Please fix summoner Physick

[LeonTrifang]

Okay, I know most people disagree, but I just want this so bad! Turn Physick into a magic attack potency based spell like Vercure. I’m trying so hard to make Physick useful for my Summoner. “But Leon, Summoner is DPS” Yes. It is. Doesn’t mean it can’t have a proper heal. Just add a trait that only Summoner gets that is for Physick to be based off Magic instead of Healing. That way it doesn’t mess up Scholar. Or a trait that turns Physick into a different move for Summoner that is like Physick, but based off..... you get the point lol. Thanks for listening!

[Kurando]

You give SMN a working heal and that's one less reason to ever take a RDM. Plus it wouldn't be long before BLM players start asking for heals and rez well seeing as they can't do either of them. Changing Physick to an action that affects pets would be the better option seeing as they make up a chunk of SMN's damage. In the mean time just remove Physick for anything but lvl 50 or under content, stuff over that then Drain comes out stronger.

[LeonTrifang]

You give SMN a working heal and that's one less reason to ever take a RDM. Plus it wouldn't be long before BLM players start asking for heals and rez well seeing as they can't do either of them. Changing Physick to an action that affects pets would be the better option seeing as they make up a chunk of SMN's damage. In the mean time just remove Physick for anything but lvl 50 or under content, stuff over that then Drain comes out stronger.

Actually, Red Mage can cast two cures in a row. So it would still be a better healer then summoner.

[Kurando]

Actually, Red Mage can cast two cures in a row. So it would still be a better healer then summoner.

SMN has the better MP management though and suffers less from providing utility, as DOTs/pet can continue to deal damage. RDM using Vercure/Raise is doing no damage and hits their MP costs harder, plus you don't get any mana for using them either.

[OcieKo]

Also you used to be able to meld Mind and use healer accessories if you wanted to which would improve the amount of healing Physick does.

[Kalise]

You give SMN a working heal and that's one less reason to ever take a RDM.

But surely that should be a problem that should be solved independently of SMN having a Physick skill that isn't useless?

Given that RDM currently feel limited because their utility is solely based around skills that become obsolete once content is on farm.

Also, BLM players are already asking for a Raise skill since that's utility that both other Mage jobs have (It's also the utility that lasts much longer into content progression out of Heals and Raises... Heal skills fall off far, far quicker and GCD heals fall off from actual HEALING JOBS, let alone GCD heals from DPS...)

Making Physick bad because RDM sucks isn't a particularly good way of designing things.

[Jandor]

It should work or be deleted because the inconsistency really bugs me.

It uses mind, making it literally the only skill in the game that doesn't scale with your main stat.

Red Mages cure? Uses Intelligence.
Ninjas magic spells? They use Dexterity.
Paladin healing magic? Why Strength of course.
Summoners heal though? Mind...

Edit: it should also be fixed because Summoner doesn't currently have any real self heal, shield or damage reduction ability.
All the physical jobs get at least second wind, RDM obviously gets vercure & BLM gets manaward. SMN has... broken physick and devotion, which is more raid buff than defensive cooldown.

[Jonnycbad]

I raid with my RDM and never needed to Vercure. It heals like 11k HP, that's less than a single auto attack. That shit ain't keeping anyone alive. I've never seen vercure save someone in Savage.

[OcieKo]

I raid with my RDM and never needed to Vercure. It heals like 11k HP, that's less than a single auto attack. That shit ain't keeping anyone alive. I've never seen Vercure save someone in Savage.

You realize that's not much less than a comparably geared healers Cure I, Benefic, Physick right? And when you include Dualcasting its not far beneath Cure II and Benefic II for the same time frame. Your lack of seeing it has more influence on how little everyone watches health bars than how effective any given heal actually is.
And I have saved people with Vercure before, but then again I'm a Heal/Tank player to begin with, so I'm watching for that kind of stuff anyways.

[Mhiro]

No. It ain't broken. Stop trying to compare SMN to RDM over a skill we don't need. Physick and Res are literally only there because SMN is a branch job from Arcanist and moving either spell around would be a balancing nightmare without a complete class separation overhaul that gave SMN a completely new 1-30 kit without Phys/Res and deleted/replaced most of SCH's important 1-30 base DPS skills.