The Problem with Healer Feedback, and requested changes

[Shurrikhan]

I don't disagree with you at all, but you know what, maybe we need this and for WHM to crash and burn in order to shock the devs into reality. Or maybe none of us know what we're talking about and it'll be the hottest thing since sliced bread. Trial by fire.

Fair enough, haha.


Edit / a final little note:

If we didn't want to go so far with MP changes to make Cure/Physick/Benefic (or any MP-efficient GCD variant) ever worth casting anyways... perhaps a small degree of consolidation would be not only useful for button efficiency, but also for distinguishing jobs. We up the initial strength and MP cost of Cure/Physic/etc., and take the long-held suggestion of just upgrading them directly... and then take that a bit further.

Consider, for instance, if Medica was simply upgraded to duplicate every existing Regen onto your most wounded allies and could be charged by Cure II (a direct upgrade/replacement to/for Cure) to apply further healing in a small area around the target. Voila, you've got more interaction possible, and the generically identical spell is no longer generically identical. Etc., etc., for each of the jobs to more necessarily and integrally leverage their unique features, rather than having "opt out (of our uniqueness)" buttons on each.

Just some food for thought.