What if, instead of busting the tank, bosses executed healers?

[wereotter]

Every tank has something that can be used to protect a healer. Blackest Knight, Heart of Stone, Nascent Glint, Cover/Intervention. Giving mechanics to bosses that will bust healers, especially in dungeons, would give more of a use to those skills.

I feel like they came SO close to this in Aumorot, but then chickened out with those dark sprites that tether to the healers. They make the healer receive less healing... this would have made more sense to either be a tether that makes the healer output less healing so that the party would have to focus that enemy down, or should have tethered to the tank to either force greater mitigation or inexperienced tanks to pull smaller.

[Lucy_Pyre]

Every tank has something that can be used to protect a healer. Blackest Knight, Heart of Stone, Nascent Glint, Cover/Intervention. Giving mechanics to bosses that will bust healers, especially in dungeons, would give more of a use to those skills.

I feel like they came SO close to this in Aumorot, but then chickened out with those dark sprites that tether to the healers. They make the healer receive less healing... this would have made more sense to either be a tether that makes the healer output less healing so that the party would have to focus that enemy down, or should have tethered to the tank to either force greater mitigation or inexperienced tanks to pull smaller.

TBN and Nascent Flash don't have enough use in dungeons already? Are we playing the same game?

[wereotter]

TBN and Nascent Flash don't have enough use in dungeons already? Are we playing the same game?

I'm not saying they don't have a use. I said more use. You can use Heart of Stone in a dungeon as well. The only one that rarely gets any use in a dungeon are the paladin skills. My point is that this would make the usage of them more interesting since you're not just putting them on yourself.

[Vyrerus]

It'd be cool, but it'd probably freak newbie healers out, especially if it required the boss to turn and move into melee range. Just imagine having your healer panic and run away, as so many people are wont to do when the boss moves towards them, heh.

[Ultimatecalibur]

TBN and Nascent Flash don't have enough use in dungeons already? Are we playing the same game?

They get used for self-mitigation/self-healing and not protection of others. If things were properly designed NF would be on cooldown, more often than not, because of Raw Intuition use rather than because a warrior wants self healing.

It'd be cool, but it'd probably freak newbie healers out, especially if it required the boss to turn and move into melee range. Just imagine having your healer panic and run away, as so many people are wont to do when the boss moves towards them, heh.

A vast number of tank busters are actually ranged and do not care about facing.

[Lucy_Pyre]

They get used for self-mitigation/self-healing and not protection of others. If things were properly designed NF would be on cooldown, more often than not, because of Raw Intuition use rather than because a warrior wants self healing.

Things are properly designed currently, and Nascent Flash is used over Raw Intuition in almost all situations because it's simply the superior mitigation skill. But yes, let's just take away WAR's self-healing and turn Nascent into a purely party-regulated cooldown. Because it's not like WAR didn't already lose its place as the high-damage tank with ShB, why not take its other gimmick away too.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Things are properly designed currently, and Nascent Flash is used over Raw Intuition in almost all situations because it's simply the superior mitigation skill.

Which is why it is not properly designed. When the self-heal half (i.e. Nascent Flash) of the shared cooldown is being used for tank busters more than the mitigation half (Raw Intuition) something is wrong.

But yes, let's just take away WAR's self-healing and turn Nascent into a purely party-regulated cooldown. Because it's not like WAR didn't already lose its place as the high-damage tank with ShB, why not take its other gimmick away too.

Self-healing is fine to include. In fact, I would like to see Inner Beast/Steel Cyclone split away from Fell Cleave/Decimate, have their self-healing effects restored and then have Nascent Flash partially mirror the heals from Inner Beast/Steel Cyclone on it's target.

[Lucy_Pyre]

Which is why it is not properly designed. When the self-heal half (i.e. Nascent Flash) of the shared cooldown is being used for tank busters more than the mitigation half (Raw Intuition) something is wrong.

Not really. WAR's thing has always been healing, Nascent Flash is just the most current iteration of that. If anything Raw Intuition should be the party-mitigation skill that we can cast on party members or ourselves, and leave Nascent as our personal mitigation ability.

[Burmecia]

If SE wanted to force healers to heal (which they hate, last time I heard) just make more use of that idea which was in Shinryu EX; add thing appears, heal it to full or it explodes or something.

[Goji1639]

I mean, tanks have legit DPS rotations to keep them occupied at least. Healers are the ones always complaining they're bored and have nothing to do, so I'd say a mechanic that requires awareness from the healer would get the best reception.