Dawntrail's mediatour dungeon was already cleared without healers.

[TheDruidOcelot]

and we haven't gotten dungeon hard modes since stormblood. they've cut down the amount of content in each expansion to less than half. less than half the capstone dungeons, no hard modes dungeons... etc.

and then they took away MOST of the healer job identity when shb released "to prepare for a new healing class"

sage released, they stripped more healer job identity, and nerfed combat design to make healers less needed.

and now they're repeating it ad nauseum, because they think the healer shortage is because healing is "too hard" and not because its boring.

i don't think the devs actually read the EN forums, but uh. people don't enjoy playing healer classes because they're BORING.

there's nothing to do. stripping all complexity makes them more boring. making everyone not need a healer makes playing a healer boring.

they need to incentivize healers. by 1) making healing actually engaging, and 2) actually making rewards for healing be at par with what tanks currently have (the mounts and titles for completing a specific number of high end duties as tank should have healer equivalents tbh)

[currentlemon]

I'm all for a healer strike. While I do think WHM & SGE have taken steps in the right direction, it's still not enough as non-healer sustain in DT has gotten stronger overall. Non-Healer Jobs need to have their sustain and mitigation abilities nerfed so that Healers can heal more.

[TheDruidOcelot]

and yeah, i'm up for a healer strike. might as well. CBU3 thinks my main role isn't neccisary? then i guess i'll just main bard or something. i'd even suggest (jokingly) not playing as rez mage or summoner. make them hurt for people who can rez. make them beg. make them finally have to use phoenix down, and struggle because its a unique item.

[Gemina]

I mean they were never difficult but you used to not be able to do them without healers

Some were harder than others to clear, but I can't think of any dungeons that were impossible to clear without a healer. Maybe Wanderer's Palace HM? I can't remember if the last boss's Doom mechanic was unavoidable or not. However, the older the dungeon, the more difficult to clear it without a healer due to abilities that are available.

[DPZ2]

Sure, I'll participate in a healer strike, but like, it needs to actually become a thing.

The immediate aftermath will be a rise in Duty Support sessions because players aren't going to wait forever to do a normal dungeon.

Up-and-coming healers who do not look at social media on a daily basis will be thankful since their queues will be almost instantaneous.

Players who want the rewards from the daily roulette will shake their heads as they only get those up-and-coming healers who've now reached Stormblood dungeon instances.

A number of statics are going to continue laughing at the plebes.

Good luck!

[DPZ2]

Not a fan of this guy in particular but I think its pretty sad we're still here in this same boat again.

Anyone else find it curious that the complaint is about the ease a level 100 Warrior (aka "Max level for Dawntrail") and three max-level DPS had running through a level 91 dungeon instance?

[Avoidy]

If you have a party of 4, can you do roulettes on any job choice?

yeah. I regularly queue up myself + 3 other people and we just breeze through expert/90/leveling/whatever on any comp
only thing where you'd have trouble would be like... alliance raid.

[Pip_Chick]

A coordinated strike does not require a majority. It only requires the bare minimum that it would take to make an impact on the game overall. A coordinated strike would not even need healers who only do normal mode content to participate, only the healers who do EX and above. So the numbers would not be in the millions. I believe the approximate figure is between 2-5% of subscribers do content EX and above? This would need to be confirmed by someone, but whatever it is, roughly 25-40% of those players would need to strike. It would reduce clears so drastically due to lack of participation, and forcing players who normally do not heal to heal in order to obtain clears in EX, Savage, and Ultimate that the dev team would have no choice but to address the problem in one way or another.

Also, healers can still level them up. By all means utilize and exploit all the systems this game has implemented to facilitate single player playability.

Other than that, I agree completely. I am already going to update my sig and adventurer plate in support of a petition for a strike. I see no reason to wait for 7.2 to get this off the ground. Start now, go hard, and be unwavering.

A #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE? Count me in. I will still Lvl up SCH, but no dungeon besides Trusts. I'll have SMN for the Trials, as well as Pictomancer.

[Oizen]

Anyone else find it curious that the complaint is about the ease a level 100 Warrior (aka "Max level for Dawntrail") and three max-level DPS had running through a level 91 dungeon instance?

Listen just because the devs forgot what that symbol means doesn't mean you should.

[DBriggs304]

I'm thinking the 'media tour' being here and there's still no actual hype about the expansion, is the real troubling thing.