Job Idea: Foebreaker (Healer)

[Mimilu]

*Please note, this was designed purely for fun and I do NOT expect SE to implement it in any way, shape, or form.*

Foebreaker (FOE)
Damage Reducing Healer with Melee DPS
Weapon: Whips/Whipblades
Attack: Slashing, Melee-Range
Gear: Aiming
Limit Break: One For All
Role Abilities: Healer
Important Stats: DEX for Damage and Healing, MP for Spell cost
Inspiration: Foebreaker from XII: The Zodiac Age, Orator/Mediator from Tactics, Seven from Type-0, Saboteur from XIII, Leblanc from X-2


TL;DR Version
Orator + BDSM Dom Healer
Focuses on decreasing damage party recieves and damage enemies deal
Place stacks on enemies with basic weaponskill combo and uses stacks as cost for certain abilites
DPS based on Melee-Ranged weaponskills and abilites but has a stance that increase their range to 15 yalms (with a 10% reduction to damage dealt)

Special Mechanics
Insults Stacks
In order for a Foebreaker to physically break a foe, they first mentally break them.
Certain offensive skills have a chance to place an Insult Stack on enemies.
These Insult Stacks can then be used as the cost for certain skills.
A single enemy can have up to 3 Insult Stacks from a user on them at a time.

Rends
The main use of Insult stacks, Rends target a specific attribute of an enemy and weaken it based on the amount of Insult Stacks the target had.
However, once the Rend is over, the target will gain resolve, becoming immune to that Rend for a certain amount of time.
A target can only have 1 Rend effect on them at a time.

Special Gauge(s): Psyche Gauge
Shows the amount of Insults a selected target has, if they have a Resolve effect on them and how much time they have left, and shows if Spiritbreaker is activated.


Skills

Insult-based Skills
-Armor Rend: oGCD Ability. Uses up all Insult Stacks on a target. Increase Damage done onto a selected target by 6% for 5 seconds per Insult Stack used. Afterwards, the target will gain a Armor Resolve buff, making it immune to Armor Rend for 120 seconds. Instant cast time. 60 second cooldown.
-Condemnation: oGCD Ability. Places up to 3 Insult Stacks on a selected target. Instant cast time. 100 second cooldown.
-Insult to Injury: oGCD Ability. Uses up all Insult Stacks. Damage a selected target and all enemies with in 5 yalms of them. Potency of 200 per Insult Stack used. Instant cast time. 90 second cooldown.
-Love Tap: oGCD Ability. Uses up 1 Insult Stack on a target. Damage the selected target. Has a 50% chance of placing an Insult stack on the target. Potency of 120. Instant cast time. 5 second cooldown.
-Power Rend: oGCD Ability. Uses up all Insult Stacks on a target. Decrease Damage a target can do by 5% per Insult Stack used for 15 seconds. Afterwards, the target will gain a Power Resolve buff, making it immune to Power Rend for 120 seconds. Instant cast time. 60 second cooldown.
-Threaten: oGCD Ability. If any enemy with in 8 yalms of the user has at least 1 Insult Stack, remove it. Decrease the damage all enemies affected can do by 5% for 10 seconds. Instant cast time. 90 second cooldown.
-Schadenfreude: oGCD Ability. Uses up 1 Insult Stack on a target. Whenever a partymember damages the affected via Spell, Weaponskill, or Ability, they recieve a 200 potency heal. Instant cast time. 120 second cooldown.
-Venom Tongue: oGCD Ability. Place an Insult Stack on all enemies with in 8 yalms of the user. Instant cast time. 60 second cooldown.
-Wasp Sting: oGCD Weaponskill. Uses up 1 Insult Stack on the selected target.. Damage the selected target for 18 seconds. Potency of 30. Instant cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
+Swarm Sting: oGCD Weaponskill. Upgrade of Wasp Sting. Uses up 1 Insult stack on the target. Damage the selected target for 30 seconds. Potency of 50. Instant cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.

Healing Skills
-Altruism: GCD Spell. Heal all partymembers with in 15 yalms of the user. Potency of 300. 1.5 second cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
-Heartfelt Plea: GCD Spell. Resurrect a selected target in a weakened condition. 8 second cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
-Patronize: GCD Spell. Heal a selected target. Potency of 400. 1.5 second cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
+Praise: GCD Spell. Upgrade of Patronize. Heal a selected target. Additionally, if the target takes damage equal to double the amount that was just healed with in 5 seconds of being healed, the enemy that inflicted damage last will receive an Insult stack. Potency of 550. 1.5 second cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
-Fortify: oGCD Ability. Heal a selected target. Additionally, decrease damage the target receives by 10% for 10 seconds. Potency of 500. 50 second cooldown. Gains 1 additional charge via the Enhanced Fortify trait (Max Charges: 2)
-Phalanx: oGCD Ability. For 30 seconds, envelopes the user in a 10 yalm healing aura that heals any partymember inside. Additionally, decrease damage all partymembers inside the aura receive by 2% per partymember affected. Potency of 100. Instant cast time. 90 second cooldown.
-Valiance: oGCD Ability. Decrease the damage all partymembers with in 20 yalms of the user receives by 10% for 9 seconds. Once this effect wears off, all affected partymembers will be healed. Potency of 400. Instant cast time. 60 second cooldown. Gains 1 additional charge via the Enhanced Valiance trait (Max Charges: 2).

