#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[gllt]

I think job changes to make jobs more appealing in the long term feel like a last resort from the devs because they would rather use any other means to get you to play a job in the short term instead. Like I'm tinfoil hatting but..

Satisfying gameplay? Can't have that, need to make something safe and inoffensive to anyone to maximize the amount of people who might play it.

Why make Tanks or Healers more interesting in the long term when you can make them so easy that DPS players will become Tanks and Healers to get in need bonuses and better queue times so other DPS players can not wait absurd amounts of time to get matched.

DPS players will come and defend their long queue times with all kinds of logic from having to cope with them for so long, it's just the way it is! And man, yeah, I do other stuff while I'm in queue. I use my Squadrons and Trusts. Etc. but I don't think that's a solution to an obvious imbalance of different roles. And neither is in need bonuses and swapping roles to get better queue times.

Like I think the roulettes system is genius at its core for incentivizing people to engage with all kinds of content for yummy rewards but I also think it's a subpar way to try and fix queue role ratio imbalance.

But dumber Healing and Tanking with no responsibility with in need rewards and instant queue times make number go up NOW even if it slowly trails back off due to unsatisfying gameplay, enough people who got sucked into trying it keep doing it so it must be working, even if we have to straight up abuse the game balance to keep doing it

Your Tank can't die and your Healer doesn't need to do anything, whee! Riveting gameplay I must stay invested in long term OH LOOK A NEW GLAMOUR AND EFFECTS ON MY MOVES AWW YEAH

[Ramiee]

They definitely know something is wrong. But they likely believe that it's because not enough people are willing to give healer a try.

Remember that "Please give healer a try." comment in the Q&A when someone pointed out the healer shortage in PF?

Well yeah the role sucks.
Why would anyone willingly play healer lol or course the Devs have to beg people to play healer. Remember this is the same dev team that responded to "we heal too little can we please do more healing." With "go play ultimate lmfao."

[Jojoya]

The 4th day of the strike is now starting. How is it going so far for those of you that are participating?

[Grann-Goro]

The 4th day of the strike is now starting. How is it going so far for those of you that are participating?

I don't play very much anymore, but sometimes I'm leveling and training as black mage to see if I can like this.

--> Remember our healer once mattered. Remember we needed to protect him/her.

[Azurarok]

You'd think that would have send a message a long time ago. While it doesn't tell SE what is wrong with the role (they can look at the healer subforum for that), it does clearly show something is wrong. For years.

But maybe SE just twisted that message into something completely backwards. Like: players must really hate playing healers, we better make sure healers have to heal as little as possible.

I have wondered if some things actually do get lost in translation, maybe even intentionally by whoever is summarizing feedback to YoshiP, considering the question asked in the Q&A that spawned the infamous "go play ultimates" line was a bit twisted out of shape when it made it to him (was able to find the links thanks to this thread).

[Reinha]

The 4th day of the strike is now starting. How is it going so far for those of you that are participating?

Viper has been great, thank you for asking! The most memorable fight so far was in the last leveling dungeon when the healer and the other dps died when the 1st boss was at around 50%, I held on until 2% and the DRK finished it. Once I get through this MSQ slog and get to do more actual fighting I'll have even more fun with the job (at least until the patch).

[ty_taurus]

The 4th day of the strike is now starting. How is it going so far for those of you that are participating?

I’m enjoying XIV the way Yoshi P intended: playing other games instead.

More specifically I’ve been playing GranBlue Fantasy: Relink and it’s pretty decent. Not my favorite but I’m enjoying it. You have two buttons for your basic combos that differ on each character and 4 cooldowns. I’m playing a healer and can set 1 cool down for my healing while my basic combos and other cooldowns go toward damage, so in 6 actions I have significantly more fun gameplay as a healer than in FFXIV despite having like 5 times as many actions.

[Flay_wind]

The 4th day of the strike is now starting. How is it going so far for those of you that are participating?

Playing DRK/RPR. Having fun.
From anecdotal experience, there's quite a lot to heal at the moment, because people are new, so they make a lot of mistakes and take avoidable damage. Being not ilvl capped also helps. But from what i've seen so far, i won't say that actual incoming damage drastically increased.

[Basteala]

Why would anyone give healer a try when it is so braindead that a chimpanzee that is blindfolded could do it.

It's honestly think a bigger problem with that comes down to Healer's learning curve. Compared to say...Black Mage, which is an easy to learn, hard to master class (reasonably simple rotation in terms of buttons, but execution is a total bitch), Healers often fall under the "hard to learn, easy to master" deal. New players get overwhelmed by not just all the healing options, but also the idea that instead of "passively" regaining health from another player, they're now responsible for all of that, and it can give newbies a bad case of nerves.

Thing is...once you get over all out, outside of Ultimates and progressive Savage or just doing some really insane pulls in old content, there's not a lot of ways to make use of your knowledge, and that's frustrating.

[ninjasoldier014]

It says a lot about a person's character that seeing others unhappy brings them joy. Hope that's not how you treat your friends and family.

Please try not to get mad and read through my entire post.

No, it was a joke, and slight sarcasm. I guess the people in this thread aren't smart enough to understand it, as I can see from subsequent posts. Maybe the people here really need a /s after to get it. Merely trying to dispel the ignorant anger. Anyway, I gave it a few days to check back here to see what you guys were talking about, because me and everyone in the game I've played with so far (randos) have jokingly made fun of this "strike" because of how important & quite frankly how busy healers are in dungeons and DT content. Any mad striker reading this, have you actually tried healing this expansion? I have never had this much fun playing as a healer in this game before DT, and that sentiment carried through to the end of the MSQ. (Despite lackluster story, that's another topic). I suggest you play sage, at the very least. I keep seeing posts saying that they have not done so, playing other games, etc. So you stay mad, without actually trying it. Like my original opinion on this "strike", you've created a problem before actually seeing that there is a problem. Even if there is, you've already cried wolf, and seeing how healing is for myself, this "strike" looks like it's got egg all over its face. I'm not saying this to be rude, it's just comical and childish how a lot of these replies read. Also, I'm not directly pointing this at the quoted comment and the person specifically, but generally to this entire post. So I end with this, have you actually tried to heal this expansion? Because it sure is nothing like EW.