Why does SMN have Physick?

[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.