#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Grann-Goro]

I'm all for being able to work your way through low-level dungeons without a healer, or a bad one. But after a certain point, it's not unreasonable to expect someone to have a decent amount of confidence and competence in their chosen role, enough that the minimal skill level is something above casting Medica II and fishing for Freecure.

I kinda agree, and I think one problem the game has is that it allows players to start learning to heal at level 30 (SCH and AST) or even worse at level 70 (SGE) !
That's not normal.

Imagine a player who only learns to play DPS from level 1-69, then he/she unlocks SGE and says to himself/herself : from now on, I will heal...

I think the game shouldn't allow that. To unlock SGE (resp AST and SCH), we should need to have another healer job at level 70 (resp 30), not any job.

Same thing for the other roles by the way.


EDIT :
Another problem - but I guess it already has been said multiple times - is that WHM (the only level 1 healer !) completely changes in the way it plays as soon as the player reaches level 52 !

In ARR content, WHM learns to heal by casting. He gets used to his specific casting times, learns to manage his MP, and to proc freecure.
(Believe it or not, but freecure is actually useful when you play ARR extremes or Bahamut Coils in "minimum item level, no echo".
You litteraly have no other free heal at this level. Also the piety stat can be useful.
Actually, this content may still be the most interesting to play as a WHM, even today !)

But then player hits level 52 and bam : the game completely changes !
Now the player has the *gigantic* Asile and Lilies, and is suddently loaded of free and instant heals.
And at level 56 : another free heal !
And at level 60 : another free heal !
etc...
And suddently the gameplay becomes "forget your MP and cast the least you can !"
WTF ! That's not what the player has been teached so far !
That's not good game design, at all !