#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Azurarok]

I'd chalk that one up to pure ignorance.

I'm sure a modder would know better but I believe the game has casting animations and executing animations as separate things, and just blends the animations when the cast finishes and the spell goes off. So it uses the same cast animation as Holy and Glare and switches to the execution animation used for Regen and such. They must've never bothered to make an actual animation for it and just went with the usual healing spell one. They probably should've just gone with HolyIII's.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I'd chalk that one up to pure ignorance.

I'm sure a modder would know better but I believe the game has casting animations and executing animations as separate things, and just blends the animations when the cast finishes and the spell goes off. So it uses the same cast animation as Holy and Glare and switches to the execution animation used for Regen and such. They must've never bothered to make an actual animation for it and just went with the usual healing spell one. They probably should've just gone with HolyIII's.

You are correct. The game does have separate casting & release animation.

I’d concur it’s a good excuse to reintroduce Aero III’s release animation considering how they both has the same floating casting animation. All that’s left is to replace the Cure/Regen release animation into the good ol’ cane twirling animation.

But I’m sure somewhere within SE are screaming “Aero III is just a fever dream. It’s not real. Forget about it pls.”

[Supersnow845]

It’s amazing that even though aero 3 they refuse to admit exists they still won’t use its twirling cane animation for literally any other skill

[ForsakenRoe]

It’s amazing that even though aero 3 they refuse to admit exists they still won’t use its twirling cane animation for literally any other skill

(It's Krile at the start of Tower of Zot, an Endwalker dungeon)

[Azurarok]

Not to mention Y'shtola uses it when healing 6.x dungeons, including cane twirl and all

[Maltothoris]

Well a little Q&A happened http://blog.livedoor.jp/umadori0726/.../62052668.html

Here was this little tidbit right here

Q8: Will we have rework on WHM?
Answer: On your question on WHM rework, it's hard to define what exactly rework is. While there will be adjustments, if you're asking about what will be changed, then we are considering a lot of changes including other jobs as well. While this will take a while, we plan to make it a reality one day

Make of it what you will.

[Alice_Rivers]

Isn't this the same dev team that has "reworked" several jobs by now? And they can't define "rework"?

[ForsakenRoe]

Isn't this the same dev team that has "reworked" several jobs by now? And they can't define "rework"?

Alternatively, we could think about it in reverse: IIRC they referred to the NIN change of 5.1 (making Ninjutsus GCDs to avoid the clipping issues the job had to battle) as a rework, and all in all that was quite small a change (in the scope of the entire job kit). If that counts, but they aren't sure that the term 'rework' applies to their plans for WHM, it could be that their planned changes for WHM are so few/so small, they don't rise to the level of 'rework' (specifically, SE's definition of the word), and instead fall under 'standard patch changes/numerical balancing changes'.

In which case, the response is PR speak for 'well, no, we will buff WHM a bit, but we won't be deviating from the design we've given it', so we can look forward to another few years of WHM being inflexible, one-track-focused on HPS and little else, lacking mitigation options, and generally being outshone by AST on pretty much every measurable performance metric.

But, since their idea for the AST rework was to effectively 'make it not-AST' to an extent (by removing the inherent randomness of drawing cards from a deck), I dunno what they'd even do to WHM with a DT-AST amount of reworking. Maybe it'd end up with single target buffs called Bravery and Faith that you alternate between each minute, that buff the damage of a Melee and a Ranged by 6% for 15s

[george357]

1016 padges and nothing more then a dead horse being necrobumped again and again by trolls who are borded out of their minds

[Calysto]

1016 padges and nothing more then a dead horse being necrobumped again and again by trolls who are borded out of their minds

Can't really call that necro, the thread barely touched 2nd page.

Anyway, congratulations on 1K+ ; let's hope there'll be no need to reach 2K ^^