#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Ramiee]

Except there currently is one party member who’s the point of failure-> it’s the tank

The entire party falls apart when the tank is garbage and can’t do their job, why is that allowed but healers have to be made irrelevant to avoid this

What I always found weird is tank mastery is a trait at level 1 for tanks but healers get nothing but main and mend which they share with casters. I don't know if this has a great effect on the numbers but at least from a role standpoint I find it odd there's no extra percentage based healing increase exclusive to healers.

[Shurrikhan]

What I always found weird is tank mastery is a trait at level 1 for tanks but healers get nothing but main and mend which they share with casters.

Tbf, neither role should have either of those traits. In practice, Tank Mastery just means that all non-tanks take 25% more damage from attacks meant to be tanked, while concern for levels 1-30 potency balance is so far gone that any value the devs could find had in using percent multipliers instead of potency bumps to upgrade healer/caster/ranger* skills over that level span just bloats damage calculations for no benefit.

So we've got a "can't dispense with this role" trait on the role already least able to be fully dispensed with... and we've got a role with hidden damage nerfs with zero in-game hints at that nerf's existence beyond stat-to-actual-output analysis, a role that deals the actual potency stated, a role that does 20% more effect than per potencies stated, and two roles that do 30% more output than per potencies stated for... what purpose exactly?