Has anyone quit healing?

[kobe-sabi]

(I am still amused by how one group who does the world first race decided to use DRK to clear back when DRK was basically being trashed by the community. The player liked the job and they did it )

The Blackest Night is so good in mitigating damage, SE added 5% to the 20%, a healer can focus more on Dps and less on healing through tank busters. that 25% shield is no joke along with the copied and much improved Inner Release....sorry i mean Delirium, they wont nerf it this expansion but i know they will when 6.0 drops. This will Piss off the DRK community again, making it irrelevant, i been playing since 2013 and I now look at expansion as what jobs will shine the most.

[Naychan]

Got all healers to 80 and use them only for expert roulette and trials. Am leveling dnc, mch and bard. Have yet to find a new main. But healers suck imo now. They can do the job but god it’s frigging dull. They don’t feel heroic at all anymore.

[Schan]

Which unfortunately led to the devs to that cling for months, insisting DRK was perfectly fine when it sorely lacked the kits offered by WAR and PLD. Just because everything can clear content does not mean they are well balanced.

I never said thing are balanced because they can clear content. I'm just saying that it really sucks for people who like to play jobs that are not favoured by the community. With that said, yes. That little fun stunt did give the devs the wrong idea for the longest time.

The Blackest Night is so good in mitigating damage, SE added 5% to the 20%, a healer can focus more on Dps and less on healing through tank busters. that 25% shield is no joke along with the copied and much improved Inner Release....sorry i mean Delirium, they wont nerf it this expansion but i know they will when 6.0 drops. This will Piss off the DRK community again, making it irrelevant, i been playing since 2013 and I now look at expansion as what jobs will shine the most.

That quote of mine applies to DRK before shadowbringers expansion. Atm people are not happy with DRK but Blackest Night is not something i've seen people complain about (in fact it's pretty busted imo)

I feel like this expasion has been very polarizing when it comes to balance. what is good is busted good and what is bad is really really bad.

[Valmaxian]

I was tempted to quit healing, but my other main job was SMN, soooooo yeah. I’ve since come to enjoy the busy AST gameplay, though I do miss the old card effects. At least Squeenix did well on most of the jobs aesthetically, though that is a very peripheral consideration.

[IanFrench]

I have leveled GNB and DNC to 80 and played for a while. But I do miss playing healers, but the new AST feels so cluncky right now and the busy play style simply do not offer enough rewards...

So I canceled my subscription just now, and hope there is some changes in 5.1...

[Arale]

I was tempted to quit healing, but my other main job was SMN, soooooo yeah. I’ve since come to enjoy the busy AST gameplay, though I do miss the old card effects. At least Squeenix did well on most of the jobs aesthetically, though that is a very peripheral consideration.

AST definitely wins out here vs the other healers. They have a consistent theme from 1 to 80, while WHM makes a 180 to light based effects at 70, and SCH feels a bit all over the place from 50 onward in my opinion.

[Sloprano]

AST definitely wins out here vs the other healers. They have a consistent theme from 1 to 80, while WHM makes a 180 to light based effects at 70, and SCH feels a bit all over the place from 50 onward in my opinion.

It's a weird situation having to explain to new players wondering where everything Arcanist went when they unlock Scholar and have to wait 15 levels to relearn Aetherflow and Energy Drain. I really want to know what SE is thinking about Healers, but they seem to go to great lenghts avoiding talking about them.

[GrimGale]

I am playing SCH for my static. I love the shields and aesthetic of the class. Putting down a sacred soil and deploying critlos is very satisfying.

On the other hand I spend most of the encounters spamming broil and reapplying Biolysis. I do like coordinating to apply Chain Strat.

Non-healing aspects of the jobs are extremely dull. It's made worse by the fact we have long moments of healing downtime were we spam our single button rotation.

I have dropped healing in favour of tanking in roulettes. GNB is more fun and roulettes as a SCH are incredibly boring with the AoW spam.

[Violet_Galaxy]

I haven't but I've noticed my tolerance for specific duties and mistakes in general has greatly diminished and causes me to leave most duties than finishing them. Adventure in Need be damned, but sometimes I can hardly get through a duty without being annoyed. AST being stripped of what I loved most about it, SCH, which I don't play which leaves me using WHM 95% of the time. Healing right now is just boring. Hell, GNB is starting to look more appealing right now and I hate tanking in this game.

[Videra]

I'm just heavily disenfranchised with the game, not necessarily due to healers alone, but they definitely add to the pile.