#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[TheDustyOne]

I want both more to heal and a better DPS kit, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

There's only so much extra damage you can add to a fight before it becomes stressful rather than enjoyable, couple that with gear making that damage less lethal over time and you open up plenty of opportunities where you just don't need to heal, and as such the non-healing parts of the kit need to be engaging too. It's less there being 2 fronts and more just a spectrum of what someone prefers out of the two.

[Blixie]

Thank goodness Wuk Lamat has arrived to help us all learn valuable lessons about acceptance....

Seriously folks, in over 650 pages, I've yet to see a reasonable argument or even discussion about why this is not worth trying. It's almost as if the people who are speaking against this effort have no genuine reason to be posting in this thread....

[Aravell]

My personal wish is very simple:

Stop the overfocus on encounter complexity and return job complexity, at the end of the road to overfocusing on encounters lies TOP, all body checks and debuff vomit.

Bring back a 60:40 focus on job complexity vs encounter complexity.

Contrary to popular belief, you can have jobs with decent depth without having encounters that are designed like the first 7 minutes of P7S.

Jobs are our way of interacting with content itself, there is absolutely ZERO reason why any job should lack optional depth. As long as things aren't designed so that 100% output is required to clear, then that depth will remain optional and people who hate depth won't have to engage with it whatsoever.

[Somnolence]

To nobody's surprise, new EX1 was already cleared by 8 tanks (in PF by randoms no less)

(Video is unlisted so won't share since the author did not intend it for public but its nothing special, really anybody can do the same)

[Ramiee]

Thank goodness Wuk Lamat has arrived to help us all learn valuable lessons about acceptance....

You mean the character the forums hate too?
Lol I'd rather take a lesson from Nidhogg then her babbling about burritos.

[GrimGale]

Im already at 150+ casts of broil in both EX encounters with PF randoms.
I have around 30% overhealing.

Cohealer has 120 casts of glare with 48% overhealing.

[Galvuu]

The strike has 2 fronts, those who want more damage buttons and the one who wants to heal more.

Fwiw, I don't think this dichotomy exists- the majority seems to want both. People want better healing content, both with more oncoming damage and more reactive healing (crit autos were an easy source of this in older XIV, but this mechanic basically vanished), but they understand that changing the encounter design in that way is both difficult and probably cannot be broadly applied to all content, so they also want more engaging dps tools. The better dps kit is super low hanging fruit, they literally need to undelete some of the 10 missing actions that healers had in HW. It's like, few hours of work and testing, most likely. The former takes more time, although I think it's a necessity to truly bring the healer support fantasy alive.

If you want an example, I mained SCH in HW, when it was at the peak of its dps complexity, and I really enjoyed keeping all the different timed dots rolling perfectly. But the peak of SCH gameplay for me was moments like, for example, in A6S pre-nerf, my team messed up the slow/stuns on the orbs in the Brawler add phase and, if you were a good scholar, using your own slows/Supervirus/Fey Illumination, you could salvage the pull and make it through that mechanic. That was peak Scholar gameplay, a combination of defensive buffs, debuffs and mitigation used tactically making it through a difficult mechanic. I still think back on those moments even more than I do on managing all the dots- I don't think the latter is enough without the former.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Im already at 150+ casts of broil in both EX encounters with PF randoms.
I have around 30% overhealing.

Cohealer has 120 casts of glare with 48% overhealing.

How very unsurprising.

Just shows that “encounter” isn’t the only issue. Wakey wakey now, folks. There’s a lot more to be rectified.

[AnotherPerson]

You mean the character the forums hate too?
Lol I'd rather take a lesson from Nidhogg then her babbling about burritos.

The character may be portrayed poorly, but her ideals are something worth striving for imo. It's a good ruler's perspective, albeit very idealistic. Except this is Final Fantasy, where there are precedents towards that idealistic reality in that game.

So no, I don't think the idea about acceptance and understanding is wrong, nor hated by the community. We had multiple instances about the very themes of acceptance and understanding in multiple expansions. Even Heavensward had a lot of topics on understanding and acceptance towards differences in race. The whole dragonsong war initially stopped because people were able to put aside that difference initially, thereby living in Harmony with two distinct races and cultures merging into one. Estinen himself mentioned while being possessed, he intimately felt the rancor, fury, and grief -- and through the experience, Nidhogg is not so different from him. He now wields his lance not for men but for men and dragon both and his armor was given to him by Hraesvelgr.

The cumulation of efforts in Endwalker also led to the renaming of Allied Society Quests rather than the Beast Tribe Quests. Putting aside differences in both appearance and way of life. Dawntrail is just another extension to that. The story might be told poorly compared to its previous expansions, but the themes still ring true.

[Doriann]

All dungeons cleared without healers, ex encounters cleared without healers. Good job balance team

I never thought I would miss juggling cleric stance in damage/healing, but that gameplay was way more engaging than what we have now.