Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
The best players in the world are always going to be capable of doing things that the other 95% of players can't.

I do not get why anyone feels threatened by this.
So, here's what happens.

Modern-day extremes, savages, ultimates... these are all highly-scripted fights. If someone, anyone, tells you exactly what to do, then the only thing you need to clear these fights is to have the ability to follow instructions without fail. (It turns out actual humans are quite fallible.)

Now, at least on Crystal, there are not a whole lot of folks cited as the originators of "what to do." I can count them on one hand. If I'm being lazy, I'd say, "go watch a Hector or MTQ vid."

The moment any of these very few "content creators" deign to say, "hey, replace your healers, and you've got an easier, faster clear," that's the moment healers get locked out in Party Finder.

And that isn't some hypothetical. Before Dawntrail released, I saw many-a-Party-Finder-listing for Endwalker's EX2 ask for only one healer and one tank. It turns out that the second healer stack in that fight would fall back on a tank if there was only one healer, so, if you had only one tank and one healer, you still knew exactly how to stack. And six DPS vs. four makes a big difference in how long it takes to clear the fight, which makes a big difference when you want to farm the fight.

So, yeah, if you actually want to play a healer, if you actually care about healers and how they play... these healer-free clears matter.