What are your thoughts on FFXIV's combat?

[Misplaced_Marbles]

The problem is that once you get more experience you realize you only feel useful, but you aren't actually as useful in reality. Pretty much any sprout blindly spamming Medica II can keep a group alive just fine. In certain content like lv90 dungeons you're barely needed and in Normal raids you're just surplus and your co-heal could do the job for both of you.

Keeping people alive is a joke, your group could easily replace you and the only way to be genuinely useful is to contribute high dps while keeping everyone alive. But since the developers have made sure most content has no dps check and meters are banned, no one cares if you did damage (or might even dislike you for it).

The more experience you have, the less rewarding healing is and the more pointless you realize it is.

You don't even need experience for that considering i was just leveling SMN/SCH (almost exlusively using SMN) to 90 on a character, decided to go through a few duty support dungeons as a scholar for a change, had a massive kit of healing spell that i never used since healing the party to full health was as easy as pressing a single button once, and even that usually went to overhealing since the enemies/bosses are never a threat if nobody facetanks mechanics on purpose. Even then the only reason it's a threat is the vulnerability stacks. Whatever Ronso could possibly be talking about is beyond me. I imagine it's more like "i feel useful as i watch netflix/some twitch streamer/youtube video on my second monitor".

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Whatever Ronso could possibly be talking about is beyond me. I imagine it's more like "i feel useful as i watch netflix/some twitch streamer/youtube video on my second monitor".

LoL, didnt think the "I feel useful" line would get so much focus, considering I only said it as a Quick phrase because I couldnt think of better wording at the time.
If you only ever had to press one healing spell and never used anything else, sounds like you had a good Warrior, because they have insane self-sustain. Otherwise, there is no way you were over-healing with just 1 spell and nothing was ever a threat. Also was this your experience in Raids and Trials as well, or is this just specifically Dungeons?

Only time I ever put up a Video is the Lv50 MSQ Roulette.
If you get bored, Im sorry to hear that.

[Supersnow845]

LoL, didnt think the "I feel useful" line would get so much focus, considering I only said it as a Quick phrase because I couldnt think of better wording at the time.
If you only ever had to press one healing spell and never used anything else, sounds like you had a good Warrior, because they have insane self-sustain. Otherwise, there is no way you were over-healing with just 1 spell and nothing was ever a threat. Also was this your experience in Raids and Trials as well, or is this just specifically Dungeons?

Only time I ever put up a Video is the Lv50 MSQ Roulette.
If you get bored, Im sorry to hear that.

I mean play SGE and 90% of your healing can be done with kardia and kerachole even without a WAR, healing with like 1 spell isn’t that hard or rare

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I mean play SGE and 90% of your healing can be done with kardia and kerachole even without a WAR, healing with like 1 spell isn’t that hard or rare

You arnt gonna be constantly over-healing through the run though unless you got a decent Warrior in a Dungeon run.
Or unless you are running old easy content that isnt demanding.
IDK, maybe Im just doing it wrong if Im putting in some effort while everybody else can just hit 1 spell and be good for the whole dungeon or whatever content.

[ASkellington]

You arnt gonna be constantly over-healing through the run though unless you got a decent Warrior in a Dungeon run.
Or unless you are running old easy content that isnt demanding.
IDK, maybe Im just doing it wrong if Im putting in some effort while everybody else can just hit 1 spell and be good for the whole dungeon or whatever content.

If we're talking strictly bosses then yes I can hit 1 spell and be done. Exaltation on the Tank for busters because they literally come every minute and it covers it. Earthly Star or Celestial Opposition for AOE damage.

Damage is too infrequent on bosses to prove much of a challenge outside of a handful of fights. I find it absurd that two pack trash mobs make my cycle through my cool downs more than bosses.

Now I'll grant you, things like this only happen if my party doesn't stand in the bad often or even on occasion... but I don't have bad parties often enough for me to think "yeah 2 charges of Celestial Intersection and Essential Dignity are necessary".

[Sebazy]

You arnt gonna be constantly over-healing through the run though unless you got a decent Warrior in a Dungeon run.
Or unless you are running old easy content that isnt demanding.
IDK, maybe Im just doing it wrong if Im putting in some effort while everybody else can just hit 1 spell and be good for the whole dungeon or whatever content.

Current dungeon boss tank busters hit on average around 40-50k on a non tank job completely unmitigated if my memory serves correctly.

On a tank with mitigation such as Benison? You might be seeing sub 10k, a quick flip through my logs sees an average of 10-15k.

If these hits were frequent, that'd be fine but they aren't. Stigma 4 does literally 1 tank buster in ~3 minutes. IMHO these sort of hits should be untelegraphed and coming in every 30 seconds at the least.