Cure Spell AdjustmentsFollow

My sch was doing around 975 non raptured cure IVs in Voidwatch with the bravers drink. Expect some 1.5ks under it. I also did rapture CIII for fun on lightsday and it was 900. This update is great.

That is really impressive. Well I'm certainly impressed. What with owning my own pocket Taru healer.

I can probably get away with swapping her cure III spam to a Cure II spam if those numbers are anything to go by..

All I see is Rdm's pulling hate with their cure IV's now. Unless they do something to adjust it's emnity generation it's gonna cause a lot of rdm's to get smacked.

*This was mainly observed in 6 rounds of Legion last night. So is more based on initial observations of a Rdm pulling Lofty Adamantoise, off a decently geared Pld ( O chain, mixed Olgier/Creed+2, - pdt magian sword) than reliable data

It's not about taking a hit, its about pulling the mob away from the DD and Tank. People hate balls to the walls RNG and BLM for that reason. They are going to hate Cure IV spamming RDM just as much.

This is why the enmity system is such crap. An excellent PLD with all the hate tools maxed still struggles to keep a mob positioned when a RNG does barrage -> WS or a BLM casts a tier V nuke or a RDM does two back to back Cure IV's.

I'm not sure about rdm, but my sch has -45 enm (50 if I drop some healing magic skill) to help with enmity generation. Rdm should be able to get relatively close to that.

There are also some items in both Voidwatch and Legion to help with enmity. There is a new atmacite in Voidwatch that is up to -30 enmity making it easy to cap. There is also Devotion with a mix of mnd and -enm. In legion there an earring that has enm -20 (in legion) making it easy to cap as well. And if for some reason you bring rdm / sch to abyssea there are atmas with -enm such as minikin.

Sch does have one thing over rdm though, tranquility. That ability added to -50 gear enm gives sch -75 enm (.5 * .5) on a 950+ cure. The only issue with this is you cannot use animus minuo (-10 enm) and tranquility. That is where these items come in for sch to allow them to reach -50 gear enm and use tranquility.

Since the enmity generated by Cure 1 through Cure 4 is directly proportional to the amount of HP cured, there shouldn't be. However, there is a difference between the enmity a RDM generates from curing a total of 2k HP through Cure 4s and the enmity a WHM generates from curing a total of 2k HP through Cure 5s.

It will be interesting to see if RDMs and SCHs find that they have to equip more -enmity gear than before since they can now generate hate more easily now. All the theorycrafting in the world on these boards won't really tell us whether RDMs and SCHs will have hate issues provided that they're not having to act as main healers. (Lets face it, SE does not want RDM or SCH to be main healers.)

God save us if it is.

Along the same lines, you get the same enmity if you heal 1000 HP with 2 Cures I-IV or just 1 Cure I-IV. 1000 HP of enmity is a 1000 HP of enmity, and (good) RDMs and SCHs should be able to gauge that. The biggest problem I've always seen was pacing, which the old Cure 4 just wasn't good at anymore.

But don't you see? RDM can tank again! All they have to do now is spam Cure IV to replace the old Sleep spell hate!