Quote Originally Posted by Nizzi View Post
Nobody here is saying the game should only be catered to raiders. I'm a "casual" raider at best, I don't really care about my parse and the clear is more important to me. This doesn't mean I do not want to put in the effort to get better at my job, because the better I am the more helpful I am to my team. This is a team game, and everything in it is a combined effort.



That's the thing though; you can clear every bit of normal mode content in this game without doing any DPS. Seriously; get some friends together and try it. You do not have to do ANYTHING DPS wise as a healer to clear. DPS checks in normal mode are hilariously low to clear, and most of the time normal mode content doesn't even have an enrage check, the boss just keeps looping mechanics until it's cleared. If you wipe, you get echo to buff the party's HP and DPS! The game is set up in such a way that even the most casual of players can clear and experience the story, and I think that's a great thing: I don't want the normal content to be gatekept by anything, because we're all paying to play the game. But adding more options doesn't hurt you in anyway - it only helps by having more options for the people who do want to manage that and want to end the boredom we experience in playing healers.

And saying you "could" do Savage doesn't mean anything to what you're saying in this forum. You can do it now, there's 30ish days before Endwalker comes out, that's easily enough time to PUG at least E9S and E10S because there's a ton of people trying to get into Savage even now. Saying you're not doing it because the gear doesn't matter doesn't make any sense in any context, because when new raid tiers are out, the gear is immediately invalidated by crafting gear, and that's the case for every tier. I did Verse after it had been out a long time back during the content drought in 5.2, and even though I had a lot of augmented Crystarium gear, it was still challenging and fun. The gear only really helps you get clears easier in that tier of Savage or helps out those who are having trouble clearing the last floor of the tier.
Well I’m a carrot stick type of player. I guess I’m sorta lazy. I’m not going to do the challenge for challenge sake. Like if a cool glamour I need is in content then I’ll do it, if it’s a upgrade I MUST have sure but otherwise no. And I do care about getting better actually, I practice on the sky sea dummy sometimes as well. Trust me the only thing I care about is letting healer keep it’s non dps identity of a simplistic rotation/opener