Battle System Rant

[Kurando]

What I'm not okay with is Defiance not affected ability-based healing. That's just a massive, blaring imbalance.

Considering this, do you think other buffs should be effected by ability-based healing as well, so things such as Convalescence, Fey Illum and Nature's Minne etc? At least so it's consistent across the board and not just WAR.

[Shurrikhan]

Considering this, do you think other buffs should be effected by ability-based healing as well, so things such as Convalescence, Fey Illum and Nature's Minne etc? At least so it's consistent across the board and not just WAR.

Honestly, no. Let's put it this way: in the dominant spread of pre-Savage of content, buffing anything outside of abilities is largely situational, or at least not "rotational" in the same way healer oGCDs are. And, honestly, that's how I'd prefer to see Mantra, Fey Illumination, and Nature's Minne used. If anything, I want them to be timed to a buffed shield or HoT, never to the alignment of healer oGCDs. As such, they work fine, imo. The only imbalance is that Shield Oath and Grit both affect eHP as restorable by either Abilities or Spells, while Defiance only affects Spells. As content is further and further outgeared, and more abilities added, it falls further behind the other stances.