Last night, ALL Roulettes except Trials had "Healer In Need"!

[Risvertasashi]

I don't know what roulettes you're looking at, lately all I've seen is tank for most of them and usually DPS for alliance raid.

Having leveled a DPS recently, I can tell you it also pops up semi-often on others (trial, raid, etc) too.

That said, I am surprised healer in need has stayed up this long. In Heavensward it took only... what was it, 2 or 3 weeks? Before it was back to normal. I guess tanks are really enjoying the stance change and gunbreaker?

[Hezzlocks]

I once heard someone, a WHM main, say that ShB didn't really fix any of WHMs, problems at all, it instead did to AST and SCH in one patch what SE had been doing to WHM gradually since HW.

I don't know if its true or not but given that WHM didn't really change all that much I'm inclined to believe it is.

[Billythepancake]

I once heard someone, a WHM main, say that ShB didn't really fix any of WHMs, problems at all, it instead did to AST and SCH in one patch what SE had been doing to WHM gradually since HW.

I don't know if its true or not but given that WHM didn't really change all that much I'm inclined to believe it is.

That's what a lot of WHM mains have been claiming, the ones that haven't been distracted by their 40k nuke anyways and can actually see beyond the big numbers.

[Allooutrick]

Stormblood regularly had "Tank in need." I'm seeing variety now. Variety that fluctuates. Alliance raids tend to need DPS, the rest switch between healer and tank. Guildhest tends to need more tanks.

[Tigore]

Most times, I see Healers being the Adventurer in need as well. Tanks rotate in at times, but not as often. DPS may get Alliance Raids half the time with some uncommon moments for Guildhest and Trials.

I am inclined to think the off time when no healing happens would be a problem to fix. I am unsure what Astro could have. Sleeve Draw may need to store the extra 2 cards as buffs that automatically slot in when you use a Draw effect rather than just putting no cooldown on the Draw command. Maybe the card buffs can give secondary stats with the Ewer and the Bole being reverted to what they once were. Additionally adding back the Royal Road effects to the Divination cooldown and Seal Combos may work.

Scholars probably just need a few things to add in. These are some ideas I have.

Virus (1 Aether) – Inflicts a DoT on the main target for 30s and spreads to other enemies within 15 yalms at 25 - 50% strength

Osmose (1 Aether) – Inflicts damage to target while restoring mana and fairy gauge

Fairy Pact (Fairy Gauge) – boosts the potency of all offensive spells and weaponskills of the target ally by 20 – 50 while the fairy channels the beam.

[Sloprano]

May all your wishes come true when the patch notes are up in the morning.

[Naychan]

May all your wishes come true when the patch notes are up in the morning.

Not really sure if i want to read them. Almost afraid to see how the screw healers next.

[Yuyuka3]

I don't really know where you were looking, TC, but I'm currently leveling tank and I got Adventurer in Need at least once or twice today. I've also seen DPS as needed in Alliance roulette quite a lot lately. It's actually rather balanced right now, far better than it ever was. Can we stop the complaining now, please? There are plenty of people leveling any role right now...

The next patch is tomorrow, so we'll see what they do. On the case of scholar, the fixes are pretty easy, tbh, just give them back the arcanist abilities they lost. Miasma, energy drain, bane and maybe also give them back miasma II for some aoe. Only other thing I'd want is to be able to cast my fairy abilities from the pet hotbar, if they did those 2 things, I'd be okay with this new scholar, it wouldn't be perfect, but at least it would still feel like scholar.

And if we cant have ED back because of how it is on summoner now then make fester an ACN ability and give us that instead.

Can WHM get everything we lost over the years back as well, then? Would only be fair, don't you think, considering how much we lost?
And if we are at it, can we also please fix WHMs problems already? They haven't been touched in literal years. I'd think long-standing problems should be addressed already...
Also, got to love how all 'fixes' proposed here would only serve to break healer balance further by making SCH op... again.

I once heard someone, a WHM main, say that ShB didn't really fix any of WHMs, problems at all, it instead did to AST and SCH in one patch what SE had been doing to WHM gradually since HW.

I don't know if its true or not but given that WHM didn't really change all that much I'm inclined to believe it is.

WHM still feels the same as before, and yes, we lost a lot of skills over the years, so I confirm this as a fellow WHM main since ARR.

[kidalutz]

NOW can we admit that there is a healer shortage?

Multiple articles have been written about it. The issue is why...

It is not due to a lack of popularity for FFXIV as zones are quite active! And it is not because of 2 new jobs because not everybody who heals would suddenly do GNB or DNC. That is not realistic.


I believe there are 3 healer-specific issues:

1) AST 5.0 changes have made it far too similar to WHM. So if you don't enjoy one, it is likely that there are now 2 jobs that you will have no interest in playing.

2) SCH 5.0 changes have resulted in many of our hardcore healers getting bored and trying a different job in search of more complexity. Simplifying SCH and removing options is the opposite of what a down-and-dirty SCH player would want.

3) WHM 5.0 seems fine at max level. Rather, it is feeling the awkwardness that comes from the new 10,000 MP limit at lower levels. It is a terrible strategy to have a job feel horrible for the first 50-60 levels. I used to be able to throw out heals freely as a WHM in all levels of content but those days are over! Level 50 and under means no Thin Air and no Assize. Dungeons are fine but any Trials or Raid Content involve lots of doing nothing as healing on this pure healer will mean that I go out-of-mana quite quickly. I want to be a fountain of love and free healing. But 5.0 means I am stingy as hell as a few consecutive heals and 1 rez means certain death as I will have no mana left. The other healer is usually a WHM as well and they often run out of mana within the first minute. Of course, I am not a skilled WHM and I would have less issues once I git gud.


Regardless, this issue is much deeper than my skills and lack thereof. The issue is that SE has made Healer Roles exceptionally unattractive in an effort to streamline and there is a ripple effect. Ripple #1 is that I just went back to SMN and happily get to "heal" via Physick and rezzing while freely spending seemingly endless mana to cast spells. Now there is 1 less Healer queuing up for content.

My question to everybody: Is there a realistic solution that SE could roll out by the next patch?

I think you're twisting facts to suit your own agenda. solid pass .

[Billythepancake]

I don't really know where you were looking, TC, but I'm currently leveling tank and I got Adventurer in Need at least once or twice today. I've also seen DPS as needed in Alliance roulette quite a lot lately. It's actually rather balanced right now, far better than it ever was. Can we stop the complaining now, please? There are plenty of people leveling any role right now...




Can WHM get everything we lost over the years back as well, then? Would only be fair, don't you think, considering how much we lost?
And if we are at it, can we also please fix WHMs problems already? They haven't been touched in literal years. I'd think long-standing problems should be addressed already...
Also, got to love how all 'fixes' proposed here would only serve to break healer balance further by making SCH op... again.




WHM still feels the same as before, and yes, we lost a lot of skills over the years, so I confirm this as a fellow WHM main since ARR.

SCH is still considered op. Not even asking for it to be stronger, nerf potencies if you have to so they can pull the same DPS, I'm fine with that I just dont want to be reduced to only pressing 1 button over and over and over for 10 minutes each fight.

And I'm all for WHM getting back everything it lost, for it to be more engaging, where did I imply I wasn't? I brought up scholar because that's what I happen to main, but I want every healer to be equally engaging and in line with each other.