FFXIV Healer Strike and the 'How would you fix it?' line

[MetaBoi]

Terrific ideas, logged into the forums just to write a reply. I like that the optimizations are minor but something to work towards if you're stuck while progging or re-clearing. Not being able to play on hand somewhat makes it hard to imagine how it will flow so I will only focus on WHM and Aetherblight for now.
Aetherblight is a nice concept and would make a pure healing check possible without making Macrocosmos too strong. I don’t it should be a regular mechanic but throwing it to boss during any content would be cool.

I would be approaching as your ideas has made it into the game 1:1 and I’m asked “Would you change something? If so what?”

I like jobs/classes/characters/bosses etc that have multiple abilities that interact with the same system. (This is why I like EX4 so much) Ways to increase or decrease that, or different ways to use the same thing. I think vigilance idea can work but I think it would be better if it was also tied to the Lily gauge. (Again this is just a me thing) BOTE would be a Lily spell as well. The way I would have it is that ST lily spenders would generate petals and AoE lily spenders would generate Blood Lily, if you have Blood Lily AoE spenders would generate petals and vice versa. And I would make it so that using your damaging spells would make the lilies bloom faster.

In order to reduce the button bloat to maximum. I would keep Medica I but Afflatus Solace, Rupture, and BOTE would replace Cure II, Medica I, and Cure III respectively. You would be forced to spend your lilies first if you want immediate heal and you will probably overcap if you’re using them too much.

For levelling I think introducing Holy/Gravity/AoW/Dyskresia earlier would be better. Having it in the first dungeon would be ideal but I would be fine as long as it isn’t as late as it is now. I think it is important to show “You should AoE in a dungeon” by giving the AoE abilities earlier.

Again, terrific ideas. It might be also nice to write the lvl 100 kit without any previous versions so that people can see the lvl100 kit easier.