Healers need an overhaul

[Zebraoracle]

Astrologian - The Time Mage/Fortuneteller (AKA, the Buffer)

Trait - Any direct damage or healing the astro causes is repeated X seconds later at a lesser effect
Trait - The astro's HoT tics increase in speed based on the astro's spell speed
Trait - The astro's direct heals place a buff on targets that cause a portion of the damage they take to be taken over a period of time instead
Trait - The astro plays a random card from their deck whenever they cast a targeted spell. AoE spells receive a lesser effect. The astro also has a chance to play the lord or lady card whenever one of the previous cards is played.

Balance - %damage buff/%damage debuff
Arrow - small haste effect/slow effect
Spear - crit and direct hit buff/suffer additional % damage
Ewer - attacks/spells/abilities heal the user/attacks heal target a small amount
Spire - reduces CDs by a small amount/applies a DoT
Bole - % damage mitigation/[honestly couldn’t think of anything right here and I’m tired of spending time on it]
Lord - deals damage around the Astro and causes a DoT
Lady - grants the Astro an MP regen


Benefic - Basic heal that applies an HoT based on the amount healed. Grants a stack of Foretold Fortune to the astro (repeated casts by the trait do not grant stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Divination.
Helios - Party-wide heal that applies an HoT based on the amount healed. Grants a stack of Foretold Fortune to the astro (repeated casts by the trait do not grant stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Divination.
Essential Dignity - heals the target more based on % missing hp. Grants a stack of Foretold Fortune to the astro (repeated casts by the trait do not grant stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Divination.
Collective Unconscious - the astro t-poses, placing a bubble around him, all allies inside the bubble gain a large health regen effect while the astro asserts dominance. Additionally, all allies share any astro buffs active on them (other HoTs, cards, barriers, divination) for the duration
Malefic - basic damage spell that applies a stack of Foretold Demise (repeated casts by the trait do not cause stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Gravity on the target
Combust - places a debuff on the target that deals damage after a certain period. applies a stack of Foretold Demise (repeated casts by the trait do not cause stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Gravity on the target

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[Zebraoracle]

Gravity - deals large damage in an AoE and applies three random cards to enemies hit. Causes the astro to become nocturnal aspected for a brief period, increased by spell speed.
Divination - grants all party members X% damage buff and applies three random cards to each ally. Causes the astro to become diurnal aspected for a brief period, increased by spell speed.

Diurnal effect - adds a second HoT to Benefic and Helios, a HoT to Essential Dignity, increases effectiveness of buffs and non-diurnal HoTs, causes combust to also deal damage over time
Nocturnal effect - adds a barrier to benefic, helios, and essential dignity, increases duration of all outgoing buffs and HoTs, causes combust to store a small portion of the damage dealt by party members and releases it when the astro enters diurnal aspect.



Sage - The "Heal by DPSing" healer

Trait - the sage stores a portion of the damage it deals (to a cap) that adds to the power of its next direct heal, and vice versa
Trait - whenever the sage deals direct damage with a spell, it places a debuff on the target that causes allies to be healed whenever they deal damage to that target
Trait - the sage regains MP when Kardia expires based on the amount of healing generated by the sage through Kardia.

Diagnosis - basic heal that places Kardia on a target for a short period. Kardia duration increased by spell speed. Kardia heals targets affected by a portion of the damage the sage causes. Casting Diagnosis builds addersting gauge, allowing the use of Toxicon.
Pneuma - Deals AoE damage and heals all allies, increases the healing done by Kardia.
Prognosis - Partywide heal, applies Kardia to all targets at half the normal duration.
Kerachole - Grants party members within range % damage mit. Links all party members within range, all members with Kardia have its duration paused, and any Kardia procs they cause share the healing with every linked party member.
Dosis - basic damage, whenever it deals critical damage it applies a DoT based on the damage dealt. Casting Dosis builds addersgal gauge, allowing the use of Pneuma.
Toxicon - Deals damage to target and smaller damage around it. Restores X% of the sage’s MP.
Phlegma - Deals damage to the target and surrounding targets, applying a debuff that causes party members to gain a small barrier equal to a portion of Phlegma’s damage whenever damaging that target.
Dyskrasia - Deals damage and reduces the damage target deals for a few seconds by X%.

