Quote Originally Posted by DrWho2010 View Post
People say it isn't fun to play gimped with barely any "good" gear. while this may be true it is up to each individual to make this decision. This is allllll a "you" problem.

Yoshi-p will simply just counter with ilvl is this, we've gone as far as we're going to go on this. Do the japanese care this much about this subject? I'm guessing not otherwise we would have seen changes on this by now.
How is it a "you" problem if we're simply choosing not to engage with something we don't find fun? I'm not upset I can't PF. I simply shrug it off and do something else. Would I like to practice my healers? Yep. I'm not in any immediate rush though. So I'll wait until I have better gear.

It is, however, a developer problem when Yoshida starts begging people to give healers a try. He can counter with whatever statement he fancies. If people aren't doing it, then his counter means nothing. Now you have two disgruntled groups instead of one. And JP has been experiencing the same issue with healer shortages. They were the ones who brought it up in the Q&A to begin with.

Quote Originally Posted by DrWho2010 View Post
There is healer shortage because the tier is actually a bit harder to heal than previous content and a lot of people are going "waaaaaaahh it too hard waaaahhh". And then yes you get randos in PF who have no idea what mitigation is (addle, feint, etc.) because they've never had to think that hard before either and you have a recipe for the storm that we have now.
While I do not doubt this is a contributing factor. It isn't the only one. People have largely been fed up with the terrible healing design this game has insisted upon since Shadowbringers. Many of the good healers have simply moved on to playing DPS because they actually get to do something besides spam one button endlessly. Which ties back into the healer shortage as now they're only gearing healer as a potential secondary or even tertiary job. Prange is another role usually in short supply. And wouldn't you know, they all were gutted in Shadowbringers to. It's almost like this new direction has been poorly received for years now and they've stubbornly clung to it that now people are simply refusing to play both roles.