#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Blixie]

I realize extensive efforts to control the narrative have been an epic fail, but using upvotes on a random meme to support speculative commentary is an all new level of WTF?-even for this place.

In other news-I'm very much enjoying not playing my healers, and I have no plans to take them up again unless/until things change. Unlike many of our amazing forum regulars, I can't see the future, or read the minds of the dev team, so I can only guess at what might happen.

I'm not holding my breath for changes, but I do hope SE will recognize the cost of poor job design and correct course.

[flowerkatie]

“Even then it was released with a damage dealer” how does that change the argument at all.

If you don't believe that 1 healer being released verses 2 damage makes no different in the argument then that's fine. I disagree.

here is obviously something wrong with healers. Deflecting it to “oh supports in general are unpopular” isn’t valid because people have shown they are willing to play tanks with GNB’s release

I didn't deflect the argument, I simply added my opinion that I believe supportive roles are less played, healers even lesser than tanks.

But atlas, I am happy to concede both of those points to you because neither of them are relevant to what my point was meant to be. The queue isn't because of the strike, even in your reasoning; the queue is caused by the role not being engaging and something being 'wrong' with healers, not because of the strike. That's the only point I was making in my response to someone. I don't agree with your points but it is also not important to the point I intended to make.

[Sani2341]

If you don't believe that 1 healer being released verses 2 damage makes no different in the argument then that's fine. I disagree.

You're missing the part where the comparison is primarily between how a Tank + 1 dps affected tank Queues vs how 1 healer+ 1 dps affected healer Queues.

Both of which are then comapred to the effect of the 2 dps expansions.

[Somnolence]

I simply added my opinion that I believe supportive roles are less played, healers even lesser than tanks.

There are no achievements with rewards for playing a healer, yet tanks got new tier of them for DT. Clearly SE do not see any issues in internal metrics and therefore have no reason to do or change anything.

[Aravell]

I'm not holding my breath for changes, but I do hope SE will recognize the cost of poor job design and correct course.

Maybe I'm an optimistic fool, but I believe that they will be changing the jobs after this.

When even very positive places like reddit are calling the job design stale, then it's really gotten pretty bad and they need to change course. Yoshi P also did say that the team overdid the simplifications, so maybe there some hope for a new direction.

Either way though, we very likely won't be seeing any change until 8.0 at least, because the dev team doesn't change anything with any amount of speed unless the thing is literally broken and does not work.

[Ramiee]

Maybe I'm an optimistic fool, but I believe that they will be changing the jobs after this.

When even very positive places like reddit are calling the job design stale, then it's really gotten pretty bad and they need to change course. Yoshi P also did say that the team overdid the simplifications, so maybe there some hope for a new direction.

Either way though, we very likely won't be seeing any change until 8.0 at least, because the dev team doesn't change anything with any amount of speed unless the thing is literally broken and does not work.

Until we get confirmation that CDs stop revolving around 2 minutes I don't think the job design will massively improve.

[Blixie]

Maybe I'm an optimistic fool...

If so, we're travelers on the same ship, so, pleased to meet you. I've appreciated your posts from the start of this thread.

When they put yet another nail in AST and announced the changes for BLM, I felt like maybe things were messed up beyond what they would or could repair. Reading the conversations here encouraged me to think that it wasn't too late.

People seem to be pretty unhappy with DT, so I'm hoping they take a hard look at what players are saying here and in some of the other threads. Job and encounter design are most important for me. I can work around a bad MSQ if they make me, but why bother if the game isn't fun to play.

[ForsakenRoe]

Until we get confirmation that CDs stop revolving around 2 minutes I don't think the job design will massively improve.

Healer design issues have almost nothing to do with the 2min meta, we can keep the 2min BS and still see improvements to the role's gameplay. The only thing it'd affect is Divination/Chain Stratagem's CD, and the duration of DOTs (they'd probably want to have things like 15s or 24s so it lines up nicely), but Chain/Div have always been 2min so

[Ramiee]

Healer design issues have almost nothing to do with the 2min meta, we can keep the 2min BS and still see improvements to the role's gameplay. The only thing it'd affect is Divination/Chain Stratagem's CD, and the duration of DOTs (they'd probably want to have things like 15s or 24s so it lines up nicely), but Chain/Div have always been 2min so

What I said was more about general job design not healers specifically. The 2 minute meta has ruined job design across the board including DPS and Tanks, healers aren't as affected obviously because these problems started in SHB before the 2 minute meta but if this meta didn't exist PoM and therefore Glare IV could of been on a shorter CD but because this meta exists its on a longer one same with psyche being every 60 seconds.
I think in 8.0 if we see that CD timers are getting changed to be more spread and different theres way more of a chance that healers would get some correction in their playstyle because the 2 minute cds was made to cater for simplifcation of job design across the board.

[Ritsugamesh]

The 2 min meta just speaks to a larger problem, one that is equal parts developer and community made.

There are so many tick boxes every job needs to clear to be acceptable:

- Must deal X damage
- Must fit into 2 min buff windows
- Must not require any external influence, i.e. must be self-contained
- Must take x damage from mechanics
- Must be able to stun/interrupt/etc.
- Must have x amount of healing throughput

Every job needs to fit into these square holes so all fights work for every job evenly for everyone in DF and PF so noone gets the feelsbads, and this is the result. Healers feel this so acutely because while Tanks have basically the same defensive kits thrown into the randomiser, and DPS have unique ways to reach target X damage number, healers fundamentally all need to be able to do everything at this stage.

Healers all have shields, regens, % mits, oGCD single target heals, oGCD AOE heals, 1 spam single target attack, 1 spam aoe attack, 1 DoT. AST is the most unique, given it has actual nuance in its delay-based spell usage, and stands out as the most involved healer, but when you need to ensure there are no holes in a job's gameplay, you end up with husks of identity. I mapped out SCH and SGE's spells/actions back on launch and it was legitimately appalling how every part of SCH's kit was basicall just jumbled up into SGE's and packaged as a fresh job.

When you stifle creativity with arbitrary rules and restrictions (again, this is both dev and community made problems) then you end up with absolutely no space to innovate. I don't envy their jobs whatsoever, because there will be fallout no matter which way the pendulum goes, but I know there was a time when things weren't like this.