[Zebraoracle]

Seer - The Pet Based Healer (because I took pets from Scholar)

Trait - pet duration and action speed is boosted by the seer’s spell speed and benefit from the seer’s critical hit rating
Trait - each active pet boosts the seer’s healing and damage output by X%
Trait - whenever a pet critical hits, it restores X% MP to the seer and releases a burst of healing around the pet

Embrace - Briefly summons a random pet to heal target party member and grant an effect based on the pet summoned.
Unicorn - HoT
Fairy - Damage buff
Seraph - Barrier
Madeen - Buff that heals whenever target deals damage
Summon Unicorn - Summons a Unicorn at target location.
Spell 1 - heals target and grants a HoT
Spell 2 - heals party and grants a HoT
Spell 3 - emits an aura that heals allies over time within the area and increases
healing received
Summon Fairy - Summons a Fairy at target location.
Spell 1 - heals target and grants a damage buff
Spell 2 - links to a party member and grants them a damage buff
Spell 3 - emits an aura that grants nearby party members a haste buff
Summon Seraph - Summons Seraph at target location.
Spell 1 - heals target and grants a barrier
Spell 2 - applies a partywide barrier
Spell 3 - emits an aura that grants nearby party members % damage mitigation
Summon Madeen - Summons Madeen at target location.
Spell 1 - deals damage to an enemy
Spell 2 - emits an aura that deals damage over time to enemies within the area
Spell 3 - grants party members a buff that causes them to receive healing whenever they deal damage
Fey Blessing - Each summoned pet releases a partywide heal and grants a lesser effect of their Embrace effect.
Aetherpact - The seer and all active pets link to either target party member or enemy. If linked to a party member, each link heals the target over the duration. If linked to an enemy, each active link deals damage over the duration.
Aetherpact - Grants the seer three charges of Aetherpact and restores X% MP. These charges allow the seer to order a pet to use their most powerful ability.
Unicorn - a large partywide heal around Eos
Fairy - grants all party members a damage buff
Seraph - grants all party members a damage mitigation effect that limits incoming damage to a % of their max HP.
Madeen - Deals a large amount of damage to target enemy and those around it and applies a DoT to each enemy struck.

[IDontPetLalas]

Astrologian - The Time Mage/Fortuneteller (AKA, the Buffer)

Trait - Any direct damage or healing the astro causes is repeated X seconds later at a lesser effect
Trait - The astro's HoT tics increase in speed based on the astro's spell speed
Trait - The astro's direct heals place a buff on targets that cause a portion of the damage they take to be taken over a period of time instead
Trait - The astro plays a random card from their deck whenever they cast a targeted spell. AoE spells receive a lesser effect. The astro also has a chance to play the lord or lady card whenever one of the previous cards is played.

Balance - %damage buff/%damage debuff
Arrow - small haste effect/slow effect
Spear - crit and direct hit buff/suffer additional % damage
Ewer - attacks/spells/abilities heal the user/attacks heal target a small amount
Spire - reduces CDs by a small amount/applies a DoT
Bole - % damage mitigation/[honestly couldn’t think of anything right here and I’m tired of spending time on it]
Lord - deals damage around the Astro and causes a DoT
Lady - grants the Astro an MP regen


Benefic - Basic heal that applies an HoT based on the amount healed. Grants a stack of Foretold Fortune to the astro (repeated casts by the trait do not grant stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Divination.
Helios - Party-wide heal that applies an HoT based on the amount healed. Grants a stack of Foretold Fortune to the astro (repeated casts by the trait do not grant stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Divination.
Essential Dignity - heals the target more based on % missing hp. Grants a stack of Foretold Fortune to the astro (repeated casts by the trait do not grant stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Divination.
Collective Unconscious - the astro t-poses, placing a bubble around him, all allies inside the bubble gain a large health regen effect while the astro asserts dominance. Additionally, all allies share any astro buffs active on them (other HoTs, cards, barriers, divination) for the duration
Malefic - basic damage spell that applies a stack of Foretold Demise (repeated casts by the trait do not cause stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Gravity on the target
Combust - places a debuff on the target that deals damage after a certain period. applies a stack of Foretold Demise (repeated casts by the trait do not cause stacks). At X stacks, the astro may cast Gravity on the target

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Are you thinking of restricting when gravity can be cast? If so, I don't see why you would want to do that. Secondly, I wouldn't want to track dots AND multiple card events AND multiple possibilities upon when divination could come up on GCD heals that typically I would want to avoid- unless basically your point of view is "I want to force more GCD healing" .

Basically when it comes to healing, you've focussed on skills that I touch under specific circumstances but there are skills that aren't mentioned that are very well designed such as earthly star, macrocosmos, NS- and some that you mentione.

[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!