Quote Originally Posted by T-Owl View Post
Can you in any shape or form back your numbers or are you just trying to frame yourself as the silent majority like people with opinions on certain movies and comics on Youtube try to do? Just from my personal experience, just catching a glimps at cast bars when doing just random dungeon content, the majority of healers in very high level content seem to be fairly competent in upholding high levels of dps uptime and play with a basic level of competence in casual content, not just 1 in 2. I feel like generally, people overestimate the incompetence of the FF14 community, it seems like most do fairly well in current casual content once its not first time anymore and lack in older content that is not very common in roulettes because many people forget the mechanics at some point and it usually isn't done often enough to keep them memorized.

And to be honest, you could just as well claim that cleric stance was removed because pure heal sylphie minded fanatics bullied new healers who were still about to learn and optimize when to use it and not to use it and find the right balance between dpsing and healing, which will mean that sometimes players will not saved from their own mistakes by a healer. I think the removal of cleric stance without anything in return comes with SEs schizophrenia when it comes to healers. They are pushed heavily into the direction of DPSing alot and were from the very beginning by the very design of the game and at the same time SE pays lipservice to nooo healers don't have to dps. To be it feels like backing down in front of very hardcore pure healer fanatics who in my subjective experience with the community tend to be fairly abusive and intimidating.
I posted some data to him a while ago when he asked me if I had evidence that the healer role was not popular or well received recently though most of the data was from ShB since there is little to no data for endwalker and somehow he interpreted me having outdated data meant the healer role was totally fine despite presenting no data of his own. So yes he is big on framing his opinion as being the “silent majority” with nothing to back it up