#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Jojoya]

Time to check in with the strikers now that Savage has been released.

How are things going? Are you enjoying playing tank and/or DPS in content? Have your EX/Savage groups been clearing content easily without healers because healers are pointless, or struggled to find healers since you aren't healing anymore but your party needs healers?

Or did you back out of the strike and pick up your healing cane/codex/astrolabe/nouliths for group content after all?

Please don't talk about what you're seeing in PF. I want to know how things are with your personal game play. Discontent with individual job design aside, are all the claims made that led to the decision for you to strike true in Dawntrail?

[Sivante]

Discontent with individual job design aside, are all the claims made that led to the decision for you to strike true in Dawntrail?

Some, yes. Yes, there are groups here and there clearing without healers, but that was never the point. End of the day healer is still just... boring to play. Even with Savage, it feels less like we're necessary and more like we have the privilege of hitting a few more buttons on occasion. The game breaks down to mechanics. A good group on good mechanics means we do less. Better team = Less enjoyable/necessary for healers.

I'm enjoying tanking and DPS'ing much more in DT. Haven't felt like I am going to fall asleep at the keyboard in a while now.

[Supersnow845]

Time to check in with the strikers now that Savage has been released.

How are things going? Are you enjoying playing tank and/or DPS in content? Have your EX/Savage groups been clearing content easily without healers because healers are pointless, or struggled to find healers since you aren't healing anymore but your party needs healers?

Or did you back out of the strike and pick up your healing cane/codex/astrolabe/nouliths for group content after all?

Please don't talk about what you're seeing in PF. I want to know how things are with your personal game play. Discontent with individual job design aside, are all the claims made that led to the decision for you to strike true in Dawntrail?

Healer is my current least levelled role across my two accounts, my main- Andreas- I only levelled SCH through the MSQ and in the first trust visit of the dungeon, my only other healer above 90 is AST on 92 from fates. My alt (who I will not share publicly as it’s my raiding character) had only SGE and SCH levelled as I’m our statics shield healer

Andreas doesn’t heal at all, I simply do not enjoy it, I’m still having a blast on PCT and while I’m trying to level all my jobs I’ll come up with any excuse to play PCT in any content including offering to double run roulettes with friends just so I can play more PCT. My raiding character I shield heal out of obligation but I get no fun out of it, healing is still boring as hell, both my co-healer and I are pressuring our static to rotate roles under threat of dropping the static because healing is just that boring but nobody will fill our slots as none of our static wants to play healer. If anything the savages are less healing intensive than the extremes. The mechanics are better but the healing still isn’t there

So yes I feel fully justified in my decision to join the strike and dump this travesty of a role. The only thing I miss is the nebulous feeling of being a healer as Andreas is canonically a healer in my personal headcanon that goes beyond the scope of the game but I couldn’t miss the minute to minute gameplay of healer less if I tried

[ASkellington]

Discontent with individual job design aside, are all the claims made that led to the decision for you to strike true in Dawntrail?

DT isn't any different than EW was but with an even worse card system. Healing isn't any harder, it isn't any more fun and EX and savage will not change that until they do "as they plan" and actually change up the battle content supposively in 7.2.

[LyraShu]

Time to check in with the strikers now that Savage has been released.

How are things going? Are you enjoying playing tank and/or DPS in content? Have your EX/Savage groups been clearing content easily without healers because healers are pointless, or struggled to find healers since you aren't healing anymore but your party needs healers?

Or did you back out of the strike and pick up your healing cane/codex/astrolabe/nouliths for group content after all?

Please don't talk about what you're seeing in PF. I want to know how things are with your personal game play. Discontent with individual job design aside, are all the claims made that led to the decision for you to strike true in Dawntrail?

Things have been good! I have been enjoying learning some more and getting into some, in my opinion, more engaging gameplay.

As far as the "group content", even from the start this was never about harming other players. If requested by friends, or anyone, I heal for THEM and am happy that I got to help. I just don't run DF content with rando's because I am hoping that is a stat that SE will notice (correctly or no). SO, I have been healing for friends but only in EX trials and we have been getting pretty clean with it. I think we are getting closer to having everything choreographed enough to run without healers, but that may just be me thinking too much about this issue.

