Has anyone quit healing?

[Alrin]

Some time ago i thought that i will drop healing but just cant. Its just me. I love healing....well the small parts when it is really needed.

I dropped AST because i miss Stormblood AST. I dropped SGE because i dont enjoy playing it even though i tried to like it.

I just juggle between WHM and SCH depending on the mood.

[Gember]

I've played White Mage for a little over 3 years, and I have no dislikes about the job, but I am worned out from playing it. (It was a childhood memory for me in older games such as FFXI.) I am trying to main a different healer so it would be a refresher to the game, and I chose Scholar. I would had went Astrologian, but its a other pure healer and I wanted to know the barrier side more.

[Videra]

Playing WoW again with 10.0 and experiencing the wonder that is playing Disc Priest again has made me feel so, so much more jaded about XIV healers. There's no real interactivity, and I think I might just play DPS and tanks from here on.

[Desna]

Still healing but retiring my main AST for a while. I'm so sick of being told changes are coming and holding my breath mentally preparing for something that never happens. Its exhausting and leaves a bad taste in my mouth :/

That's the rub. Yoshi and his team admit there's a problem. They admit they have nobody in the design teams who Mains healers and plays healers more than anything else. The whole role in the game is lacking representation in the design teams and it's left the role out in the cold to the point now....raid teams are running without a healer at all and healers are scrambling to be two roles at the same time (Heal and DPS) and we're loosing our identities, the play isn't getting updates it needs, the jobs are all suffering from this mass of buffs and nerfs instead of real meaningful updates while we watch tanks and DPS jobs getting updated, so...they can leave the Healers even farther behind in the dust. If they really cared? If it really mattered, they would have done something by now, would have hired people who Main healers, or even consulted with players who main healers and have for years on what specific changes/updates would be meaningful and would help the role progress and keep up.

[IceBlueNinja]

Am thinking if not advised even if this a lazy way... they can just make the healer damage spells they have separate example whm stone 1 2 3 4 glare 1 and 2 is all able to be use as once(see fall troia whm yholta) and ofc aero 1 and 2 ...rather than then being a upgrade base on content lvl if they dont wanna give complex stuff...

[Gorondu]

I will stop healing. It is not as much fun as tank or dps. Additionally, I don't like casting classes.

[Ultran]

Swapped from Ast to Drk. I just got too bored playing healer in most content. Healer feels too often like a 5th wheel. Yes, the party has to take you with them but they would mostly be fine without me being there as a healer, as the damage is just non-existent.

[Jirah]

No but lots of people want me to quit. I swear the casual crowd throws a tantrum when I don’t summon a fairy or use kardia but don’t notice I haven’t used a single spell what so ever in the whole run and clear it due to natural health regeneration for bosses or WAR soloing things as organically as plants with teeth.

“Stop making the run difficult”

Sweetie the run is impossible to fail unless we all jump into aoe pools, the healer is useless

[Semirhage]

Queuing into content without a party of friends is a test of my decision to quit healing. I'd estimate there's about an 80%+ chance that any healer I get in a roulette is going to be godawful at this game. I don't mean "hurr hurr look at this scrub healer only casting Holy 10 times in this pull what a noob" bad. I mean standing in one spot. Casting Cure when the tank gets to 95% HP. Making sure Medica 2 is running when one of the DPS takes 10% of their HP in damage. Maybe casting ONE Holy during a single, single-pulled trash pack. Standing around waiting for damage in boss fights. It can't be this hard to see how little damage goes out in this game. It just can't.

[Mesarthim]

Queuing into content without a party of friends is a test of my decision to quit healing. I'd estimate there's about an 80%+ chance that any healer I get in a roulette is going to be godawful at this game. I don't mean "hurr hurr look at this scrub healer only casting Holy 10 times in this pull what a noob" bad. I mean standing in one spot. Casting Cure when the tank gets to 95% HP. Making sure Medica 2 is running when one of the DPS takes 10% of their HP in damage. Maybe casting ONE Holy during a single, single-pulled trash pack. Standing around waiting for damage in boss fights. It can't be this hard to see how little damage goes out in this game. It just can't.

I'd just like to imagine most tankbusters outside of extremes and savage making those toy sqeaky noises whenever they hit someone. Most times they won't even die as a dps or healer. Just imagine if those got mitigated: health doesn't move. I think it is pretty telling though when, for the sake of time, i queue as healer only to get a queue moving and not to actually be a "healer" with the idea of healing as a primary. I chunk out more damage than some dps do just spamming one button in trash mobs as Sage.

Halone have mercy on my soul when it dumps me into an ARR leveling dungeon. Can't even aoe until the last two. Damage taken just doesn't exist in most.