#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[TheDustyOne]

I also miss when the dungeons weren't just a straight corridor
Not that it was very different from that lmao but anyway...

One thing I'd like is for them to mix up the dungeons a little and let us fight the bosses in any order we want, or take a page from variant dungeons and let us alter the bosses based on things we did just before. We don't need to have the large variety of different outcomes that variant offers, but things like "do this puzzle and the boss becomes easier, don't and you have extra mechanics to face" would be another way to spice up dungeon runs. Could even offer extra rewards for doing the harder version like a second chest, or a unique glamour or minion.

I don't see it happening since we'll largely get the "standard run" variant that everyone expects you to know, but it'd be nice to have a little more variety in the standard dungeons. I don't care for the multiple endings of variants, but at least some changes to standard dungeon runs themselves would be nice.

[SannaR]

Yeah, I did start to notice once I got to Heavensward that more and more of the dungeons were pretty linear compared to what I encountered in ARR, or had more "set" 2-3 pack limits between doors/paths, which is why I was uncertain about when wall-to-walls became the norm because it seemed like dungeon design was both encouraging faster play (no side paths to explore, all treasure chests right out in the open) but also trying to stop people from pulling literally everything in the dungeon (with some exceptions).

I do know it's lead to this conundrum where I couldn't keep up with some wall-to-walls (making it troublesome/undesirable to heal) but *without* WTW in other dungeons I was bored spamming my limited DPS kit. I just couldn't find a happy medium and I quickly fell off trying to heal in player group content and just assumed it was a "me" issue. Turns out the role does in fact have some problems under the hood, I just hadn't gotten far enough to actually experience it.

The funny thing is some of the Heavensward dungeons did have out of the way chests. The Aery's 1st two little off shoots at the start used to have chests hidden in them, but I want to say they only had potions or clear glamor prisms. Which most people see as useless junk. So they got moved if not removed. Heck I'm not sure how many people know there's a chest or was one all the way to the left in Saint Mociaane's Arboretum at the start of the second trash section after the 1st boss. It does contain an armor piece, yet it's out of the way and whomever goes to go get it outside of the tank will have to pop sprint in order to not fall behind. Which can be kinda spicy if you're the healer and you have a crap tank.

[Reinha]

If you keep paying your sub this means nothing. Plenty of folks will fill in for healing who don't care. You really want to get Squares attention convince a few 100,000 people to turn off auto renew on their subscription on 6.28.24. Give up your housing and FC's. Show them you mean real business. Otherwise not playing a specific job but still paying to play is going to amount to jack and spit.

A lot of people in this thread seem frustrated that we're still going to have fun playing the game without providing "healing NPC" services. Sorry to see it, I hope you too are able to cope with the fact we have agency over what we spend our money on and what content we do.

[Local_Custard]

woo page 500!
do you think it'll be 1000 pages within a month?

[ZephyrMenodora]

woo page 500!
do you think it'll be 1000 pages within a month?

Guessing the expansion launches and we get 100 pages of people saying they got groups immediately and the strike failed, before we lose interest for 2 more years.

[Local_Custard]

Guessing the expansion launches and we get 100 pages of people saying they got groups immediately and the strike failed, before we lose interest for 2 more years.

hm... I wouldn't be so doubtful so soon of the strike.

[ZephyrMenodora]

hm... I wouldn't be so doubtful so soon of the strike.

I'm still in the camp that this was amazing for awareness, but don't personally think it will change much in game. But never know.

[Local_Custard]

I'm still in the camp that this was amazing for awareness, but don't personally think it will change much in game. But never know.

We need to stay hopeful to some degree. This strike is already doing a good job of getting people to talk about healer issues. I personally expect DT to experience a dried up green river.

[Aidorouge]

The funny thing is some of the Heavensward dungeons did have out of the way chests. The Aery's 1st two little off shoots at the start used to have chests hidden in them, but I want to say they only had potions or clear glamor prisms. Which most people see as useless junk. So they got moved if not removed. Heck I'm not sure how many people know there's a chest or was one all the way to the left in Saint Mociaane's Arboretum at the start of the second trash section after the 1st boss. It does contain an armor piece, yet it's out of the way and whomever goes to go get it outside of the tank will have to pop sprint in order to not fall behind. Which can be kinda spicy if you're the healer and you have a crap tank.

Oh, I know about that chest, as well as a lot of other side ones elsewhere because I've often done a lot of dungeons solo first (due to being horribly over-leveled and geared for where I am in the story, lol), as well as having to rerun several for minions/cards/music rolls/Blue Magic. I don't mind grabbing all the company seal fodder I can, especially when it finally paid off and I got my first Night Pegasus Whistle. (Thanks Sohm Al Hard and your refusal to give me that Lava Scorpion Card.)

[Vyrerus]

Man, if y'all keep up at this pace, you'll eclipse the page count for Endwalker was Lackluster thread by mid July.