The Problem With Healers as a Role Withing FFXIV

[Gruntler]

Ah, this reminds me of Steps of Faith as well.

That was one trial that went from fun to pants on head retarded in the span of a month or two.

I really wish that SE just made a good way to reset instead of nerfing it to the ground. Maybe have mechanic checkpoints that causes instant wipes if you ignore them.

The problem with Steps of Faith wasn't it's difficulty (it wasn't difficult), it was the fact that once your good players who could teach people got their clear, they would bail upon seeing Steps of Faith. Bailing on content that you didn't want to do was very much the norm in ARR, and we'd find imaginative (and non-imaginative ways) to avoid doing any trial or dungeon that was seen as a pain in the ass. Design decisions today have echoed from what we did.

So, no, it wasn't a skill problem, it was a 'the vets fucked off and left new players high and dry so after a few days it'd take days before you'd get your stupid clear' problem.

If it was as 'fun' as the 'vets' claimed, you'd not have had that problem.

And... this was nerfed before they 'gated an expansion' behind it. They should not fix that trial to appease players who want to 'play it when it was fun' but are clear from their language they didn't actually experience it when it was 'fun.' Players who started