Hi, so something that I keep seeing is how underwhelmed people are with Art of War. Personally I love it, it is my favorite of the Healer AoEs. I know many people like Holy. I do not, so people have their own preferences.

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I remember being so excited to unlock Holy all those years ago when lvling my WMH (my first class ever and at launch. I stopped playing for a few years and decided to start fresh on a new account a couple years back cause I wanted the free sub month and I was going to start a new character anyways). I was so disappointed. It had a long cast time and then a long delay before it actually hit. It felt like it took a good 5 seconds to even do anything, and when it went off it was a big pink disco ball, not anything like holy looked like in any of the other FF games I had played where it was rays of light piercing enemies. It obscured view, was ugly, and felt super clunky. It was effective, but that was it. I hated using it.
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Anyways, Art of War. I like the animation. It is low to the ground and so does not cause visual clutter and I like the understated visual. I love that it is instant cast since it means that I can spam it when needed while still having my full array of oGCD tools. But I will admit that having it be a PBAoE is strange for the class lore. A tactician should not be wading ankle deep into the melee. I think a small change would make it feel way better.

What if it was still PBAoE if cast normally, but if cast on your faerie would radiate from them instead (or have a separate button that cast it on the faerie to avoid the weird pet targeting stuff). Your character would still cast it, the faerie would not, but it would radiate from the faerie like a focus.

At first I thought that it would be cool if you could cast it on any party member (but not enemies) and it would radiate from them... but that may be a bit unbalanced and would step on Gravity's toes because you would just always cast it on the tank.