LIVE Letter Regarding DRG & AST Postponed Reworks

[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

[Nizzi]

Hard Disagree.

Dissipation is a dumpster fire of an ability.

Dissipation is Dissipation. I don't think it's an amazing ability, but I wouldn't really say it's a dumpster fire either.

1. I think it's become muddied a bit because back in Heavensward when it was added, the only outright healing you were getting from your faerie was Whispering Dawn/Embrace, but now additionally you have Fey Blessing, Fey Union, and Consolation from Seraph, making it more than just the total 1800 potency of the lost Embraces, but a loss of all of those abilities as well for 30 seconds. And if you've burned through Whispering, Fey, Seraph, 2 charges of Consolation and you also have no gauge/gauge isn't helpful, things have gone bad to a point that the added Aetherflow likely isn't going to be able to salvage since I would assume Indom/Excog/Soil are probably on CD as well, unless the SCH had no stacks before things went belly up.

2. I think Dissipation being used pretty much solely as a DPS cooldown is a consequence of there being so much overhealing from every other healer job (SCH isn't free of this either but Energy Drain's existence encourages less overhealing than the other healers) that often times the loss of your fairy just isn't felt because your cohealer can cover for that 30s where Recitation/Protraction won't because of the ridiculous amounts of free healing. If anything it's really just an issue of encounter design in general where SCHs can usually get greedy with Dissipation and there's not really a DPS loss because of it - if its usage at poor times forced the SCH or their cohealer to have to use GCDs to heal, it is a loss, but how often does this really happen now when all of the healers have incredibly bloated healing kits? You can almost always use Dissipation during untargetable phases because the loss of Embrace isn't relevant at that point, though this seems to become more and more niche with newer encounters.

I would agree that the nerf on ED from 150 to 100 mid ShB made Dissipation feel even worse for usage as a DPS tool, and honestly one of my largest gripe with SCH changes from ShB to EW (outside of the job still being incredibly boring DPS wise) is that they removed Energy Drain's ability to be used as an MP recovery tool at all, which completely removed one half of Dissipation's "emergency" usage. The times I felt Dissipation shined as an emergency tool was when I would die, get raised and would quickly need to recover MP to get back into the fight. I still really don't understand the reasoning behind this change and think its very stupid honestly, and has resulted in making SCH a bit more punishing on death, but I digress. Dissipation should give 2000 MP just like hitting Aetherflow does. It'd be something, at least.

3. I think this is an issue with the Faerie Gauge than it is one with Dissipation, because Dissipation came first. More than anything though it is definitely a shining example of how little thought is put into how healer kits work - how did this get past testing in Stormblood, and how has it continued into Endwalker? I seriously struggle to think there's any legitimate design choice on the fact that you don't gain gauge when Eos/Selene aren't present other than they never bothered to figure out how to make it work - just like they didn't bother to make Fey Blessing work during Summon Seraph even though it's been completely removed from the gauge, leaving it no different than Whispering/Fey Illumination as a cooldown.

[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.