Healer Suggestions Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

What?

I didn't say interruption CONSUMED VERSTONE/FIRE READY.

Nor did I say you did. You summarized the (non)issue as such:

I feel like, in general, 1-2-3 doesn't work with cast times. Note that no Job that exists with a 1-2-3 does so with the buttons having cast times and being subject to interruption.

Except, there is nothing inherent to their being casts nor to casted combos being only as subject to interruption as any other combo (only by using a combo-breaking ability, with cast-interruption having zero effect on one's ability to re-attempt the combo step) that would make it so "1-2-3 doesn't work with cast times". We know this because of prior examples of casted unlocked actions, of which Verstone/Verfire procs not being consumed upon starting/attempting the cast is just one.

My apologies if I read that as a useful claim (these factors are WHY we don't have 1-2-3s with cast times) instead of your simply stating the obvious (that we don't have them at the moment). Admittedly, I suppose I should have known better.

Gauss Barrel [in Stormblood]

Was a toggle that activated the Heat Gauge mechanic and granted % bonus damage. It was automatically removed at the end of Overheat and would have to be re-applied.

edit: this is 100% unrelated to previous stuff, but I just had an idea: What if, instead of actions who's CDs replenish over time, we had a new kind of action, where you had only X amount of 'use' for the fight, and after that it's gone, such that you want to ration it out? As an example, Flamethrower for MCH. What if it were reworked to be much stronger such that you'd want to use it in single target, but you only have 30s of fuel, across the whole duration of the encounter? You'd want to put the channel times in points of the fight where you know you can stand still for a bit.

If significant, it would overpower the job in short encounters and underpower it in long encounters. I doubt the decision-making, moreover, would really be any more than for any other multi-charge CD whose use you'd want to optimize either through deliberate preparatory actions or getting the most value out of it as possible over its duration.