#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Punslinger]

As a DPS player I used to have absolute trust that healers had my back if things went sideways. I don't really have that faith as much these days. I have run into far too many healers who have the attitude of DPS don't get heals unless they happen to be caught in an area heal. I also have run into many that will not rez a DPS even after a fight no matter what. So I go into dungeons these days being pretty darn careful that I keep my 2nd wind at the ready and a stack of potions too boot. If I die I run back just as I did years ago in WoW. I find it sad how things have changed really.

It turns out that when the dev team dumbs down a role, dummies make up more of the role's population. Dummies are attracted to the role because it becomes a ticket to getting carried through fights, and skilled players abandon the role because they don't want to be carried. The resulting poor performance is then used by dummies and non-healers to clamor for further dumbing down in a never-ending ouroboros of stupidity.

At this point it's starting to feel like the devs are running out of ideas on how to meaningfully improve the job kits in general given that almost everything introduced in DT is either bloated potencies gated behind one/two minute cooldowns, overkill healing utility for DPS, or more mitigation/healing CD bloat for tanks/heakers.

Partly, it's because the job design team is the same four people who started in ARR, even though we now have twice the number of jobs in the game.

Partly, it's because CBU3 has designed themselves into a corner, by warping the entire game around two-minute bursts (on offense) and one-shots (on defense). If you look at WoW, you can see that there are many more things healers can do, if you have fights that aren't just Dance Dance Revolution in disguise.

Partly, it's because every game has a finite design space, and if you keep adding new things to jobs, you're eventually going to run out of space. Honestly, I think that the approach to class/job design in MMOs should be to stop changing the job once it's in a good place. Then, if players want to try new things, that's what new jobs are for. You don't need to keep adding still more finishers and bloat, or removing job identity and homogenizing the jobs, just to give players an illusion that VerThisIsTheLastRdmFinisherWeSwearForRealThisTime changes their play in any meaningful way.

[IDontPetLalas]

I wasn't asking healers to do anything. Simply reporting the grumbling I am hearing in the game itself so you maybe have an idea where some of the pushback is coming from. If you are not interested that is fine. Ignore my post.

Yes all roles have their issues with failing to perform. This is a thread about healers. I am trying to help not fight with you guys.

I'll try again. It isn't anything that hasn't been reported, given what we just said (all roles have issues with failing to perform) in the past 10 years, I'm not surprised that someone will say " I had a glaremage, healer didn't even have esuna on their hotbar, was watching Netflix" and more, amongst the size of the player population that we have. I'm not fighting with you, my point is literally- if you're posting this - imagine that you were invested in the healerstrike, what would you do with the information that you provided? how do you think it's going to help healers?

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

They can't stop extending the RDM sword chain until we're at VerUltima and only then will it be complete.

/s

[Myrany]

It turns out that when the dev team dumbs down a role, dummies make up more of the role's population. Dummies are attracted to the role because it becomes a ticket to getting carried through fights, and skilled players abandon the role because they don't want to be carried. The resulting poor performance is then used by dummies and non-healers to clamor for further dumbing down in a never-ending ouroboros of stupidity.

I have never asked for dumbing down healers. I have supported your efforts in this thread. Simply commented on how sad it is that things have come to this point.

Trust me I understand the amount of hate that comes from being dumbed down. I played summoner before all the big changes and loved it. Now I rarely touch it. Getting your class gutted is never fun. Being ignored by the devs for years after the gutting is worse.

[Myrany]

I'll try again. It isn't anything that hasn't been reported, given what we just said (all roles have issues with failing to perform) in the past 10 years, I'm not surprised that someone will say " I had a glaremage, healer didn't even have esuna on their hotbar, was watching Netflix" and more, amongst the size of the player population that we have. I'm not fighting with you, my point is literally- if you're posting this - imagine that you were invested in the healerstrike, what would you do with the information that you provided? how do you think it's going to help healers?

I would be aware at least having been provided with the information that this is a quarter the pushback is coming from. Not everyone is aware. Information is always good. You know the ground you are fighting from better.

