Survey: Community Opinions Regarding Parsing/Parsers in Final Fantasy XIV

[Istaru]

To be fair, you DID say "If you fail at enrage" so that typically implies there's not enough damage going out, which falls upon the DPS not playing well enough.

I agree that a failure at enrage is ultimately due to lack of damage going out. But does it necessarily mean it’s the fault of the DPS? If the healers aren’t handling the raidwide damage properly, using shields and etc and the DPS die, is it still their fault? Or if the tanks mess up the tankswaps or don’t use CDs? However, there are times that your statement about poor DPS play is true. I have no ability to quantify that however.

I don't mean to sound antagonistic, but I sometimes feel like I'm the only one who looks at what tanks and healers have to deal with, with the pressure of their roles, and then the relatively lax nature of what playing a DPS is like, and see how grossly unfair it is.

I get the outrage and I’m glad this post was not as hostile, thank you. I have been a healer and support main going back to FFXI and 2003. In XIV, I have been a healer or tank main forever. I get the challenge, I like it. I wouldn’t play those roles if I didn’t.

It's bad enough that most players find tanking and healing less enjoyable than DPS, but on TOP of that, you'll be scrutinized for your performance by players who are far more difficult to scrutinize back, playing classes that most agree are more enjoyable to play.

I’m the opposite, I like healing and tanking more than DPSing at endgame, by like a lot. When I do EX primals with friends, I want to heal or tank. I don’t want to DPS. Most people who tank or heal actually wanted to play those roles. For me, PLD, AST and WHM are my main three (3) jobs. I only get on BRD or RDM when I let someone else have a turn healing or tanking.

Is it any wonder queue times are as generally long as they are?

I think the lack of players wanting to be tanks or healers is from a lack of being looked at as being powerful. That they aren’t the killers of the monsters and evil things, the DPS do that. The DPS even get the LB as their personal toy.

Think of a champion in most fantasy games. Think of all the main characters in Final Fantasy games, I’m going to guess that the healer tending the wounds of the sick is not that image. But that is what people see healers as to a point.

Simply put, tanks and healers just aren’t seen as “sexy”. No, the added visibility doesn’t help their cause, but it has a lot of company.