Why does SMN have Physick?

[Crushnight]

The whole ACN thing falls flat when you look at Energy Drain 2 very different function of the exact same skill name, 1 for smn restores stacks + dmg and the other for Sch requires a stack and restores mp/hp with dmg.

At this point either oversight to never change it or laziness take your pick.

[Kuroka]

I dont get why my redmages heal is stronger though, just let smn scale the same way and its fine, its not like that 10-12k heal would be a game changer...

[OneTrueMiqote]

They did mention they want to split the two jobs completely. It just hasn't happened yet.

[purgatori]

They did mention they want to split the two jobs completely. It just hasn't happened yet.

I'm glad they haven't yet. I wanted to level a healer so I could do the role quests in ShB and having SMN along as a bonus was really nice, especially given that I came to really enjoy how the job plays, and I think it will in fact end up replacing RDM as my magical DPS.

That aside, yes, physick is bafflingly useless. I wasn't entirely convinced of this before picking up the job; I thought, "it has to have some utility, right?" But no. It's just there.

[Shurrikhan]

I'm glad they haven't yet. I wanted to level a healer so I could do the role quests in ShB and having SMN along as a bonus was really nice, especially given that I came to really enjoy how the job plays, and I think it will in fact end up replacing RDM as my magical DPS.

That aside, yes, physick is bafflingly useless. I wasn't entirely convinced of this before picking up the job; I thought, "it has to have some utility, right?" But no. It's just there.

Just as all damage skills on healers were originally useless without Cleric Stance. Yet they changed those to work off Mind, just as Vercure works off Intelligence. So why not do the same for Physick?

[MerlinCross]

There's a lot of abilities that are just "Why do you exist".

Just as all damage skills on healers were originally useless without Cleric Stance. Yet they changed those to work off Mind, just as Vercure works off Intelligence. So why not do the same for Physick?

Semi related..., does Second Wind scale off anything?

[BloodRubyXII]

There's a lot of abilities that are just "Why do you exist".



Semi related..., does Second Wind scale off anything?

Yes.

//10char

[Shurrikhan]

Semi related..., does Second Wind scale off anything?

Attack Power, but there may be a hidden level-based scalar, kind of like how Souleater and Steel Cyclone's %lifesteal diminished with increased levels in SB, so that it scarcely healed for more at 69 than 60.

That or my memories are merely tarnished by having played Monk back when job design amounted to more than just trimming as many skills and traits as possible, allowing Monk a then-hefty 800-potency self-heal.

[Raikai]

I suppose it's for pre-30 Arcanists to have any semblance of healing for when they q as heals?

I'm not sure how it works nowadays though... They really have to spend 30 levels with just 1 healing spell?

[Esmoire]

In general I would not be surprised if in 6.0 the arcanist branches are changed so SCH or SMN just becomes its own job or something that you can pick up without any requirements, and if Arcanist is still around they will hone it down more on healer or DPS. Every patch they move them further and further apart as it is so they may be content to just allow this anomaly to remain. New expansions are a great chance to make sweeping changes.