Goodbye, and good luck.

[Mesarthim]

I ceased being a healer main ever since Shadowbringers deleted my job, barely touch AST besides leveling.

I'm less a healer main and now a wildcard that just chooses a particular job in a given type (DRK, RDM, SGE mostly, and the latter is least preferred for queues).

[Supersnow845]

I’m also transitioning in DT towards more being a “wildcard main” focusing on the shield healers, PLD and PIC because I just don’t have it in me to exclusively main a healer anymore given nothing ever changes anymore

[Zaytex]

I've been sucked into a static with friends and have no choice but to heal, so I'll be doing that in DT... which I guess will be tons of fun for prog but I'm already dreading the weekly reclears I'll have to do. God it may actually kill me now that I don't have AST to fall back on after clearing a fight... the fact that I'm only excited to play healer in week 1 content and nowhere else is truly representative of its issues.

[GoatOfWar]

I’m also transitioning in DT towards more being a “wildcard main” focusing on the shield healers, PLD and PIC because I just don’t have it in me to exclusively main a healer anymore given nothing ever changes anymore

The grass isn't greener in the tank role.
Hope you enjoy your stay, and try to ignore the unnecessary Warrior buffs every patch.
Those happen a lot.

[Absurdity]

The grass isn't greener in the tank role.
Hope you enjoy your stay, and try to ignore the unnecessary Warrior buffs every patch.
Those happen a lot.

And the gameplay akin to a level 50 melee DPS job.

[GoatOfWar]

Level 50 is a bit much,unless we're talking about current Warrior. But level 70 dps yeah pretty much.
At level 70 Dark knight and Gnb have more damage buttons than level 70 Reaper.
They're dead set on further simplifying tanks in Dawntrail, so maybe you're right though.

[Supersnow845]

That’s why I plan to become a wildcard main, I don’t think PLD alone has enough to justify an entire expansion as my main either which is why I won’t only be a PLD main either

[GoatOfWar]

That’s why I plan to become a wildcard main, I don’t think PLD alone has enough to justify an entire expansion as my main either which is why I won’t only be a PLD main either

Support design in this game in general is just stupid.
I'm just going to play melee in Dawntrail. I started out as a Scholar main, but got bored of spamming broil.
Endwalker came out, and it would *tooootally* be different with the introduction of Sage! Or so people said.
Sage just ended up being scholar with more personal damage and instant casts at the cost of some utility. The devs didn't listen so i moved over to tank.
I found out the hard way, that the grass isn't greener here and that tanks have their own design issues in the form of an overfed, spoiled group of mains that always get their way.
A new tank will just be a worse Warrior clone with some extra steps.
And if it does something cool or unique, a certain group of players will ensure every tank can do it, making it no longer cool or unique. I genuinely do not see the need for new supports anymore.

I actually just want a complete overhaul of the supports at this point, and ideally they move Warrior to melee dps to avoid future homogenisation.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Support design in this game in general is just stupid[...]

This is what I feel ultimately. Healer/Support jobs is my bread and butter choice in every single game I played & I can never stray too far from that. I may play DPS in off times but nothing screams like home like support jobs to me.

When I play support job in other games, the sentiment was "I know people gonna need/desire me, and I will do my best to fill that gaping hole in their party!" and accompanied by other's perspective to my job of "I can finish this mission just fine on my own. But if I recruit [X support] to my cause, my life will be much easier and I can even farm this more efficiently!"

Now shove me mind to FFXIV, what I get instead is "Lol I'm just here to make sure DF queue pops..." whereas other's take for support jobs be like "But I don't want to get c*cked or depend on support jobs, please make me immortal solo god!"

Support job just feels like a garbage over here. I'm only staying in the game for certain social circle that should not be named that I hope they won't be stupid enough to bork anytime in near future.

[Absurdity]

Level 50 is a bit much,unless we're talking about current Warrior. But level 70 dps yeah pretty much.
At level 70 Dark knight and Gnb have more damage buttons than level 70 Reaper.
They're dead set on further simplifying tanks in Dawntrail, so maybe you're right though.

I may have exaggerated a bit and I still think of what low level jobs were, not the gameplay husk they are now after getting all their abilities pruned and stapled back on at max level for several expansions.
But tank gameplay is incredibly barebones when you also take into account how laughable most tank specific mechanics in boss fight are, most of them just being tank busters and most of those being little more than a check on whether or not you still have a pulse.