#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ZephyrMenodora]

I wonder how affective the strike will be as a tool to affect metrics. I could see it affective at generating discussion or as getting people annoyed that the queues are long (and trying to get them on your side that way. but for that people would have to sympathy with people that have a longer queue time now, which seems unlikely given some response in the thread).

But considering it is at the same time as 2 new dps jobs release on a new expansion, I don't know how affective it will be for influencing the metrics, considering it is a time where square enix expects a big change in the role distribution anyway in the metrics. Because for a change in metrics being affective with a strike the data would have to show with a high likelihood "that is because of the strike". But in this situation I just see that as extremely unlikely

I have seen on Twitter people posting pics of all-healers in need already, so it's possible the strike already is having an impact. Usually its mostly tanks in need with some healers in need.

I think the real issue is that their design for healers in Dawntrail is complete. They aren't going to make any significant changes in a month, and I have no idea how they would rework healers in any significant way mid-expansion. Maybe they can pull it off, but I'm sure healer design has an impact on encounter design and class balancing in general, with a lot of encounters already designed. I think even if the Strike works, we won't see too much change until 8.0.

I have already seen some adverse reaction from Warriors on social media to not wanting to give up their immortality, so part of these changes likely would need to hit the Tanks and DPS sustain skills.