#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[BunnyQueen]

I'm very confused. You seem to be referencing a very, very specific part of a very, very specific fight as an attempted response to my comment about the general flow of playing a healer in typical DF parties. The graphic I referenced was showing the variety of DPS spells healers had in the past and the more complicated DPS rotation compared to now. It was trying to imply that playing a healer without a complicated DPS rotation is now extremely simple, while ignoring that in typical DF content with typical players, there's a significant amount of "unnecessary" damage being taken either by standing in the wrong places, not using mitigation at ideal times, etc., the end result of which is of course a spell sequence that also includes a regular mixture of healing spells. This isn't about what top-tier players do in top-tier content; it's about what the typical player experiences on a day-to-day basis.



It's exactly the latter. People in general are more likely to "speak up" when they have a complaint compared to when they're happy, and this forum itself has been an echo chamber of negativity for virtually its entire existence. What you see here doesn't reflect the reality in-game. I think the best example I've seen is Living Memory - if you read this forum, you'd see posts bashing the zone getting dozens of upvotes and could easily think that's the general perception...yet swing on over to YT, and there's positive comments about how much people enjoyed the zone and found it meaningful getting around a thousand upvotes. If you let this forum be the entirety of your viewpoint, you'd come to a very inaccurate conclusion about how the playerbase as a whole truly feels.



No, they don't pull it "from absolutely nowhere." They pull it from a variety of sources we as random players simply don't have access to. The dev team has a veritable ton of data and engagement metrics to pore over that we don't have.

You say that but healer complaints about the lack of healing all the time in game, they keep it out of NN and local chat because so many jerks jump on them for bringing it up. But most people who love the role of healing in MMOs though gave up and moved on be it to other roles or other games. So no this forum isn't alone in the opinion. Healers just gave up hope that square enix gives a crap about what healers want and need a long time ago.

[Aravell]

You say that but healer complaints about the lack of healing all the time in game, they keep it out of NN and local chat because so many jerks jump on them for bringing it up. But most people who love the role of healing in MMOs though gave up and moved on be it to other roles or other games. So no this forum isn't alone in the opinion. Healers just gave up hope that square enix gives a crap about what healers want and need a long time ago.

So many people keep saying that "Healing is fun in regular content with players who get hit by everything and don't know how to play their job properly!", but that's precisely the point, why does the healer role only get fun when everyone else doesn't know what's going on and are running around like headless chickens?

Even in the hardest content in the game right now, there's still no need for healing most of the time. Something's wrong when 6/8 players playing perfectly means 2/8 players don't get to have fun.