A summary of healer issues

[GrimGale]

@OP, for SCH on gameplay/downtime: i for one would be okay if SCH's old DoT management stayed gone (though honestly Bane would be a welcome re-addition) if they, say, leaned further into fairy guage management--more skills to gain and spend it (such as perhaps a return of selene's party buffs/pre-esunas as a guage action if she has to stay dead for whatever reason), that sort of thing--it was largely an afterthought in SB and is still pretty vestigial in ShB, when there's a lot of opportunity there if the devs are dead-set on their "healers aren't allowed to DPS for some reason" angle. or debuff options like damage down (think BLU's various utility debuffs like bad breath, magic hammer, etc)

I'll accept basically anything that gives them (and healers in general) SOMETHING to do when healing isnt needed.

A lot of people seem to echo the idea that SCH's gameplay should revolve around Fairy management. That could potentially be interesting, the problem is, if the fairy is then made to be just a healing system then it will become pretty much a pointless thing to manage.

Why would I bother to manage something that gives me more healing when the problem is there is not enough healing to be done?

You could say then, that such fairy design would allow you to DPS while she heals but if the SCH dps is going to continue to be even more Broil spam ad nauseam, I'd rather do something else.

[ty_taurus]

A lot of people seem to echo the idea that SCH's gameplay should revolve around Fairy management. That could potentially be interesting, the problem is, if the fairy is then made to be just a healing system then it will become pretty much a pointless thing to manage.

Why would I bother to manage something that gives me more healing when the problem is there is not enough healing to be done?

You could say then, that such fairy design would allow you to DPS while she heals but if the SCH dps is going to continue to be even more Broil spam ad nauseam, I'd rather do something else.

In my mind, the way to do this correctly is by taking away other sources of healing, nerfing them, or making them very expensive so that faerie management is the only way that you can optimally heal where other methods are for when you're failing to manage the faerie correctly and should take a massive bite out of your DPS potential. The hope with something like this would be that it would justify a more complex direct DPS system of some kind so that it's not there to enable Broil spam. Whether or not this will happen is a whole other conversation, and one with very little hope at the moment. But who knows? Maybe they'll prove us all wrong.