



As a healer main in this game for nigh on 14 years all I can say is that I’m tired. My role has been eroded of complexity and expression for 3 expansions. I’ve watched the tanks do my role for me for 2 expansions and my feedback and critiques continue to fall on deaf ears.
I have no idea who modern healers are designed for but I know now it’s not me. This is the first expansion I’m truly considering dropping the healer role and not returning, so if that was the goal- congratulations I guess


You are severely over estimating what I'm saying. My opinion is "There are a little more soft healing checks in DTs casual content over EW."
I don't think they are hard, not at all. Healing in this game is easy, I just noted that they're happening more often which makes me slightly hopeful that pulsing damage becomes more common in casual content (Though I'm doubtful). It's not much harder than EW at all it's gone from just using my oGCD heal and sacred soil to using that and my fairy AOE regen. But to casual healers I could see the final trial having constant damage pulsing during certain mechanics might suprise them. After all for EW you only ever had to use your CDs on stack ups and tbs.
I also said I'm hopeful the ilv scaling won't have an effect, it probably will CBU3 doesn't ever fix that powercreep.
It's actually so sad how much that fight fell off after the crafted gear came out. I wasn't around for early game ShB did the same shit happen then?
So you didn't see my point about hoping constant pulsing damage becomes more common and are only focusing on me saying it would be nice if ILV scaling didn't ruin this casual spike. (Not once did I say it wouldn't happen by the way in fact I said it probably would lol.)
Last edited by Ramiee; 07-04-2024 at 10:26 AM.

Last edited by Lucyfurr1988; 07-04-2024 at 10:23 AM.

no i see exactly what you're saying.
and you're wrong. the casual heal checks arent heal checks. using the right ogcd you dont really ahve to do anything else. EXs are just EW recycled in terms of heal checks
ilvl scaling WILL have the effect. no point hoping for anything else.
the devs always dangle the carrot of healing. doesn't mean it will stick around. everything will still be healable ogcd and even then once gear gets better and we outscale the content there will be little to no healing at all.
Last edited by Lucyfurr1988; 07-04-2024 at 10:26 AM.

no i saw it but its irrelevant. pulsing damage is covered by 1 ogcd. 1. thats not engaging gameplay
also while talking about this. end of 6.0 - cleansable debuffs for people getting hit that if you didn't cleanse killed them, aoes that could do massive damage that were followed quite quickly for normal mode content by stacks, multiple aoes while party had to be spread and executing a mechanic, DoTs on the ground as you ran that on content in artifact gear could do quite big chip damage, all in 1 dungeon. see how that gave healers responsibility? gone within weeks though.
Last edited by Lucyfurr1988; 07-04-2024 at 10:41 AM.

Honestly. I am surprised that there is a discussion about something so basic.
Will anyone who is playing a healer harmed in any way if the healer jobs end up with more tools for DPS or or otherwise more involved gameplay? If someone does not want to press button 1 and button 2 and button 3 fore increase in damage, they can just press 1. Honestly some DPS do that anyways, at this point it's players choice if they want to use all that they have access to, yet not having those tools makes for limited and frankly suffocating experience for those who wish to heal - and have things to do when healing is not needed.


Well we have different opinions then. I think having pulsing damage and auto-attacks as engaging because constant damage means you have to heal more. It similar to how damage is handled in another MMO I play where I main healer. If Auto-attacks as well as pulsing damage both did moderate damage you start thinking more about balancing healing with damage.
Granted the tool kit in xiv is so hillariously bad this wouldn't be nearly as fun. Though in my ideal world id be playing a healer where oGCD healing was rare and my skill expression is the balance of healing and damage.
"Granted the tool kit in xiv is so hillariously bad this wouldn't be nearly as fun."
The claim is that aoe damage is happening slightly more often. As opposed to EW where most of the time all aoe damage was incredibly telegraphed and bursty. That's all.
I still think healing is bad because the oGCDs are too strong and the damage dealing is bad. Its an observation and some cope coming out of me saying it would be nice if the damage was stronger and crafted gear didn't ruin it even though I know it will. I think you're looking for an argument over nothing.
I consider pulsing damage not as telegraphed as opposed to a stack up yes. I was a bit surprised to see during the final trial damage ticking down without the boss doing a harrowing hell like animation. I don't really have a strong opinion on this so I'm not really debating lol. I just liked the pulsing damage and the small heal check on the expert dungeon even though they're easy to deal with. The extent of my opinion goes "Oh that's neat, hope that happens more often and becomes more relevant/harder to deal with."
Also I use arguement and debate interchangeably so I'm not accusing you of anything. I just think you'll have a better conversation with someone who actually feels any form of passion to healing in this game. I find it so boring that a boss ticking down hp during a mechanic has been the highlight for me in the last 5 years.
Last edited by Ramiee; 07-04-2024 at 11:28 AM.

see how you ignored that the 1 ogcd is enough to heal it though... that pulsing damage in a few weeks will be nothing. its barely anything now
keep dodging the point.
you've made the point that casual content has what you claim to be healing responsibility. if that can be done with 1 button then why are you claiming its a thing? its no different to any other casual content.
if you were actually having to heal more you'd have a point. but you're not having to heal more.
Last edited by Lucyfurr1988; 07-04-2024 at 10:56 AM.

so are you now claiming it's not telegraphed? its not more often at all you just have blinders on.
the only thing i agree with you on is that its cope.
an argument and a discussion are 2 very different things btw. just cause I'm not shying away from a discussion by trying to hide my replies behind changing my write ups to reply to messages that have come later doesn't mean I'm looking for a fight.
a discussion and a debate is healthy. why are you in forums where that's bound to happen if you're going to accuse people of looking for an argument when they disagree with what you're saying?
Last edited by Lucyfurr1988; 07-04-2024 at 11:16 AM.
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