What if Support Role was Added to FFXIV?

[Gemina]

Neither is your love for the present state of healing. Admittedly, we're therefore probably not going to see eye to eye on much that surrounds it.

Alas, this is about support tools anyways. The person you initially quoted asked for healers to have more of them (the intersection here), to which you responded that the addition was already made (despite its only ever having being reduced since Stormblood)... because healing. (?)


Which is it, then? Do you want my opinion, or that of some ambiguous camp of "others"?


You realize, though, that conflating critiques necessarily with some fatalistic extreme of "the MMO community is utterly unappeasable"... is dismissive, right?

I'm not asking to appease the entire MMO community at large across its every game. I'm noting that when development reduces things to its least common denominator alone, by taking the easy way time after time (repeatedly pulling the plug on an area of design instead of rectifying the particular issues behind some given attempt), the result is more often barren than polished.


I haven't argued anything to do with the power of healers. My focus has been solely on gameplay, specifically in what can be done with/around Support tools.

Look, if your stance is to just say the opposite of my own statements, then not only will we never see eye to eye, the conversation was already over before it even began. If you are willing to lessen the thickness of your skull, and actually try to see where my views are coming from, then I will be happy to have a normal adult conversation with you about FFXIV, and the state of support in the game. If you think your focus has been anything other than to undermine my own statements, and regurgitate the echoes of the chamber, you are extremely misled.

Try to enjoy the game in the meantime.