#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ForsakenRoe]

The MP cost of Area-of-Effect healing actions blah blah

I'm so glad that Concitation/Accession are 100mp less, this will vastly help SCH's MP economy given that it only receives... 3850MP per minute from Lucid, 2000MP per minute from Aetherflow, and gets to cast one of those Concitations (or better yet, an Adlo) for free via Recitation, once per minute too. And that's ALL before considering the natural 200mp per tick you get, plus any bonus from Piety. MP was the least of SCH's worries, and 100mp off the cost of a spell we're aiming to minimize the use of, is going to affect the gameplay of very few players.

As for SGE, some of the same applies (3850 from Lucid, 2100 from spending 3 Addersgall per minute), but even more bizarre is that now the 2 GCDs that you spend on E-Prog (800) > Toxikon (0), versus those same 2 GCDs being spent on Dosis (400) > Dosis (400), are now the same total 800mp. That is, as long as you're not overcapping Adderstings, E-Prognosis is MP neutral to use now.

With how little we're using the MP bar now, healers being able to function perfectly fine at base levels of Piety, and now these changes on top to make it (playing at base Piety) even more smooth to execute, I have to wonder what they believe MP is meant to be, as a gameplay mechanic. Is it literally just a limiter on 'how often can I press Raise'? Is it just another part of the BLM Job Gauge? Given that we're aiming to use as few 'damage losing GCDs' as possible, who were these MP changes for, people spamming E-Prognosis (and also not spending Toxikons)?

[WaxSw]

I find both funny and sad that after all the complaints SE can only come with MP adjustments for the least used heals while buffing even further the self sustain of the tanks with the least self sustain.

It's like they are doubling down on the role being unnecessary and just a safety net.

[ForsakenRoe]

I find both funny and sad that after all the complaints SE can only come with MP adjustments for the least used heals while buffing even further the self sustain of the tanks with the least self sustain.

It's like they are doubling down on the role being unnecessary and just a safety net.

'The people who are complaining about WAR aren't the ones who are playing WAR, the people who do play WAR are not complaining'
'Meanwhile, everyone is complaining about DRK whether they play it or not'
'Clearly, there's something WAR has that DRK does not (selfhealing), so we should give it to DRK too, that should stop the complaining!' - SE, probably

[Gullis]

another nothing burger patch, color me suprised

[GartredZW]

another nothing burger patch, color me suprised

And the strike marches on. We'll check back in four months to see if anything changed.
or is it five months now? maybe it'll be six before long.
Ah, who am I kidding. they're not going to wildly change jobs right when a new raid tier releases.
Here's hoping for eight to ten months later we get something.

[Moqi]

They managed to make WHM even more boring, wow.

[Remember_The_Name]

Instant Esuna, eh? But it still consumes the GCD, so... why is this a change, again? Oh right, so that in upcoming ultimate when doing DDR healers can dispel stuff on the run. Screw the rest of the game and unique casting animation.

1.5 s Holy cast. Great, even less thinking! And hooray for another twitchy spellcasting animation, just like Glare!

Healers buffs range increasing... just make them room-wide like Temperance already, why even bother with those marginal changes? Just to have patch notes have something written in healer section?

How's that "game being too stress-free is bad for FFXIV" going, Yoshi-P?

[Wyti]

How nice of them to improve hit detection across the board, a shame they forgot about Benediction, fairy spells or Divine Benison shield, and maybe others.
But oh well you need to play a healer to notice that, clearly nobody did.

[AmiableApkallu]

Holy: Cast time has been reduced from 2.5 to 1.5 seconds.
Holy III: Cast time has been reduced from 2.5 to 1.5 seconds.

The cast time was fine. It added some real flavor to the spell. *sigh*

Esuna: Cast time has been made instant.

On the one hand: It is actually okay if a spell caster has to stand still to cast a spell.

On the other hand: I could be okay with a systematic approach to cast times where weaker spells, learned earlier in the leveling process eventually become something akin to cantrips from D&D (the last I played was 3.5e, so cut me some slack on the comparison), whereas more recent, presumably more powerful spells have longer cast times. Emphasis on systematic approach.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Glare III : Potency has been increased from 330 to 340.

Healers are so fucking back woo


But yea, the patch notes are instead of trying to bring Healers back, they're buffing Tanks to compensate for the lack of Healers.