#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Connor]

Why does everyone act like Stormblood healers were some paragon of perfect healers?

You know what I remember healers talking about during Stormblood? Wanting more DPS abilities lol . I’ve seen requests to turn Selene into a dps fairy since literally 2017. ‘Give back Cleric Stance’ ‘Give Scholar fester’, ‘Make White Mages do Thundercloud on Aero’ ‘Split all DoTs further so we have to apply every individual level again’ ‘Delete Astrologian’s utility cards and make it all damage’ (those requests sound familiar…huh?) Like, Stormblood’s dps skills weren’t enough for healers then, so seems weird they’d suddenly fix all the healers currently.

I think Sharknado has a point. People have been trying this ‘feedback’ for literally 4 expansions now to absolutely no avail. Sooner or later doesn’t one have no choice but to accept that they simply don’t want to do that for whatever reason. And I mean, you can argue about ‘game design’ or how ‘healers can’t heal because accessibility’ until the cows come home, the devs will make whatever decisions they think is right regardless of how ‘technically accurate’ someone’s feedback is. Like, surely there has to come a point where it’s like ‘ok they’ve went 8 years without listening to a single word I say, guess I’ll just go somewhere else I might actually enjoy’. What benefit is there in continuing to ask for the exact same thing that they’ve said no to in the first place, for another 8+ years or whatever?

Hell as someone who plays support/buffer jobs in most other games I’ve simply accepted that I will not ever find a job in this game that actually fits my preferred playstyle. It’s just not happening. I could keep screaming at SE to fulfill this niche (instead of some fake dps supports like Bard and Dancer) like I have been since like, 2013 lol. Or I could just accept that it’s never going to happen and play a different game and save myself the stress and heartache lol. And frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if they moved every job even further towards pure DPS in future. Sometimes things just are what they are, and no matter how much you wished they were different, they aren’t going to be lol (like my dream of a real Bard and not a barcher lol)

Ironically despite how many requests and threads there were about further dps expansion for healers in Stormblood, we got Shadowbringers instead. Can’t wait to see how the devs react this time (‘Heal role removed, renamed support dps, all heal gcds removed, tanks do all healing now’)