Live Letter Response to Current Healer Accuracy Issues

[KeairaR]

Thanks for posting this , now I can have little peace of mind that they will do something for the casual dungeon accuracy caps. I think if they just lower the cap in that content would fix it all and lower acc caps in such as places don't hurt anyone.

[vedanforlife]

The most reasonable fix in my opinion would be:

Lower the acc cap in expert dungeons.
Change Aero/Aero2/Aero3 to have 100% hit rate.

Astro and Scholar already have "free" damage on their DoTs. I can see them not wanting to "force" healers to DPS if they don't want to, but there is almost always enough downtime to throw out a couple of DoTs. I could also see them adding a free 5% hit rate on Cleric Stance.

[Chiramu]

I personally hate seeing "Miss" on my Stone 3, Assize or Aero 3 casts. I dislike how SE is letting healers be lazy when it comes to content... No DPS or tank is allowed to be as lazy, so why are healers allowed to be lazy just cause of this accuracy nonsense?
Seeing a healer stand there holding their staff/starglobe/book is a big piss off for someone who mains heals...

[technole]

Once again, the only reason AST and SCH Bio DoTs always hit is because they are un-aspected DoTs that do not do initial damage. Their ticks do damage. All Aero skills are aspected, have initial damage, and therefore are subject to accuarcy.

[Supersun]

I suspect they will just lower the accuracy required to hit mobs in Expert Dungeons. I highly doubt that they intend anyone to ever miss in an Ex Dungeon.

[AeraLure]

Well it is an Expert dungeon. Honestly, I was excited as a healer and a bored gamer to have a bit of variety in the healing job role as required by the ACC situation and being able to meld gear. Some actual thought was needed on building set(s), but now it would seem they backtracked so as to make melding only needed for Savage. I honestly don't understand the problem and I am an offensive-minded healer. I melded some ACC to right side pieces and never missed in EX since. Wasn't terribly expensive and I'm not pentamelded. I was going to get a crafter right side for accurate speed runs and another right side for heal-specific runs. Thought that was pretty neat as a goal, myself. That all seems kind of worthless now and it's back to simple mode. *shrugs* I don't really care, but they could honestly make some effort to make stats and builds somewhat less simple-minded.

[Kerrigen]

Well it is an Expert dungeon.

What does that even mean, lol. I don't think we've ever got a set of Expert dungeons that was as light on healing as this one, and it's not like the bar was set high to begin with.

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Semi-related complaint (not really a complaint, but still): I forgot that Materias are disabled in ilv-synced content so I had a bad surprise when I found myself missing again in Fractal Continuum today, after 5 weeks of 100% accuracy bliss. Missing feels terrible when you can't do anything about it.

Completely related complaint: the i230 anima Weapons have no materia slots (I'm aware they have higher stat caps than regular gear but who thought that was a good idea after releasing 3 sets of slotted weapons with 3.2?) so RIP my accuracy build, back to trying to pentameld my rings while waiting for 3.3.

[Pharazon]

I think the problem SE is having with this issue isn't how to solve it, but rather what they want the healer role to be. On one hand you have the more casual/purist crowd who want to play a healer and just heal people. These people love cleric stance because its a clever way to solve the questing/grinding aspect of the role but that's really only for soloing. Then you have the more advanced players who like having the variety of options, and the ability to still have something to do when running dungeons with overgeared people.

SE have already stated that raids do not factor in healer dps, and make healers subject to accuracy like regular dps so its difficult for them to contribute without huge effort on their part. So I don't think they want healers to dps but don't know how to take that aspect away without leaving a void.

Personally I think this is more a problem with secondary stats being so useless and healers not having enough utility options for helping the party.

[Ghishlain]

I think the problem SE is having with this issue isn't how to solve it, but rather what they want the healer role to be. On one hand you have the more casual/purist crowd who want to play a healer and just heal people. These people love cleric stance because its a clever way to solve the questing/grinding aspect of the role but that's really only for soloing. Then you have the more advanced players who like having the variety of options, and the ability to still have something to do when running dungeons with overgeared people.

SE have already stated that raids do not factor in healer dps, and make healers subject to accuracy like regular dps so its difficult for them to contribute without huge effort on their part. So I don't think they want healers to dps but don't know how to take that aspect away without leaving a void.

Personally I think this is more a problem with secondary stats being so useless and healers not having enough utility options for helping the party.

I do agree with this assessment and made similar comments about this in the past. S-E has designed themselves into an interesting conundrum with this. I wouldn't say it's a bad thing per say as there are worst things that S-E has done in the past in terms of balance and what not.

I do find this discussion about Healer accuracy has interesting parallels to the healer party bonus debate. Accuracy is a function of caster DPS that healer's should have no bearing on yet here we are discussing healer accuracy. On the other side, PIE vs MND party bonus is a function of the healer's kit and performance and what BLMs want should have no bearing yet there is a lot of input from BLM players in those threads.

[AeraLure]

What does that even mean, lol.

What do you mean what does that mean? It's supposed to be an Expert dungeon. It would be nice if it posed something of even a remote challenge. The way ACC is there is completely fine. Actually makes an offensive-minded healer have to consider melding in that direction to do that more efficiently, whereas healers that wish to play another way could meld differently - or - not at all. To reduce the ACC requirements there means the only relevancy melding has is for Savage, since everywhere else it's not even needed. Makes a difference? Sure, but as you said, you can go in blind and reflex heal with minimally required gear and come out just fine. Disappointed SE is backpedaling.