Thread: Let's Theorize a 5.1 Balance Patch.

Originally Posted by Miralyth

At everyone latching onto my inclusion of vercure:

I included it because I didn't want to spend an incredibly long post convincing people the merits and demerits of every utility in the game. I wanted the post to be simple. I agree that vercure is next to worthless for Savage. At best it can top off a ranged job that got back too late for AoE heals if the healer was asleep / ranged was too slow (or some similar situation). I also think curing waltz, warden's paean, improvisation, and phoenix heal are basically useless (or unreliable at best) and just more excuses to give utility jobs bloat to tax them over.

And no, casting vercure is not the only tax for vercure. It's a massive part of it, just like spending MP on raise is. But you have the option to help fix someone else's mistake, and other DPS don't. Please don't act like it's completely non-existent and offers you nothing other DPS don't have. There's a damn good reason not every other job in the game can cast a moderately good heal at their discretion. It's almost entirely useless in Savage, but it's game-changing in content like Eureka and dungeons. The developers will never let this go, even if someone like me who mentions it in an online forum thinks it's stupid for Savage and hurting RDM's balance. If you don't want to be taxed for it, convince them to take it away from you. It's really, really powerful in casual content and the devs obviously care a ton about that.

Edit: I will edit the balance post and provide better notes on vercure.

Classes shouldn't be balanced in regards to casual content and you severly overestimate it's usage in any group related content.Whenever a healer is involved it's never optimal to cast vercure(low potency, takes a gcd) The only content in which it's superior to other dps selfheal/shield skills is hoh and potd.
And people jumped on you because for some reason you mentioned vercure as the only "non-damage supportskill", which needs some kind of tax.
What about tactitian? A 10% damage reduce for 15sec for the whole group is way more useful in savage content then vercure and yet you don't even mention this skill in your "tax-list"
Aside from rezz and vercure you only want to tax offensive supportive skills, which seems pretty arbitrary imo.