Content creator irresponsibility in covering #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

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Originally Posted by HighlanderClone

What this strike has shown is that "a very high player skill level" is complete nonsense.

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And the "sense of exhilaration from doing really good heal work" when there's nothing to heal to feel good about.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

So I totally understand that those healers that have a very high player skill level and they’ve really mastered their jobs go into these different raids or battles and when they do have some downtime between their heals they do cast more offensive spells.

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If it actually took a high skill level I might accept that, it doesn't, it's about as tone-deaf as the BLM in armor thing.

They need to decide if healers are supposed to have downtime or not, content design says "yes" but healer design says "no."

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

Not all has been ignored.
In an interview before EW release Yoshi did respond a little bit about it.
Not all of them, but I've seen people talk about these in here.


"Yoshida: So I totally understand that those healers that have a very high player skill level and they’ve really mastered their jobs go into these different raids or battles and when they do have some downtime between their heals they do cast more offensive spells. Some of them desire to have more technical aspects of it so they are more active and I totally understand that sentiment. But of course the basis of a healer is to heal so I think the development team and I have this thinking of getting that sense of exhilaration from doing really good heal work.

That being said I don’t think we would do any sort of dramatic addition of offensive skills moving forward. By having these offensive abilities some players, like new healers, might feel pressured like “oh do I have to have good DPS while I’m healing?” or some players might be aggressive like “oh hey you have an offensive skill in your kit, why don’t you use it?” and I don’t think that’s optimal either."


If the strike will change their minds on this or not we just have to wait and see.

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I know it's not you saying it, but damn is that Yoshida quote tone-deaf. There's photos floating around here of even the bottom 10% of the playerbase's logs and how many times they cast DPS during a fight. This is COMMON. It is an everyday, casual level of play expectation of being a healer, to just sit there and hit Glare or its SGE/AST/SCH equivalents non-stop, and for the majority, people of all skill levels do so. It's not a fun or engaging thing TO do, but we do it.

When a literal 10 percentile parse is still 60% casts of broil that is a problem

Healer parses aren’t even based on distribution of broil vs succor it’s purely ABC. No matter how well or how badly you parse on a healer 11111111111 is the only thing you can do, you’ll just be split based on how many casts you dropped

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Originally Posted by Ellona_Andrivari

How dare this guy... *squints*

compile freely available information to confirm that the loudest voices can't, won't or don't do content. The ~audacity~.

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There is 0 way without 3rd party tools to know someone you never interacted with if they have cleared the 1st/2nd or 3rd fight of a tier, there are no achievements for these floors only gear, if you never wear the pieces at the time they view your character, they cannot know you have done the content.

So yes the person absolutely used illegal 3rd party tools to try and harass and name/shame people they disagree with something that is ban worthy.

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Originally Posted by Ellona_Andrivari

How dare this guy... *squints*

compile freely available information to confirm that the loudest voices can't, won't or don't do content. The ~audacity~.

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Girl...peace and love but seek help if you think this behavior is normal.

Not many sane people would take hours of their time to individually catalogue 600+ people, dig through logs and create a spreadsheet just for being part of a criticism based thread on healing. Some people on there aren't even healers and are getting thrown in as collateral damage. Not to mention that a good chunk of that list is filled with alts (since a lot are intelligent enough on here to hide their identity) so the list doesn't even represent the truth.


I assume you're on board with it because you main WAR (unless this is an alt as well, I don't care enough to fact check you) and don't want your class to be affected by this but seriously....are we really defending stalkerish behavior that could open the door to people being actually harassed by others via this list?

I a proud of being a "casual" and I am also proud of being able to use this platform and others to articulate the issues I and others have experienced whilst playing the healer role. To limit "qualified" feedback and input to just the 10% of the player base is erroneous and excludes a large portion of the community. Furthermore I am flattered that someone decided to put my name on that spreadsheet. The fact that my posts here caused you enough heartburn to create that list means my job here is done.

Have a lovely day.

Not going to lie, hate that I am not included in the list.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...431&height=645

If anything this very flawed "statistic" shows the casual the game "is catering to" aren't happy with the content either. Almost every single thread in this forum or on reddit or streamers debating balancing ends with "The game is catered to casuals". Now the filthy casuals say "Well, actually..." and we are still beeing made fun of and our feedback is being dismissed because "we don't know the content that truly matters and don't know what we're talking about". This could be a moment where very different groups of the playerbase would team up and give the devs the feedback this is not fun for casuals nor for hardcore players. Instead people are just shitting on casuals... again. Just look at the tags this thread got.

This also ignores how dungeons are an entirely different experience than savage and ultimates and some people are simply not interested in this kind of gameplay. Would I be able to survive in these duties? No clue. Am I eager to give it a try? Nope, because running into a brick wall for weeks with stressed out people to strategies someone else made up and everyone demands you stick to... this is not fun for me. Walking through an interesting environment with environmental storytelling, a variety of bosses in smaller doses and improving myself within this range without having to proc for it for weeks, this is fun for me, but nothing I get in a savage raid. I was very much looking forward to Variant/Criterion dungeons because it seemed to be a dungeon-ish experience with a bit more of a challenge to it. This would be right up my alley. Imagine my disappointment when I noticed two of three ways to play it are yet again for hardcore players only. And in the end this group of players barely played it or did it once and then moved on. I still enjoy the first mode, but if this game is "catering to casuals" when a ton of Endwalker patch content was made for the small percentage of hardcore raiders and the rest was and is being told to "stop whining and play your braindead content or run against brick walls like we do"... I don't know, the more this discussion about healing and dungeon difficulty goes on, the less I am able to see how anything about this can be true. Aside from "we need a scapegot to blame for everything we think is going wrong and the casuals rarely speak up online, so they are an easy target."