#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Reinha]

BLM was the most stimulating job in the game, followed by AST and MNK creatively speaking, and they had to butcher everything about it.

I was hesitant to ask you folks here but I'll jump.
What is keeping you hoping for 8.0 ? How do you cope ?

I'd love to be fully delulu and not be affected by the state of the game but I've poured so much into it. And now thanks to DT I've left and I fear I'll never come back, maybe I'm just looking for any reason to stay.
This is twice harder because I've been having so much fun on many other games since I stopped FFXIV, apologies for the small blogpost :P

I thought I would play this game until it shuts down but DT has irreparably changed how I feel about it. They ruined my character, my house, my favorite job, the story and even my computer's performance when running the game. All within one major patch. The things I looked forward to in upcoming patches and the things I enjoyed every time I logged in are no longer of the quality they used to be. I don't consider it my main game anymore, just a game I'm playing for now.

It's not my first rodeo. I quit WoW after I finished a big meta achievement I had been working on. Currently I'm working on reaching Gil cap but after that, who knows? I'm still waiting to see if they will fix the graphical update, viper and the MSQ in 7.1. If they don't, I don't see what reason there is to wait until 8.0. Healing is certainly not it. This role is not getting fixed. If the devs don't even understand what removing NG did to the mental load when playing viper, they simply cannot comprehend the problems with healers.

[Jojoya]

And now thanks to DT I've left and I fear I'll never come back, maybe I'm just looking for any reason to stay.
This is twice harder because I've been having so much fun on many other games since I stopped FFXIV, apologies for the small blogpost :P

Why fear that you won't come back?

If it's no longer fun, it's no longer fun. Loyalty to a game is useless because games have no loyalty to the players, only to the money that players bring with them.

If you're having fun with those other games, then play them. Get an urge to peek back into FFXIV? There are plenty of content creators covering it. Take a look at what they're putting online at that time (within your spoiler tolerance) and see if it looks like it has changed to be more appealing to you or if you're better off continuing to play other games.

FFXIV is unlikely to disappear any time soon unless SE totally strips its budget because they're having too many problems with their other projects. Which would be very stupid on their part. They should be investing more into FFXIV to keep more players interested. The more active players they have, the greater the revenue stream they'll have to split with other projects. Neglecting the successful projects is a very good way to kill off a company.

[gllt]

It definitely makes me think I should go back to retro games. Life is easier when you don't get patches. You know what you're playing and you can accept it or leave. With patches, the game I love could be gone a day later. I felt that way for years about fighting games before I quit playing new ones. Maybe MMORPGs are the same. But even in FGs I feel more listened to because there are smaller ones. When a game is so popular like 14 it definitely feels like all that matters is money.

It doesn't mean I don't think 14 won't ever be appealing to me again but even before DT dropped I thought that maybe I'll enjoy this game when it's on life support more than now. When it's truly in its QoL era and we're done with trying to shove out new expansions. That I'm used to late stage MMO life from the 20+ years of RuneScape and that I should just go check out FFXI until FFXIV is just.. done.

I was hoping with DT that maybe I could get a taste of the new expansion launch experience that I missed with EW and ShB but ehh yeah no.

If nothing else, I suppose, I look forward to true end game BLU content one day.

[LynxDubh]

Even though your post was directed as Snarknado, I think you asked a great question. I'll paraphrase it. Where are we on a scale between 1-10 regarding healers? 1 being you don't like the current state of healers but still heal. 10 being you have changed jobs and never healing again.

I'd say I'm a 2. I'm participating in #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE; but, enjoy being healer enough that I'm leveling white mage to heal friends and FC members.

Finally getting around to adding to this one.

I’d say I’m at a 4 or so. I’m halfheartedly leveling the healers to get a feel for them. Only have WHM and SGE up now. Not really interested in rushing in to level AST now, and I’ll level SCH through SMN whenever I get around to that.

Currently been devoting more of my time to learning tanks more. Never had much affinity for them, but DRK’s been a fun challenge so far. Going to level more of the tanks now since my interest in healers has waned and I’ve leveled the major DPS that I enjoy.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Finally getting around to adding to this one.

I’d say I’m at a 4 or so. I’m halfheartedly leveling the healers to get a feel for them. Only have WHM and SGE up now. Not really interested in rushing in to level AST now, and I’ll level SCH through SMN whenever I get around to that.

Currently been devoting more of my time to learning tanks more. Never had much affinity for them, but DRK’s been a fun challenge so far. Going to level more of the tanks now since my interest in healers has waned and I’ve leveled the major DPS that I enjoy.

This is the first expansion where I might not level a second healer. It depends on if a barrier healer would be better for my FC runs than a reactive healer. I love the lore of scholars and wish the gameplay matched the job description.

Hell or High Water!

I started playing tanks (GNB) in Endwalker and it surprised me have fun it is. There's just something about being the guy in front. Tank anxiety be damned. Dive into those mobs, pop a mitigation, and start swinging! LOL

Having the perspective of a healer will make you a better tank. Every would be tank should have a side job of one of the healers and vice versa. The insights gained make you a better player all around.

[sharknado]

I would say AST is really cool for leveling, very easy to handle Mt Gulg type pulls

[LynxDubh]

I would say AST is really cool for leveling, very easy to handle Mt Gulg type pulls

I've been burned a bit too many times with AST. I fell in love with it in HW and mained it until ShB butchered the card system and stripped out Time Dilation. The healing system is good outside of a couple of warts like Horoscope. But, none of the new skills interest me in the slightest. AST was the one Healer that really did not need an extra follow up attack since it should busy itself with the card system. And Sun Sign is such a boring tool.

It just feels like they went halfway into a card rework and went, "that's good enough". So I'm not excited to try it again. I might eat my words later and DT AST might spark joy again for me. But I'm not optimistic.

[gllt]

I thought the cards were dumb in ShB when I first picked up AST but I liked the movement. Then everyone's cast times got reduced.

Lmao.

[Moerser]

Well, more heals 4 me :P

Greetz o/

[Supersnow845]

Well, more heals 4 me :P

Greetz o/

Your queues went from instant to……..instant while AIN still biases tanks by design and you are still playing the dumpster fire that is the healer role

I’m so jealous of how much extra benefit this is providing to you