The Ever Growing Elephant: Summoner's Physick

[EdenElsewhere]

I would like to state first off: I do have ideas of what I want in the future for summoners. However that is not a problem in current content.

Having started Occult Crescent, we all have noticed some issues. Like healers being unable to heal after raising someone or kind of forgetting to heal someone after raising someone. I've seen this happen, within parties, but player healer skill is something that I don't really need to address here.

What I want to address is that physick is absolutely laughable.

Why does is still scale off of MIND?

Now this all can be fixed by playing as a chemist, and I can just throw a potion on the people I resurrect. Or throw a potion on myself after I am rezzed. But, personally, I think I shouldn't have to be relying on my phantom job to be doing something that I already have a skill for.

There is no reason for Physick to have gone into Dawntrail still scaling off of mind. There wasn't even an excuse for it too scale off of mind in Endwalker, when it was remade!

I just think that, it would make a lot of players feel incredibly better about being able to play the class and not have to worry about anything, especially in Occult Crescent where I can be zooming along and find a dead body, or I need to rez people in a fate, and I can heal them semi-efficiently. Or if I need to heal myself.

I am sorry but the one every two minutes heal from Solar Bahamut is not enough, and I have been dying too much to even reach Phoenix on something resembling a sane timetable.

Either fix physick or remove it CBU3. Preferably in a minor patch. I don't see the point of waiting until 8.0. This is a problem that can be fixed now unless Physick scaling off of mind is like the coconut jpg of ff14.

[Asari5]

they should just remove it. otherwise people gonna think they have to heal as summoner.... too many people like that in this game. even now i see high lvl summoner here and there using that skill

[Supersnow845]

they should just remove it. otherwise people gonna think they have to heal as summoner.... too many people like that in this game. even now i see high lvl summoner here and there using that skill

Exactly, RDM already spends too much time thinking they are an “off healer” and vercure actually has useful niches in downtime

Physick is just outright a trap if it was allowed to scale off intelligence, it should just be deleted

[Carighan]

Even better would be making it actually useful, but yeah. >.> Can't see that happen, they even made sure we get Phoenix less often, because now we got that blasted Temu Bahamut.

[CalvinDescoles]

Or you can just don't think about it and forget that it even exist and the world would not even notice it.

[Carighan]

Or you can just don't think about it and forget that it even exist and the world would not even notice it.

Sure, it's really not an important problem by any means. I personally dislike "dead stuff" on principle, and I don't just mean things such as Physick but also effectively-dead stuff like skills always only pressed in one way hence providing 0 use or depth to combat and being no better than an autoattack, that kind of stuff. Hence it'd be nice if they at least remove Physick, but even better, make it interesting. For example it'd be cool if soon after becoming a Summoner, we get a trait that replaces Physick with "designate Physick target" and our carbuncle has an autoattack that heals that target whenever it's not busy with something else (which admittedly is not that often), and with normal pet scaling. It'd be minor healing even comparing Fairy Embrace, but it'd at least be something, and it'd be fitting we no longer do it ourselves.

[Stasya]

Or you can just don't think about it and forget that it even exist and the world would not even notice it.

That's what they did with many classes in this game. Just look at awful recent patch notes.

[Rithy255]

I disagree with removing physick like people said a lot here, yeah bad summoners will spam healing but because someone uses a ability incorrectly isn't actually a valid excuse for removing something.

Where a ability like summoner's physick can unironically shine is field content, fates, deep dungeons ect.

[CalvinDescoles]

That's what they did with many classes in this game. Just look at awful recent patch notes.

ikr, but calling this a elephant when the game is just a zoo full of elephant.

[Reginald_Cain]

The only way I'd want them to buff it is to give it both int scaling and a mechanic like lillies and afflatus misery that makes healing dps neutral.