Will it help if Astro have slow Effect add to Gravity?

[Seraphor]

I'd like Gravity to have a Draw In effect, plus Heavy.

So it has a 5y radius, but would add a 10y radius 5y Draw In effect, so that you move any enemies between 5 and 10y into range for your next Gravity spell. Bosses immune obviously.
This would help AoE dungeon pulls. Then the Heavy would help keep them in place.

[TankHunter678]

Not as dangerous as having to stay so close to cast aoe but okay.

Unless the mob pack consists mainly of enemies who through out near constant AoEs that even makes the tank dance everywhere then it really is more dangerous for the AST player because any lag in selection means the tank can drop which means panic mode. As I have been leveling SCH I sometimes feel like it is cheating because of how safe it feels, how much faster I can make the run when I am throwing out more AoE damage, and how it takes a really bad or undergeared tank to put strain on me. So many runs I can get by with just throwing excog on the tank, throw an Adlo, and then get to aoe spamming. Popping lustrate only as required.

[Brightshadow]

If the problem is that WHM has to stand on a enemy group, why not simply make gravity a self cast like holy and add the heavy/slow effect. I really doubt any AST would mind this change.

[cactuarzzzz]

If the problem is that WHM has to stand on a enemy group, why not simply make gravity a self cast like holy and add the heavy/slow effect. I really doubt any AST would mind this change.

"Heavy" might cause some inconvenience when the unaware AST cast it too early.

[Archwizard]

I think it would be good for all healers to have an AoE with some DR or CC component. Pair Holy's Stun with Slow/Heavy on Gravity, perhaps some kind of brief accuracy/damage debuff on Art of War.
(SCH's reliance on shields mean less mileage on stall tactics compared to someone with a reliance on HoTs.)

A) It would add another level of parity to their AoE while still being unique enough from one another to not raise concern.
B) It would directly aid the healer's job, by reducing incoming damage during heavy pulls.

I like the mentioned idea for Gravity to have a draw-in effect... But I'm uncertain such a tool fits in the hands of a healer over a support-DPS, or even a tank.

[cactuarzzzz]

I think it would be good for all healers to have an AoE with some DR or CC component. Pair Holy's Stun with Slow/Heavy on Gravity, perhaps some kind of brief accuracy/damage debuff on Art of War.
(SCH's reliance on shields mean less mileage on stall tactics compared to someone with a reliance on HoTs.)

A) It would add another level of parity to their AoE while still being unique enough from one another to not raise concern.
B) It would directly aid the healer's job, by reducing incoming damage during heavy pulls.

I like the mentioned idea for Gravity to have a draw-in effect... But I'm uncertain such a tool fits in the hands of a healer over a support-DPS, or even a tank.

Blind for Art of War?

[Evanoel]

I think it would be good for all healers to have an AoE with some DR or CC component. Pair Holy's Stun with Slow/Heavy on Gravity, perhaps some kind of brief accuracy/damage debuff on Art of War.
(SCH's reliance on shields mean less mileage on stall tactics compared to someone with a reliance on HoTs.)

A) It would add another level of parity to their AoE while still being unique enough from one another to not raise concern.
B) It would directly aid the healer's job, by reducing incoming damage during heavy pulls.

I like the mentioned idea for Gravity to have a draw-in effect... But I'm uncertain such a tool fits in the hands of a healer over a support-DPS, or even a tank.

And then people will compare the CC Component(s) between the three healers and then the worst one will be deemed as the new trash healer. Literally unplayable.

[Archwizard]

Blind for Art of War?

Potentially! Or whatever other pragmatic tactic is thematic for the job.
Art of War in itself doesn't really have a lot of explanation for what it is or how it works, compared to the rather self-explanatory natures of Holy or Gravity.

However, I've been noting that SCH here seems to take queues from the job's history of being a mild Red Mage, utilizing dark-attribute attacks (Broil/AoW/ED use the same red-black color scheme as DRK or most Voidsent, while Bio takes cues from an Umbral aspected DoT from 1.0) as an offset to light-attribute healing. A Blind wouldn't be too much of a stretch if the game ever goes out of its way to explain such attacks.

And then people will compare the CC Component(s) between the three healers and then the worst one will be deemed as the new trash healer. Literally unplayable.

Not really. The act of adding CC would in itself mostly only affect healers in dungeons since most raid content doesn't have applications for AoE skills, much less CC effects. And over the course of spamming any CC effect enemies would gradually become more and more resistant to it anyway, so you better hope the CC helps a lot or pull is over before then.

Besides, CC effects can be tuned to different durations or potencies, and ideally each differing CC would be better suited towards each job kit's own strengths and weaknesses. As I said, stall tactics like stuns and slows would be more effective for HoT-based healing than shielding. A shield might be better paired with, say, direct mitigation or all-or-nothing types of damage prevention.

[Raiya]

WHM has aoe stun.
Add Paralysis or Attack Down to gravity to even out things. Slow wouldve been nice but tanks already have it on arms length.