Because why not: A Moderate Proposal - SCH

[ForsakenRoe]

What about 'Energy Drain is guaranteed to crit if the enemy is afflicted with Chain Stratagem'? That way, it's not only doing 1.45 to 1.75 (depending on crit rate) times damage because it's going to crit, but is also boosted by 15% more damage (multiplicatively) because of Chain's crit rate increase overflowing past the 100% and being converted to flat damage % increase. It's not quite double damage but it still incentivizes 'use in raidbuffs'

edit sorry i was eating:

I don't think anything Healers do short of Misery will ever have the impact of Fire 4 or Despair, much less Xenoglossy. It's kind of a role thing, though WHM does have Misery and Tanks have gotten into the action with stuff like Swords and Double Down.
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So I think this is a place where it's fine to have some of that, but perhaps we can agree that a Healer Job or two NOT doing that (probably SCH and AST since they have their party buffs instead), like pre-6.3 PLD or present BLM, is preferable to having all Healers have their own versions of Xenoglossy.

When we look at the potencies of the top three listed damage skills used on BLM (Fire4, Xeno, Despair), you have (after accounting for AF3's 80% buff) 558, 800, 612 respectively. If we divide those all by 2, we get 279, 400, 306. Which looks like a similar (and intentional) spread of damage to Glare's 310, Dia's 430, Banish's 350, this is what I was aiming to mirror. I don't necessarily want the healers to all have a Xeno in terms of it's gameplay functionality, but I want at least some of them to have 'the effect Xeno has on the Casts Per Minute chart spread of abilities used'. Something that is used at roughly 25% the rate of Glare, to go along with something that is roughly 20% of the rate of Glare. Heck, SGE already has a Xeno of sorts, it's called Phlegma. If we can get the casts of Spam, DOT, 3rd skill ratio to be something more like 5:3:2 (or 4:3:3 if they're feeling spicy), that'd be a vast improvement I think

I don't think we can ever make the glowy lights have impact as it stands, from a VFX standpoint, they've painted themselves into a corner, hence why I went for the moment of power with the heal tool. Unless they add Purgation to PVE, I can't see any light-based skill having much 'wow' factor. Imagine an alternate universe where Water was the 'filler' skill, and it gets revealed in a Job Action trailer that WHMs could, every 25-30 seconds, drop a massive boulder on the enemy for big AOE damage. It'd have a lot more 'impact' than a new rank of Glare, right? I don't know if I can get excited for another reveal of 'the little light balls travel in a triangle formation instead of hexagon this time!' Broil's the worst for it, it's been almost identical 'several nondescript balls of energy' every time, they just change color slightly (and occasionally it's 5 instead of 4)