Just incredible. This is what you get when you listen to unaccomplished and inexperienced players vs those who actually have played the roles. This is balancing for the sake of appeasement rather than the actual health of the game, and this is something that is extremely bad for everyone involved.

Part of the reason a lot of people went as healers in FL (any number of the above responses should be evidence enough) was that playing a two-way role was quite fun and skilled players could really make their mark. Instead, healers get a huge ability stripped from them. With healers continually being marginalized because of the reckless wishes of a few players, it's pretty easy to see their why numbers dwindle in pvp. My suspicion is that healers will dry out fairly quickly, not only making FL almost impossible to do, but eventually something no one will do. Why wait in queue for an hour just to get into a match where nobody is going to heal?

Honestly, i am not surprised and i don't think anyone else should be. In this patch there was no fix to matchmaking or FL queues, we were just given changes that only further degrade ffxiv pvp.

Just want to put it out there for all the people who carelessly asked for nerfs to healers. Sometimes you get exactly what you ask for and it's changes and philosophies like these that will eventually make it so nobody gets to pvp.