A summary of healer issues

[Semirhage]

So, looking at https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...eb2x&context=3, it looks like yeah, shields were constantly the red-headed stepchild. The easy fix of course being to punch up the potency on them. Or, you know, push down the potency on Regen.

Uh. Is regularly completely nullifying incoming damage to zero and cheesing mechanics through blocking debuff application *really* a desirable state of affairs?

If you make regens more powerful than shields, shields have a use (can be frequent or niche, dependent on encounter design). Because shields do something regens can't.

You make shields more powerful than regens, you never touch a regen again. Because regens don't perform a function that shields can't too. *That* is why regens are more total potency/cheaper than shields. Because at the end of the day, they have to be.