The Healer Double Standard

[Semirhage]

With regards to "what are you complaining about, your rotation has always been boring!": Yes. It has. I have tolerated it being boring because I foolishly listened when I was told that the fun was "coming". That I'd get something good "eventually". I don't believe that anymore. I'm not switching mains because my job is changing for the worse, I'm switching because my patience has run out waiting for something good.

[MizArai]

With regards to "what are you complaining about, your rotation has always been boring!": Yes. It has. I have tolerated it being boring because I foolishly listened when I was told that the fun was "coming". That I'd get something good "eventually". I don't believe that anymore. I'm not switching mains because my job is changing for the worse, I'm switching because my patience has run out waiting for something good.

My BF keeps trying to convince me to keep playing WHM, so he'll have a healer while he's leveling up Gunbreaker. "You kept playing in Stormblood, even though you didn't like the changes then." Yeah, I did. I was stupid. Yeah, it will still be playable in Shadowbringers. Yeah, it's not getting everything stripped from it this time around. (How much more could they actually take??? They were so desperate they actually took Repose as a role action this time.) But by this point, I think the only way SE will get the clue about how we players feel is not only vocalizing on the forums, but also by showing with the numbers of people no longer playing healers. Hello Trust System. I'd like to sign up for an instant DPS queue.

[mishell_]

Thanks for writing this out and I agree as well. I don't understand why there is such a double-standard for healers in this game, almost to the point of outright hostility that healers want to do something other than heal. There are many people who don't play WHM, SCH, AST who maybe had one experience with a DPS-happy healer who probably didn't raise them after their fifth time dying to a telegraphed AoE and have this festering ire for DPSing healers since. But I'm mostly disappointed with Yoshi-P's statement that SCH has to be curbed because of unfair healing output/forcing an off/onhealer situation. There hasn't been an off-on healer dichotomy in any raid group for a very long time, and it seems even more concerning considering that SCH will usually be using their Aetherflow healing options first, other than AST's star.

I had some hope when I initially read the Mr. Happy interview with Yoshi-P where he admitted the shield/pure healer dichotomy wasn't working but now I feel like it's better to stick with the devil we know rather than the devil they're trying to sell to us now. Can we consider how ridiculous it is that SCH will be the only job in the game that can't use it's starting class's toolkit? One will be able to use Miasma as ACN but it will be made magically unavailable to SCH once they equip the job stone. That's just awful. There truly seems like there was no compassion, thought, or creativity put into the healer changes.