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Guests that Heal should not receive CHA's Style Bonus. Guests already have 30:45 of Cost to Output at base, allowing a Guest to Heal at 30:60 efficiency is absolutely ridiculous. A Healing Spell or Healing Skill will never ever be able to keep up.

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The purported addition of workload to resolve an issue such as this (and it very much is an issue or it would not have garnered official staff attention in this manner) does not matter as much as resolving it does, attempting to use such an argument as to why this shouldn't be resolved in the ways proposed so far shows really only a narrowed interest in the short term gains rather than the long term ones with a veneer of concern over the length of time that it would take to reach said long term benefits and potentially delaying others, especially as no actually viable alternative solutions have been presented as of yet.

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There's this idea that I find an outright falsety, and very hyperbolic in nature. Tying sp healing to any stat will somehow break the game. There's no actual proof of that, and I find people who seem to comment that it would be problematic to just say that for the sake of it since that was the intent in the beginning. I am even more less inclined to give the idea any semblance of credibility when it comes to maneuvering it to be affected by a secondary stat.

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Make it make sense.

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100% Melee [Player Damage] + 20% Melee [SP] + 20% Melee [Pet] = 140% Melee

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@Sapphire: I already addressed this argument in a prior post, but to reiterate the key points:

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I'd like to throw in a couple of other things into the mix too. First, you previously argued that workload is an important factor to consider when making a decision. You're currently arguing for the staff to buff all disadvantaged builds by adding new healing items to close the gap. My proposal certainly requires an investment of labor, but I struggle to see how yours is any different in that regard. Closing the gap by adding new items represents a large and extended project no matter the approach. At least with my proposal, you deal with multiple issues at the same time.

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Secondly, we've been ignoring a really simple concept throughout this discussion: Resources are meant to be restricted. The reason to have a HP, MP, and SP bar is because those resources are meant to be finite. Sure, they can be regenerated, but they exist because it's intended for players to have to make choices around how those points are spent. You're not meant to be able to run your SP-costing effects indefinitely, otherwise why bother having an SP bar at all. In AQ's current state, healing items are incredibly powerful. Essence of Carnage and Siphon can heal incredible amounts of MP. Cometoid Jelly and Plushie Mort can exceed SP heals of 1000 with the right setup. The Wishweaver armour has an SP heal cap of 784 at level 150. That's half a bar in one attack, and I haven't even yet mentioned Essence Orb and its associated problems! We're undermining the fundamental point of having resource bars in the first place. I'm not remotely suggesting that my proposal is going to solve that problem, but I do know it's considerably better than contributing to it by accelerating the number of powerful healing items we create. This is also a great segue into the conversation started by @Dardiel earlier in the thread - are healing items too powerful in general?

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I have maintained that the reason CHA builds currently have an advantage in terms of healing is due to item support. While on one hand you seem to disagree and claim it's bigger than that, you then provide examples of item support in the paragraph quoted above. Look, there are some pets and guests with some designs that maybe in hindsight staff shouldn't have done. I'm honestly on the fence with that take, though. Every example you gave except maybe EoC are not problematic on paper. EoC when CHA is trained is bonkers for MP heal, admittedly. But Wishweaver's SP heal skill costs HP's and is therefore not some type of infinite risk. But that risk can be mitigated when used with other items. Jelly/mosquito on paper isn't all that strong, but when used with a certain set of items it becomes very, very strong. So are we going to start attempting to police every stack and strong synergy with pets and guests , or will we not also turn a blind eye to the hundreds of strong stacks and synergies with many non-CHA-related items? Where do we draw the line? Why item A but not item B? Why stack A but not stack B? Why Synergy A but not synergy B?
Are we to be consistent and tackle it all, regardless of CHA's affiliation or not, or do we just make sure the item on paper is fine and if players have fun finding the stack/synergy/buff interaction just let them have fun? See, untenable position.

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I'll end with this, and it's something I said in another post: I propose a 1-2 month long test---> Reduce top end HP's at 250 END by an amount mathematically deemed sufficient, and insert non-style bonus base behavior heal boost attachment to END. If END had something like +25% base heal boost, with the +12.5% style bonus, you'd have +37.5% bonus at 250 END. Make this only work for player-derived heals, where pet and guest heals cannot have access to END's bonuses. And let's see how that one change can effect existing item support. I propose for it to work on all resource bars, but if that fallacy of SP agnosticism from 2014 or earlier still has to be Dogmatized, then make it HP only. Regardless, non-CHA builds will need more access to gear with SP heals, which will lighten the shock of whatever EO becomes. I have a hunch in practice, once players test it with existing items, they're actually going to like that change.

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SP AND MP heals in my opinion are a different breed entirely. One is a build specific while the other is a build-agonostic resource, and I could see logical reasons to make END at least affect MP healing, but NOT SP at all. If anything, SP healing being scalable with anything makes less sense.

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Of course, you may still disagree with me. Perhaps the above isn't convincing for you. That's a fair conclusion to reach as well. In which case, I have a second solution which both achieves my goal and avoiding this sore point entirely too. In all honesty, I hadn't originally intended to raise my nuclear option, but I feel this question warrants the idea being tabled:
You could solve the problem by shifting SP from being build agnostic to build independent
What I mean by that is SP gets no bonuses from stats at all. SP healing pets get cut to 20% Melee. Ferocious strikes and Lucky Strikes would be entirely disabled. SP regenerating Spells can no longer exist. All SP healing weapons normalise relative to Melee attacks. The full works. By cutting all ties to stats, no one build has any ability to capitalise on SP healing above another. It's not really the way I want to go, but I can get behind it if this is preferable. We would still need to expand the range of SP healing item types though, just to eradicate any remaining unfairness.

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Regarding "the optics look as though [Chaotic has an ulterior motive]" - I'm not sure how notable it is if the connection between the GBIs is so thin that they don't even look like an ulterior motive, but they look like they look like an ulterior motive. I'm also unsure whether ulterior motives really matter in the discussion about proposed changes, since a bad idea would get rejected regardless of motive and a good idea probably shouldn't get rejected just because the person proposing it might want other things to also happen (which would require additional suggestions to be individually considered and approved). If a suggestion is bad it should be rejected for being bad, it shouldn't be rejected because Chaotic was wiggling his fingers in a dastardly way when he typed it up.