#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

This game actually needs way more accessibility options including taking the ones it already has and making them work across all platforms (as I understand it, the half baked colorblind filters do not exist on console?)

Accessibility doesn't have to make the game easier, reduce the skill floor, or raise the skill ceiling. But accessibility has been largely wrapped up inside ease of access and difficulty and now it's hard for people to tell them apart.

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Originally Posted by gllt

This game actually needs way more accessibility options including taking the ones it already has and making them work across all platforms (as I understand it, the half baked colorblind filters do not exist on console?)

Accessibility doesn't have to make the game easier, reduce the skill floor, or raise the skill ceiling. But accessibility has been largely wrapped up inside ease of access and difficulty and now it's hard for people to tell them apart.

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This, exactly.

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Originally Posted by Khutulun

Personally would go for giving Healers their own emergency buttons like tanks have, with varying levels of flavor. Let White Mage just rez themselves every once in a long while.

That said, the suggested duty action or LB style action for everyone may be easier to balance- content wise. You can have it enabled in lower end content where you don't want fights to be overly stressful for any one person and their individual skill level (or turnip level)... and then totally disable it for higher end content where it's the expectation that every party member will be fully capable of handling math problems while juggling assorted fruit and reciting Mark Antony's speech.

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I like when clerics have an Auto-REz skill they can use in an emergency. Rather than just get a free rez, they cast it on themselves if they are at risk of dying in the next X seconds. If they use it badly then it's wasted. But it can be a 180 second "oops" button that could prevent wipes but still have some level of skill to use.

Aion was my first mmo to heal in, and it spoiled me honestly, a lovely mix of dps and healing spells. They had a rebirth skill that was a self buff only that ressed them on death. But healers were more important to the party in that game in all forms of content so...I mean it would be helpful on raids during prog of course, but if everything is going right, its a waste. Often times if the whole party wipes and healer lb3s its a wipe regardless because we wont reach enrage, until of course we get enough gear that it becomes irrelevant and no one really dies anymore and blah blah blah round and round we go

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Originally Posted by Ketojan

Aion was my first mmo to heal in, and it spoiled me honestly, a lovely mix of dps and healing spells. They had a rebirth skill that was a self buff only that ressed them on death. But healers were more important to the party in that game in all forms of content so...I mean it would be helpful on raids during prog of course, but if everything is going right, its a waste. Often times if the whole party wipes and healer lb3s its a wipe regardless because we wont reach enrage, until of course we get enough gear that it becomes irrelevant and no one really dies anymore and blah blah blah round and round we go

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God, Aion was one of the best games for healers in my opinion. Cleric had a legitimate DPS build, a good hybrid build or straight up full support. Chanter was equally awesome. I even made a support bard later on.

The nostalgia is real.

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Originally Posted by aiqa

PLD didn't have a single ogcd/inherent heals for a decade. Look at it now.

Things can change.

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Its not really the same as adding a spell or two and outright changing the whole "philosophy" of the role. TL: D R the stikers requests goes beyond just adding 1 spell but gives an impression of turning healer roles into some dps with support abilities role.

So we weren't healers before ShB?

Just a basic observation. I actually got a competent and geared Tank yesterday in Expert Roulette, and rather than struggling to use every heal and then Cure2 spam to keep them up like I had to do the rest of the week - it was back to popping a regen and ignoring them.

Funny how a good tank makes my feelings about healing like night and day. Went from "Well, this content still seems like it needs a lot of healing" to zzzzzzzzzzzz. Happened faster than expected as we are still mostly at 700 gear.

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Originally Posted by Revash

Its not really the same as adding a spell or two and outright changing the whole "philosophy" of the role. TL: D R the stikers requests goes beyond just adding 1 spell but gives an impression of turning healer roles into some dps with support abilities role.

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It's a huge break in trend. So it shows breaking trend is not unprecendented. And most of the requests from healers don't require big changes to the game.
- Either rework existing damage buttons to be used more often, or add 1 or 2 new damage buttons that get used more often. Doesn't require huge changes.
- Give (in particular new) bosses a few more unavoidable AoE attacks. Doesn't require huge changes.
- Lower heals of mostly WAR (but also PLD) so it doens't rival (or eclipse in certain content) heals from healers. Doesn't require huge changes.

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Originally Posted by Revash

Its not really the same as adding a spell or two and outright changing the whole "philosophy" of the role. TL: D R the stikers requests goes beyond just adding 1 spell but gives an impression of turning healer roles into some dps with support abilities role.

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We are not asking for BLM/MNK complexity, no matter how many people who are 'against the strike' try to claim that's what we want. Those who are disillusioned with the state of healing, the portion of them that want 'more variety in what damage actions we press (note, this doesn't mean dealing more DPS, just HOW we deal the current amount of DPS) mostly are in agreement that Stormblood was a good 'middle-ground' between complexity and accessibility. So, going back to a damage:healing button count split more reminiscent of that time is what is asked for.

I'm one of the people who wants more damage actions added. I've written out entire design sheets on what I'd do to each healer (found here if anyone is interested). Take the WHM design I made as an example. I removed two buttons that are 'pointless' (Cure/Medica, by having them upgrade to their '2' version) and then added four buttons, of which, only one was a damage action. The other 3 buttons are a big AOE healing action, an ST Barrier Lily spell and an AOE Barrier Lily spell. I'm just as keen as anyone else to have the healers be 'healers' first and foremost, and I'll happily add actions that are healing related if I think the kit needs them

When I say 'I want more variety in the damage actions I use as WHM', I mean changes like:
- Dia reduced to 12s, potency changed to rebalance (I'd have it as 150+70 per tick)
- New button, Water (later upgrading to Banish) added, with a 15s CD and dealing 40p more than the currently learned level of Stone/Glare. Also, it's instant-cast

Yes, only two changes. And with just those two changes, it'd take our Glares per 2 minutes from 33, down to 19. That is over a 35% decrease in 'Glare casts per minute'. Also, because Banish would be instant cast in this design, it, plus the extra casts of Dia, Misery, the 3 Lilies per minute, and now Glare 4, all total up to result in a WHM that has over 50% of its damage actions be instant-casts for unparalleled movement, ironically turning what some claim is 'too much complexity for new players' into the ultimate safety net for those very new players.

Does what I just listed sound like BLM/MNK complexity? No, because it's not, the idea that we're after the complexity of some of the most technical DPS jobs in the game is nothing more than disinformation from Big Glare Inc. who want us to only press Glare. Don't worry, we'll still be Healers even if SE gave us a more-frequently-used DOT, or one or two extra damage actions per Healer