G-give it Back T---T; !! (Scholar Edition)

[Renathras]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-healer-issues

There's a big thread in the healer section atm basically fed up with the Shadowbringers Healer design onwards, alot of people were outright unhappy with the whole gutting of offensive abilites with healers in general. Scholar Expecially suffers the worst being gutted to a mere 3 DPS buttons. They need to just abandon this whole "pure healer" design and focus on a more "combat medic" approach where healers are essentially rear line support and long range DPS when people aren't in danger.

Uh...

...strong No.

Some people feel that way, but many don't want to be budget DPS or DPS at home or ARPG "supports". They want to be HEALERS, and this game did have that as a role in 1.X and 2.X and 3.X excepting SCH getting squirrely. Not everyone wants to be a "long range DPS" who is there just to make the other DPS players have more fun. A "support b--ch", if you will.

People wanting to HEAL on the HEALER role isn't a weird thing. People wanting to DPS on the HEALER role kinda is. But a good game can accommodate all kinds. WoW, for example, had Discipline "heal by dealing damage" Priests alongside Holy Priests. RIFT had Chloromancer Mages (heal by dealing damage) alongside more traditional "target party member, cast heal" healers. ARR did this with WHM as a healer and SCH as a support hybrid healer/DPSer. Everquest managed this 25 years ago. The idea that the only option is going "dps at home who occasionally heals the REAL dpsers so they can have fun fighting the dragon" is absurd.

EDIT:

Common Renathras L, move along people.

Funny how I can post an opinion, actually explained.

Someone posts a snarky rebuttal that adds exactly zero to the conversation: 6 likes.

This is why we can't have nice things/nuanced and respectful conversations, folks. Be better, people.