WHM/SCH's nuke being changed from 2.5s to 1.5s might be the one change I disliked the most since ShB. This single change did a lot of damage to healer job identity imo. All but WHM (barely) largely do their healing through oGCDs, while most GCDs are spent spamming the one nuke.
In ShB, WHM only had Dia and Lillies to create weave windows, while SCH had Bio and Ruin II. Afflatus Misery was also dps negative, so losing some personal dps due to casted heals, or using Ruin II, Lillies, or early refreshing dots to weave oGCDs and/or move was, at least in my experience, pretty normal.
Regardless, with how much running around the arena they've got us doing lately I think we need the mobility at the least. I just wish each job approached it in their own way instead of just copying AST's. WHM/SCH don't really need a weave window every GCD.
That said, what are yall's takes on it? I'm a little worried many folks wouldn't really want to let go of it now that it's been a thing for a full expac and seems to be staying for another.
My ideal would've been something like:
WHM - Have ways to stock up on instant cast resources not unlike BLM
AST - The 1.5s malefic as is.
SCH - Ruin II, maybe more aetherflow stacks if anything, for energy drain, which was meant to cover the damage lost from using it rather than the flat gain it usually is now. More dots would also help cover it too I believe? Having to balance dps/healing resources does sound right with the strategist job.
SGE - Very little cast times, play more like a physranged. Even without that, eukrasia also offers mobility without adding another weave window, so they really should expand on it more than they have.
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In ShB, WHM only had Dia and Lillies to create weave windows, while SCH had Bio and Ruin II. Afflatus Misery was also dps negative, so losing some personal dps due to casted heals, or using Ruin II, Lillies, or early refreshing dots to weave oGCDs and/or move was, at least in my experience, pretty normal.
Regardless, with how much running around the arena they've got us doing lately I think we need the mobility at the least. I just wish each job approached it in their own way instead of just copying AST's. WHM/SCH don't really need a weave window every GCD.
That said, what are yall's takes on it? I'm a little worried many folks wouldn't really want to let go of it now that it's been a thing for a full expac and seems to be staying for another.
My ideal would've been something like:
WHM - Have ways to stock up on instant cast resources not unlike BLM
AST - The 1.5s malefic as is.
SCH - Ruin II, maybe more aetherflow stacks if anything, for energy drain, which was meant to cover the damage lost from using it rather than the flat gain it usually is now. More dots would also help cover it too I believe? Having to balance dps/healing resources does sound right with the strategist job.
SGE - Very little cast times, play more like a physranged. Even without that, eukrasia also offers mobility without adding another weave window, so they really should expand on it more than they have.
Continue reading...