So, what's your opinion on current healer jobs

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Originally Posted by Barraind

Sadly, this isnt a 14 problem, its a current era MMO problem.

I feel you on this one. Probably first time I felt I was getting too old for MMOs was when tanking the first dungeon in Wrath of the Lich King: I did as I had been doing for years, marking up targets for sheep, sap, kill first, kill... until someone stopped me and asked what I was doing. "Marking kill and cc order" I replied. "No no" it came back, "just charge in, gather all the mobs and we aoe them down." And at that moment tanking just didn't feel rewarding anymore. But there is a twist:

When WoW turned it's dungeons around in it's 3.0 and made them hallways you just pulled everything I also remember that even my Warrior Protection tank had turned from a slow-moving tortoise that couldn't solo for shit to an artillery on legs and just gathering mobs and blasting them down had a fun, Diablo-like, feel to it, albeit fleeting, as friends were leaving and the class itself no longer grabbed me. But thats the important thing: The class changed and so did the dungeons.

In FF 5.0 tanks enjoy, or apriciate, or mind, or suffer, take your pick, having less to think about as they press AoE#1, then AoE#2, and repeat. Even bosses themselves are kind enough to position themselves these days so we don't have to worry. Which is more a case of: Dungeons have stayed more or less the same, tanks are trying to be fitted for it. Healers is reverse in that regard.

As you say, when I started in ARR I was surprised to see FF hadnit ditched the holy trinity like GW2 tried. Yet even then it was a loose definition of it. If only and only for Scholar in ARR and it's bag of tricks. What started out as a job that was a perfect fit blasting down hallways of dudes to murder while also being responsible for healthbars just clicked for me. And this seemed in SE's eyes instead the wrong approach and thought what I needed was more healing and less agency.

I swear I've read it here before, several times, so it's good old rethreaded ground: SE wants to have it's holy trinity cake and eat it too, but are only willing to change it's jobs, not it's encounters. Take away the textures and I probably couldn't tell you Stone Vigil from Cosmos. All that new healing I've gained from 4.0? That could easily been taken care of by GCDs and making me sweat. Instead they muscled in all these fancy effects that must've cost a Wall Street broker's day pay to make and five minutes in the lunch break to come up with what it does. I'm being unreasonably cruel on that part for how nothing is fitted together. It all just seems muscled in to make way for five(six) new fancy spell effects so they can add that as a feature on the box(along with Blitzball). Fucking Broil III, Bio, Sacred Soil, Fey Blessing and Seraph are just existing spells they've touched up yet the squeeze everyone else of the couch with their corpulent excessive forms.

The small ray of hope that there was a time and place for all of this healing would've been in a third edition of Deep Dungeons, but as with the little ones, SE happily dashed that aswell.

Even Cleric Stance would liven things up now, I want it back not because of some difficulty threshold I enjoyed being on, it was something to keep me occupied, it was challenge on demand when I thought I could push myself. Had they replaced it with something as busy but probably less precarious to use, then all would be well. But they keep taking things away to please the Holy Trinity that barely exists anymore as they lose more and more verisimilitude. I'd just wish they make up their minds on this: Either fun diablo-style slaughter for everyone, not just tanks and dps, or make encounters each a seperate problem for healers and tanks to solve.