Thread: 6.0 Healer Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Teno

I love shields in essence as they are preventive and tactical and with the fast charging addersgall you often find yourself using the oGCDs even with moderate damage. The job definitely feels busier than scholar because of its construction.

How? I still do what I do on other healers and the job actually feels WHM level of slow on boss fights because there's nothing to weave if you are not healing (which is most of the time).

Shortly after the expansion dropped, some friends and I did leveling roulette as a full party, so we could go with an off composition. We did three DPS and a Paladin. We got Mount Gulg. Wall-to-wall pulls, paladin only died once to an accident before the second boss.

Take what you will from what that says about how absurd tank self-sustain is, or how useless healers still are, or whatever else you want to find there.

Originally Posted by inhaledcorn

I've only played SGE so far, but I'll put some of my thoughts in:

It has some really powerful healing tools. It's actually kinda silly. Holos is straight up better than its analogue in Fey's Blessing as Holos also provides a damage reduction.

Fey Blessing comes with half the cooldown and a bigger radius. They are different enough now that I don't really treat them as equivalents anymore.

Holos is good, but I have the same gripe with it that I have with Taurochole. Skills that come with damage reduction and burst healing are quite hard to use with full potential and wasting one of the two effects leave a bad taste in my mouth.

I just reached level 88 on Sage today and I really like it. It really plays like what i wanted Scholar to play like since the 5.0 rework severed anything related to Arcanist from it's kit.
Addersgall is a much more flexible and less clunky than Aetherflow. Whenever i need to heal i heal and get 7% mana back. Overcapping on Addersgall is a non issue since i can immediately restore 1 stack when needed and a lot of the time i don't need the heals anyway since Kardia & Eukrasian Diagnosis is enough to keep at least the tank alive. In case of Mana running low i find Lucid Dreaming more than enough. Toxicon also helps with MP pool since its a return on investment from Eukrasian Diagnosis, a similar mechanic to Dark Knights The Blackest Night though instead of 30% mp we're talking about 4% mp. And tbh if you really need the MP this badly just use the abilities. Worrying about overhealing is a little silly considering how much you'll be overhealing with Kardia anyway.
Eukrasia reducing hotbar bloat is a luxury that makes older healers instantly feel dated and it makes the gameplay slightly more involved since reapplying buffs or shield now takes 2 button presses instead of 1. Who knew that 4.x Dark arts would improve healer gameplay.
Overall had absolutely no issues in dungeons healing and in the first ENW trial my CO healer even let me heal almost by myself. Only helping out in some cases.
I also had no issues getting Addersting procs in instances where Critical HP is restored or my tank applied their own shield onto themselves. It appears Differential Diagnosis and tank shields are the last to be exhausted by enemy attacks. I've had several Addersting procs while my tank still had a yellow shield bar in the party list.

Haven't played other healers yet but i can't believe Freecure, Enhanced Benefic & Undraw still exist. Both Freecure and Enhance Benefic just confuse newer players into spamming Cure I & Benefic I (had that happen on me recently in the Trail Roulette (Titania), someone boosted a WHM and was spamming Cure I the whole fight) and Undraw literally does the same as waiting for draw to come off cooldown. Also with Glare III being 310 Potency and Afflatus Misery not being adjusted to 930 potency feels like they didn't update WHM's toolkit properly. This feels especially bad since Sage, similarly to WHM has no damage related raid buff yet does way more damage across the board.

AST's card system is so awful that it made me join the forum just to complain about it.

I have no relevant experience with healers as of yet. FFXIV is the first RPG that has designed its healers with so much intentional anti-synergy and tedium built in that it actually turned me off a support role, and given what a prolific consumer of RPGs and support classes I am that's a feat.

Originally Posted by Deceptus

Then why are you posting here, or at all on this topic?

The strange part is they have 2 posts in this thread, both with a lot of likes and little value. I find it odd.

Originally Posted by Isharis

The strange part is they have 2 posts in this thread, both with a lot of likes and little value. I find it odd.

If you've been around these forums for any length of time you'd know them as someone who's been bitching about healers for a long time, especially WHM. The fact that the lack of care given to the most recent expansion on the healer front was enough to make them give up on healers entirely should speak volumes considering how militant they were about how WHM should be improved and related healer issues.