#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Rowde]

the High End content has been cleared within 9 hours, now the real race to see who can clear it first without Healers can begin.

[CNitsah]

I’ve noticed that the average quality of healer I see in roulettes and pug groups is… lower then usual.

I've seen that too. Depending of the case, it's healer struggling with the raise in difficulty, or more rarely, healers that refuse to stop playing like they did previously, and refuse to use GCD to heal once in a while. With those, making one small error nearly always mean death, especially if you have no self healing (well if you're a caster). Hyper potion have become useless, 11k life is like 10%, when they were introduced they were 25% of your life.

Honestly, if I welcomed the raise in difficulty in endgame content a month ago, I'm slowly getting annoyed by it, since it makes obvious how the average player is bad at the game (and I mean that in a general sense, it's not targeted to healers). And that's coming from someone who is very mid at it.

[ZephyrMenodora]

I've seen that too. Depending of the case, it's healer struggling with the raise in difficulty, or more rarely, healers that refuse to stop playing like they did previously, and refuse to use GCD to heal once in a while. With those, making one small error nearly always mean death, especially if you have no self healing (well if you're a caster). Hyper potion have become useless, 11k life is like 10%, when they were introduced they were 25% of your life.

Honestly, if I welcomed the raise in difficulty in endgame content a month ago, I'm slowly getting annoyed by it, since it makes obvious how the average player is bad at the game. And that's coming from someone who is very mid at it.

I still enjoy the increase in difficulty. It's a little frustrating on DPS when the healer thinks I can survive a raidwide at 30% HP as a squishy, but it is what it is.

I feel more appreciated as a "babysitting healer" that keeps dps at 90% lately, which is nice.

Hopefully people realize then can't always zone out and Glare and the playerbase adjusts.

[Bobby66]

the High End content has been cleared within 9 hours, now the real race to see who can clear it first without Healers can begin.

I do not generally follow the races but how does the 9 hours compare to other first tier clears? For whatever reason I feel as if they generally get cleared within 12 hours.

[Rolder50]

I still enjoy the increase in difficulty. It's a little frustrating on DPS when the healer thinks I can survive a raidwide at 30% HP as a squishy, but it is what it is.

I feel more appreciated as a "babysitting healer" that keeps dps at 90% lately, which is nice.

Hopefully people realize then can't always zone out and Glare and the playerbase adjusts.

My headcanon is that the only people playing healers are people who are either in it for a free ride or can’t handle a more complicated job.

[ZephyrMenodora]

My headcanon is that the only people playing healers are people who are either in it for a free ride or can’t handle a more complicated job.

Worst are the Sylphie Scholars who hope Eos can do everything as they pretty much auto-follow lol.

[Ramiee]

Worst are the Sylphie Scholars who hope Eos can do everything as they pretty much auto-follow lol.

For as frustrating the ARC SCH/SMN shared system is, it did a good job of converting DPS into healers who DPS. Up to level 30 when an ARC became a SCH in ARR you basically had the ARC damage kit so you already knew what your damage rotation was because you leveled with it for 30 levels and got decently used to healing because you got CNJ to at least 15.
Now when you go from ARC to SCH you get thrown into a completely different playstyle.

[Maltothoris]

I do not generally follow the races but how does the 9 hours compare to other first tier clears? For whatever reason I feel as if they generally get cleared within 12 hours.

Generally the first tiers have usually taken about 14-17 hours.

[Grann-Goro]

I've seen that too. Depending of the case, it's healer struggling with the raise in difficulty, or more rarely, healers that refuse to stop playing like they did previously, and refuse to use GCD to heal once in a while. With those, making one small error nearly always mean death, especially if you have no self healing (well if you're a caster). Hyper potion have become useless, 11k life is like 10%, when they were introduced they were 25% of your life.

Honestly, if I welcomed the raise in difficulty in endgame content a month ago, I'm slowly getting annoyed by it, since it makes obvious how the average player is bad at the game (and I mean that in a general sense, it's not targeted to healers). And that's coming from someone who is very mid at it.

I think it's because most people just weren't trained to this level of difficulty before, but as time passes - and if the game is correctly made (is it ?) - we can hope a good portion of players will slowly get better.

[Bobby66]

Generally the first tiers have usually taken about 14-17 hours.

Thanks for the info. Does the clear time go down 3ach expansion?