new

Originally Posted by Mimilu

Continuing where I went off:

SCH
2. Remove or Change Silent Dusk on Selene. Even with all Fairy skills becoming Abilities that take priority over whatever your fairy was doing, this is very niche. You first have to have no one else in your party who can Stun (Tanks or Range with Role Class, MNK, DRG, or even a WHM with Holy. There's also AST but they shouldn't be using Celestial Opposition to Stun things), then you have to have Selene out over Eos, who is more valued right now. You could replace it with another support ability or maybe a version of Eos's Whispering Dawn so Selene can have some healing support.
3. Just have the Fairy float and follow who they are tethered when under Fey Union.

Maybe something like a big ward on the team to balance with Eos's HP regen ?
This way SCH would have to adapt their summoned fairy during the fight to prevent big damages and then regen HP ^^