#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.

[Arcanua]

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.

Thank you for this, genuinely. I'm tired of the players who keep ignoring what this will do. I do not expect the devs to change things, much less quickly. A lot of the people going on about it not mattering fail to realize what will really happen here. I'm also tired of them saying "Go back to WoW" not all of us played the thing so that isn't even a choice for all of us. I'm also tired of people who do the whole "I'm only a healer for queues/coms" they just spit in the face of someone who ACTUALLY wants to do this. We have every right to say no, and like you say substance far outweighs quantity. It doesn't matter if there's 10 people who can TRY and replace me. They will forever be nothing but a lesser fake and will try to dispute that. The ones who are striking, as you said WE CARE. We are here because we WANT to, not out of some stupid impatience problem fixed by being a healer. I mostly hope that players realize what they are doing when they tell us "This game's healers are mad too" or other stuff like that, they need to realize what that says to not only players like myself but to the community as a whole. This isn't going to just effect vets this will turn off people from even trying to pick up a healer because the community has told them we aren't needed.

With this strike hopefully the community itself will realize why this is a problem and stop attacking us for "over reacting" or whatever nonsense they wanna say about us. This isn't an over reaction, people waited YEARS and we're watching things wither and wither.