Healers need an overhaul

[Maltothoris]

Yes I am bringing this back to the front because prior to the live letter, There was an interview that was translated over in the ffxivreddit discord and there was one thing that caught my eye.

→ヒーラーの方は普段使っていなかったアクションをしっかりとセットしておいたほうがいいと思う
-> YoshiP thinks it's better for healers to properly set skills that they normally don't use.

→「このアクション、セットしていなかった！」ということがないようにだけご注意ください
-> Please be careful not to end up with situations where you go "Oh shit, I didn't set this action in my hotbar!!"

Now it's going to be the one of the role actions with esuna, rescue or repose because ultimately those actions haven't seen much use, if any, this whole expansion and it make you wonder.

[AnotherPerson]

Yes I am bringing this back to the front because prior to the live letter, There was an interview that was translated over in the ffxivreddit discord and there was one thing that caught my eye.

Now it's going to be the one of the role actions with esuna, rescue or repose because ultimately those actions haven't seen much use, if any, this whole expansion and it make you wonder.

>Tell healer to set repose.
>Looks at casters with AoE Sleep as a role action.
*Raises eyebrows*

At that point, they might as well introduce better role actions.

[Amenara]

There would have to be some big changes to how they do battle design to make repose or any CC worth using...

[flowerfairy]

There would have to be some big changes to how they do battle design to make repose or any CC worth using...

I was hoping the Criterion dungeons were going to have that sort of gameplay. Like sleeping a hard-hitting add to focus on later or using Bind/Slow on one that wouldn't aggro the tank and focus random party members. But it turned out to be Savage Boss Rush. Maybe the next dungeon...

[RyuDragnier]

There would have to be some big changes to how they do battle design to make repose or any CC worth using...

It would require raids going back to more Coil type designs. I believe one of the bosses, Melusine, required party members to sleep/bind/heavy her adds so they wouldn't attack players (I believe they 1-shot them). At the same time the healers got a gaze mechanic and had to look at the adds to stone them. Said adds were then used as line of sight safe zones for the raidwide glare mechanic to avoid a wipe. We have something similar now for P8S with the snake adds, but I wouldn't mind seeing a return of the old CC days.

[Nizzi]

Yes I am bringing this back to the front because prior to the live letter, There was an interview that was translated over in the ffxivreddit discord and there was one thing that caught my eye.



Now it's going to be the one of the role actions with esuna, rescue or repose because ultimately those actions haven't seen much use, if any, this whole expansion and it make you wonder.

Behold, they've invented a dungeon where you have to GCD heal with Physick, Cure I, etc. We hope you enjoy the healer gameplay you've been asking for!

[Zebraoracle]

Behold, they've invented a dungeon where you have to GCD heal with Physick, Cure I, etc. We hope you enjoy the healer gameplay you've been asking for!

I would be furious lol. SE please just auto-morph those spells into their upgrades.

[ty_taurus]

I would be furious lol. SE please just auto-morph those spells into their upgrades.

One suggestion I brought up a long time ago that's a few people have liked was removing Esuna and adding a trait that causes Cure/Physick/Benefic/Diagnosis to remove a debuff. It doesn't magically make this button amazing since there are less instances of Esuna mechanics introduced each expansion than there are major patches, but Esuna is still a needed action technically. This merges 2 almost never used buttons, clears up a bit of hotbar space for every healer, and allows you to do some chip healing whenever you do need to use Esuna.