Why nearly no one is playing healers nowadays ?

[Kenarashi]

I mean everytime i check adventure in need , it is always healer .
It rarely tanks with is strange since , from my experience, healing is easier then tanking.
Tanks also shows as adventure in need but less often.
I am curious why is that.
Any clue anyone ?
Thanks for the hints.

[Sani2341]

Because they screwed us over goign into ShB because 'we needed to cut them down to build them back up again'.
And then the EW reveals jsut showed that no, we'll get even more not really needed healing ontop of the already over tuend kits we have.
Which makes healign rather boring for a lot of (former) healer mains

[Derio]

Why play the current healers when everyone is waiting for Sage?

[Sani2341]

Why play the current healers when everyone is waiting for Sage?

Imean why wait for sage? As it stands now, it'll be the same nuke spam as current healers most of the time. and the rest of the Kit is exceedingly similar to SCH without the pet ai isues.

[Misutoraru]

I mean everytime i check adventure in need , it is always healer .
It rarely tanks with is strange since , from my experience, healing is easier then tanking.
Tanks also shows as adventure in need but less often.
I am curious why is that.
Any clue anyone ?
Thanks for the hints.

My Data centre are mostly Tank in need
I honestly found tanking easier than healing, when tanking I just need to focus on mechanics and boss.
As healing I have to constantly aware of anyone screwup and have to judge if my oGCD heal are enough or do I need to drop DPS and use my GCD heal to help, not to mention choosing who to buff in my 8 man team every card draw

[aveyond-dreams]

Because I would like to have more stuff to do besides my card minigame please.

[Recon1o6]

You've got an account since 2016 so you should know by now but in case you don't

1. All the none healing tools got ripped away in sb and shb, and the playstyles of the three healers got destroyed in favour of homogenised mess. WHM used to have buffs and procs, Sch used to be a dot and debuffer, Ast used to have time magic and multiple card flavours that did differnet things and all of these got removed to be super regen/shield plus 1 nuke, 1 dot.
So there's nothing to do but spam glare, broil or malefic when you don't need to heal OR are doing battles without other players (such as msq, fates, bozja etc)
2. Healing tools are incredibly strong while incoming damage is extremely low, infrequent and scripted. So Healers have all these healing tools that are going unused. Even the hardest fights in the game barely need healing

These combined mean healers have lots of time where they don't need ot heal but nothing to do except spam 1 button

What's more, they were apparently kicked down in sb (whm) and shb (ast/sch) so they could be rebuilt in EW.
That promise has not materialised, and sage does not bring anything new to the table once you actually look at it in detail

TLDR: Healing power too strong, fight damage too low, playstyles destroyed, non healing options removed with nothing to replace= incredibly mind numbing gameplay
Veterans have been driven away
New healers haven't got anything to look forward
SE literally said that they are ignoring feedback
SE proved they don't have a clue what healers either want or need in their jobs
SE also proved they STILL don't have anyone that mains a healer in either the fight design or job design teams even after 10 years

go here if you want more details
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-healer-issues

[Eclipse12187]

As a healer main, I have no need for tomes of any kind so the only time I queue for roulettes are if my friends want a fast queue. Other than that I really only come on for weekly crafter stuff and raids.

[HappyHubris]

Healing farm content is super boring. If no one stands in the fire, you broil/glare spam all day long. Whereas on DPS I can always try and squeeze an extra drop out of my rotation.

[CrimsonGunner]

healers are designed so bad, they have 0 depths in their kits, they spam 1 dps button most of the times so they are boring from level 1-80 making people drop them mid leveling.
content is so easy + all other jobs has heals in 1 way or another so you are not required to even heal = why play a healer anyway.
lastly your reward for playing a proper and good healer is spamming more of that 1 button for the rest of the fight.... yea....