Quote Originally Posted by Archwizard View Post
Let's not hyperbolize here.
Yes, the job could use more bells and whistles to be a true "offensive healer" (though you came out swinging against the essential "healer" part of it).
No, I wouldn't describe it as "rotting from the inside out" just because Toxikon and Pneuma aren't a damage gain.
Who said anything about Pneuma? And I genuinely am not being hyperbolic. SGE is not well designed at all. In terms of healing output, it's already doing a great job. It offers the greatest amount of mitigation, offers a lot of OGCD healing, Zoe + Pneuma is a fantastic burst heal.

There are QoL improvements you can make to the healing side of its gameplay, and I do genuinely think having the vanilla GCD heals having a higher potency on targets with barriers is a good safety net tool for SGE. I'm not saying those are bad buffs, it's just that they aren't addressing the problem. It's like when they buffed WAR's Tomahawk. Sure, your ranged button deals a little more damage. Awesome. Was it a quaint little QoL buff? Sure. Is it hurting WAR in any way? Nope. Did that address any of WAR's potency issues? Not at all.

The same is true here: buffing all these methods of healing is fine, it's just not doing anything to address what makes SGE unfun to play as, nor is it actively improving SGE's general healing capabilities. SGE's core tools for healing are Kerachole, Ixochole, Taurochole, Druochole, Physis II, Holos, Haima, Panhaima, Pneuma, and Kardia. Making the GCD healing of SGE stronger when it hates its GCD heals and will find any and all excuses to avoid it like the plague isn't going to improve its overall experience. We could stand to buff less powerful buttons. A common alternative suggestion for Soteria is making it apply your Kardia heal to the entire party rather than increasing the Kardia heal on your target by 70%. That would be a more worthwhile improvement if you're looking to make SGE better at healing. The Phlegma concept is neat, but it really only applies to dungeon trash, which SGE is already the most effective healer at handling.