Quote Originally Posted by RinaShinomiya View Post
No. Benefic 2 and Aspected Benefic, Helios and Aspected Helios actually have a reason to be separate buttons. You can't spam Aspected versions of these spells and heal nearly the same amount of HP as using Aspected version once + multiple regular ones. It works exactly the same on Sage. Your suggestion would actually worsen the jobs healing capabilities.
Which is why you would obviously adjust potencies so that already redundant skills would become even more redundant...

Yes, I imagine AST would be a bad healer without Helios, it's such a key skill in its kit...
We really, really don't need 5 GCD heals that all do the same boring thing with small differences, especially because they are skills we don't even want to use at all.

Why are Benefic and Benefic II different? Well, for the reason you think Helios and A. Helios totally need. There are very niche situations in which Benefic (and Cure) can be useful. Are they very niche scenarios? You can bet on it, just like with the other GCD heals you really, really think need to exist.

Your suggestions also have important implications. Giving AST the Eukrasia treatment would be awful because you would give up on the double weave from Combust.
MA and Crown Play are different buttons because that allows you to draw a card and start the cooldown of MA. You don't need two different buttons to get that effect, but simply merging them together wouldn't make it possible.