I hate to, but I think I put down healing for now. Please make it engaging again, SE.

[Punslinger]

I think I'm most annoyed at the feeling of being ignored by SE.

BRDs complained about lack of support and had small support effects added back to their songs.
SAMs complained that losing Hagakure was bad for gameplay and that was added back.
SCH at least had ED returned to it (but at the same time, pet problems were made worse with the added delay?).

AST? "We've read your questions, but you only wanted Balance so you're keeping this new system that's all Balance. Also here are some bandaid fixes and buffs to make the job playable again, please play it." Except still nobody is playing the job because everyone's already jumped ship.

Even better examples would be NIN, which complained about low DPS and carpal tunnel oGCDs, and got a massive rework in 5.1. Or SAM's Shoha being radically reworked in 5.1 so that its level-80 capstone wasn't completely useless.

Meanwhile, AST's card system still sucks harder than a factory full of vacuum cleaners, SCH's 60/70/80 capstones all have anti-synergy with each other, and Square doesn't care.

But if you want hard proof that Square only cares about the DPS, and to a lesser extent, the tank classes, consider the 10/31 Live Letter.

This is what they said about Ninja:

Ninja received many significant changes across the board.

Mudra and Ninjutsu were changed into GCD actions to preserve the playstyle of using Ninjutsu, while lowering the job’s busyness and reliance on low network latency.

Ninjutsu can no longer be weaved between weaponskills, which reduces the number of actions over time, but Ninjutsu potencies have been increased accordingly to balance the damage output.

Shadow Fang has also been changed to reduce busyness. It is no longer part of a combo and will now inflict a DoT by itself.

Trick Attack has been adjusted to balance out the increased personal damage, as well as improve its usability.

Ninja’s new playstyle can be seen in the video, so be sure to check it out!

Though it may take some time for long-time ninja players to adjust to these changes, we hope that you’ll be able to enjoy ninja’s new skill rotation, without the stress of excessive busyness!

This is what they said about all three healers:

White Mage / Scholar

White mage and scholar mainly received quality of life adjustments.

Astrologian

MP consumption has been lowered, personal damage output has been increased, and Minor Arcana has been adjusted to reduce busyness. Additionally, changes such as Collective Unconscious adjustments have improved the effectiveness of damage reduction.

NIN, which is 1/10 of the DPS role, got an entire paragraph and 17:56 minutes of video. SCH and WHM together, comprising 2/3 of the healer role, got one sentence, and as far as I could see, no time in the video (of course, I don't speak moonrune, so I may have missed something).

[Corbeau]

I wish SCH got Ruin IV, with chance to proc for every tick of fairy meter spent. It'd have a nice circulation of resources then.

[CrimsonGunner]

NIN, which is 1/10 of the DPS role, got an entire paragraph and 17:56 minutes of video. SCH and WHM together, comprising 2/3 of the healer role, got one sentence, and as far as I could see, no time in the video (of course, I don't speak moonrune, so I may have missed something).

you forgot to mention that the QOL adjustment they said they will give to WHM and SCH were actually asylum radios got bigger(nobody asked) and SCH seraph now have a delay of 2 seconds after summoning her (if its broken ,break it some more so no one will notice and did i forget to mention that SMN bahamut had his dreadwyrm wave being able to cast immediately upon summon) huge QOL improvements for healers.....

[Lodi]

That graph just looks sad and I don't even play the job. "Everyone didn't want useless cards" feels awfully quaint. Where are these "everyone", surely they weren't dps mains complaning their ASTs didnt always get Balance to give them.

I love how the trend shifted from "Nobody wants these cards" when they were unbalanced as heck, to "Nobody wants this class" now that AST is as entertaining as a dead crab.

But hey, SE said these cards are perfect so obviously we're just wrong for not liking them.

[Deceptus]

you forgot to mention that the QOL adjustment they said they will give to WHM and SCH were actually asylum radios got bigger(nobody asked)

I remember seeing more than a few people asking for the radius of AoE spells / Shields to be normalized and expanded. How many threads have been started about those DPS who stand JUST outside of the area.

It was a problem in the bigger model bosses / mobs where you could Assylum the tank on the edge of it and get none of the DPS inside of it either. So yeah, the Assylum area change was a pretty decent, significant QoL change.

[CrimsonGunner]

I remember seeing more than a few people asking for the radius of AoE spells / Shields to be normalized and expanded. How many threads have been started about those DPS who stand JUST outside of the area.

It was a problem in the bigger model bosses / mobs where you could Assylum the tank on the edge of it and get none of the DPS inside of it either. So yeah, the Assylum area change was a pretty decent, significant QoL change.

oh didn't know that,i haven't seen threads/post talking about wishing asylum was bigger.

[KDSilver]

NIN, which is 1/10 of the DPS role, got an entire paragraph and 17:56 minutes of video. SCH and WHM together, comprising 2/3 of the healer role, got one sentence, and as far as I could see, no time in the video (of course, I don't speak moonrune, so I may have missed something).

Every LL, healers never get in depth adjusment presentation.
Is it because they think people don't care ? Is it because they themself don't really care about the healer state or their healer community ? Do they think healers doesn't matter as much as a DPS to deserve a full presentation.

I have no answer, but we always barely get one or two sentence about our rework/adjusments compare to others class. It somehow became normal.
Even when they do ajusment, they stay silent about it. They do it, but don't "debate" about it. "We made this because community..." - "We made this because we though". None of that stuff.

[Brandedblade]

Yup. The usual I see.

[Billythepancake]

Yup. The usual I see.

Do you actually have anything to add or are you just going to act all high and mighty?

[Mesarthim]

Do you actually have anything to add or are you just going to act all high and mighty?

Probably the latter. One of the few people around these parts that refuse to engage in an actual conversation and instead resort to passive aggressive posts.