Quote Originally Posted by Denji View Post
I'm actually quite fond of it, too -- except for whm at low levels. I'm sorry but everyone else gets regens and shields and they get diddly squat. That said...

I have played many MMOs and honestly, complaints over healers always seems to be the primary focus. A small but vocal minority always screeches about the other healers having something they don't and just how much more damage they want to do. They always say just how broken healers are in -this- MMO but when you ask them to cite an MMO what had healers they liked, they can't. They just can't. There are no other healers they like. They are never satisfied. Ever.
I can, quite easily, in more than one game. you probably haven't heard it about one of them , however it's still alive, although f2P and much smaller now- and for year, healers were one of the most popular jobs. In thht game, healers were THE job for years for the hardest content for healing, could carry groups in PVP healing, and wer not the highest DPS in PVE but were in the top tier- so not equivalent to a BLM, but better than a SMN. It's called Aion if you're curious.

So the only "screeching" that I see is from ill-informed people who are claiming that no one is ever satisfied anywhere. Please stop exaggerating. There are good examples to draw on elsewhere, when people say that FFXIV has really dumbed down some aspects of the healing job in this game it isn't without justification.