LIVE Letter Regarding DRG & AST Postponed Reworks

[Derio]

AST does have alot and I mean alot of useless buttons. However at the same time AST is the only healer that doesnt feel super boring in terms of APM.

DRG is pretty much perfect outside of left eye needing to be changed or combined with litany.

At this point they should just wait until 7.0 to rework those jobs. AST does need a few QOL now but DRG can wait until 7.0

[Nizzi]

Just give SCH Miasma and Bane back and Shadow Flare if they're feeling generous and SCH is fine

[SweetPete]

SCH is the only healer with 3 capstone abilities that fight each other. You cannot use multiples of them at the same time. Imagine if WHM couldn't use Plenary Indulgence or Temperance while Liturgy of the Bell is out. Or if using Temperance or Plenary cancelled the Liturgy. That is what it's like for SCH. We seal our other abilities when we use one of them, and is the only healer to suffer from this. That's just the tip of the iceberg too.

Seraph gets different names for Fey Illumination and Whispering Dawn, yet they share the same cooldown and potency as the original ones, meaning useless upgrades. We still have both Eos and Selene, despite them being the same fairy at this point. We are still the only healer screwed if we die right after using our class mechanic, because we have to wait up to 50s until it comes off cooldown (Aetherflow) before we can use ANY of our big heals. SCH is by far the one healer that needs the most changes in this game, and it's insulting to have it ignored for AST YET AGAIN, FOR THE SECOND EXPANSION IN A ROW.

True true.

[Merrigan]

... Wait, they are reworking DRG and suppressing some buttons on this class ?

please tell me I misunderstood.

[Raven2014]

... Wait, they are reworking DRG and suppressing some buttons on this class ?

please tell me I misunderstood.

Ok, you misunderstood.

[Haventale]

... Wait, they are reworking DRG and suppressing some buttons on this class ?

please tell me I misunderstood.

The only thing they’ve officially stated is that they’re making extensive adjustments to DRG and AST next expansion. We don’t anything about what those adjustments actually are:

“In previous Letter LIVEs, we mentioned that dragoon and astrologian would receive extensive adjustments in Patch 6.2; however, we’ll be postponing these adjustments based on the feedback we’ve received since Patch 6.1. Making extensive adjustments to a job on a fundamental level would involve numerous changes. The sheer number of changes would make it difficult to fully explain our intentions for each one, so we believe we should wait for an expansion release to make adjustments of that scale. With that said, rest assured we’ll continue to make minor adjustments.”


https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/467713

[RyuDragnier]

At this point I suspect nobody on the dev team actually PLAYS Scholar. If they did, I think a lot of those changes wouldn't have made it past testing, and we'd have a more cohesive kit because of it. At this point I really feel like there should be a dev who actively plays healer, as that would fix some things, or at least I'd hope so.