Healer Suggestions Megathread

[rawker]

Sic
Changes Carbuncle's behavior to offensive mode. It will cast Poison Nails to the target. Sic can be used to a specific target to focus. If an ally is selected, it will attack the ally's target instead. If the target dies, an enemy is not selected, or an ally is not targeting an enemy upon pressing the ability, Carbuncle will choose the nearest enemy to it.
Poison Nails Potency: 20
Additional Effect: Increases Carbuncle Gauge by 5 every 3 seconds.
Poison Nails Cooldown: 2.5 seconds.
Sic Cooldown: 1 second


Guard
Changes Carbuncle's behavior to defensive mode. It will cast Healing Ruby to allies with the least HP, by default. Casting the ability on a specific party member will focus Healing Ruby on them until given a different target or Guard is pressed a second time.
Cure Potency: 180
Additional Effect: Increases Carbuncle Gauge by 5 every 3 seconds
Healing Ruby Cooldown of 2.5 seconds.
Guard Cooldown: 1 second


Steady
Changes Carbuncle's behavior to passive mode. Carbuncle's default state upon summoning. Carbuncle will automatically go to Steady when there are no allies to heal or enemies to attack.
Additional Effect: Increases Carbuncle Gauge by 10 every 3 seconds.
Steady Cooldown: 1 second

Carbuncle Gauge

First proposal. No fairies


Defensive behavior gauge color

Offensive behavior gauge color
Second proposal: Fairies are shown and the gauge color changes depending whether Carbuncle is in offensive or defensive behavior. Passive behavior just greys it out entirely.

The Aetherflow stacks will be baked into the gague. I am still thinking if it that be the case or let's reuse the current SMN gauge idea where the gems are representing the fairies available for summoning. Depending on Carbuncle's current behavior, the following commands will become available.

When Carbuncle is on Sic:

Meteorite
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 180 to an enemy. Shares charges and recast with Healing Ruby II.
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Maximum Charges: 2


Holy Mist
Applies a debuff to the targeted enemy which lowers the damage of its next attack by 5%. Shares recast with Glittering Ruby.
Cooldown: 60 seconds

When Carbuncle is on Guard:

Healing Ruby II
Restores the HP of all allies in a 15y radius around Carbuncle. Shares charges and recast with Meteorite.
Cure Potency: 300
Cooldown: 30 seconds.
Maximum Charges: 2


Glittering Ruby
Applies regen in a 15y radius. Shares recast with Holy Mist
Cure Potency: 80
Duration: 21 seconds.
Cooldown: 60 seconds.

* There are no actions for Carbuncle in Passive mode.


Rouse
Gains a stack of Rouse Ready that can be used to empower the next Healing Ruby II or Meteorite.
Empowered Healing Ruby II: Restores the HP of an ally with a potency of 450
Empowered Meteorite: Deals unaspected damage of 300 on a target and deals 50% on enemies around it.
Cooldown: 1 second
Carbuncle Gauge Cost: 50

Fey Summoning (Fairies will not replace Carbuncle and will just appear for ability animation purpose and will leave the battlefield immediately)

Summon Eos
Calls upon Eos to cast Fey Illumination that will decrease the magic damage taken by all allies by 5% and increasing healing actions done by 10% in a designated area.
Duration: 20 seconds
Cooldown: 120 seconds


Summon Selene
Calls upon Selene that will give 3 stacks of Aetherflow to the SCH and increases the healing spells done by 20%. Does not stack with Fey Illumination.
Duration: 30 seconds
Cooldown: 180 seconds


Summon Seraph
Calls upon Seraph to cast Consolation on a designated area.
Cure Potency: 250
Shield Potency: 250
Cooldown: 45 seconds
Maximum Charges: 2


Notes:
- Physick is changed to be SCH spell only.
- Pet mobility will be increased to feel more responsive, preferably the same speed as mounts. Current pet mobility is slow and cannot keep up with the constant movement.
- Faerie Gauge replaced by Carbuncle Gauge
- does not gain gauge outside of battle
- Embrace is removed
- Whispering Dawn is removed
- Fey Union is removed
- Fey Blessing is removed
- Aetherpact is removed
- Angel's Whisper is removed
- Seraphic Veil is removed
- Seraphic Illumination is removed
- Energy Drain is removed,
- Dissipation is removed
- Casting Aetherflow with remaining stacks will refund MP at 200 MP per unused stack.
- removed abilities that gave Faerie gauge.
- most SCH abilities/spells are left untouched.

[mallleable]

Sometime down the line we need an edgy healer -- like the DRK or RPR of healers.

[ThorneDynasty]

I don't know if the game really needs any more super dark or edgy jobs between DRK and RPR overload honestly. For pretty much the rest of the roles BLM can also easily be a moody aesthetic and AST is already partially night-themed, which you can lean into if you want to glam it that way.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

B-b-but then we'll have to get the designer to make more edgy glams vs white tablecloths...

/s

[OliviaLugria]

I don't know if you can call astro edgy though... I could picture some sort of selfish "I heal you so I can use you" job. Sorta necromancer flavor. Or maybe the lore has them healing army troops that really shouldn't be fighting anymore. Exhausted with low morale and low supplies, they should really fall back, but the healer is committed to not let anyone die and not let anyone leave.

[mallleable]

Art of War should have a draw-in effect on enemies, and Gravity should either apply heavy or slow. SGE just need another cleaving damage spell.

[Supersnow845]

I don’t think other classes need to copy how WHM has an extra effect on holy, the classes just need to do something more than spam one button in AOE (same as single target)

Like WHM actually isn’t that bad on this front since assize and misery are both massive gains on AOE, it could just use maybe aero 3 and it would be fine, SCH could easily just work with miasma 2 and shadowflare, AST is honestly fine since it has star, lord, macro and cards it just needs a buff on gravity’s potency, SGE I honestly don’t know maybe a 1-2 and an ability to deflect kardia back into more damage

[Sebazy]

Slightly late but oh man ya the Fairy used to be able to be inflicted with Para for sure. Disease also used to be a genuine nuisance back when we had the cheap pet specific heal. Certain fights used to just chew the pets up before they started tacking on AoE resistance and eventually immunity.

[rawker]

Nah just get rid of Seraph. At the very least, when your pet comes back from Dissipation, i sometimes see it cast Embrace even before the animation finishes playing but with Seraph... oh boy.. you gotta watch the entirety of its animation while your tank is getting chewed by trash.

[Supersnow845]

It’s hilarious how much effort they put into trying to make a “powerful” and interesting summoning animation for seraph only to forget that unlike the DPS that can sit there and wait 10 second for the giant chicken nugget to cast his AOE healers kinda need their heals to be snappy and responsive