A summary of healer issues

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

To be fair with the increase of the hitbox of bosses, bigger arenas and mechanics that may randomly ask people to go pick flowers in Narnia, there were already some fights where the difficulty wasn't the mechanic or the healing but reaching people and it was clear that was not the dev intention so its not a negative change.

Did they overdo it? Very likely but we have to see the mechanics of Savage

There were more ellegant solutions? Absolutely but a blunt solution is better than none imo.

After running the latest NRs, I can definitely see why they think have to give the radius buff.

But just like many previous 'fixes' they made, this is one of those times where I feel like they've overfixed. I'd like to be proven wrong when I have a taste of their savage floors, but I'm not keeping high hopes.

[WaxSw]

I feel like they've overfixed. I'd like to be proven wrong when I have a taste of their savage floors, but I'm not keeping high hopes.

Oh don't get me wrong, I feel they overfixed too and they may be stepping too much into SCH's niche of remote healing, but at the same time certain phases of ultimates and savage have started to show the necessity of a small aoe increase if they are going to maintain their design philosophy.

[Absurdity]

To be fair with the increase of the hitbox of bosses, bigger arenas and mechanics that may randomly ask people to go pick flowers in Narnia, there were already some fights where the difficulty wasn't the mechanic or the healing but reaching people and it was clear that was not the dev intention so its not a negative change.

I would simply consider "limited range" to be part of the difficulty and it certainly didn't need to be removed.

Curtain Call in P4S for example would've been an utter joke if it weren't for that limited range, limited range on melee attacks was something we previously had to consider as well, it's what made optimizing fights fun.
If everything can be done from any position in the arena it turns into a target dummy fight.

[WaxSw]

I would simply consider "limited range" to be part of the difficulty and it certainly didn't need to be removed.

Curtain Call in P4S for example would've been an utter joke if it weren't for that limited range, limited range on melee attacks was something we previously had to consider as well, it's what made optimizing fights fun.
If everything can be done from any position in the arena it turns into a target dummy fight.

The problem is that the "limited range" isn't always part of the intended difficulty and it started to create problems. Fights like P4S have Curtain call where the limited range is part of the intended difficulty as it gives consistent time lapses where players can play around buff application and using mitigation to reach everyone, which is nice because during uptime the 2m meta and mechanics wait for no one, but in other recent fights, like TOP, that is not the case and have some phases that may ask players to randomly go away without them having much agency to play around that limitation. These changes are made to solve that problem which was pretty clear an unintended difficulty.

There is also the whole issue of the hitbox of the bosses which may cause tanks to miss dps buffs or mit if there is any mechanic that force the players to not enter the hitbox and the boss is big enough

[Absurdity]

The problem is that the "limited range" isn't always part of the intended difficulty and it started to create problems. Fights like P4S have Curtain call where the limited range is part of the intended difficulty as it gives consistent time lapses where players can play around buff application and using mitigation to reach everyone, which is nice because during uptime the 2m meta and mechanics wait for no one, but in other recent fights, like TOP, that is not the case and have some phases that may ask players to randomly go away without them having much agency to play around that limitation. These changes are made to solve that problem which was pretty clear an unintended difficulty.

There is also the whole issue of the hitbox of the bosses which may cause tanks to miss dps buffs or mit if there is any mechanic that force the players to not enter the hitbox and the boss is big enough

Those are problems entirely of SE's own making. They made the mechanics for TOP, they made gigantic hitboxes and they made the 2 minute meta, I don't need to be sold a solution to a problem they themselves created.

[Deceptus]

There is also the whole issue of the hitbox of the bosses which may cause tanks to miss dps buffs or mit if there is any mechanic that force the players to not enter the hitbox and the boss is big enough

And in typical CBU3 fashion, instead of simply reducing the boss hitbox they made it more convoluted by increasing every single job aoe to 30y Except Asylum and Sacred Soil for some stupid reason. . .

[AmiableApkallu]

The 6.4 radius buffs just weird me out. Like, I guess the fairy can toss a damage reduction all the way out to Narnia, but not HP restoration. Why? Collective Unconscious's damage reduction is no longer tied to the bubble, the thing the game shows as actually blocking damage. Why?

Do all these different radii make sense in terms of theming and lore? They feel more like someone saw a problem and decided to hit it with the bluntest instrument they could find.

[BRVV]

Thanks to all the radius increases that blackmage can now truly stay on another reflection of Eorzea

[Iedarus]

Thanks for the radius buffs. Now I can shut my brain off even further. Positioning? That's only for sweaty tryhards who don't pay my sub!

[BRVV]

Did i misread or is Astro, the time mage, now the healer with the weakest DoT?