#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Kozmakis]

I’m only level 95 on Sage so far but it lasts so long I usually just do Eukrasian Dyskrasia once when mobs are gathered together then completely forget the spell exists lol. At least we have the super fun super interesting Psyche to use instead…once every 60 seconds…as an oGCD lol. You don’t even get to see the cool animation because it gets interrupted by the ugly pool noodles rain from Dyskrasia lol, and that weird pelvic thrust we do whenever we cast it

Ah, thanks for "feeding my curiousity" I expected it to be super bad, it seems it's moderately bad

[Supersnow845]

Arcadion's 4th fight is very funny. Moving some vuln stacks to heavy dots on failure, like those orbs from Zeromus is a positive treatment.

Really appreciate the last 20% being "If you don't use your kit or you are under 7 people, please die right now." just from pure damage. She shouldn't have taken breaks, it just should've been constant.

Unfortunately for the healers that got stuck with me, WAR and Living Dead saved the day once again. I'll queue these fights later on tonight, there could be some entertaining schadenfreude for awhile. Such a shame we're gonna outgear this, the way it is now is almost right for normal content.

Vuln stacks being replaced with rather heavy (at least for the current gear) bleeds was a very good design decision IMO because it actually means the healer needs to heal now, not just you are fine then next mechanic you just get one shot so either way you don’t need healing

[Post]

I remember the 2nd fight in Rabanastre was sorta like that. He has this half room cleave that almost kills and applies a bleed; the bleed would quickly kill anyone that didn't get healed or dispelled. Also provided one of the few organic reasons for the caster role action 'Erase' to exist.

Actually, even further back, 4th boss of Mhach does this as well with her 'haircut' cleaves. And she had those traps that allowed even DPS to save allies that stepped in/near the puddles.

Bleeds good for needing heals/punishing intentional taking a hit. Vulns bad. Damage downs kinda neutral for needing healer gameplay.

[Somnolence]

Dev1: "Why isn't anyone playing Astrologian?"
AST main1: "please you need to fix this mess you caused! Please give us back our rng!"
Dev2: "must be underpowered"
AST main2: "no! AST needs to be fun again. Can you at least give us new dmg buttons that are unbound?"
Dev1: "lol go play ultimate. Anyways, here is a second charge of light speed, a buff to macrocosmos, and 5 seconds off of your astral and umbral card recasts. Have fun!"
AST main1: "..."
AST DNC main2: "You know what, I give up. I'm playing dancer from now on."

Wow I looked at stats on the particular site, AST is only 14% of all healers doing EX1/EX2. 3x more people play WHM.

[GrimGale]

Dev1: "Why isn't anyone playing Astrologian?"
AST main1: "please you need to fix this mess you caused! Please give us back our rng!"
Dev2: "must be underpowered"
AST main2: "no! AST needs to be fun again. Can you at least give us new dmg buttons that are unbound?"
Dev1: "lol go play ultimate. Anyways, here is a second charge of light speed, a buff to macrocosmos, and 5 seconds off of your astral and umbral card recasts. Have fun!"
AST main1: "..."
AST DNC main2: "You know what, I give up. I'm playing dancer from now on."

>remove systems
>replace them with nothing

Clunk is better than nothing just look at scholar (not that scholar is particularly interesting but having to choose between energy drain and healing AF abilities is like the bare minimum of gameplay you get)

[Zaytex]

I think people like me who are frustrated with healer should play it in prog, it is genuinely the only place in the game where the role is fun. I've been doing the normal raid which dropped today and people are dropping like flies and stepping in damage - I have to do so much rezzing, so much GCD healing to keep people up (both single and aoe) and it's just been utter chaos. The second raid with the bee boss is genuine fun lmao

But the downside to this is, give it a week, and everyone will know what they're doing and I'll be bored and swapping off to a DPS job. Still a dog shit role, where it's only fun for a week when new content comes out - but hey, embrace the one saving grace of this role.

[BunnyQueen]

Old static asked me if I'm renewing my sub for normal raids. I asked them to link me the patch notes where healers got significantly changed. They couldn't, guess I'll continue playing other games.

Life's good. C:

I am trying to level a healer but I am running into the issue where I am falling asleep because I spam 1 every fight and usually my tank requires 0 healing.

[Zaytex]

Wow I looked at stats on the particular site, AST is only 14% of all healers doing EX1/EX2. 3x more people play WHM.

I'm so glad they reworked the only skill expressive healer into being smooth brained with no flavour or soul just so it can remain unplayed.

[Kes13a]

I'm so glad they reworked the only skill expressive healer into being smooth brained with no flavour or soul just so it can remain unplayed.

but hey.... I bet its accessible as heck!

[CerusSerenade]

Healers keep dying and letting the party die to raid-wides.

I think healers just need to get good, or we'll take away your dot next.