Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Midareyukki]

I liked having Miasma 2. I liked having Aero 3.

...ok, no one gave two Loporrits about Stella, but it's the thought that counts uwu

But healers can totally have more buttons to press without it diving into a glorified DPS mode. Heck, if you want, you can just make those buttons gimmicks, like procs as Allegor said.

I don't think these buttons that aren't meant to turn your gameplay into a full rotation would hamper your performance on prog. You don't have to think about them any more than you already do for Dia, Afflatus Misery, Assize...

[RitsukoSonoda]

I liked having Miasma 2. I liked having Aero 3.

...ok, no one gave two Loporrits about Stella, but it's the thought that counts uwu

But healers can totally have more buttons to press without it diving into a glorified DPS mode. Heck, if you want, you can just make those buttons gimmicks, like procs as Allegor said.

I don't think these buttons that aren't meant to turn your gameplay into a full rotation would hamper your performance on prog. You don't have to think about them any more than you already do for Dia, Afflatus Misery, Assize...

Healers totally can have more offensive buttons without diving into DPS mode... However after doing Bozja I feel like a majority of players would be a different story. XD

[ty_taurus]

I doubt anyone was saying to have a BLM-type rotation. You literally can't even have that much complex a rotation as a healer, considering how unstable your role is. The point of what was said was to have more buttons and more interaction with your kit, not necessarily to have specific comboed actions and having to go overboard on buff windows.

I'm not saying Healers should have something like NIN's opener or anything, nor do I want a boring 1-2-3 combo or think that every healer even needs combo actions, but I don't fully agree with the idea that they cannot have combo actions. Regardless of whether or not you need to stop to heal, there's no reason to assume healing spells would interrupt those combo actions since nowadays there are more spells and weaponskills even on the DPS that explicitly don't interrupt combos than there are that still do. As for burst windows, fights are already designed to almost always create mechanic downtimes for burst windows. Sometimes fights force you to hold burst windows, but every spot where you use them, there's nothing really happening.

I don't think these buttons that aren't meant to turn your gameplay into a full rotation would hamper your performance on prog. You don't have to think about them any more than you already do for Dia, Afflatus Misery, Assize...

I don't really think that should matter for prog because DPS doesn't really matter until you start hitting enrage anyway. They don't really make mid-fight DPS checks these days. By that time you actually reach enrage, you should have already started cleaning up your resource usage.

Again, I'm not saying healers need to have MCH Hypercharge windows, but my point is I don't think we need to be afraid of some healers having a modest DPS rotation. And I think SGE especially would make a lot of sense having a rotation that feels like a DPS lite where some of the challenge of the job is in trying to maintain that uptime while still being a healer, not unlike how GNB's rotation can sometimes make it challenging to reposition bosses. Having a more technical option for the role, especially when the other healers don't need to reach that level, is not a bad thing and allows those who want that challenge to have a job that caters to that.

[VelKallor]

Imo, the XIV craze is nearly over. All the streamers who wanted to get buzz from XIV got their fill. WoW is back to being the most watched mmo, with Lost Ark always somehow being the 2nd......

Who gives a toss about streamers? Twitch is not an accurate metric of anything. People are playing the game, not watching it.

XIV is back to doing free logins, and perhaps overestimated their popularity with desolate servers.........

[sharknado]

People are playing the game, not watching it.

More like taking a break till 6.4 or 7.0, at least compared to how it was during 6.0 Twitch and social media "metrics" are a measure of game popularity to some extent. Events like WoW world first race are quite a big advertisement for the game and are done via streaming. Sadly FF14 progression often is super secretive because addons

[Coatl]

Stop having the boss just stand there just to cast mechanics. Make boss autos crit again. Make more mechanics in which individual DPS need pampering. Make a return of some tankbusters not having a castbar.

Make healers THINK on their FEET. There's a million ways to make healing more engaging besides cramming a bunch of extra buttons where they don't belong. It's already tedious slamming your keyboard on AST every 2 minutes because your raid buffs happen to line up with a heal check.

[Allegor]

I mean, I know dungeons were never a main focus aside from story purposes, but when trash pulls are harder and have a higher chance of wiping than a boss fight, there's kind of a problem....though I feel most people don't care either way /sigh

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Random damage to random target like lv59 Gubal dungeon first boss AAs would be nice, as well.

[VelKallor]

Sadly FF14 progression often is super secretive because addons

...........well maybe if they decided to do the run cleanly and not cheat, that would change.

Thats on them..wouldnt you say?

[BRVV]

...........well maybe if they decided to do the run cleanly and not cheat, that would change.

Thats on them..wouldnt you say?

wrong topic?