Healer Survey:

[Renathras]

I actually set these up for...

Minor quibble: You have to pick a "more" category. The question doesn't let you submit without it. Even if there's a Job where you don't want any more actions, respondents aren't allowed the opportunity to NOT say they want more. There should be a "no new actions" and a "reduce/consolidate actions" choice. I know a lot of people feel like SCH and especially AST have too many and need a reduction.

I like the basic idea, though. If you could make those changes, I'd post them into my survey OPs too to see if we could get more participants that way.

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Because Ty proposed it.

I literally took his questions, added words to make them neutral (e.g. instead of "are you dissatisfied? If not why not?" I changed it to "Are you satisfied/dissatisfied?"), and added a fourth question to see if people wanting more damage buttons wanted just a few or wanted a full on DPS rotation.

Man you're the one making all these threads, surveys, whatevers, to try and find 'support for your view'.

Because Ty LITERALLY asked me to: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post6215580

It's almost like someone trying to support your argument proposed something thinking I wouldn't do it, then when I did it, collectively there's now a realization it could provide actual hard data suggesting your collective position isn't as unassailable as you guys always insist that it is; and in an effort to "get out in front of this", you're all attacking the questions, survey, and methodology before the results have even come in because you're afraid it won't support your position as absolute.

The thing is, NO position is absolute. It was just lying to yourselves for you guys to think so all this time.

Many times I've been asked to provide data to support my position - something never asked of anyone on the side opposed to me - and many times I've provided it, only for it to be ignored or "That doesn't count!"-ed. I said to Ty that would probably happen this time as well - lo and behold, it's happening...like I'm some kind of prophet here or somethin' - but I said:

Though, you know what?

I'm gonna do it anyway. Because now I'm curious...

"What're you doing?!"
"What am I doing??"
"Thwartin' my plans?!"
"Thwarting your plans??"
"ARE you?!?"
"..... You know what? YES!"

[Vegeta Trunks thwarting my plans?]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fS80eaPKXs

All those worries and all that potential fracturing of false appeal to your position just being default and accepted aside, I don't really care about that stuff.

What I care about is, what does the community collectively actually feel and want. Because they're as much players as you are, as am I.

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If you have a problem with the questions - complain to Ty. He's the one that proposed them.

But it is interesting to me how quickly all of you are to attack an actual attempt to see what the community really thinks. Almost as if you know, as I have long thought as well, that your position is not a commanding majority of the playerbase as a whole. A point I've been shot down on every time I suggested it, but which seems to match reality. Or, perhaps it's merely something so base as fearing I might be right about something and will gloat about it or some such.

For my part, I just want to know the truth. What does the data actually show.

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But hey, if YOU think you can do it better, by all means - post your survey. Then we can compare notes. Just remember to add in a question on the end: "On a scale of 1-10, how much would you like the Healer Job you play to remain as it is (with expansions adding the typical 1-2 new abilities/upgrades to existing abilities)?" and "On a scale of 1-10, would you be willing to accept the game changing 1 Healer to be very damage rotation complex, 2 Healers to be moderately complex, and leave 1 Healer as it is today for players that enjoy the current playstyle?"

Then we can compare notes and see what the people seem to be saying.

The reality is, the community's position on the whole is nuanced.