P1N Warrior solo kill

[Xiaoki]

Because self-healing/drain tanking has been an archetype since.... MUDs, even? Even discounting those it's still a thing in Lineage, WoW, Ragnarok Online, FFXI... It exists as a concept in games outside of MMOs too.

The problem is that in those other MMOs the healing is that the tanks could not do enough healing to keep themselves alive fighting a current tier raid boss.
In other MMOs if the tank doesn't have a healer constantly healing them then they quickly eat dirt.

Perhaps the healers should get rid of their healing kits for more complicated DPS rotations.
Perhaps "Healer" should be removed from FF14 and renamed to "Support DPS"

[Ixon]

It's the problem of trying to balance around every situation, and because of that the "best" players tend to suffer the most.

It's a weird feeling because it's only in struggle bus Duty Finder scenarios that I feel most like a tank. I'm mitigating on time, throwing people Aurora and HoC that are low health who maybe missed a heal, rotating mitigations to take as little damage as possible while my party recovers, using my invuln as an actual invuln smartly and not just to bypass a tank swap, and really use my kit to the fullest. Then when I raid with my static, I just feel like a DPS who Provoke's to invuln and cheese a mechanic while my healers are falling asleep at the wheel. So if you strip from the tanks to make the good healers more active, you will have a more useless tanks in Duty Finder scenarios, where adversely if they are strong enough to carry a struggling party, the good healers get bored.

You can give healers more DPS options, but you will have people feel overwhelmed and unwilling to try(Earthly Star timings are scary, don't @ me), or you have people too focused on DPS that they ignore the healing part, not to mention button bloat. I think they did really well on Sage coming from someone who normally doesn't heal, so I feel they are still working on what works best for everyone.

Not to mention this was the first fight of the first raid tier, and they are always pretty braindead mechanic wise. If they added some tower or add failsafe that could not be done solo no one would even be here talking about it. However, I do think some of the EX and Savage fights damage output is low or at least inconsistent. If they would at least add more consistent damage rather than damage in spikes that you can kitchen sink every time that might help. Though it's also hard to say how difficult does SE want these fights to be? Is Normal Easy, Savage Medium, Ultimates Hard? Are they intentionally designing these fights like this knowing they are releasing Ultimates for the true try-hards? Maybe. We'll have to see the changes in 6.1 and see how the Ultimate turns out.

[Nizzi]

You can give healers more DPS options, but you will have people feel overwhelmed and unwilling to try(Earthly Star timings are scary, don't @ me), or you have people too focused on DPS that they ignore the healing part, not to mention button bloat. I think they did really well on Sage coming from someone who normally doesn't heal, so I feel they are still working on what works best for everyone.

The argument of "more DPS options would overwhelm healers or they'd focus only on that and then I'd die! So they can't have them at all!" is such a tired argument in regards to the overarching issue with healers at all right now.

If you get DPS players who are bad and can't bring the DPS in content or they're focused on their rotation so much they continually fail mechanics, the game becomes incredibly frustrating with how long things take or continually hitting enrage over and over in a fight if you're doing harder content. But nobody says that the amount of DPS options that DPS players have should be reduced because having more would "overwhelm them", and nobody makes the argument that "DPS players are too focused on DPS, and they're ignoring mechanics! This is why we need to reduce DPS rotations!" because everyone readily accepts that there are just bad DPS players and that you should move on, kick them or leave the party.

If you get tank players who are bad and who focus only on their DPS rotations, don't mitigate and have 0 awareness, it can make healing hell and can make performing well as a DPS player incredibly frustrating when suddenly you have aggro because the main tank died and the off tank is not paying attention at all and is just slapping away at the boss without their stance on. You take a tank buster as a healer/DPS and you die for no reason other than your tanks being bad. Nobody makes the argument that "DPS options overwhelm tanks!" or that they're "too focused on DPSing that they ignore the tanking part" and thus should have less DPS options and more of a focus on mitigation. Everyone accepts that there's just bad tank players and moves on.

Yet when it comes to healers, people who do not play them make the argument that "more things to do than spam 1 would overwhelm healers!" or "they'd just focus on their DPS rotations when they need to be HEALING!", as if healers are not allowed to have any agency at all. When it comes to our entire role, it must be continually reduced to the lowest common denominator because it's simply more visible to players when a healer is bad than when a DPS or a Tank is bad. And thus it warps around to people who do not play healers complaining about how our entire role plays, clutching their pearls at the idea that we may have more things to be doing than spamming 1-1-1 and that it would keep us from pressing our huge number of oGCD heals, which is how healing works.

We're in the situation where players feel as if it's fine for tanks and DPS to fail at content, but it's not fine for healers. But now tanks have an absurd amount of self healing and can help heal/shield DPS players and there are DPS with utility that allow them to heal like Reaper or Dancer. I know people are reluctant to kick bad healers because of how long it can take to fill their slot once they're gone, but perhaps it's the philosophy "healers shouldn't be allowed to fail at all and can't have anything more interesting to do during downtime" because it's annoying to tank/DPS players to have a bad healer which has led to that current situation?

[Ixon]

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I mean, you can say it's tired argument but it's literally one of the reasons why they changed it. You're talking to someone who loved HW DRK but had it changed by SE cause it was too difficult for most players. I'm not saying you're not wrong, but when the argument comes to who should we listen to the 75% of casuals or the 25% of hardcore players, the money is gonna follow the percentage. Do I think healers DPS should be as simplified as it is? According to my static healers it shouldn't, but according to the WHM in DF I have getting two glares off in an eight minute fight it should stay. Plus, every role is reduced to the lowest common denominator, it has been for years. Not saying it's right, just saying that's how it is. Tank stance was too hard so they chucked it. Three combo's were too hard give them two, or one.

[Praesul]

The problem is that in those other MMOs the healing is that the tanks could not do enough healing to keep themselves alive fighting a current tier raid boss.
In other MMOs if the tank doesn't have a healer constantly healing them then they quickly eat dirt.

Perhaps the healers should get rid of their healing kits for more complicated DPS rotations.
Perhaps "Healer" should be removed from FF14 and renamed to "Support DPS"

You can absolutely solo current bosses in those games, what are you talking about lol.

I remember DKs and Pallies being able to solo stuff in Legion, and Ragnarok Online is infamous for having a ton of bosses be soloable. It's not even tanks that do it, DPS jobs do. Creators, Champions, Snipers, High Wizards and Whitesmiths can off the top of my head, and Whitesmiths specifically do it through lfiestealing effects.

Guess what? No one cares. Most of the time it's much more inefficient than doing it with an actual party. You CAN do it, it's an option, but it's either incredibly time consuming, incredibly difficult, or extremely gear dependant.

Taking a party is always going to be the path of least resistance.