#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Turtledeluxe]

For the people asking about YouTube coverage...do you mean videos like this one?

https://youtu.be/NI5owenBFcM?si=F6pyjRWNv-3MnQKe

The one where Zepla concedes that the state of the game and healers are "sad" and that she wishes it was different. She suggests finding the fun in healing by doing mentor roulette.

"It's actually faster that way...just bring a WAR and 3 dps...you'll finish (the dungeon) way faster. That's the meta. You don't even need healers. It's actually worse with healers."

[Galvuu]

Thanks for sharing your specific story.
I doubt that I understood all the details, but I think I understand what you are mainly trying to describe.
I see that the real meaning of asking the healer not to make the healer's action 111111 was not that he wanted it to be 123123 (1-3 are attacks), but that he wanted Eukrasia + Diagnosis/Prognosis to be used more effectively.

At the end of the day, I think healers just want to have a bit more to do in combat/have more meaningful decisions. It can be by using their heal/shield gcds more meaningfully, or maybe by having more damage buttons to use when they're not healing. Or both.
But right now, they don't have either, so it just becomes 11111 90% of the time...
JP posts are always welcome, don't worry about machine translation

(Western players also tend to think all roles should be exciting- not "exciting dps/simple healers")

[Nanananami773]

Welcome! Do your best and we'll do ours to converse productively!

Healer can be very fun an exciting, but it relies on your party being weak or inexperienced in a fight.

In casual content, healer becomes a job only using 3-4 skills when they have over 20! Even at level 90 we are still playing like we are in satasha. This is why many suggest adding more dps buttons. It allows more engagement during the times healing is not needed, which is a large majority of the game's content!

I don't necessarily want to see more healing in fights because it doesn't fix all the old content that didn't need the healing. Nothing in the game will prepare you for those increased requirements either. I would be excited to see content change in this way, but I'd would rather they make changes that make the healer role exciting in all forms of content without hurting the other roles.

I can very much understand the feeling of a healer perceiving a lvl 90 ID as a Sastasha lol
I too wish that the healer's gaming experience would be more exciting.

[PercibelTheren]

Meanwhile DPS fail dps checks all the time, why didn't healer get 1500 potency OGCD per 15 seconds to compansate?

Tanks don't mitigate properly all the time, even in high end contents. Why shouldn't healers get to have skills that provokes the target, and, at the same time, quadruple our hp and grant 50% mitigation on 60s cooldown to compansate?

This is something that irks me, tbh - the unfairness of it all. Only healers get punished for some people being bad at the role. Bad tanks straight up get carried by good healers in the vast majority of content. If the DPS don't do their jobs properly and the boss enrages, nobody makes a big deal out of that, either. Why are healers singled out like this?

[Nanananami773]

At the end of the day, I think healers just want to have a bit more to do in combat/have more meaningful decisions. It can be by using their heal/shield gcds more meaningfully, or maybe by having more damage buttons to use when they're not healing. Or both.
But right now, they don't have either, so it just becomes 11111 90% of the time...
JP posts are always welcome, don't worry about machine translation

(Western players also tend to think all roles should be exciting- not "exciting dps/simple healers")

all roles should be exciting ;I really agree with you.
I don't know which is preferable, the GCD heal or the other damage button, but I would definitely be happy to spend more time on 11111 and do more of my own actions to make a positive change in the game.

[UnconfirmedCat]

it's that ez

[Menriq]

This is something that irks me, tbh - the unfairness of it all. Only healers get punished for some people being bad at the role. Bad tanks straight up get carried by good healers in the vast majority of content. If the DPS don't do their jobs properly and the boss enrages, nobody makes a big deal out of that, either. Why are healers singled out like this?

This is answered in a whole separate topic, but the bolded part does happen.

[Loggos]

Am I correct in understanding that the problem was not only about the way the healer attacked, but also about the skills that the tank.dps had and the balance between them?

Hi! Thank you for joining the discussion.

Yes. As other people said, there is not enough incoming damage.
As a result there is a lot of "downtime". In that downtime we can only press 1111111.
DPS don't really have this ""downtime". They can always use their full DPS kit. But because of the low damage, and the high mitigation/healing tools of tanks and DPS, healers are often barred from using their whole kit. After all it doesn't make sense to heal when everybody has full HP.

Players on the English forum ask for more DPS skills as a "practical solution", not necessarily an "optimal one":

SE has a specific philosophy for their fight design (scripted fights, many movement-based mechanics, rather long intervals between enemy AoE or tank buster attacks.)

In an ideal scenario they could change that philosophy: higher damage, more frequent enemy attakcs (AoE, tank busters, etc.) and perhaps more random enemy attacks.

But most people on the English forum don't think SE will change their philosophy.

(And also, even if they changed their design principles for future fights, they cannot change all the old fights and dungeons. As a result, only the new fights and dungeons would be interesting. The older fights and dungeons would still be rather boring to heal.)

So as an alternative, players suggest more DPS options for healers to fill those "downtime" intervals betweeen enemy attacks.

If SE does not want to change their encounter design, then we wish that they at least give us more DPS. We really just want more to do.

(Though to be fair: Some players also like the idea of a "DPS healer" as an optimal solution. I think this is a legitimate wish as well and can be fun. But of course "DPS healer" and "pure healer" are a matter of taste and of course not everyone's taste will be addressed.

As long as we get something to do instead of pressing 111111 90% of the time it would be a good compromise I think.)

[EusisLandale]

all roles should be exciting ;I really agree with you.
I don't know which is preferable, the GCD heal or the other damage button, but I would definitely be happy to spend more time on 11111 and do more of my own actions to make a positive change in the game.

Ideally, to fix the problem, they would do both. In order to do that though, they first absolutely need to lower non-healer self healing capabilities to only what is necessary in solo content.
Some healers get a strong oGCD ability healing kit, while the GCD kit remains simple, and have relatively intricate damaging options. Something like Scholar back when it had to juggle a bunch of DOTs for example.
Some healers get a weak oGCD ability healing kit, and retain the 11111 and dot damage kit, but have a wider array of GDC healing options to handle the situations that come up.

[Evergrey]

Some players also like the idea of a "DPS healer" as an optimal solution.

What ever happened to the stance that let Healers have a higher damage output?
I can't remember if it was simply removed or if the buff from that stance was simply added to the healer toolkit.