#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ty_taurus]

You're conflating difficulty and fun. Content required for MSQ is always going to be easy, because SE understands that a ton of players only play FFXIV for the story and are not good at or interested in improving at the game, and they want to keep MSQ accessible to those players. There are plenty of people who find that level of difficulty to be just fine and have a perfectly good time with the game. Maybe you only find enjoyment in content that gives you a challenge- unfortunately, that means most normal-level content will never be fun to you. They provide optional higher-difficulty content to meet the needs of such players instead, hence the "do harder content" suggestion. If your complaint is that overall content design is boring, rather than the fact that easy content leaves healers specifically with less to do, that's an entirely different conversation.

This game is not tailor-made to suit any one person's tastes- it is a product that is designed to appeal to as many people as possible, and the best way to do that is to keep the skill floor low in required content and provide optional harder content for players that want to go above and beyond. It's unfortunate for you that that makes you dislike the required content, but I don't foresee it changing.

I mean, my bar for easy content being fun is surprisingly low. It's just the healers can't meet them. For me at least, while I do want a healthier balance of GCD healing and OGCD healing so that I do actually stop attacking and heal to some degree, if Sage just had a more active DPS rotation, I probably would not be here. If it felt like a true DPS oriented healer, I'd have shut up a long, long time ago. If it felt like PVP Sage, I'd have been satisfied. I was entirely content with Stormblood Scholar as well, for reference. I'm really not asking a lot.

[Moonjava]

I mean, my bar for easy content being fun is surprisingly low. It's just the healers can't meet them. For me at least, while I do want a healthier balance of GCD healing and OGCD healing so that I do actually stop attacking and heal to some degree, if Sage just had a more active DPS rotation, I probably would not be here. If it felt like a true DPS oriented healer, I'd have shut up a long, long time ago. If it felt like PVP Sage, I'd have been satisfied. I was entirely content with Stormblood Scholar as well, for reference. I'm really not asking a lot.

If you want to be forced to GCD heal, again, I recommend harder content. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask SE for a bit more complexity on the DPS front, but I also don't think healer rotations will ever be that complex. SE clearly intends for the difficulty of playing a healer to lay in optimizing your healing kit to suit a given fight, not in the DPS rotation.

[PercibelTheren]

I mean, my bar for easy content being fun is surprisingly low. It's just the healers can't meet them. For me at least, while I do want a healthier balance of GCD healing and OGCD healing so that I do actually stop attacking and heal to some degree, if Sage just had a more active DPS rotation, I probably would not be here. If it felt like a true DPS oriented healer, I'd have shut up a long, long time ago. If it felt like PVP Sage, I'd have been satisfied. I was entirely content with Stormblood Scholar as well, for reference. I'm really not asking a lot.

I'm still salty they dared call SGE a "DPS healer". When I heard that, I got super excited because I thought it would really be "a healer who heals by doing their DPS rotation" like my beloved Chloromancer from RIFT. Unfortunately, SGE is anything but