Healers, not required. (EW SPOILERS)

[Caurcas]

Also I want to point out that these first 2 ex are almost always embarrassingly easy. It took me half a lockout for ZEX to down after going in blind and HEX took a whole lockout. They shouldn't be balancing job around this content. That's what savage and ultimate is for.

[Wolwosh]

Well, players have this notion that healing is hard and requires skill.

While that might once have been true, healing has been baby-fied into one button press for full HP job ever since ShB. Yet people still complain that healing gives them teh anxioteh and "single pull plz", and those are the players Yoshi-P and the dev team listen to the most and thus keep dumbifying the job even more and making fights easier and giving you Ultra Echo.

So indeed if they get removed good riddance. Just turn them into another DPS class and have everyone be responsible for their own Hp, it would make it all the more easier for being able to tell who to invite for raids and who not.

Like any of the DPS jobs are hard to play...

[Skyclaw726]

Like any of the DPS jobs are hard to play...

Or tanking for that matter. The hardest thing about tanking is tank swapping.

[Anhra]

Or tanking for that matter. The hardest thing about tanking is tank swapping.

How is tank swapping hard? You just turn your stance off and use Shirk on the other tank, thats it.

[Mhiro]

Don't kill off healing SE. I've always liked playing healing or support. FFXIV doesn't have a true support role like BRD, RDM or COR like in FFXI so I'm stuck with healer. With how many jobs FFXIV has they could honestly make a "support" group out of the existing jobs and a couple of well placed ones in xpacs. I'd like to see it, but not holding my breath either.

Those jobs from FFXI are the reason I'm healing here and why I leveled DNC and BRD. Healers and those two classes are the closest I'm ever gonna get to Corsair and I'm still sad about it. So yeah please don't give them ideas about axing healers. Just give us more buffs to give or something.

[Lunalepsy]

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qL4y1J7Mh
(EX Trial 1)

Healers are no longer required in some of the supposedly hardest content in the game.

I mean, dancers are a support class. It's interesting to see they're slowly detaching themselves from the holy trinity. It's about time bards and dancers take the spotlight with their support and utility skills.

[Anhra]

I mean, dancers are a support class. It's interesting to see they're slowly detaching themselves from the holy trinity. It's about time bards and dancers take the spotlight with their support and utility skills.

Lets be real here, Dancer is as much of a support Class as anyone else is in this game. Also, Squeenix isnt going to reinvent the wheel anew by doing such a choice.

[BrokentoothMarch]

Like any of the DPS jobs are hard to play...

I at least have to know my rotations and positionals instead of being a Glarebot.

Wow. 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 combo.

[Connor]

I mean, dancers are a support class. It's interesting to see they're slowly detaching themselves from the holy trinity. It's about time bards and dancers take the spotlight with their support and utility skills.

Uhh…Bard doesn’t actually have any utility though? It has party damage buffs. It can’t heal, or raise, or shield, or do anything support-y worth doing. It buffs damage and that’s it.

Dancer has utility like Curing Waltz and Improvisation but Waltz has a cool-down Improvisation is a massive DPS loss for fairly little reward (aka barely worth slotting on a hot bar outside of snapshotting for a tick or two). Channeling it for the full duration is likely to get you weird looks and the ire of your healers for not doing your job, DPS. The Dancer is still very much a damage dealer and not a ‘supporter’…yet healing requirements in this game are so allow that even this dps job can heal through endgame, with support abilities that aren’t even that strong. Of course the Dancers not Reapers were solely responsible for the healing but it’s still true that even low return healing from DPS jobs can surmount healing requirements just by putting them together.

I wonder if this same thing could be replicated with Summoners and Red Mages doing the healing in place of Dancers and Reapers? They all seem to have at least equal healing power so I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if no-healer runs was possible with a variety of comps and not just one specific combination of jobs.

[Edewen]

Are we just ignoring that they took just as long to do the fight as a 4 dps group?