#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Carin-Eri]

A point of note rather than anything else, but it is interesting to read this thread and then read the 'Tales from the Duty Finder' threads both here and on the various social media platforms.

- On one hand you have this thread, where good points are being made amongst the bickering.
- On the other hand you have the various aforementioned 'Tales from the Duty Finder' threads with posts describing experiences of Healers who clearly struggled with the role - a quick look on Reddit brings up a current (at the time of this post) thread about a run of 'The Dead Ends' where the Sage in the OP's instance wasn't using dyskrasia, phlegma or pneuma (and as a side note the Reaper didn't use Enshroud at all, so it isn't just Healers).

I mean, I do understand where those who support this strike are coming from - but there does seem to be a vast amount of territory that lies between the extremes of 'Healers are not Necessary' and the demonstrable difficulty some players (who're not here voicing their opinions) have playing Healer jobs.

[Katish]

A point of note rather than anything else, but it is interesting to read this thread and then read the 'Tales from the Duty Finder' threads both here and on the various social media platforms.

- On one hand you have this thread, where good points are being made amongst the bickering.
- On the other hand you have the various aforementioned 'Tales from the Duty Finder' threads with posts describing experiences of Healers who clearly struggled with the role - a quick look on Reddit brings up a current (at the time of this post) thread about a run of 'The Dead Ends' where the Sage in the OP's instance wasn't using dyskrasia, phlegma or pneuma (and as a side note the Reaper didn't use Enshroud at all, so it isn't just Healers).

I mean, I do understand where those who support this strike are coming from - but there does seem to be a vast amount of territory that lies between the extremes of 'Healers are not Necessary' and the demonstrable difficulty some players (who're not here voicing their opinions) have playing Healer jobs.

Sure there exists a vastness between reaching the final destination and starting out...but there should be the tools there to get you to the final destination and the tools there once you reach it. Healers don't have that...in any regard...Once a healer understands their job at its core, they realize healing holds very little responsibility...where they are only left with their lackluster one dps button...no extra bells or whistles, no extra rotation, nothing.

As per your example, you can have the tools needed, and not know how to use them yet (as with your example with the RPR), and yet still clear the content. That's what healers should also have...where healing is expanded in higher expansions so you creep into learning the role while also having a more fun varying down time after figuring out how your role can be spread out.

[Loggos]

A point of note rather than anything else, but it is interesting to read this thread and then read the 'Tales from the Duty Finder' threads both here and on the various social media platforms.

- On one hand you have this thread, where good points are being made amongst the bickering.
- On the other hand you have the various aforementioned 'Tales from the Duty Finder' threads with posts describing experiences of Healers who clearly struggled with the role - a quick look on Reddit brings up a thread about a run of 'The Dead Ends' where the Sage in the OP's instance wasn't using dyskrasia, phlegma or pneuma (and as a side note the Reaper didn't use Enshroud at all, so it isn't just Healers).

I mean, I do understand where those who support this strike are coming from - but there does seem to be a vast amount of territory that lies between the extremes of 'Healers are not Necessary' and the demonstrable difficulty some players (who're not here voicing their opinions) have playing Healer jobs.

I think this is why we need casual content to be designed in a way that makes healers necessary but not too difficult (e.g. by frequent low-level damage that, if untreated, adds up and exceeds the non-healers self-heals/mit, but can easily be patched up. As a result it woud require you to use more healing instead of your sinlge button damage spell) and perhaps add some casual-specific safety nets into normal mode content (I keep on harping on variant-dungeon style resses but there can be other things too of course) instead of trying to engineer the safety into the kit itself by making it as easy as possible.

Alternatively if that is not possible I still think a better DPS rotation can be a good compromise. Like this the difficulty could stay as is and healers that are still learning/struggling could clear it as they do now, but seasoned healers would at least get more to do than spamming 1.

Imo the game also doesn't do a good job at communication due to its lack of proper tutorials.
If you have a complex kit then it should still be possible to run casual content in a way that doesn't require you to use it optimally at all to clear it.
If this was communicated properly in the game or if it was "common knowledge" in the community (bc I think for many who don't engage in FF14 social media it might not be) then complex kit designs might feel less overwhelming and anxiety-inducing to casual players. They could be assured that they don't need to use of all of it.