I would like to encourage everyone to keep providing the feedback YoshiP asked for.

[Laphicet]

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So a thread where all are invited to talk is okay for summoners and bard players to come in here and talk. but the minute a healer player comes in they're told to get the fuck out and keep getting harrassed for sharing their viewpoint and pointing out hypocritical behavior regarding how roles are treated. Seems kind of unfair to me.

And they're right, and have been right, it's not that things are disorganized, far from it. In fact I don't recall any other role organizing the community to mass upvote a question during a QnA so it'd have to be answered (only for the question to be outright dismissed and healer players told to "just go play ultimate if you're unhappy with the role"). I also don't recall any other role having a megathread that lasted over an expansion, much less two threads (summary of healer issues & have you quit healing). Closest you have is the DRK megathread but that's only been going since 2021. I also can't think of another role that can readily clarify their points as well as most healer threads do (Boring DPS kit, gear is too samey and ugly, bloated heal kit that we don't get to use enough, classes were gutted, complaints are regularly ignored, all of it boils down to these five issues). I'd say healers are far, FAR more organized than DPS players are, by far, it's just that they lack the numbers and the community representatives to back them, since healer is a niche role that usually gets ignored in the first place.

And since this is a thread where everyone can talk, or you market it as such, I guess I'll make those points once more. Since everyone is welcome, right?
-Healer DPS kits are lacking, it would be nice if we could get DPS kits on par with tanks or lower-level casters so we could have more to do during the huge periods of downtime one gets with even a modicum of skill, plus something to actually do in solo content.
-Healer gear has a problem with being far too samey, the grand majority of it being white priest robes, ugly baggy robes, or extrememly feminine in design both when robes and not robes (the femininity isn't a problem here, its the fact that there's not enough variety). Either add more masculine robe designs and such (Think stuff like Mogh's robe from Elden Ring (see image in spoiler block) or stuff like the Deepshadow healer Gear), or actually give healer a far more diverse selection of gear designs... More Adventurer gear and less priestly or strategist gear, basically... or maybe an actual set of armor that isn't defiled with a frilly tailcoat (I'll never forgive them for butchering Judge Drace's armor).

-Healer kit is too bloated for current content / don't get to heal enough. People often misinterpret this complaint as people saying we want content to be harder as a whole. Rather, we want the kit to match the content better, or most of us do. Either increase the outgoing damage so we actually use the bloated kits to their fullest in most content (bad idea as it raises the skill floor and sqeenix don't wanna do that), give people buff abilities or secondary effects on heals that lend toward support, or go with the first point and expand the DPS kits and slightly decrease the heal kits to compensate. (or just tack the DPS stuff on top, wouldn't hurt too bad with some ability compression / key sharing).
-Classes were gutted, this much is true. A lot of the lore flavor was lost across all three healers, and so was gameplay complexity. Honestly, I think bringing back the lore flavoring is the most important thing to address here. So, basically, bring lore back into the class kits and fix the lore inconsistencies the devs created (in spite of claiming they never wanted to do such and even using such as an excuse to not fix DRK Living dead). Bring back the unique card effects on AST somehow, alter/remove neutral sect so its not lore inconsistent, and bring back Nocturnal sect (maybe make it shift cast speed or front-load the regens or something? It doesn't HAVE to be shields, its just a different sect that focuses on the moon and night stars). Bring the elemental stuff back to White mage so it can stop being a bishop and be an actual white mage again. Bring back the arcanist roots of scholar rather than having it be its own thing, as well as bring back the twin faeries and the whole dual purposes thing mentioned in the quests, also make them more in-depth on the offense front... they were frontline tacticians after all and not just there to look pretty and slap magic bandages on wounds.
-Actually listen to healer complaints. Healer slide was skipped over in the pre-ShB liveletter, and its just been downhill from there. Devs never listen nor seem to give a single iota of care toward healers. And when healers brute force things to draw attention to the role, like the QnA, they get politely told to get lost. Devs need to actually listen to the healer community, same as any other role. I could go a lot more into this point and hypocrisies on the dev side, but it's honestly as simple as they need to actually listen, same as they should for every role.