Worthless Live Letter

[Adeacia]

My first thought was "Good. What the players want is terrible." Second was "Wait the letter shouldn't have happened yet."

[NorthernLadMSP]

My first thought was "Good. What the players want is terrible." Second was "Wait the letter shouldn't have happened yet."

Excuse me? Players want an engaging, fun job (like healers used to be) and that's "terrible?"

[Adeacia]

Excuse me? Players want an engaging, fun job (like healers used to be) and that's "terrible?"

People act like pressing 1, 3 times is somehow vastly different from pressing 1,2,3 when its literally pressing a key 3 times. Yes, what the players want is terrible when they can't figure out that pressing a key = pressing a key.

[Videra]

People act like pressing 1, 3 times is somehow vastly different from pressing 1,2,3 when its literally pressing a key 3 times. Yes, what the players want is terrible when they can't figure out that pressing a key = pressing a key.

Realize that a big part of healer fun used to be managing cleric stance, cooldowns, debuffs and buffs, while having less OGCD heals.

Realize that healers also had a suite of DPS nukes in 3.X which you used based on available MP, and multiple dots to keep you paying attention during fights.

Realize that you have no idea what you're talking about.

[Semirhage]

Realize that a big part of healer fun used to be managing cleric stance, cooldowns, debuffs and buffs, while having less OGCD heals.

Realize that healers also had a suite of DPS nukes in 3.X which you used based on available MP, and multiple dots to keep you paying attention during fights.

Realize that you have no idea what you're talking about.

That would require realizing that "we would like some actual decision-making or choice or complexity in our kits" doesn't mean "We want 123 combos" because they'd actually have to come up with a rebuttal if they didn't keep flailing at that strawman that we just want a second dot and 3 different animations on a single attack.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Realize that a big part of healer fun used to be managing cleric stance, cooldowns, debuffs and buffs, while having less OGCD heals.

Realize that healers also had a suite of DPS nukes in 3.X which you used based on available MP, and multiple dots to keep you paying attention during fights.

Realize that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Preach. 100% to everything you just said.

[ReynTime]

Realize that a big part of healer fun used to be managing cleric stance, cooldowns, debuffs and buffs, while having less OGCD heals.

Realize that healers also had a suite of DPS nukes in 3.X which you used based on available MP, and multiple dots to keep you paying attention during fights.

Realize that you have no idea what you're talking about.

They probably assume people just want a 123 combo because DPS and Tanks don't get much more complex than that anymore. If even DPS were stripped down, why would healers be any different?
This is the abhorrent direction they decided to go with job mechanics in XIV since ShB.