#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Sivante]

Valid points. Rosa was a hybrid, as were many others. Though I know not the point I suddenly miss ninja's having throw abilities.

I think they struggle to figure out identities for classes that won't lead to massive upkeep increases on how much thought needs to be put into balancing.

[Ayalu]

Garnet and Eiko ,both FF9 Characters, were also a mix of Summoner and White Mage.

[Tigore]

We could even go as far as mentioning Selphie from FF8 and Aerith from FF7. Their limit breaks were more so for healing, but the materia / junction systems allowed them to cast Black Magic or even Ultima if they really wanted to.

FF6 pretty much had Terra and Celes as the natural magic users without learning from Espers and they even had fire, ice, Ultima and Meteor. Strago could count too as a "healer" using Blue Magic (Lore) and having Grand Delta (Train).

[CaptainLagbeard]

Healers in FF's history have basically always been Hybrids, because they needed something else than just Cure and Heal spells.

And in cases like the Tactics games and FF 5, you made your own hybrid class by giving some other class White Magic, or a White Mage some other skill set.

[Xenoviastar]

I think I might go back on strike after the terrible dungeons runs I have had as a healer
3rd time this week I have had a Paladin as my tank and each time they use Requiescat to heal themselves instead of doing damage. Yes I am healing them but they feel the need to keep themself above 90% hp apparently.
So from now on any Paladin Using Requiescat to clemency or just use clemency in general. you can die for all I care, I will do the damage.
Healers should get damage if tanks are just going to do the job anyways. Fuck tanks

[Azurarok]

I do think the healer community's a bit split on how much of the role should be healing and how much should be dps though. We've been left with neither and agree that's Not Good, at least.

[Sivante]

We could even go as far as mentioning Selphie from FF8 and Aerith from FF7. Their limit breaks were more so for healing, but the materia / junction systems allowed them to cast Black Magic or even Ultima if they really wanted to.

FF6 pretty much had Terra and Celes as the natural magic users without learning from Espers and they even had fire, ice, Ultima and Meteor. Strago could count too as a "healer" using Blue Magic (Lore) and having Grand Delta (Train).

God I'd kill for a Celes / Rune Knight class.

[Silver-Strider]

(Of course, what's missing in the bottom part of the graphic is precisely the plethora of healing spells that are frequently used by typical players doing group content in typical groups. If the graphic didn't show only DPS spells, but showed all casts by a typical healer in typical group content, well...it would destroy the image here that intentionally misleads the viewer by omitting critical info.)

Except, you know, the number of healing abilities we actually use currently falls below 40% on average. We used to heal a hell of a lot more when Image 1 was a thing.

[Tigore]

@ Xenoviastar

I get that you don't feel needed from the Paladins being "blue healers" like Warriors, but what you are asking from them is unreasonable. Requiescat or their upgraded version Imperator procs their hard hitting spell combo. They got it last expansion during Endwalker because they needed to have burst damage of some sort to be considered for the 2 minute meta. By asking them not to pop Requiescat, you are also asking them to deal bad damage compared to the other tanks. If you are only talking about Clemency spam at 90% HP, then I would sympathize more with your case.

[sagacious]

MK4 is just to hard. I have seen all the streams saying DT raids are not to hard and just get GUD, but I have 3 alts doing MK4 3 times a week and I can't get it right .... the phase where 1/4th of the room is left and we have to go back and forth is impossible ... Can anyone provide any tips ..I'm so lost on it and I play healer and when the healer dies it's game over .. I need help. (cries)