#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Allegor]

That's what Red Mage and Summoner are for.

See, even their (currently) one redeeming quality isn't even unique to them lol

[Kayokane]

See, even their (currently) one redeeming quality isn't even unique to them lol

Summoner has had Resurrection since ARR, it was never Healer Unique.

[Allegor]

Summoner has had Resurrection since ARR, it was never Healer Unique.

Never said it was? the point is that healers are so redundant that raising is the only thing they're "useful" for nowadays, and even that isn't exclusive to the role.

*edit* even if raising was exclusive to healers, it's a "just in case" button, not something that will inevitably happen all the time.

[EusisLandale]

Summoner has had Resurrection since ARR, it was never Healer Unique.

That's kind of the point there.

[Gemina]

I doubt it. For one thing, every job has to be able to clear the solo content of the MSQ in a reasonable amount of time and with only a modest level of skill. So "tanks" and "healers" need to have decent DPS, and DPS needs some survivability. Unless you want the kit for a job to change radically when you enter multi-player content, this inescapably leads to the roles of the trinity becoming less distinct.

This post is several pages back now, but I wanted to point out that FFXI had a solo instance to break the level cap at lv 70 against the NPC Maat. This fight, the tactics used, and requirements to win changed based on the job you faced him with. This is not an argument against you, but rather an expression on how fight design in solo instances could be made to exemplify and distinguish the roles from each other. The dev team wouldn't even have to make the solo instances different for each job, but rather based on the role. They could do this if they really wanted to. This would have been fantastic when facing Zenos at the end of EW.

Now, this was present in the form of job specific questlines prior to ShB, and they went away from it in favor of role quests, but this happens only once per expansion. I am not saying the dev team has to do this for every solo instance in the game, but it would be nice to see it used more often like once per patch, or even every other patch as a show of good faith that they care about the longevity and integrity of the trinity. This would go a long way towards showing healers that they are valued.

[Kayokane]

Oh neat more Youtuber coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0w0gQjIFUY

[JamsC]

And some written coverage too: https://www.thegamer.com/final-fanta...trail-changes/

[NanaWiloh]

Raise those that somehow manage to die, full stop.

No need too be fancy just call it what it is...duty finder.

[KageTokage]

Honestly, they could rather easily tune the story duties to be role specific by just making the incoming damage higher for healers/tanks so you actually have to use your abilities to survive.

At present though, doing them on healer/tank just feels more boring but faster because you have virtually no risk of death and less buttons to push but the boss has less HP and will likely die faster.

[Supersnow845]

Oh neat more Youtuber coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0w0gQjIFUY

All coverage is good coverage but it really does seem like this guy was extremely quick to narrow the entire scope down to “world 1 ranked WAR cleared the dungeon is this the hill you want to stake your claim on” when that’s really not the point of the problem