Thread: 7.0 Healer Wishlist

Originally Posted by Keichi

In addition is the mp after a res always low and recover only slowly.

High-quality Super-Ethers are a big help here. 1800 MP almost doubles the 2000 MP you start out with.

And if you regularly die again in the 4m30s (the potion's cooldown) after you've been raised, there's something else going wrong in the encounter that needs fixing.

Usually we dont rely on heals that cost mp as the bulk of the healing come from the CDs. If you run out of mp is very very likely that you use casted heals way more than you should, when you get used to those cds instead of casted heals you'll find how your mp economy is much better because you waste less (dps spells are much cheaper and the cooldowns are mp free) and you heal less because you use stronger heals.

About mp recovery:
Sch has Aetherflow
Whm has lillies to have 4 casts per minute at no mp + thin air to negate the mp cost of another cast + assize
Sge has mp recovery every time they use addersgall
Ast recover mp by drawing cards + Astrodyne

As an addition if you like Sch you should use fairy and aetherflow heals before you cast any GCD heal like adlo or succor

WHM running out of MP even in today's MP economy balance can only mean few things: that WHM sit on their lilies too often they're missing out the "free MP GCD", or uses too much basic GCD healings.

That being said, so here's the takeaway: today's healer MP economy management is almost nihil. All 3 healers but SCH can run with 0 piety and still be mana positive (Yes, even WHM) so long they keep Lucid Dreaming and other MP maintenance tools rolling properly. Even SCH needs a rather long continuous period of uptime before they eventually run out of MP and this is not incl the times they would use Recitation for Critlo which would also prolong this period.

Knowing that, how are we able to add "more option to recover MP fast" without making all healers forsake what little effort of MP economy management they have to exert even further?

I think there is something to be said that the strength of WHM’s mana economy is not immediately obvious because rather than have “recover mana” it cancels 5 cast’s worth of mana per minute instead

It’s a nice point of difference even if it functionally means nothing but yeah they are never going to design mana economies around chain rezzing because at that point you may as well just delete mana as a bar in 99% of other content, healers really don’t need more mana

Maybe a different way of saying "Healers don't need more mana" is to declare "This party has performed so badly that it is beyond the means of the healer to fix. Git gud, please and thank you."

Originally Posted by rawker

SCH: Can we also streamline giving pet orders via default keybinds, i.e. CTRL + Right Click will issue a move command, etc.

Out of curiosity, are you familiar with Chrono Trigger's Double Techs? I've always though there must be some way of translating that to SCH + Fairy, or SMN + Carbuncle, but I lack the creativity to say exactly how. It feels to me like a lost opportunity.

Originally Posted by Flay_wind

AST is getting a rework, but i do hope they lean into delayed healing more. I.e. Earthly Star, Horoscope, Exaltation and Macrocosomos.

You forgot Exaltation!

Delayed spell are definitely what I love about AST.

I wish we'd get an ogcd working like horoscope but affecting the next gcd cast.
Like, you cast it, you use your gcd but it doesn't heal. It's "stored" and will be triggered in up to 30s like horoscope.