#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[xDaemianx]

Count me in.

Healers have (and not just lately) felt like highway-driving with adaptive control cruise: at some point it's so brainless you just press 3 buttons and your vision goes blurry while you mindlessly rifle through some memories because there's no appeal to being attentive to your ... what's the word DPS use? Rotation (?).

Furthermore, healers (and tanks to some extent) feel like an extension to DPS players: we (and they) are here to make DPS's experience better. It goes without saying that healers have been cornered by DPSs' opinion in forums, forced to do as they wish. I mean, look at AST when it came out: different cards with different uses. DPS whined for more DPS from the AST and that's what they got. They exterminated the ASTs identity to make DPSs experience better. So from that moment onward, if you paid sub to play AST, you were paying for another person's pleasure, not yours, in that regard. (And I wonder: how many people from the forums were ACTUALLY AST mains? Or did SE truly and only listen to DPS?). I'm not taking a shot at ALL DPS, just what it feels like.

It isn't that hard to inlude spells that heal and deal X amount of damage (kind of reverse SAGE), for example? Or mitigate and, if broken, place a heavy DoT on the enemy; or use an oGCD that reduces damage that, when time's over or it's absorbed X amount of damage, it leaves a regen or a buff to healing. I don't know... make it more interesting to play healer instead of brainlessly pressing [button assigned to damaging spell] and the ocasional heal for the most part.

Having said that... What I think will happen (after what was posted in a video in which a healer wasn't even there) is that SE will claim that it was a Beta Version that needed tweaking AND/OR they will punish those jobs that can readily heal with lower % of healing. /shrug

[CaptainLagbeard]

Folks can do runs without healers or worst do runs without tanks just so healers have the trill of actually healing... something just aint right there...

In normal difficulty content, everything been toned so down that you don't actually need a tank... Technically you need a healer, but in most cases the tank can double as that healer with their sustain. But overall bosses hits so low that an average DPS can survive the "tankbusters", so you just need someone to get their HP back up to survive the next one.

[Sylvain]

So assuming every healer here doesn't heal in group content, around 5 per page, many people posting multiples times but still,
that'd be what? 1500 healers accross EU+US not healing?

I don't want to be petty and I hope the 350 like will actually make SE notice but...
I don't feel that on an expac release, 1500 less healer will make any difference.

My gut feeling is that it's only 350 players actually posting on that thread... 350 less healers in queues... for sure that will change a thing.

[Rannie]

Double post; can't edit in mobile mode.

You can edit if you switch to desk top mode on your mobile it's at the very bottom of the page

[Reinha]

Remember guys, if you're gonna strike the most impact you can have is to never fill any PF along with not going into roulettes.

The biggest impact is doing lots of content as a dps or tank. Every time you queue for roulettes as a non healer the matchmaking system will try to look for a healer to fill the group. The more content you run, the more healers are needed. If someone who used to heal swaps to a dps, the result is that a group they would have filled as a healer stays in the queue and another group is created for the ex-healer. One filled group in EW -> two unfilled groups in DT.

It's so cute you think this is going to somehow spread throughout the entire community and somehow work. There will always be folks willing to heal. Also, this is futile. SE ain't gonna do anything.

Ok, still not going to play healer jobs.

[Nightshade878]

I still need to clear the MSQ but once Dawntrail comes out I'm 100% on board with the strike. And until then any MSQ related group content I have to do, Im not gonna cast a single damage spell. Healers are Healers, not off-brand DPS. Our role should matter.

[alfarini]

I still need to clear the MSQ but once Dawntrail comes out I'm 100% on board with the strike. And until then any MSQ related group content I have to do, Im not gonna cast a single damage spell. Healers are Healers, not off-brand DPS. Our role should matter.

Healers do matter, you heal.

[Remyus_Nara]

This is such a wild take I had to log in to reply. Why do tanks get a dps rotation if they aren’t a dps and healers don’t? Imagine if tanks were design like healers. 1-2 damage buttons and the rest of their kit revolved around enmity generation and damage mitigation. Sounds boring because it is. There’s zero reasons healers shouldn’t have a legit damage kit that consists of more than 5 buttons. Literally every other job in the game has over 16 buttons dedicated to damage and healers have 5-6. That’s ridiculous.

They could easily cull 4-5 heals from every healers kit and replace them with damage buttons that interact with each other and healers would still be OP in the role. Before telling people to touch grass, maybe understand the topic at hand.

[alfarini]

This is such a wild take I had to log in to reply. Why do tanks get a dps rotation if they aren’t a dps and healers don’t? Imagine if tanks were design like healers. 1-2 damage buttons and the rest of their kit revolved around enmity generation and damage mitigation. Sounds boring because it is. There’s zero reasons healers shouldn’t have a legit damage kit that consists of more than 5 buttons. Literally every other job in the game has over 16 buttons dedicated to damage and healers have 5-6. That’s ridiculous.

How do you think tanks retain and hold agro? Buy doing damage, tanks can't not have damage abilities.

[Nightshade878]

Healers do matter, you heal.

The entire point of the strike and our complaints as healer mains
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