PLZ, Make SMN's Physick scales with INT just like RDM's heal for the fairness!

[Payadopa]

Look, you can convince yourself that spamming equivalent of Cure I is "awesome" all you want. But there is a reason why even mildly competent WHM doesn't spam Cure I.

You can also pretend that everyone on your group is YoshiP's gift to gaming and never make mistakes but that's also not true for most. Otherwise we would have delayed raise years ago. Vercure has a place.

Why not min max the entire battle system where we only have one button labelled 'resolve'. Only then will everyone be truly equal and therefore happy. lol

In all honesty, if Vercure is so horrible to use for some then just don't press it. Pat on the back, you don't need it. Stop asking for jobs to become more monotonous. I don't need yet another [increase DPS by x%].

[Wyssahtyn]

Just thinking back, but I remember back during their marketing for Endwalker the director specifically reassured players that Physick for Summoners was staying. And the immediate question that sprang to mind was "Ok, but is it scaling off Int now instead of Mind so it's not useless?". The answer come EW launch was a hilarious "no".

[Wilford111]

Yes RDM's cure is weak, but I can recall many times when it actually came in useful. Yeah it's not part of your normal rotation but it does turn the tides in those clutch moments.

I can't think of any times SMN's Physick was useful, outside of below-60 content.

[ThorneDynasty]

Yes RDM's cure is weak, but I can recall many times when it actually came in useful. Yeah it's not part of your normal rotation but it does turn the tides in those clutch moments.

I can't think of any times SMN's Physick was useful, outside of below-60 content.

This forum has a huge obsession with wanting every single button be in the normal rotation - if it's not constantly needed in end-game raiding it shouldn't even exist. I don't get it either.

[Payadopa]

This forum has a huge obsession with wanting every single button be in the normal rotation - if it's not constantly needed in end-game raiding it shouldn't even exist. I don't get it either.

Yeah, that's the part I don't get. I do min ilvl stuff and raid and we always screw up until we don't. That's what makes it fun!

[Sequora]

I don’t get why they don’t just delete it. Like either make it an actual skill, or remove it. Summoner has the fewest “skills”‘ out of any job in the game.

[Rongway]

We know Vercure is just a clutch heal, yes. Since it doesn't really impact balance in any meaningful way, what then would be the harm in making Physick have the same actual potency?

It would make SMNs who don't know any better think it's a good spell to cast in party content. Not their job. Kill the things faster please.

[TankHunter678]

For SMN to compete with RDM's Vercure, SMN's Physick needs to be adjusted in such a way that it offers some form of utility outside of just being a low potency heal on INT. The problem is not entirely the heal itself, but how the skill itself should interact with the job's toolkit in addition to the heal. Just the heal alone won't give anything substantial to justify it. It would be a good change, but still a half-assed one in my opinion. A low potency GCD heal that doesn't offer anything else only serves to annoy your healers if they see it being casted, and the effect of relying on Physick to survive in solo play is even worse because it's the equivalent of using Cure 1 and emptying out your MP while the enemies are slapping you to death. No, if SMN gets a change for Physick, it has to offer some strategic value in a party setting, but not a straight-up potency gain by replacing a healer.

So... make it transform during the various summons? Basically be each Summon's utility button. During Pheonix it could offer a powerful single target regen effect (as summoning phoenix already applies a regen effect to the party), during Bahamut it could apply a vulnerability debuff on the enemy, during Titan it could apply stoneskin, during Ifrit it could apply a potent dot, during Garuda it could buff haste (though that would probably just mean for optimization you do Garuda before Ifrit so the Haste speeds up the Ifrit casts).

[Iscah]

In party content, if a RDM casts Vercure on someone it does not change the number of heals an actual healer will have to use to keep the party alive in a fight; and if the healer dies, it won't delay a wipe any longer than just casting Verraise would.

I don't know what level of party content you're talking about, but I have occasionally had to save dungeon runs by stepping in as healer while the actual healer is dead or reviving or disconnected.

Of course it's not a strong heal and it's not what you want to be using to keep the party alive long-term, but it's functional. Physick is not.

[ThorneDynasty]

It would make SMNs who don't know any better think it's a good spell to cast in party content. Not their job. Kill the things faster please.

Because dumbing down the game just so people don't make any mistakes at sub 60 levels has been such a stellar design direction so far.