The Healer Double Standard

[LadyKairi]

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How in the Twelve do you need to save EVERYTHING to keep people alive? There’s no surprise trash mobs, no surprise boss attacks. Literally everything is scripted. Raids, dungeons, everything. You KNOW what is coming. The only time it’s a surprise is if you’re new, and even then you do not need your entire mp pool and every single CD to keep anyone alive. Even with non maxed gear lol.

I love how healing works in this game. I hated being a heal bot in WoW, which is why I’ve played healer in XIV for so long. The incoming damage could be upped so we arent dpsing 90% of the time, but I do not want to take away our dps completely. I do not want to be a heal bot. Let us keep what separates the good from the bad, and not all “Lol I spAmmY spAm hEalY buTtoNs aNd mAke GreEn bArs Go uP.” And no matter what they do, we are always going to have negative experiences in dungeons. It is the downside of playing an online game with real people.

Literally the ONLY healers who get stressed in casual content are those who aren’t very good. Healing is so powerful right now, it requires very little effort lol. All we want is the way we deal damage to be more interesting than a button spam. I do not understand why heal only healers get so mad when we ask for an improvement for our desired play style. It LITERALLY does not change your play style. We get more enjoyment out of how we like to play, and you get to keep the way you like to play. Why is having options so bad?

Oh and it’s the public forum for giving feedback. We are more than welcome to voice our discontent. Got a problem, no one is forcing you to read our posts.

[Lordfurious]

How in the Twelve do you need to save EVERYTHING to keep people alive? There’s no surprise trash mobs, no surprise boss attacks. Literally everything is scripted. Raids, dungeons, everything. You KNOW what is coming. The only time it’s a surprise is if you’re new, and even then you do not need your entire mp pool and every single CD to keep anyone alive. Even with non maxed gear lol.

I love how healing works in this game. I hated being a heal bot in WoW, which is why I’ve played healer in XIV for so long. The incoming damage could be upped so we arent dpsing 90% of the time, but I do not want to take away our dps completely. I do not want to be a heal bot. Let us keep what separates the good from the bad, and not all “Lol I spAmmY spAm hEalY buTtoNs aNd mAke GreEn bArs Go uP.” And no matter what they do, we are always going to have negative experiences in dungeons. It is the downside of playing an online game with real people.

Literally the ONLY healers who get stressed in casual content are those who aren’t very good. Healing is so powerful right now, it requires very little effort lol. All we want is the way we deal damage to be more interesting than a button spam. I do not understand why heal only healers get so mad when we ask for an improvement for our desired play style. It LITERALLY does not change your play style. We get more enjoyment out of how we like to play, and you get to keep the way you like to play. Why is having options so bad?

Oh and it’s the public forum for giving feedback. We are more than welcome to voice our discontent. Got a problem, no one is forcing you to read our posts.

Oh you're right I must KNOW an undergeared tank is not going to use cooldowns. I must also KNOW that a DPS is going to accidentally pull another group of mobs that isn't going to be picked up right away because the tank isn't paying attention. You're right it must all be my fault. I'm so glad the forums has people like you to tell the rest of us how horrible we are and how wonderful you are. Thank you for your wonderful insight.

[Deceptus]

I love how healing works in this game. I hated being a heal bot in WoW, which is why I’ve played healer in XIV for so long. The incoming damage could be upped so we arent dpsing 90% of the time, but I do not want to take away our dps completely. I do not want to be a heal bot. Let us keep what separates the good from the bad, and not all “Lol I spAmmY spAm hEalY buTtoNs aNd mAke GreEn bArs Go uP.” And no matter what they do, we are always going to have negative experiences in dungeons. It is the downside of playing an online game with real people.

And most importantly in WoW if you wanted to level, you had a dedicated DPS spec to do that. We don't have those here in FFXIV. One dot and one filler spell from level 2 to lvl 80 is going to get really old REALLY fast.

Oh you're right I must KNOW an undergeared tank is not going to use cooldowns. I must also KNOW that a DPS is going to accidentally pull another group of mobs that isn't going to be picked up right away because the tank isn't paying attention. You're right it must all be my fault. I'm so glad the forums has people like you to tell the rest of us how horrible we are and how wonderful you are. Thank you for your wonderful insight.

No need to be so condescending. I've run enough dungeons to know that the above has definitely happened more times than I'd like to count. Generally just like you laid out. Undergeared tanks not using CD's (AV, Vault, Bardam's anyone?), DPS pulling because they're impatient.

[Lordfurious]

And most importantly in WoW if you wanted to level, you had a dedicated DPS spec to do that. We don't have those here in FFXIV. One dot and one filler spell from level 2 to lvl 80 is going to get really old REALLY fast.



No need to be so condescending. I've run enough dungeons to know that the above has definitely happened more times than I'd like to count. Generally just like you laid out. Undergeared tanks not using CD's (AV, Vault, Bardam's anyone?), DPS pulling because they're impatient.

I don't find that condescending at all I find that an adequate response to a user in the Forum telling me I am a bad player for the way I play. I see a lot of these hateful people in the forums that don't actually contribute in a positive manner but rather become argumentative and call other players bad because we do not conform to the way they think the game should play and not the way the game is designed. That is the reason for these recent changes. The devs are tired of the tanks and the healers fighting in dungeons all of us have seen it at one point in time. It has to stop it's a total team effort. And the comment to me about being a bad player for conserving MP just proves what type of people are Community have in it and unfortunately there are a lot of negative people who just want to spread hate I want to spread positivity and joy in the game. But go ahead and call me condescending if you must. But I will not sit back and listen to other players say that those of us who conserve MP are bad players as there are a lot of us that do it.