Thread: 5.05 Healer Changes

Originally Posted by Selova

WHM doesnt gave any issues. The small potency buffs AST got and SCH getting ED back isnt going to bump them out of the meta. Not by a long shot.

I do want to say one thing towards this.
Everyone said this exact same thing in 4.3 was it? When malefic got it's 1.5s cast time. Everyone said it wouldn't effect damage, but it did; by an absurd amount.
The same might not be the case for Energy Drain, but remember that if a SCH wills it, they can push out 3 every minute. With Recitation being a thing it's not too far fetched to say this might not be the case at times.

I'm not saying it will be, I'm just saying people were wrong before.

I can take AST/SCH back ... WHM was so boring, thanks god.

White Mage isn’t in a bad spot in terms of balance, but is in terms of QoL and fun factor. But at the moment I think they’re issues we are all sharing as healers. Being a healer got boring.

Lightspeed - Recast time reduced from 120 to 90 seconds.
Hyper Lightspeed - Effect changed from "Reduces Lightspeed recast time by 10 seconds upon executing Essential Dignity" to "Reduces Lightspeed recast time to 90 seconds."

So... Is the base recast timer for Light speed 90 seconds or does the Hyper light speed trait make it 90?
Cause if the base is 90 then the trait became pointless.

Originally Posted by Crushnight

Um Energy Drain on sch will work like smn's energy drain single target dmg which GIVES aetherflow stacks not use them sch just got more healing with tiny damage increase.

Where did they say this?

Originally Posted by msoltyspl

SCH is still a boring, unimaginative, shallow corpse of a class it was before - in context of enjoyment of the gameplay. The joke potency changes (along with re-adding energy drain) are nowhere need bridging that ridiculous damage gap it's behind WHM.

At least you got your dump key back.

I'll take it as a step in the right direction honestly. Especially since I'm fairly, and sadly, sure the boring mess they turned healers into is here to stay. Having at least one small quality of life change is better than none - even if I desperately miss the complexity of old SCH and would jump at the chance to have it back in a heartbeat.

SCH job guide updated to show energy drain with

"Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 150.
Additional Effect: Absorbs a portion of damage dealt as HP and restores MP
Additional Effect: Increases Faerie Gauge by 10
Aetherflow Gauge Cost: 1"

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/scholar/

It isn't giving us aetherflow. It's using an aetherflow.