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    PondHollow's Avatar
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    Pond Hollow
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    Ultros
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    Warrior Lv 90

    How would you feel if Broil, Glare and Malefic were stances?

    As things are, you want to cast these 15-22 times per minute.

    How would you feel if you only cast it like 2-3 times per minute? You'd turn it on, and your character would get little windows where they could move or ogcd without interrupting, but it would be auto-cast unless you clipped it too much.

    You would be touching your keyboard much less, but the relative diversity of the buttons you actually press would greatly increase. You would not actively be droning on. Just passively. And, for those stakeholders who hold so much sway who are so concerned about overwhelming healers, we would actually have less to do: all the while likely increasing healer offensive performance.

    (Even if recent attention has emboldened those dissatisfied with the healer direction, Yoshida is holding firm for now. Given that, turning the nukes into stances seems like one of few realistic ways to make healing less monotone.)
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    AikenDrum's Avatar
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    Mio Aiken
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    Louisoix
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    Pictomancer Lv 100
    hmm i'd make it some sort of damage aura so you could use emotes while it's active, but overall QoL!
    wait, physical ranged autoattack, 1.5s or instant - does it really matter?
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    Last edited by AikenDrum; 10-23-2021 at 04:16 PM.

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    inhaledcorn's Avatar
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    Elliot Cloverfield
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    Adamantoise
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    Sage Lv 100
    ... Isn't that just Cleric Stance?
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    Sebazy Spiritwalker
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    Ragnarok
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    White Mage Lv 90
    An alternative means of doing this would be to just make our auto attack damage scale off mind and amount to roughly what our nukes tally to.

    Can't say I'm a huge fan though. That's just going to reward afk healers in casual raids even more and I suspect E8S like this would actually have me falling asleep on my keyboard between intermissions of actually doing anything =(
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    AikenDrum's Avatar
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    Mio Aiken
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    Pictomancer Lv 100
    how can you prefer spamming one button, which is repetitive and boring, to sleeping, which is nice and pleasant, is beyond me! ^_^
    seriously though, 1.5s on all 4 healers is functionally already an auto attack; just admit it and make it true auto? would help with carpal tunnel at least, think of the injured ones!

    i'm not even joking, sleep over spam is my decision! i think eureka on whm broke me, i can still hear... stone IV sound... sometimes
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    Last edited by AikenDrum; 10-25-2021 at 03:10 PM.

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    Mira Clearweaver
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    Jenova
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    Conjurer Lv 90
    We already press less variety of buttons with current iteration of healers. Things you’re suggesting will make us press even lesser buttons.

    Is that really what you wish? I certainly can right click my target then go semi-afk with that. But why would I even play a game at that point?
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    HyoMinPark's Avatar
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    Hyomin Park
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    Cactuar
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    Sage Lv 92
    Quote Originally Posted by AikenDrum View Post
    how can you prefer spamming one button, which is repetitive and boring, to sleeping, which is nice and pleasant, is beyond me! ^_^
    seriously though, 1.5s on all 4 healers is functionally already an auto attack; just admit it and make it true auto? would help with carpal tunnel at least, think of the injured ones!

    i'm not even joking, sleep over spam is my decision! i think eureka on whm broke me, i can still hear... stone IV sound... sometimes
    It’s as I said: I’d rather spam the one button versus no buttons. Because the devs won’t give me more healing mechanics to deal with to make use of the other 90% of my kit. If I’m pressing 2 buttons every minute…then why am I even here?
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    Winter Gem
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    Brynhildr
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    Scholar Lv 100
    We went from pressing one dps button a million times to almost no buttons at all?
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    Iiiiiiiiiiit's Meeeee
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    Quote Originally Posted by PondHollow View Post
    You would be touching your keyboard much less, but the relative diversity of the buttons you actually press would greatly increase. You would not actively be droning on. Just passively.
    Active droning --> passive droning?
    So now when we're not healing the game is asking even less of our attention and brainpower?
    I'm not sure I see this as an improvement.
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    CrimsonGunner's Avatar
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    Mike Arklight
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    Twintania
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    White Mage Lv 92
    no ty, i want to press more stuff in my runs not less
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