The Dead Ends is brutal for tanks, I end up quitting any random queues for this duty

[ty_taurus]

Not excusing anything, but the game could do a better job at teaching about dispels. I know they added the blue line above cleansable debuffs in ShB (I believe), but the game never explains what the line means. It’s also not as noticeable as it could be. I’ve seen third-party plugins that actually highlight player names and/or place an icon above their character model that indicates they need a cleanse. I know SE doesn’t like the evil add-ons, but something like that might be beneficial in the future. Maybe something for them to think about.

Regarding Doom, there are two kinds in FFXIV: heal to full Dooms and Esuna Dooms. The game does a poor job of really teaching which is which. Even with the new cleansable line, I’ve caught healers in Dun Scaith attempting to heal to cleanse Deathgaze Hollow’s Doom versus using Esuna—and seen them try to Esuna the Doom in Wanderer’s Palace HM versus healing to full. Maybe different icons would help with this. However, the Wanderer’s Palace boss gives you a clue that the debuff is a heal to full mechanic, but people don’t always pay attention to dialogue boxes.

Dead Ends is also a new kind of Doom debuff that differs from the standard Doom.

Something I've wanted for years now is changing cleansable debuffs to be displayed like they are in FFXII (similar to other aspects of the game's UI) where the debuff icon and name should flicker while overlaying the afflicted party member's HP bar in the party window. You can check out this example:


https://imgur.com/Xa9P4C7

You can also see what the flickering aspect looks like during gameplay in this video example of the same boss. You can also skip ahead to about 2:15 to see what it looks like when someone has multiple cleansable debuffs at a time, after the boss uses Confuse on the blinded Vaan.
https://youtu.be/95UjHTt0XCY?t=75

As it stands, debuffs that can be cleansed are not only not visible enough for most players, but it's also something that only gets used a handful of times per expansion and thus is very easy to forget/ignore. Considering Esuna has to eat up space on our hotbars anyway, I'd like to see me actually need to use it for a change. I'm sure Bards wouldn't mind seeing Paean justifying its existence as well. And if we increase the visibility of cleansable debuffs, that can also justify using them more in content.