Healer Roulette Bonus

[Urtear]

Needs to be more. Before Exodus crashed, throughout all the roulettes I've queued for, bonus was for tanks, tanks, tanks. Rarely see Healer bonus, and even fewer DPS ones. Yes, we need tanks in dungeons, but someone has to keep them and the DPS alive. Constant Tank bonuses has led from what I've seen, an increase in tanks played by players who have no business being tanks. They want that bonus is all. WE have to suffer their incompetence and try to heal past it. My poor Eos has taken far too many beatings today, yet she kept hate better than the assigned tank. You'd think she'd get a bonus for that.

Overall, I'm suggesting spreading the wealth. Healers and DPS enjoy bonuses too. It's not all about the tank.

[LalaRu]

I ran a tank to 50 with that purpose only. It does roulettes and nothing else!
The only side-effect is that now I'm asked in FC more for my tanking than healing. The healer in me suffers

[Eraqus]

I agree with the topic.

[Yumi_umi]

My poor Eos has taken far too many beatings.

Yeah you don't need that bonus cuz all u schs do is technically stay in cs mode and dps cuz u can just let ur fairies heal the party.
So kinda yea.
But if u were actually self tanking the mobs urself then that calls for the
" tank bonus " yea?

[Sebazy]

It'll be healer bonus ahoy once the expansion hits, patience my pretties!

[Kuwaitum]

I play White Mage before the roulette system was introduced to the game. At that time the 'bonus' for Adventurer in Need was most of the time Tank/Healer, and I always waited the bonus to change to Healer so I can engage into battle.

DPS luck with bonus was mostly in 8-Players duties, and very rare on the light party runs. When Patch 2.2 was released with the new 'Hard Mode' dungeons, something fishy happened, MOST tanks (WAR & PLD), were leveling up CNJ/WHM and actually prefer to run as White Mage. Then the 'Bonus' started to be in favour of the least on the run (ie Tanks), and its up 'till today. It has been months since I saw High Level or Expert Level with a Bonus for Healers.

Hopefully, when 3.0 FFXIV:Heavensward will be released; Healers will be back in-need with all DarkKnight frenzy all about. That is, if there won't be a spree on any new healing class/job.

[Rev1170]

Yeah you don't need that bonus cuz all u schs do is technically stay in cs mode and dps cuz u can just let ur fairies heal the party.
So kinda yea.
But if u were actually self tanking the mobs urself then that calls for the
" tank bonus " yea?

Its true I spend 95% of my time in CS the other 5% is when the scrub selene cant carry the heals.

[EmeraldAres]

While I don't think it's wrong that tanks get bonuses the most often (since the role is in the highest demand), I do think there is a different problem with role bonuses. There will often be cases where I can get an instant queue for a roulette as a healer (generally low level or guildhest, but sometimes others), but the bonus is set for tanks. The problem is that the bonus doesn't update often enough to account for the real demand, so my entry time is often faster when it is not a healer bonus than when it is.

Either the rate of demand needs to refresh more quickly, or there needs to be a way for both tanks and healers to benefit from the bonus when both roles are needed. I'm sure it would help the rogues/ninjas and other dps with long queue times in lower level dungeons as well, so such a change would be mutually beneficial to everyone.

[Jim_Berry]

On Malboro, I see tank all the time. However, sometimes only Trials asks for healer.

[Jim_Berry]

But you know, I sometimes still get the bonus if I'm on a different role than requested, so long as I don't use "join in progress".