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    vetch's Avatar
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    Discount Hrothgar
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    Zalera
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    Botanist Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by PercibelTheren View Post
    On the one hand, it would be cool. On the other hand, it would make shield healers even more desirable. They are already way better than regen healers because everything is a mitigation check where avoiding taking damage altogether is always better than eating the damage and then healing it up.
    This could be easily addressed with things like uncleansable DoTs that deal direct health loss, something that wants strong spammable regens. The tech to deal a set amount of health loss ignoring shields and mitigation is in the game already but it's only used in LotA, IIRC.

    They're not serious about the healer split or about healer engagement in general, though, so they don't bother.
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    Kissune's Avatar
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    Pathetic Loser
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    Coeurl
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    Astrologian Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by vetch View Post
    This could be easily addressed with things like uncleansable DoTs that deal direct health loss, something that wants strong spammable regens. The tech to deal a set amount of health loss ignoring shields and mitigation is in the game already but it's only used in LotA, IIRC.

    They're not serious about the healer split or about healer engagement in general, though, so they don't bother.
    Something like natural alignment but for the whole party. The problem with the DoT raidwides of Abyssos was that they snapshot mitigation, making shield healers just... better anyways. I don't want another 3 years of SGE/SCH being just objectively better, and shoving a bunch of mit onto WHM/AST isn't gonna fix that. Instead I expect them to completely trivialize any kind of pure healing mechanic, just like before. Pure healers can't do mit checks as well as shield healers, but shield healers can do healchecks just as well as pure healers bc every one is also a mitcheck.

    But it's ok bc daddy Yoshida said fights will be harder, and he's never been wrong or just straight up lied before.
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    I gave AST a shot, and it's still miserable to play, even to think about. Worst iteration by far. Praying for 8.0, I guess...