Offensive Skills
-Whiplash: GCD Weaponskill. Damage a selected target. Additionally, places an Insult stack on the target. Potency of 150. Instant cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
-Jeering Lash: GCD Weaponskill. Damage a selected target. Potency of 100. Instant cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
Combo: Whiplash > Jeering Lash: Potency of 200. Additionally, places an Insult stack on the target.
-Death Sentence: GCD Weaponskill. Damage a selected target. Potency of 100. Instant cast time. 2.5 second cooldown
Combo: Jeering Lash > Death Sentence: Potency of 300. Additionally, places an Insult stack on the target.
-Whirlwhip: GCD Weaponskill. Damage all enemies with in 8 yalms of the user. Potency of 100. Instant cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
-Sadistic Spikes: oGCD Ability. Places a 5 yalm valley of spikes where the user was standing for 30 seconds that will damage all enemies with in and place a 20% Slow on them that last for 7 seconds. Potency of 10. Instant cast time. 60 second cooldown.

Other Skills
-Fervor: oGCD Spell. Decrease damage a selected target takes by 10% for 9 seconds. Instant cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.
-Grappling Lash: oGCD Ability. Rush towards a selected enemy from up to 15 yalms away. Insant cast time. 30 second cooldown.
-Spiritbreaker: oGCD Ability. Stance. While activated, the user can hit enemy targets with weaponskills, abilities, and auto-attacks from up to 15 yalms away but all damage the use does is decreased by 10%. Instant cast time. 2.5 second cooldown.

Skills and Unique Traits Levels
1. Whiplash
2. Patronize
4. Wasp Sting
4. Insult Mastery: Allows the user to place up to 3 Insult stacks on a selected target via certain skills.
12. Heartfelt Plea
15. Altruism
21. Love Tap
26. Praise: Upgrades Patronize to Praise.
30. Power Rend
40. Fervor
43. Grappling Lash
45. Whirlwhip
50. Spiritbreaker
50. Fortify
52. Jeering Lash
54. Venom Tongue
56. Phalanx
60. Armor Rend
62. Valiance
64. Swarm Sting: Upgrades Wasp Sting to Swarm Sting
66. Condemnation
68. Fervor
70. Shadenfruede
72. Sadistic Spikes
72. Enhanced Fortify: Grants Fortify an additional charge (Max Charges: 2)
74. Death Sentence
76. Threaten
78. Enhanced Valiance: Grants Valiance an additional charge (Max Charges: 2)
80. Insult to Injury

[Mimilu]

Design Notes:
I wanted to make a job that used a whip as a weapon. My thoughts were that a whip is best for disarming/disabling and intimidating enemies.
I also wanted the job to be the opposite of AST, debuffing enemies vs buffing allies.

[Enkidoh]

Interestingly, SE did consider a whip-using class back when FFXIV 1.0 was still in development, according to a certain design document that has been floating around the net for years - apparently it was going to be called 'Flayer', alas, nothing ever came of it sadly.

Your ideas are interesting, although I probably wouldn't have it as a healer, as a whip just doesn't go with that image. Still, good work.

[Seraphor]

Foebreaker. Yes!
...healer. what?

A melee healer will always be a no from me.

I'd love Foebreaker as a maiming melee job with some debuffing abilities. It would suit something like a hammer or mace. It could be a slow heavy hitter with rdps potential.

[Anienai]

Imagine 3 or 4 Fem roe Foebreakers.....

[Hazama999]

Foebreaker? So like, they break... foes?

[Soge01]

Imagine 3 or 4 Fem roe Foebreakers.....

Or a giant Roe dude in nothing but a leopard thong and shades. xD

[Puremallace]

Class with a whip in FF14. I could see the night RP in Limsa getting very interesting. Sounds extremely interesting and I like it.

[Mimilu]

Your ideas are interesting, although I probably wouldn't have it as a healer, as a whip just doesn't go with that image. Still, good work.

I liked the juxtaposition of whipping enemies and healing allies. XD
For me, I like the idea of healers not being stuck with just caster-friendly weapons and gear.

A melee healer will always be a no from me.

I gave it a stance called Spiritbreaker that will allow the user to hit enemies from up to 15 yalms away but will also decrease the user's damage they do by 10%.

Foebreaker? So like, they break... foes?

Yes by insulting them then breaking either their offense or defense.

[Seraphor]

I liked the juxtaposition of whipping enemies and healing allies. XD
For me, I like the idea of healers not being stuck with just caster-friendly weapons and gear.


I gave it a stance called Spiritbreaker that will allow the user to hit enemies from up to 15 yalms away but will also decrease the user's damage they do by 10%.


Yes by insulting them then breaking either their offense or defense.

I agree about breaking the caster mold, but Chemist could do that much better.


Seems like an unnecessary work around for an unnecessary problem.


For a lore perspective, this is SCH. A lot of their skills are literally just yelling encouragement at party members or insults at enemies. Even Broil in Japanese is called something that could be understood as 'heated argument' I believe.
SCH is basically Orator.