#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

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First, healer role must be such that dps/tank players can pick it up and enjoy playing it, and not feel like "taking one for the team" to play one for the static/friends.

I'm not sure I agree with that. Why should a role's design philosophy be centered around people who play other roles enjoying it? At that point, why have roles at all? This comes across as saying "Well healer mains, sorry you're unhappy but we've got to cater your role to the happiness of the DPS and tank players so go pound sand."

Also, we're already "taking one for the team" in how un-fun the role has become.

Second, because of legacy content, making change to the role is easier than going back and redoing all encounters. Therefore instead of changing healing requirements the kits should be made more engaging instead.

Sure, and I stated that in my initial big "these are the problems with healers" post on page 434. One method may be to weaken healing entirely so that healers have to prioritize it, combined with making MP/resource management more relevant. This would force healers to make a choice - spend resources on DPS, or save them for healing? These types of choices make for inherently interesting gameplay.

With that said, I don't know how to fix the problem and I've never claimed to. I'm not a game designer. But you don't have to know what the solution is to identify that there's a problem in the first place. Us not knowing what the available/ideal solutions are doesn't invalidate our argument that the healer role is broken in this game right now. This whole thing is about spreading awareness that there is a problem and that people who play healers are discontent. Square Enix has people whose literal careers are solving problems like this. They just need to be aware that they need to move things in a different direction.