Cure I and Benefic I should just naturally upgrade

[EhvaTaco]

Honestly, there's no reason anymore for either of them to exist by themselves at this point. Low level is even easier and forgiving, since they buffed base defenses of tanks in early game. And at later points, you get so many more tools, they're both just redundant by then. For small heals, they can both just use Regen and Aspected Benefic, if they really feel like the natural HP regen isn't enough.


CNJ / WHM :

• Add Cure Mastery at Lv. 30 : Upgrades Cure I to Cure II
• Reduce Cure II MP cost from 1000 to 700
• Remove Freecure from traits, since Cure I would upgrade
• Change the level requirement for Regen from 35 to 30

AST :

• Add Benefic Mastery at Lv. 30 : Upgrades Benefic I to Benefic II
• Remove Enhanced Benefic from traits, since Benefic I would upgrade
• Change the level requirement for Aspected Benefic from 34 to 30

[Bjorn-Kobito]

We've asked for this for years; they don't listen or care. Both the regens or even esuna could be merged into the base heals as people have suggested as well. No healers should be using their base heals past level 50. Ideally past level 30.

[FoxCh40s]

We've asked for this for years; they don't listen or care. Both the regens or even esuna could be merged into the base heals as people have suggested as well. No healers should be using their base heals past level 50. Ideally past level 30.

To reiterate, any suggestion we've made over the years has been completely and totally ignored. They have some kind of stubborn complex about Healers specifically, even though absolutely no one on the dev team actually plays them. They refuse to listen to the community, and outright tell us to go away (i.e. play another role) or que for Ultimate for satisfaction.

The Healer section of the forums is dead weight, and honestly, serves zero purpose.

[EhvaTaco]

Both the regens or even esuna could be merged into the base heals as people have suggested as well. No healers should be using their base heals past level 50. Ideally past level 30.

No, I don't think that's a good idea. Esuna is specifically a super fast cast. In content like TEA, it's very important to have that fast cast for that one debuff...forgot the name. Just as an example.

[Bjorn-Kobito]

No, I don't think that's a good idea. Esuna is specifically a super fast cast. In content like TEA, it's very important to have that fast cast for that one debuff...forgot the name. Just as an example.

Cure/Physick/Benefict/Diagnosis already have quicker cast times. No reason they couldn't be shaved off by another 0.25-0.5 seconds and also provide either status cleanse or regen. They are still a GCD cast, thus will still be a loss to use and heal for less than their "upgraded" counterparts. Well, unless regen gets added to them.

[Yhisa]

Actually with the way white mage works

I rather them just turn cure 1 and cure 2, medica into their respective lily parts

So it be like this

cure 2 > afflatus solace

Medica > afflatus rapture

Free cure trait? Reworked into "free cast" meaning white mage have a chance to proc free cast from ANY spell which cause the next spell to cost no MP

The whole reason for this is to promote the white mage to legit focus on building towards its misery spell and be proactive on its healing and dealing damage

Basically it be the one true GCD king of healers but rewards itself with a blood nuke

[currentlemon]

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Sarixis already made this point with the lilies in his Healer Suggestion videos (it's posted on this forum). Lily abilities replace Cure 2 and Medica prospectively when a lily is in bloom and lilies are gained immediately when you unlock WHM at level 30.

[Lemuria]

Cure is more MP efficient than Cure II, and casts faster than Cure II. There are still reasons to use it, even if only as a quick means to prevent doom on a party member or top up a DPS who misjudged an AoE. You have to consider content below cap as well, and having those extra tools can mean the difference between surviving an encounter or an unfortunate demise.

[Akava]

I think throughout the entirety of Shadowbringers, I pressed Benefic 1 and Cure 1 less than a combined total of 10 times. Every time it was because I had just revived, had no other healing cooldowns, no way to quickly recover mana and the tank was near death. That situation is incredibly rare and far more useful skills have been removed already.

The exception to this is low level content where I legitimately have no other healing options.

[Sebazy]

Merging Esuna and Cure 1 into a single button makes the most sense for me.

Cure 1 still had a very small amount of value in it's faster cast, I've bailed a couple of people out with it when I've had no lilies or tetra on hand before now. So simply dropping it's potency onto Esuna as an upgrade gets the thumbs up from me.