#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Somnolence]

I'll be blunt here. There is absolutely no way they can do this.

If someone plays a tank, they're probably looking to be a leader, a protector, there's no way to entice them to play a squishy job that supports people. Same for DPS, they probably want big numbers and low responsibility, there's no way to make them pick up a healer.

If they really want to boost healer numbers back up, they should start catering to people who want to play healer, not rework the entire role to try and lure people who aren't interested in healing.

People care more about gameplay loop than role fantasy. Its not like all DPS players like all DPS jobs equally.

Healer gameplay loop sucks and they have only one.

My primary experience with the other jobs atm is via leveling them. And healers without a doubt are ultra boring when spamming Aglaia. Knowing that this glare spam is the healer optimization endgame does not make one keen in playing them.

[BoneAppleTea]

They cannot heal stupid and backflipping/stepping dragoons/redmages/reapers that go over the edge with it just because they received a AoE marker.

Or players running away from everyone else with the stack marker.

I can't speak on the matter of motion actions like backflipping as im unsure if it works for that. However using rescue on people with stack markers who run away from everyone is hilarious. I've done this a couple of times and luckily i think the person understood "hey stand here!" but lol

[Benjo]

[ovIm]

People care more about gameplay loop than role fantasy.

This right here. Gameplay is what we mostly engage in when playing a class, and a solid fun gameplay loops can make even boring or tedious fights kinda enjoyable.

[Aravell]

People care more about gameplay loop than role fantasy. Its not like all DPS players like all DPS jobs equally.

Healer gameplay loop sucks and they have only one.

My primary experience with the other jobs atm is via leveling them. And healers without a doubt are ultra boring when spamming Aglaia. Knowing that this glare spam is the healer optimization endgame does not make one keen in playing them.

I'm not talking about role fantasy, I'm talking about player preference.

If a player prefers to lead, they won't play a healer. If a player prefers low responsibility, they won't play a healer.

There's nothing they can ever do to the healer role to make these types of players play a healer.

[CaptainLagbeard]

They cannot heal stupid and backflipping/stepping dragoons/redmages/reapers that go over the edge with it just because they received a AoE marker.

Or players running away from everyone else with the stack marker.

I do suppose we can't protect people from themselves.

[Somnolence]

I'm not talking about role fantasy, I'm talking about player preference.

If a player prefers to lead, they won't play a healer. If a player prefers low responsibility, they won't play a healer.

There's nothing they can ever do to the healer role to make these types of players play a healer.

Players change roles all the time. Both my static healers were melee DPS before.

And while I play tank now I could not care less about any leading, I only do so for current content because I only want to farm content once and with tanks I can use it for 4 jobs potentially.

[Azurarok]

Read the comments in the linked thread, JP is complaining that healing is too hard.

What Yoshi-P is supposed to do in such situation and with such feedback?

I feel like there are fundamental differences of what people want from the role that cannot be easily reconciled.

Complaints are both that parties don't want to deal with shit healers and healers don't want to deal with shit parties. There's another also claiming all the good ones get recruited into statics. Seems there's a notable shortage of physranged in some DCs right now as well.

Probably not a coincidence the JP SCH thread is discussing removing Energy Drain again, considering.

[MisterNublet]

Complaints are both that parties don't want to deal with shit healers and healers don't want to deal with shit parties. There's another also claiming all the good ones get recruited into statics. Seems there's a notable shortage of physranged in some DCs right now as well.

Probably not a coincidence the JP SCH thread is discussing removing Energy Drain again, considering.

Wish we could tell the JP base that maybe they're not as good as they think they are, and that maybe they should learn how to play instead of trying to turn this game in to an Idle/AFK mobile game.

[Somnolence]

Wish we could tell the JP base that maybe they're not as good as they think they are, and that maybe they should learn how to play instead of trying to turn this game in to an Idle/AFK mobile game.

Higher % of players in JP play savage, which means higher % of casual players try and engage with this content.