Now if you want me to bow out of the thread because I no longer heal? Fine just ask I will. I am trying to contribute what I can where I can. Nothing more.

[hunter2]

I did some calculations from what was in that casual score spreadsheet. Gotta be honest, these numbers are a lot higher than I was expecting. Obvious caveats apply - that guy's data is only based on publicly logged clears during Endwalker, it doesn't count whether someone is for or against the strike, it doesn't account for people using alts on the forums, etc.

[ZephyrMenodora]

This is a player problem not a design problem though. You could give jobs the most fun, engaging rotations and buttons but if some players refuse to engage with their tools you can't really force them to.

If your healer refuses to perform their role, you report and move on. Healers being designed with 1 nuke button and 20 healing skills doesn't make them "heal more".

I think it's partially a design problem and partially a player problem.

Healers have been trained for years now that people don't really need to be healed and they can just mindlessly spam their DPS skill and not pay attention. If they had to be kept on their toes for everything but the very occasional unavoidable damage (that is also often telegraphed, even to the extent that sometimes you can't do anything at all but wait for a mini-cutscene for the damage to come through), they'd have a mindset to heal more regularly and keep a DPS's health higher.

The player part of the problem is an elitist mentality that a DPS should never get hit by something avoidable, which is just toxic elitism on the part of the healer.

[Aword3213]

As a DPS player I used to have absolute trust that healers had my back if things went sideways. I don't really have that faith as much these days. I have run into far too many healers who have the attitude of DPS don't get heals unless they happen to be caught in an area heal. I also have run into many that will not rez a DPS even after a fight no matter what. So I go into dungeons these days being pretty darn careful that I keep my 2nd wind at the ready and a stack of potions too boot. If I die I run back just as I did years ago in WoW. I find it sad how things have changed really.

I think it may be the direct result of lowering bars of entry expansions over expansions.

Healers nowadays are so used to NOT healing. Whenever they make mistakes or perform abysmally bad, there are others that can clean up the mess. RDM and SMN can Raise. Tanks can sustan themselves for a long period of time and use their personal mit to save other teammates. WAR is invincinble. DPS has access to either high potency shields, HP regen, or HP restore.

No to mention healing requirement in casual content is too low to begin with. Damage interval from boss is long and slow. Healers can still get clears even if they completely disregard party's HP bar throughout the fight. Therefore, whenever situation arises, they're not ready to handle it. They don't know how to heal efficiently. They panic heal with Medica II when one dps has bleeding dot at critical HP. The envionment enables the existence of such healers, and I'm afraid there will be more of them in the future. Luckily, our loving Yoshi-p has forsaw it and deemed it neccessay to give DPS more healing tools to compensate in DT.

[PercibelTheren]

I agree actually but this sort of thing really could be part of the reason there is so much pushback to the strike. There is a fairly common perception I am seeing being muttered about in game. Some DPS players that have little sympathy with the healers situation since they don't perceive many healers as doing their role as it is.

Before I get attacked I have repeatedly in this thread supported you guys and the strike. I still do. I am just reporting what I am hearing in game and trying to do it in a civil manner.

Yeah, bad healers exist. That's the one thing that's annoying me about switching to DPS. I am LOVING Dancer. However, the healers I get in my roulettes are a mixed bag. I have had some absolutely amazing ones, most of them were perfectly passable and some who were asleep at the wheel. It's giving me the "I guess if I want something done well, I need to do it myself" feeling. But I refuse to go back to healing, at least for a long while, because it burned me out for months at a time.

[ZephyrMenodora]

some who were asleep at the wheel

I've had healers apologize for letting people die because they completely admitted to being asleep at the wheel, just in a Glare-trance and not paying attention whatsoever. They literally will say "Sorry didn't notice" as they spam their dps skill. At this point healers don't even feel like they need to look at HP bars at times.

Design that allows healers to mostly get away with this in many circumstances needs to be looked at.

It's not even always malicious, sometimes it's just an honest mistake - one caused by the game's design IMO.