Has anyone quit healing?

[Silver-Strider]

SE has a vision on want they want healers to be, and they believe that mother knows best regardless of how we feel about it.

And it's that mentality that has caused me to cancel my sub. I can't enjoy my role and it just makes all other content dull as a result. It sucks because as much as I like the game, it's just not the game that I remember falling in love with back in ARR.

[Nizzi]

And it's that mentality that has caused me to cancel my sub. I can't enjoy my role and it just makes all other content dull as a result. It sucks because as much as I like the game, it's just not the game that I remember falling in love with back in ARR.

I don't blame you at all. I have about the same loop when it comes to PvE content in XIV:
1. I want to play as a healer, but spamming Broil/Glare/etc over and over is boring and there's nothing to heal. I also do not have the time to offer to prog Ultimate in this supposedly "casual friendly" game, so I can only consume the content for "casuals"
2. Because healing is not fun, I play as a DPS job (BLM)
3. It can be fun, but most of the time I wish I was playing a healer and it makes the content less enjoyable.
4. Don't play healer because healers aren't fun.

I've already spent most of this expac unsubbed from XIV and I'm sure I'm going to unsub again here shortly once I've gotten my fill of trying all the jobs on PvP, and this time likely until 6.3 or 6.4. From there, I'll probably just use the free weekends to come back and catch up on stuff until 7.0 comes out, if this game even manages to keep me involved enough to bother with 7.0 when I'm willing to make a large bet now that they will absolutely not address healer issues in the slightest if they deviate from this grand vision. I can't see myself actively staying subbed when they treat the role I want to play as poorly as they do, and I'm not willing to put up with the idea of sitting through another expansion with this unfun "gameplay" that is quite frankly, incredibly insulting to our intelligence. There's still a lot of the "side content" I find fun, but PvE is the main draw for me. As it stands, XIV is not a game worth paying money for.