Aside from that, I have been having some great laughs and adventures

[LynxDubh]

Time to check in with the strikers now that Savage has been released.

How are things going? Are you enjoying playing tank and/or DPS in content? Have your EX/Savage groups been clearing content easily without healers because healers are pointless, or struggled to find healers since you aren't healing anymore but your party needs healers?

Or did you back out of the strike and pick up your healing cane/codex/astrolabe/nouliths for group content after all?

Please don't talk about what you're seeing in PF. I want to know how things are with your personal game play. Discontent with individual job design aside, are all the claims made that led to the decision for you to strike true in Dawntrail?

Been enjoying DPS and leveling a good handful of them. I did try WHM in raids and dungeons to gauge the feel of it again. But, it’s not been fun on healers the rotation is still bland, even on WHM which I consider to be the least monotonous healer since you break up the spam with lillies. I’d tolerate WHM more if we had more chances to Glare IV. Kind of abstaining from savage for this tier. Burned out a bit near the end of EW doing some last minute raiding. The upped healing requirements were nice from what I played, but that was early and not substantial enough for my liking. So I’m abstaining from healers still overall, the role is not engaging enough and it really effects my performance with the jobs.

[Silver-Strider]

Time to check in with the strikers now that Savage has been released.

How are things going? Are you enjoying playing tank and/or DPS in content? Have your EX/Savage groups been clearing content easily without healers because healers are pointless, or struggled to find healers since you aren't healing anymore but your party needs healers?

Or did you back out of the strike and pick up your healing cane/codex/astrolabe/nouliths for group content after all?

Please don't talk about what you're seeing in PF. I want to know how things are with your personal game play. Discontent with individual job design aside, are all the claims made that led to the decision for you to strike true in Dawntrail?

I was enjoying VPR until 7.05 so now I'm just leveling jobs out of boredom more than anything. My old static asked me if I was interested in joining for the raid tier but I just haven't really found a job that keeps me engaged anymore and can't really see myself even continuing to play. I'm going to level everything to 100 and try again in 8 0

[Azurarok]

How are things going?

Been avoiding using it in roulettes aside from frontlines and MSQ roulette. PvP healer is fun of course, and MSQ Roulette is all lv50 content where any job feels as lackluster as healers. If anything it's better to heal there since you nor the other party members have all the tools that make GCD healing irrelevant.

I also occasionally heal when playing with friends after getting matched with traumatizingly bad ones or if it's the only slot left in the group. I don't really sense much of a difference, especially now that everyone's better geared and we're all more used to the mechs. We had a DT dungeon run where I was dozing off so badly that I literally do not remember what happened during the last boss fight, but I've been told I didn't get hit once and everyone was also doing fine, so there's also that.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Time to check in with the strikers now that Savage has been released.

How are things going? Are you enjoying playing tank and/or DPS in content? Have your EX/Savage groups been clearing content easily without healers because healers are pointless, or struggled to find healers since you aren't healing anymore but your party needs healers?

Or did you back out of the strike and pick up your healing cane/codex/astrolabe/nouliths for group content after all?

Please don't talk about what you're seeing in PF. I want to know how things are with your personal game play. Discontent with individual job design aside, are all the claims made that led to the decision for you to strike true in Dawntrail?

I am curious how many are actually striking specifically, and how much this is business as usual for an expansion with 2 DPS classes.

I still like healing a lot so enjoying content that is newer and isn't outgeared yet while it lasts.

I thought about maining Picto or Viper for a bit since I enjoyed leveling them - did some normals on Picto also. But... even DPS classes I like just don't hold my interest that long and I'm back rotating between healers. VPR being ruined so quickly also just removed my excitement for going into that direction.

Edit: Also my go-to DPS, Summoner, has finally bored me to death by adding nothing new in DT as far as the actions I engage with. So being bored and bottom-tier DPS doesn't appeal to me.

[Reinha]

Time to check in with the strikers now that Savage has been released.

How are things going? Are you enjoying playing tank and/or DPS in content?

Things are going pretty awful actually, since the DPS job I was going to play in Savage got the healer treatment and was made unfun for no reason. So now I'm looking for another main job to play before the devs ruin that too. The number of jobs keeps increasing but the list of jobs I still like is getting shorter.