Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
Summary:
Yoshi-P "We listened to you guys complaining about not having enough to heal and boring DPS, so we made healing better!"
English Forum "nooo, we wanted more utility cause we have so much downtime"
Yoshi-P "We tied the lily system to Cure and Cure II, the core WHM mechanic"
English Forum "but we don't use those, we spam regen and medica II so we can DPS more"
Yoshi-P "So you can see we really listened to people who want to play WHM"
English Forum elitist raiders heads asplode.

I would not be surprised if this was exactly what the Japanese players were asking for, as their largest thread is the suggestion thread, where as our largest thread is the "tales from the duty finder (aka look how badly players play their roles)" And unlike other previous mechanic changes, there are people on the forum who want to play pure healer that these changes encourage, and there are people who only play WHM to be a third DPS/or get the faster queue that these changes improve nothing except for the change to cleric stance no longer being a pain in the butt.
Oh look, the 'English players are inferior' argument.

You're not looking hard enough. A two minute stroll through the JP Healer section already yielded this thread.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...3%83%89/page33

Translate the comment that has 11 upvotes, if you can.

Oh, and be aware it was already way past night time in Japan when the media embargo was lifted. Give it a couple more hours and the JP Healer forums will likely be up in flames too.