#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[BunnyQueen]

Oh you were replying to me.

The game’s fight design is completely incompatible with that. 2.5s gcd isn’t fast paced, the net code hardly allows for reactivity and fights have been designed as a single hard hit then a whole lot of nothing for the best part of a decade. Going back through all of that and changing it to fit a high healing uptime is an absurd amount of work.

Say there’s a boss who lives in a poison swamp, while in combat in the arena there’s a goldbile/thousand maws floor effect with a reasonable dot. How long do you think the fight would have to last before healers couldn’t passively deal with it? How many wipes do you think you’d see where the below average healers wall the other 6 people’s progress on what average or good healers find trivial?

For aiqa:
M80 the literal first bullet on the first post’s manifesto is about sustain not belonging on other jobs. I would also like to know how well sb drk would cope with the mt gulg pulls.

By not being passive. Simple as F. Active and focused healing has been the job of healers in every major (and minor) MMO I have played, the role is called HEALER not GREEN DPS not TINY DPS. As someone who has done healing in games since the dawn of MMORPGs, FF14 literally has no place for people who love and enjoy the role of actually healing. Also your stance that the design can't fit it is also false. IDK how many times I have seen healer's from other games come to FF14 and quit because healing in FF14 isn't healing, or I talk to healers in other games and they tried 14 and same problem. Healing in FF14 isn't healing and that IS the problem. It doesn't make it different, it just makes it a problem. Healing in FF14 leaves out everyone who wants to actually do the job of actually healing.