#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Gemina]

You know, it warms the heart to see so many people coming into threads with a premise that they disagree with and mock everyone who agrees with the OP.

Truly the greatest MMO community in the known universe, WoW could never.

It was to be expected, but it's ok. Anticipation of the naysayers only motivated me even further to start the thread and support the strike. So many continue to think the purpose of the strike is to goad the development team into changing the state of healing, or to lengthen queue times. While the truth is we are striking because of the status quo and the double downing of the encroachment on the healer role. We have the power to refuse to participate any further and no matter how much they shame and ridicule, it can't be taken from us. What can be taken from us has already been taken from us. That is why we are striking, and we don't need the support from those who just want to kick dirt in our faces.

The fact of the matter is that those who choose to participate in the strike are healers who genuinely care about the role and their party members. The community losing even one of these healers is already too high. It does not matter if there are still 10 healers in the queues for every healer that strikes because substance will always weigh more than quantity and I confident this will be felt during duties. Tanks and certain DPS have been given abilities to help sustain themselves and the group, and they're going to need it. This is the truth that the naysayers will always deny, and never accept. They won't be receiving heals from me come DT, and that is just fine by me.

[iAxX23]

And yet despite spending considerably more time actually healing, WOW healers still have more robust DPS tools than FFXIV does.

Healing a +10 key(old 20) in WoW right now will have you fully utilizing your entire healing kit.
And if you plan your route correctly you can dive into your vast AOE kit to maximize raid dps I would say your time spent healing/dpsing is about 75/25 in WoW. It's truly one of the most stressful and enjoyable experiences you could have in any MMO at the moment. Two fully fleshed out kits that provide a ton of ways to engage with the content.

In XIV you have Glare, Holy and Dia and a macro that says "If you mess up the mechanic bloodbath yourself to full". As you play the game one with one hand.

[Arcanua]

considering the type of demographic SE wants to encourage with SMN that might end up helping us more than hurting lmao

Pretty sure that was the point in the statement.

[Kissune]

This is so stupid lol

Just bc you like being a curebot doesn't mean the rest of us do.

I didn't see this thread until now, but just saying for the record that I'm in.

[MisterNublet]

This is so stupid lol

How so? Don't players get to choose how they play the game?

If players are choosing to boycott the healer role, that is their prerogative.

[Zolvolt]

I’ve been healing since ARR phase 3 beta. It has been so disheartening to see healing gameplay destroyed across the expansions. I support this strike.

Oh yeah let's just Casually forget that healing for sch didn't exist in arr outside of coil and Shiva ex. Whm+eos could do everything besides those. Healing hasn't been destroyed, there is more to heal, it's just covered by ogcd 90% of the time.

[rawker]

You know, it warms the heart to see so many people coming into threads with a premise that they disagree with and mock everyone who agrees with the OP.

Truly the greatest MMO community in the known universe, WoW could never.

And then some makes a thread mocking this one.

[iAxX23]

Yeah it's funny, right?

The problem WoW healers have is that damage is spiky and unpredictable and stressful to respond to, but they're still expected to contribute DPS while responding to it.

Then in FF14 damage is predictable and healing becomes easier the more familiar the group is with bloated healing toolkits that are overkill for what they're asked to do, but the DPS rotations are too simple.

It's like WoW's healers have the toolkit for FF14's fights, while FF14's healers have the toolkits for WoW's fights.

You're absolutely right, but this is not just a class toolkit problem. The fights being designed to be predictable is a problem. We need spiky damage, we need dots that hurts.

[SweetPete]

Not sure what you guys expected. For man years Yoshi.P and the dev team clearly stated multiple times healers are suppose to mostly heal. (Their words not mines) So if you all thought if you posted your dissatisfaction with healer design that they would say okay we will change things then you set yourselves up for disappointment. Sadly.

[Equitable_Remedy]

The ostensible logic of the "strike" makes no sense.

Regardless of the "strike," if you don't enjoy playing healer, you should either play a different role or play a different game. It's a videogame, not your job, so you should always be doing what's fun for you. Thus, to the extent that the "strike" makes any sense, it only makes sense for people who enjoy healing - but then what are you even "striking?"

And what is the theory of the case for how the "strike" is supposed to accomplish anything? You succeed and make queue times for yourself and others longer, ???, healers are instantly completely reworked to be exactly what a tiny, loud minority on social media want them to be? That is not, to put it mildly, how anything works.

Lastly, the concept of a "strike" doesn't actually apply to not playing certain classes in a videogame.

(The "strike" does make sense as a way to farm likes/karma/etc. on social media. I can't argue with that part.)