Can Healer Balance Survive a 4th Healer?

[Absurdity]

"We want healers to be more engaging and for Enix to stop gutting them".

Community answer to this issue: Have Enix gut dps instead.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for healers getting a few buffs or debuffs, in addition to making dps more engaging, but why can't we just add tools instead of ripping them from someone else. Also the argument that too many dps don't use them therefore they shouldn't have them makes no sense when the majority of healers are neglecting half their own toolkit. Do we gut oGCD heals and hand them to tanks next?

It's less of a logical statement and more one born from frustration. I suggested the same thing before, not because it would be a great idea but because DPS players make up a majority of the playerbase, so if we dumbed them down to the point that dps start complaining we might actually get some changes done.

[Dogempire]

It's less of a logical statement and more one born from frustration. I suggested the same thing before, not because it would be a great idea but because DPS players make up a majority of the playerbase, so if we dumbed them down to the point that dps start complaining we might actually get some changes done.

If they removed mitigation tools from dps then the vast majority of the player base wouldn't care since very few dps actually bother to mitigate mechanics in the first place.

The only people I can see complaining are physical ranged since they've pretty much been suffering an identity crisis since 5.0 from being gutted of any utility that other dps don't have in some capacity, and SE has for ignored them for the most part while they've been listening to complaints about jobs like Monk and Ninja.

[Deceptus]

If they removed mitigation tools from dps then the vast majority of the player base wouldn't care since very few dps actually bother to mitigate mechanics in the first place.
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Pretty much this. In normal dungeon or Ex content I rarely if EVER see Feint, Addle, Shield Samba, or Tactician used.

"But Deceptus, they're not needed!"

To that I say, Practice like you Play. The only way to develop good habits is to do them, in all aspects of play.

[Liam_Harper]

It's less of a logical statement and more one born from frustration. I suggested the same thing before, not because it would be a great idea but because DPS players make up a majority of the playerbase, so if we dumbed them down to the point that dps start complaining we might actually get some changes done.

I can understand frustration, but we have to keep our feedback realistic and sensible or the Devs will simply look to the forums, see a convoluted mess of bad ideas and mixed opinions and decide we have no clue what we want and that it's better they decide for us.

There are too many crazy suggestions, full reworks that could never work with the game engine, requests to rework the entire game structure and wildly conflicting opinions here. We need to be simple, straightforward, and highlight the core issues that can be easily corrected.