#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[xbahax92]

Well, if some one is ignorant of or willing to selfishly ignore the fact that healing is fun for a lot of people, sure.

A myopic egocentric world-view based on the assumption no one with any sense could possibly enjoy something you don't (here, FFXIV healing) is a bit of a problem in an MMO with millions of players from a variety of different cultures and backgrounds.
It wouldn't be a surprise if the devs generally ignore people with such world-views.

[Edit: that's a rhetorical "you," not a reference to you personally or anyone else in particular either.]

I know there are players who like the current state of healers. Their opinion as important as players who dislike the current state. You just barely see them in here, maybe they're scared to post? But then again, you have people who laugh their butts off and ignore every based opinion as well.

In my opinion, healers are fun to an extend. My best example is Thaleia. It is such an easy 24man raid, with very trivial and easy telegraphed mechanics. Since battle designs tend to be very static, you simply memorize mechanics after some time. This is where healing gets simply boring. Everyone starts to survive without my heals.

So healers job is to heal tank busters (which dont hurt must of the time anyway) and pop an OGCD's for a raidwide aoe. And during the remaining fight you're spamming your 1-1-1 rotation. And honestly, I'm one of those who use Assize, Earthly Star, Macrocosmos and Pneuma for additional DPS. The heal is just a bonus.

[Sacae]

I know there are players who like the current state of healers. Their opinion as important as players who dislike the current state. You just barely see them in here, maybe they're scared to post? But then again, you have people who laugh their butts off and ignore every based opinion as well.

In my opinion, healers are fun to an extend. My best example is Thaleia. It is such an easy 24man raid, with very trivial and easy telegraphed mechanics. Since battle designs tend to be very static, you simply memorize mechanics after some time. This is where healing gets simply boring. Everyone starts to survive without my heals.

So healers job is to heal tank busters (which dont hurt must of the time anyway) and pop an OGCD's for a raidwide aoe. And during the remaining fight you're spamming your 1-1-1 rotation. And honestly, I'm one of those who use Assize, Earthly Star, Macrocosmos and Pneuma for additional DPS. The heal is just a bonus.

Thalia actually had my favorite moment as a healer in this expansion. My first run had everyone quickly burn down all the adds before Thailak, and 2/3 of the alliance died to the adds exploding. Having to recover from that was a blast. More add diversity like that would go a long way.

[Somnolence]

Should I go and create PF like "Deranged players only! I want to feel something as a healer" if this is the way how healers get fun?

You mean solo-heal PFs? They would be far more common if the game was not designed to have mechs targeting roles that assume there will be two of them like light party stacks.

So healers job is to heal tank busters (which dont hurt must of the time anyway)

Unironically healers that care about them in casual content and use aquaveil etc. end up griefing DRKs by making their TBN not pop since the "tankbuster" damage is often just that pathetic

[Bun_Vivant]

In my opinion, healers are fun to an extend. My best example is Thaleia. It is such an easy 24man raid, with very trivial and easy telegraphed mechanics. Since battle designs tend to be very static, you simply memorize mechanics after some time. This is where healing gets simply boring. Everyone starts to survive without my heals.

So healers job is to heal tank busters (which dont hurt must of the time anyway) and pop an OGCD's for a raidwide aoe. And during the remaining fight you're spamming your 1-1-1 rotation. And honestly, I'm one of those who use Assize, Earthly Star, Macrocosmos and Pneuma for additional DPS. The heal is just a bonus.

I've taken all the healers to 90, though with only a limited amount of AST. I chose SGE because I like SGE. For example, I like dancing in mob packs at the tank's shoulder, tip-toing around the AoE while matching the DPS with Dyskrasia, all while keeping everyone who "steps in stupid" alive with oGCD mits and heals. I like watching the boss' channel as I DPS and then putting up mitigation for it at the last second. I like scanning the party list for debuffs that need cleansing. I like rezzing the people who don't clear un-esuna-ble Dooms. I like slide-casting to stay a few steps ahead of the tank in low-level content. And on and on ...

The list of things I enjoy when running SGE is long, and there's some healing at the base, but is it the healing role some here seem to seek?
I don't know, and I don't care: I'm not queued "as a healer, " I'm queued as a FFXIV SGE, because for me, it's fun.
Mock it as "green DPS" if you like, I still don't care. It is what it is, and "I like it, love it, yes I do."

Otherwise, I'd probably queue as WHM, like my spouse.
We accept each other's choices as respectively right for ourselves, since that's what matters.