#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Turtledeluxe]

If you read the entirety of my post, split into three, you'd see that I requested the same thing here.

Yeah you just want to hope for it without action and expect it to come out of the aether. How's that been going for the last 5 years?

The devs have already proven that they won't listen to healer feedback, much less any job feedback that adds back what has been taken away, without a wave of criticism behind it.

[Zaytex]

Who would've thought asking for my role to be actually needed and for my rotation to just not be glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare dia glare glare glare glare glare glare on repeat is ''elitism''

Funny how people who don't play healers are criticising us for ''disrupting'' the game for other people. It's almost like you could play healer yourself on DT release right? Oh what's that? You don't enjoy healer? Crazy, I wonder why

[Arwing]

The strike isn't just about requesting more DPS attacks for healers. It's all the other demands that worry me.

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

If you read the entirety of my post, split into three, you'd see that I requested the same thing here. Sage feels fulfilling because my ranged AOE DPS...

Sage doesn't even have a ranged AoE except toxicon which is practically a meme it's so useless,

AST is unique in that with Gravity, unless you meant something else?

[PeppermintBrown]

This isn't really disruption in the first place. You're not out in the streets blocking traffic etc. You're just not healing in a video game. With no way to enforce a picket line to stop other people from coming in to heal. And if you could do that, the GMs would just crack down and suspend people for it. Even calling this a strike is giving the movement a false sense of grandeur. The addition of Viper and Picto will have a bigger, and longer lasting, impact on queue times than this 'strike' will.

[Zaytex]

Healer skill expression is also the only one out of the three main roles which is actively punishing:

Tanks: You mitigate better? Congratulations, you now get to pull more and hold aggro better, surviving TB's and feel like a big man, whilst being able to pump out more DPS via optimising your rotation as well. In EW, you can even play without a healer in a vast amount of content and feel borderline immortal in some cases, or just play WAR.

DPS: You do big numbers, and if you played something like BLM/MNK pre-DT, you were on hard mode. Who doesn't like big numbers right?

Healers: Congratulations, you heal efficiently with the least amount of GCD healing and stretch your OGCD's are far as you can? Your reward is.... 111111111113111111111

Healers really do need some type of DPS rotation, since newbies who struggle on the role are still having fun figuring out how to heal effectively, but for veterans or just good healers in general, past the very early stages of a prog for a new encounter, you are literally stuck to mashing one button. This role has the least to optimise on, I would've suggested AST for people who wanted something more on healers but even that job is getting homogenised now. 111111113111111 into an occassional OGCD unless you're in high end content prog, so fucking boring.

[Arwing]

If you keep bubbling the tank and dance among the mobs a little at the same time, using Phlegma and Dyskrasia, you regain your Toxicons and unleash them on the mobs at range. Those who haven't truly mastered the art of being a Sage don't understand how it feels. It's a true rush.

It's true that only Astrologian truly rocks with its Gravity spam, but that's what sets that job apart from the others.

[Turtledeluxe]

The strike isn't just about requesting more DPS attacks for healers. It's all the other demands that worry me.

I don't mean to damper the manifesto, but it's not going to have an effect on encounter design with respect to incoming damage nor general difficulty in casual content. The best this movement can hope for is healer rotation adjustment and nerfing certain tanks. Neither of those things would be world endingly different for the game in general. If anyone's being overdramatic, it's critics / the actual elitists of the game.

[ty_taurus]

My priorities:

1. Revamp healer DPS to be more dynamic, especially Sage since it was assigned the identity of a DPS-focused healer anyway. There are actions that can be taken now at the start of Dawntrail to improve this for the coming expansion. Make the attacks each healer already has access to more interactive and available more frequently. None of this 'locked beyond 2 minute buff' nonsense.

2. Better define the healing styles of each healer to compliment their own identity. Why is it that as a "barrier healer" my main methods of healing the party are all regens and pure heals? There are maybe some things that could be done to improve this, but may also require more long-term adjustments. I'd like to see some effort on this front, such as swap Kerachole's regen for a barrier, but also understand that it may take time to fully deliver.

3. Word toward a healthier balance between GCD healing and OGCD healing and a healthier environment for MP management. As much as I want a healer with a hyper aggressive playstyle, I also want timed GCD healing to be a part of my arsenal of support, and I want MP to matter or just get removed if we're going to continue with the current system. There's no point to it existing the way it does. These are far more "expansion" level changes that I am not expecting to see during Dawntrail, but hope to see as a part of this 8.0 revamp.

Of these three points, only point 1 is something I need to see to be content with the state of things and be comfortable healing in Dawntrail. I would like to see evidence that points 2 and 3 can be worked on to some degree at the very least.

[Arwing]

I like Warriors as they are. Honestly, the current tank balance feels great to me. I'm not a tank main, but it's amazing to be able to cheese old EX and Savage content as a duo warrior and the Normals of the last expac. Warrior was a superstar in Eureka back in Stormblood for its ability to grind solo. I was always jealous because I hadn't leveled my Warrior high enough to use it, but I got my grind done despite.

Every job in this game has its own charm and allure. I love playing them all and I love Final Fantasy 14.