#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Connor]

It's as if everything must be a hivemind...

W i l d

- Hivemind
- B E E boss

Coincidence? Think again.

The answer to the healer strikes was right in front of us the whole time. More bees!

[Galvuu]

Healers already crying about having to heal vs Valigarmanda and Zoraal Ja. They won’t ever be happy. Too much pressing buttons? Cry. Too little pressing buttons? Cry.

I found the healing in Valigarmanda ok, but the healing in that fight is usually overblown- there's some stuff to use your buttons on, but it's still not that hard to heal through it. Either way, 72% of my casts were still Glare III/Glare IV (149/207). On the pf. With random people. And deaths. I dunno man... I feel like maybe I could be pressing more than a single button 72% of my 8 minutes and 20 seconds kill.
At any rate, the playerbase isn't a monolith. Someone who's upset at healing aoe in Valigarmanda maybe shouldn't heal to begin with. If some people are ok Glare-botting, that's great for them! I just want something else to press in the fight.

[Lak14]

lmao, all is see is a bunch of casual healer crying days and night.

[Aravell]

Healers already crying about having to heal vs Valigarmanda and Zoraal Ja. They won’t ever be happy. Too much pressing buttons? Cry. Too little pressing buttons? Cry.

> Healers crying about having to heal in content.
> Healers are striking and not doing content as a healer.

"Well, those healers crying about having to heal in content MUST be those darn strikers!"

Make some sense please.

[Supersnow845]

lmao, all is see is a bunch of casual healer crying days and night.

Ah the cycle has returned to we are all casuals

[Lak14]

Ah the cycle has returned to we are all casuals

you dont ?

[Kacho_Nacho]

Something that occurred to me within the hour, while taking with some people about previous design idea pitches. One thing that came up a lot in relation to one of the changes in a WHM design that I've posted (here), was that the UI for trying to track DOTs in FFXIV is... quite bad. And the part of my design where I suggest reducing Aero/Dia to 12s duration (so we use it more often and therefore Glare less often), would exacerbate the issue somewhat. The game doesn't show your DOTs on the Emnity List (although starbirds inform me that there's a way to do just that via less-than-TOS-compliant methods), for example. But, the point raised was that if your DOT falls off, it can be difficult to 'notice' and refresh it. If only the DOT was a burst CD instead, so you could see it on your hotbar that it's 'ready', some players would say.

...So, why not do just that? Abilities can 'light up' when a combo is being executed, or when a resource is high enough to use the action (for example, Fan Dance lights up when you have a Feather). So, how about some kind of system change, or a trait, or whatever way to implement it, wherein 'If you have an enemy targeted, and that enemy does not have <DOT name> applied to them by you, the ability 'lights up' on your bar to indicate 'hey, it could be a good idea to use the DOT again''

Is there any reason not to implement this? As far as I can think, it'd help lower end players keep their DOT up, and higher end players who have the fight knowledge to know 'I should ignore the DOT even though it's flashing, because the boss jumps away in 8s and it'd be more efficient to use another use of <filler spell> instead' would be able to, 'ignore the dot even though it's flashing'. Make it optional of course, some people might not like having their DOT yelling at them 'USE ME USE ME'

edit: maybe even make it customizable, so that you can specify that it starts to flash 'at or below X duration', EG you could tell it to start flashing when the DOT is at 3s or less, rather than 'it fell off'

I love this idea! It wouldn't be hard to implement either.

I doubt healing throughput was ever the problem. Dawn Trail is like "There is actually some use in that third row of healing buttons" while IMHO we should have 2 rows instead of 3 and then get some fun factor into healing jobs.

I strongly agree, Sharknado. There isn't a need for so many redundant heals. The number should be reduced.

What I'm wondering is what kind of abilities should healers have in their place? Buffs to damage are already covered.

Personally, I'd like crowd control to become a thing because wall to wall pulls are too simple. Currently, the tank pulls multiple mobs. Tanks and healers use their regen and mitigation abilities. Everyone uses AoEs. Rinse and repeat...

Imagine how much more interesting it'd be if certain mobs did too much damage for wall to wall to work and the party had to pick who to pull and had to use crowd control on some of the other mobs to avoid being overwhelmed.

Is the strike over? Can I play healer again?

No, the strike isn't over.

Participating in the strike is purely voluntary. If you wish to be a healer, be a healer. May you have fun whatever you play.

[Silver-Strider]

you dont ?

Given that the 15 posts you've bothered to post in the forums is little more than complaining about casuals ruining the game, it seems you just like to complain in general

[Lak14]

Given that the 15 posts you've bothered to post in the forums is little more than complaining about casuals ruining the game, it seems you just like to complain in general

ah yes, another casual.

[Aravell]

Oh, is "casual" THE popular insulting term again? I thought "elitist toxic raider scum" was still in.

Man, I'm behind the times.