Fixing Every Healer Job

[Nizzi]

Note that until EW, its DoT held much greater relative importance, as Broil III dealt only 255 potency.

Not to be /that/ person who nitpicks something minor but back in ShB Broil III was at 290 potency and Biolysis was at 70 potency. Broil III being at 255 only became a thing with the stat squish and Biolysis' potency didn't change.

I personally don't want AoW to need a target to use. Targeting the tank while using the AoE makes it easier to keep track of the tank's health, especially since SCH's heal potencies are so low. Besides Excog and Fey Union, you might not end up reacting fast enough while switching from the mobs to the tank to heal them.

Agreed, SCH not needing a target is its thing, I think if anything needs an instant targeted spell it should be SGE to differentiate between the two so Dyskrasia isn't just a straight AoW clone. AoW is the same functionality as Miasma II was except without the DoT as well, so it would be weird to change something that SCH has *effectively* had AoE-wise for a long time now.

[Shurrikhan]

Not to be /that/ person who nitpicks something minor but back in ShB Broil III was at 290 potency and Biolysis was at 70 potency. Broil III being at 255 only became a thing with the stat squish and Biolysis' potency didn't change.

Sorry, perhaps I should have said "until EW levels" or "until level 82", but the point still remains:

From levels 72 to 81, your DoT does 275% of your filler damage, offering 3.5 extra filler cast's worth of damage per minute for perfect uptime. That's relatively significant for a DoT, making it much more important than, say, Dia's 227% of Glare and extra 2.55 filler casts per minute for perfect uptime.

After level 82, SCH's DoT's relative importance decreases to 237% of filler damage and an extra 2.75 filler casts worth of damage per minute, under 80% of its former significance.

Before potency was shuffled from Broil III to Biolysis with EW release, this would have been 241%, and an extra 2.83 filler casts per minute for perfect uptime, nearer to what we see later. But whether that's for the better or not is arguable.


At any rate, it's just a matter of how significant one wants their DoTs to be, which is most easily viewed by the number of bonus filler casts' value they give per minute, given perfect uptime. For that reason, any decrease in duration will necessitate an increase in DoT potency if the affected DoT's relative value is to be retained.