Dancer Improvisation and Healing

[Raikai]

Improvisation really needs a buff. It's extremely lackluster for being the DNC cap skill.

I like the idea of it being a big healing cooldown, to be used when the healers are trying to recover. The 10% healing buff is nice and all, but most of the time in my experience it's being overkill, so maybe another stat buff like Direct hit or crit?...

One thing for sure... You can count on your left hand the moments that improv is useable on current content. And if you ever think about using it during another time just for the Esprit gains, first, good luck on having people stack on you, second, even if you manage to do that, the damage you'd gain with Saber Dance is not worth the damage you would be doing normally and the risk of being turreted there.

[Saefinn]

I rarely use improv. As a capstone it'd fairly weak, but at least the rest of the job has a strong note to it. I really only use improv in phase transitions. Eden 1 Savage is about the first time I felt it had a use because there was a period of doing nothing whilst healers get people back to health, though the impact isn't felt.

Curing Waltz to me is a clutch heal, if I see health is low, its just a nice to have, my healer instincts usually kick in to use it. Because it's insta cast, I find it's worth using in those situations. But I guess it's that, both are situational.

I wouldn't mind a potency boost BUT normally that kind of thing means SE nerf something else, if it'd be the case, then I don't feel strongly enough for them to not adjust something we need because 'balance'.

[HyoMinPark]

Honestly, it doesn’t help that healing is pretty broken in this game. Most content outside of Savage and Ultimate doesn’t call for extreme amounts of healing, so skilled healers rarely struggle to keep up with the damage; and, more times than not, a healing cooldown unbuffed by Improv’s +10% is more than enough to heal burst damage, so Improv feels more like overkill.

It’s useful in raids, I guess—but I honestly dislike the tie-in to Esprit because if it’s used when people aren’t stacked well, you end up with 3~9 random gauge that you can’t do anything with (and that drives me super crazy—OCD cannot handle staring at a gauge of 79 Esprit).

[Celef]

Personally, I would love if they changed it from a 10% healing buff to a flat out channeled healing skill.

I really love this idea. I would make it so we have to stand still will chaneling thus making the DNC a help for the healers but not to OP
I would not make us a hybrid per say but it would give us a little bit of raid utility wich I think we lack considering we are kind of a support job.
- We do not have the utility of a BRD/MCH or a raising SMN or RED
- We do not have the DPS of those who don't have much raid utility (BLM for instance)

Personally I only play this job because I can hide my bad DPS behind the proc system