#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[CaptainLagbeard]

Also, throwing my anecdotes into the ring with 'whenever I'm levelling a DPS in roulettes, there's been a massive surge in 'healer has no clue what they're doing' healers'. In fact, I was doing a run earlier on PLD, and I had a SGE who was using Diagnosis to try and keep me alive while like 6 enemies were hitting me. Regular Diagnosis. Sometimes I wonder why SE even gives us these 'noob trap' abilities instead of having them simply upgrade to their 'slightly less of a noob trap' counterparts

Sometimes you do have to use Diagnosis as an actual heal with SGE... Granted that situation usually involves bad DPS standing in too much fire, or Tanks who don't know what their CDs do and you just run out of other heals as you desperately try to keep people with the self preservation instincts of a Dodo alive.

[Edweirdo]

Just lvling astro ,and I hate that they turned 2 cards into another 2 random barriers and heal buffs ,There was one healer job that had something extra going on , giving out them dps buffs, and keeping busy, now that's gone too , more heals and barriers bc 90% of my skills wasn't enough .
I'm starting to experience and see why healers are getting sick and tired , and why there's always a lack of healers in endgame rn .
This is bad, ppl complained about healer homogenization and in response they homogenized even the few unique features that some jobs had.

[Shurrikhan]

For the PLD part, Clemency is crazy for progression

The bolded part though, on the one hand, I'd prefer to keep interrupts as a Tank thing (and actually make use of them, SE), but an idea discussed on the healer section a long time ago was the idea of Dispel being a Healer role action, where you'd be able to remove certain buffs from enemies. As an example, if a boss does an interruptible 'toughen up' cast, and it goes through because nobody interrupted the cast (giving the boss a Stoneskin esque barrier that needs to be DPS'd through), the healer would be able to use Dispel to remove it, massively helping with the 'DPS check'. It could even be thrown onto Repose as a bonus effect, so that THAT action gets to see a bit more use. Given that the Healer is the 'recover from mistakes' role, the idea that 'party makes a mistake and doesn't interrupt the boss's action, healer is able to rectify the 'mistake' a bit' kinda fits I'd say. But the issue with the idea is that some players are deathly allergic to targeting enemies, and so it'd lead to issues where said player doesn't Dispel, party asks 'why no Dispel' and the healer says 'why no Interject' and bam player friction (and we know SE doesn't want player friction ever)

Also, throwing my anecdotes into the ring with 'whenever I'm levelling a DPS in roulettes, there's been a massive surge in 'healer has no clue what they're doing' healers'. In fact, I was doing a run earlier on PLD, and I had a SGE who was using Diagnosis to try and keep me alive while like 6 enemies were hitting me. Regular Diagnosis. Sometimes I wonder why SE even gives us these 'noob trap' abilities instead of having them simply upgrade to their 'slightly less of a noob trap' counterparts

I have no issue adding interrupts to supports if the frequency of casts (especially among trash mobs) are thus increased, but I likewise don't see any purpose in taking that away from tanks.

Also, this is a tangent, but... why does interrupting have to be the only way to powerfully and uniquely deal with enemy spells? I wouldn't mind seeing, for instance, tanks revert back to normal Magic Defense but get varied perks by which to level the field a bit against magic, such as...

• Warrior having a chance at gaining 5 Beast Gauge from magic damage taken (based on its potency),
• Dark Arts nullifying a granular amount of future MP cost based on % of TBN's barrier consumed, with magic damage counting double or whatnot,
• Sage being able to spend variable MP (based on incoming ST spell's potency) to Reflect said spell.
• Scholar being able to steal twice Energy Drain's potency from a spell, reducing its damage while briefly adding its type to and empowering Ruin/Broil.

[BunnyQueen]

You really consider SE too stupid and incompetent to recognise brain drain resulting from boring gameplay as a problem? I'm not lacking that much faith yet but I guess we'll see in 8.0.

SE honestly thinks healers can't do anything, which is a problem. Healers are so bored and so done with SE's Bull S*** that I struggle to find a healer for anything. As a tank I am starting to have 5-15 min wait times for stuff. Anything past HW as a healer is so boring and lacks engagement to the point I risk falling asleep mid dungeon.

[sharknado]

SE honestly thinks healers can't do anything, which is a problem. Healers are so bored and so done with SE's Bull S*** that I struggle to find a healer for anything.

For the level 100 dungeons it's better to be tank than healer Easier to survive and even if you die you will be auto-rezzed unless healer already got one-shot and it's a wipe anyway...

This expansion is so regressive that it begs the question where is the money going from FF14, where creative people went? 1:1 template of previous expansion and lack of any attempts at testing new approaches, trying to replace old brain-dead grinds with something more appealing...

[Kes13a]

This expansion is so regressive that it begs the question where is the money going from FF14, where creative people went? 1:1 template of previous expansion and lack of any attempts at testing new approaches, trying to replace old brain-dead grinds with something more appealing...

the money, as will all successful games owned by a big company, gets eaten by the big company. I doubt CBU3's budget has increased in years. so they are making do with staff that is aging out, new interns that have little experience, job designers that couldnt design their way out of a wet paper bag with a road map and a pair of scissors.

for the next new 10 year arc, we will be revisiting the old 10 year arc, just with different colours, names.. and a graphics update. woo... hoo...

the big suits at SE need to realize that if they want to keep milking their cash cow, sometimes they gotta feed it some decent hay.

[EusisLandale]

Time for a fresh batch of popcorn. Another no healer clear.
https://x.com/jooooonside/status/1817629545379348577

[Supersnow845]

Time for a fresh batch of popcorn. Another no healer clear.
https://x.com/jooooonside/status/1817629545379348577

I can feel the goal posts moving as we speak

[Striker44]

Just lvling astro ,and I hate that they turned 2 cards into another 2 random barriers and heal buffs ,There was one healer job that had something extra going on , giving out them dps buffs, and keeping busy, now that's gone too , more heals and barriers bc 90% of my skills wasn't enough .
I'm starting to experience and see why healers are getting sick and tired , and why there's always a lack of healers in endgame rn .
This is bad, ppl complained about healer homogenization and in response they homogenized even the few unique features that some jobs had.

Yeah, this is one spot where I was disappointed, too. Had finally gotten into AST at the end of EW and liked that card system; not a fan of the new one and AST has gone on the back burner again. Still loving SCH just as much, though.

As a tank I am starting to have 5-15 min wait times for stuff.

Random anecdotes or anomalies don't mean much. It'll always waffle back and forth between tanks and healers. So far in DT, I have never had a tank queue go anything more than a few minutes, even when I'm queuing for very specific odd content for WT. And sometimes it's the healer queue that does that instead. For example, I ran my four Arcadion raids yesterday...tried first as healer and had a queue that didn't pop within a couple minutes...switched to tank...all 4 wings insta-popped each time I queued as tank.

Things will just go as they've always gone, especially with an expansion featuring both new classes as DPS. The role most needed will just keep meandering back and forth between tanks and healers as it always has.

Time for a fresh batch of popcorn. Another no healer clear.

*Shrugs shoulders* Not even worth getting popcorn for. Show me random groups of "nobodies" doing this on the regular and I'll bring the butter.

[Grann-Goro]

Time for a fresh batch of popcorn. Another no healer clear.
https://x.com/jooooonside/status/1817629545379348577

I don't understand.
I see no less than 4 healers in this team.
They even are at the center of the picture.