Has anyone quit healing?

[DanielNegreanu_Adamantoise]

I started tanking in EW because of queues. I enjoy both, so its no biggie for me.
I expect healing and tanking will level out by 2023 and i'll split my time between healing and tanking.
DPS I've basically given up on. I'm not gonna wait 20 minutes for a queue. If I want big numbers that bad I'll just play DRK

[BrokentoothMarch]

Ex-AST player. By which I mean, since the start of HW, I used to have only AST at max level: Give up. It's over. Yoshi's remark was nothing short of flippant and the dev team's perspective on how healers should be played is clearly going to be enforced on all. That role only belongs to the sylphies now. It pains me to say, but if they want healers to be only playable by people with two brain cells? I'm sadly an owner of three and I hope most of you have more than that as well.

Anyways, I'm gonna go back with my friends and complete content with light parties consisting of 3 DPS' and 1 Tank or, if we do big stuff, 2 Tanks and a lineup of SMN's. Because healers are literally just mediocre SMN's and RDM's.

Adios, amigos.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I loved ast so much in stormblood, hated the card changes in 5.0 (also dont like the sleeve draw change I liked the speediness of it) but stuck with ast and then the 6.0 changes made me drop the job completely and I swapped to scholar for savage. But as I said in another thread my eyes now just glaze over when healing even in savage at this point. It's just so boring to do. At this point I am barely playing so I hope to enjoy 6.1 story.. I have decided this tier is my last as a healer and I will swap to dps where I hope I can find the fun in fights again.

[MaikoRaines]

RE: Has anyone quit healing.

The ire I hear from main healers in recent months (a year? maybe?) is that some statics/PUGs or even pick up runs tend to ask or push healers into pushing more and more damage than to focus on their main role of keeping the party alive. As someone who heals with mainly WHM or AST, I find I can weave in damage and DOTs in between keeping the tank alive from tank busters but I feel I am nowhere near a pro DPS healer as I am more so focused on making sure the entire group is alive.

For me I can't focus on 3-4 different things at once. My main focus is to make sure tanks survive tank busters, the group lives thru multiple AOEs and mitigate damage as best I can - while throwing down some damage/DOTs in the middle.

I think healer burnout is a real thing.

[IceBlueNinja]

Oh my lol. But it does not bother me, If i get bored to heal I just switch to rdm if am dps hungry easy fix. Also finally I do not run out of resources as sage unless its maybe dark night with their crummy lack of defensive kit. I do not recall saying I have a resource management problemwhat if I wanna press toxicon, maybe I just am tired of looking at the diamonds and wanna build them back up, its at the end of the day you play something you want for fun, not to satisfy others all the time. healers will never ever dps any actual dps unless that dps is new and dies every 5 seconds. why dont we ask devs then to make tanks and dps have (not counting smn/rdm) have big heals shields res spells and everything then, maybe do a final fantasy 12 thing be a duo job that the only thing I can think of lol.

[IceBlueNinja]

I loved ast so much in stormblood, hated the card changes in 5.0 (also dont like the sleeve draw change I liked the speediness of it) but stuck with ast and then the 6.0 changes made me drop the job completely and I swapped to scholar for savage. But as I said in another thread my eyes now just glaze over when healing even in savage at this point. It's just so boring to do. At this point I am barely playing so I hope to enjoy 6.1 story.. I have decided this tier is my last as a healer and I will swap to dps where I hope I can find the fun in fights again.

Yep stormblood ast was the best as soon as EW took away stances and we kept the same boring shadow bringers system cards but 10x worst i just toss my star globe immediately and hop on sage, its really sad, but you know alot of ungrateful people found stormblood ast too over whelming to play it seem so it got bruised into a worthless copy clone full whm with yawn 5%/8% single dps cards.

[Recon1o6]

Remember back when HW was released, the developers explicitly said that Ast and Drk were for higher skill players? funny how that has come crashing down

[RinaShinomiya]

If i get bored to heal I just switch to rdm if am dps hungry easy fix.

Lets contribute to longer qeue times for DPS and make the healer role even less popular than it already is, great solution. I wish people like you were the ones designing this game. I'd unsub in a heartbeat.

[Jirah]

My enthusiasm depleted for healing as I keep getting warriors for 4 man content and they are too broken and content far too lenient for me to do my job and 8 man content where I’m not a healer but a babysitter praying for someone to screw up with far as hell raid wides and putrid tank busters

Then tried savage and learned it’s STILL STILL doesn’t requires much after the initial clear. If everyone knows their mechanics in left spamming Glare.

[Acece]

What I've noticed recently is that the quality of healers have also gone down significantly. Every healer just spams their medica 2 equivalent after every raid wide/mech and not use their overabundance of ogcs. Mind you this is in savage not normal content so they have had time to learn. I've also been recruiting for my static and I can not find any healers lol. I'm probably going to be forced to heal cause we can't find any healers and pf healers are so bad.