Make Deployment Tactics DPS Neutral

[rawker]

I think Aravell wants a trade: deal extra DPS or Heal... much like how PLD is with Clemency. The current situation with the rest of the healer is like how WAR is at the moment, dealing damage and at the same time, healing themselves in the process.

The problem with the latter is that you are not penalized or there is no thinking required. You will not lose out your precious contribution to overall raid dps when your healing is DPS neutral while in SCH's case, you have to choose whether or not to lose out on dps in favor of healing.

I am totally fine with this trade. Look at it this way.. Assize. It is damage and healing in a single button. When was the last time you asked yourself, "I need to hold on the use of this ability to top up my party?" Close to never right? It's because of the damage component of the ability. The healing aspect was considered as a bonus when the intent was it is healing first, the damage as a bonus.

Since the boss mechanics in 14 is scripted, you should know when or when not to sacrifice an oGCD for healing than doing damage with ED. And for that, we have Recitation to take care of the emergency Excogitation/Indomitability usage. But if you badly want your DPS neutral change, then lowering Recitation cooldown to 30 secs and a trait to make it hold up to 2 charges, might be what you want, so you can use your Aetherflow stacks exclusively on Energy Drain, only.