The Future of healers

[MPNZ]

It just depends on if they've designed healing to be closer to Stone Vigil's cure II spam (yuck) or undersized-party-Hunts/raid content with super fun weaving of all kinds of spells and reactive healing. But, it's most likely that they just want players to not be entirely focused on DPS, or letting Eos/Selene and essential dignity heal the tank like in leveling content, which is way too easy and totes just malefic spam for the entire dungeon

[guardin]

I realize for many this is a faus pas within the community but years ago I played WOW. Now WOW healers had very interesting healing kits, such as bouncing heals that triggered off other heals such as waves of healing so it would trigger often targeting the next player at lowest hp, seed hots when hit with another heal would bloom into an aoe heal, a heal that triggers another heal into another sort of like a healing rotation with sometimes branches, shields that when target player with said shield gets healed it buffs the shield to a cap or adds a regen.

Now I realize atm this is probably too much as it seems to me at least that FF14 is trying to make healing jobs perhaps more simpler or pure healers? I like the direction of this idea, I do not like the identity of classes and what people are used to in others being taken away (I am an Astro main so for me its identity and the taken away remark is for Scholars).

I think what would be beneficial is if we could have the long term plans of what is in store for the healers happen now or be available soon, but sadly I feel like we have to wait for another expansion in order to see these changes fleshed out. Until then it appears to just be a case of being scared of change and with good reason for some or many.

All I can do though is play old content to have good memories of what is soon going to be 'what once was' and try my best to give my opinion on what I think was right and wrong with the changes and hope for engaging healer jobs skills and actions in the future that will not just make our healing capabilities more interesting but perhaps with some side flair like Afflatus Misery perhaps? Where our healing will be rewarded with dps?

P.S. I would love a starfall-esque ability for Astro <3

the future of healers are saved thanks to

YOSHI and team

THE END end of thread and all healing threads (oh who am i kidding people have to cry somewhere right?)

[DiznypKC]

What were you hoping for? I am just asking out of curiosity.

You’ll probably laugh, because it’s somewhat funny in hindsight.

I was hoping to play a Viera, but I prefer to play a male character that (somewhat) resembles me. (Red hair, blue eyes...obviously the ears and tail aren’t natural...or are they?)

I was looking forward to the addition of a new healer. I wasn’t expecting Dancer to be a healer, honestly. But they kept saying they were adding “multiple new jobs” and, to me, multiple implies more than two. So I thought, “Ooh, maybe we’re getting one of each like in HW!”

So basically the Tokyo Fan Fest announcement was like a Stone IV to the gut.

Then I read an interview with Yoshida either at Tokyo or after where he said they really wanted to focus on bringing the three existing healers onto the same page before adding a new one. As a White Mage main, I was like, “Yay! Maybe I won’t be the useless healer!” I mean, I play the other two healers, but WHM is the OG and just my favorite.

(Side note, I don’t think WHM is the useless healer, but people have said that to me when I mention how it’s my favorite.)

So yeah, then after the media tour came and went and we saw how the healers had been assimilated into basically three White Mages with different skins and effects...I was basically just done with it. I don’t know what to do but shrug and shake my head.

Hope that answers your question.

[Truen]

Most people are upset because they look at these changes and they see classes they enjoy as now less unique, less engaging, and less fun. That's not a good place to be going into an expansion where the hype should be real.

Sad and true. 5.0 will ruin my favorite healer. I've all but stopped logging in the last few weeks as a result. I couldn't be more unhappy.

[Atlantasia]

You’ll probably laugh, because it’s somewhat funny in hindsight.

I was hoping to play a Viera, but I prefer to play a male character that (somewhat) resembles me. (Red hair, blue eyes...obviously the ears and tail aren’t natural...or are they?)

I was looking forward to the addition of a new healer. I wasn’t expecting Dancer to be a healer, honestly. But they kept saying they were adding “multiple new jobs” and, to me, multiple implies more than two. So I thought, “Ooh, maybe we’re getting one of each like in HW!”

So basically the Tokyo Fan Fest announcement was like a Stone IV to the gut.

Then I read an interview with Yoshida either at Tokyo or after where he said they really wanted to focus on bringing the three existing healers onto the same page before adding a new one. As a White Mage main, I was like, “Yay! Maybe I won’t be the useless healer!” I mean, I play the other two healers, but WHM is the OG and just my favorite.

(Side note, I don’t think WHM is the useless healer, but people have said that to me when I mention how it’s my favorite.)

So yeah, then after the media tour came and went and we saw how the healers had been assimilated into basically three White Mages with different skins and effects...I was basically just done with it. I don’t know what to do but shrug and shake my head.

Hope that answers your question.

Talking to my healer friends and from reading the forums, most WHMs like myself wanted to be brought up to the level of the other two healers (either through straight DPS abilities with proper weave/oGCD heals or through utility) and all three healers to remain unique and engaging while obtaining more skills to further compliment and flesh each out.

It straight up looks like they gutted SCH and full on knocked AST flat to the ground... I don't know personally any WHM mains who wanted that to occur. *sigh*

[Atlantasia]

Sad and true. 5.0 will ruin my favorite healer. I've all but stopped logging in the last few weeks as a result. I couldn't be more unhappy.

I'm on vacation so I don't have a steady internet connection on my laptop to play most of the time... I am finding myself hesitating to play or staring at skills I won't have soon with nostalgia when I am on though.

I was planning to work my alt through the SB MSQ with his SCH when I get back next week, but now I've lost a lot of my motivation to do so... at the same time... I don't want to be under 70 and leveling a healer in the future... it'll be a slog fest of boredom.

[DiznypKC]

the future of healers are saved thanks to

YOSHI and team

THE END end of thread and all healing threads (oh who am i kidding people have to cry somewhere right?)

Apparently people need somewhere to be jerks, too. Welcome. Now scoot.

[Mortex]

I have the choice between healer and tank this expansion and whas A healer main for a long times now. But even I consider swapping to a tank the problem I see here will be finding decent healer when a lot of veteran and experienced healer just change jobs like me. So I maybe stay healer to keep the static alive more or less.

[Ceasaria]

I am main healer since ARR and played them all across the years on every content.
I'am forced to remain healer because, it was planned since February with my static for the progress of 5.0.
But if I would not have static, I would switch to Tank (Paladin or Gunbreaker) or Dancer.

[WaxSw]

the future of healers are saved thanks to

YOSHI and team

THE END end of thread and all healing threads (oh who am i kidding people have to cry somewhere right?)

Watch out white knight your armor may get rusty with all the salt