Quote Originally Posted by Erik501 View Post
Sorry but I see this "story" repeated over and over again and it is very very far from an accurate description of Yoshida's answer. No, that was not the answer at all. He first provided a quite substantial explanation about what their purpose was, that we were in the first patch, that they wanted everybody to have an easy go in the first tier, that things would get a bit harder as the patches roll and then, after he gave his complete answer he added, clearly in a joking tone, that you could "play ultimate and suffer" IIRC. You may agree or disagree with his reasons to keep it as easy as it is (meaning the reasons explained before the actual joke), of course, but completely ignoring the important part of the answer, I mean, the real answer, and then quoting the irrelevant part of it completely out of context as if it was the only answer is not only unfair, it is dishonest.
The problem is this is not a new complaint this is a complaint that has been going on since Stormblood. It shouldn't take several patch cycles for a healer to play and feel like a healer. So when you have complaints that span almost 5 years, and you joke and say to go play ultimate it's easy to see that as sincere. And it is funny because in the past Yoshi P has said healers are healers they are not meant to dps at all they are meant to heal. I don't think Yoshi has a clue, because the game has been designed with DPS requirements requiring healers to DPS, and small sections of AOE healing to give the healer a purpose for those healing spells. The jobs aren't designed well as healers, they aren't designed well for dps, and the content now is not designed well for them at all. So I wouldn't consider it unfair or dishonest I would consider it a distasteful joke.