#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Wolf_Necros]

Just wanted to post that people are refusing to heal and tanks won't voke when I'm tanking. I admit I'm not that good but I try to mitigate as best as I can and it's getting really annoying when I'm trying to get the mounts. I feel like I'm being blocked or people are gatekeeping certain classes at this point so I'm verry much fed up with this healer strike. FYI I have played the healer classes and at no point have I said welp I'm going to que for it and just dps.

[Sharawiwi]

Do you have any of these magical screenshots. Because all you have done in the last like 4 weeks on this thread is go “your anecdotes are meaningless and your data is flawed……but also here is my anecdote that is totally meaningful and is why I represent the silent majority that agrees with me”

God I feel like Im talking to renrathas again

Everyone should /ignore Striker, he's just a big talking pile of crap, the thread is way more bearable when you don't have to read his nonsensical stupidity every 50 pages.

Just wanted to post that people are refusing to heal and tanks won't voke when I'm tanking. I admit I'm not that good but I try to mitigate as best as I can and it's getting really annoying when I'm trying to get the mounts. I feel like I'm being blocked or people are gatekeeping certain classes at this point so I'm verry much fed up with this healer strike. FYI I have played the healer classes and at no point have I said welp I'm going to que for it and just dps.

I will summarize it for you (and it will serve as a reference for future complainers) :
-1 : SE dumbs down healer jobs for 5 consecutive years, up to DT where the 4 jobs are carbon copies of each other, are extremely easy to play and have 0 room for skill expression and optimisation. And, in the same motion, they make healers irrelevant for any content outside ultimate/critrerion (M4S no healers no lb no gcd heal clear week 2).

-2 : Veteran healers bail out of a role that nowaday brings them nothing at all, either with the healer strike, or simply silently quitting (because tbh the state of the game is unbearable, I've left, many have left, and amongst the players I know still on the game, they are all using trusts and never DF anymore).

-3 : In DT, the vast majority of healers you'll encounter will be either/both lazy incompetent players, because by designing a job for single brain cell amoeba SE attracted a certain type of players to the role, or off role players (mainly DPS) who only see healers as a "fast queue without responsibilities".

It's both SE and these people who are the problem, not the healer strike, which only aimed to draw attention to this massive issue (which it did spectacularly well).


P. S. : Unless you're playing DRK, you mentionned farming mounts so I can assume you're talking about current EX and Savage, either pick up healer so healing isn't a problem or get better at tanking, because you litteraly don't need help to tank the current content. And if you have a TB swap and your cotank isn't voking ? Just invuln lmao, it's not like you need it anywhere else.

[Kes13a]

Just wanted to post that people are refusing to heal and tanks won't voke when I'm tanking. I admit I'm not that good but I try to mitigate as best as I can and it's getting really annoying when I'm trying to get the mounts. I feel like I'm being blocked or people are gatekeeping certain classes at this point so I'm verry much fed up with this healer strike. FYI I have played the healer classes and at no point have I said welp I'm going to que for it and just dps.

this question would be better asked of Striker44 actually (no relation to any strikers) who has the very pulse of the majority in their hands. They do not wish to add any skill to the game for healers so everyone and anyone can queue up as a healer and, well, not heal. As for tanking, I cant speak for him, but you might also ask him if he is against tanks needing to learn things as well. So yes, please ask of Striker44 why a general majority of the people he represents in full voice.... refuse or unable to do their job.

on a side note... you may not queue up as a healer to dps... but.. what are you mainly doing? anyway.. the people supporting the strike are generally NOT doing group content as healers. sorry you experienced that, but if you do, report it. but I doubt it was someone supporting changes to healers.

[Wolf_Necros]

this question would be better asked of Striker44 actually (no relation to any strikers) who has the very pulse of the majority in their hands. They do not wish to add any skill to the game for healers so everyone and anyone can queue up as a healer and, well, not heal. As for tanking, I cant speak for him, but you might also ask him if he is against tanks needing to learn things as well. So yes, please ask of Striker44 why a general majority of the people he represents in full voice.... refuse or unable to do their job.

on a side note... you may not queue up as a healer to dps... but.. what are you mainly doing? anyway.. the people supporting the strike are generally NOT doing group content as healers. sorry you experienced that, but if you do, report it. but I doubt it was someone supporting changes to healers.

Who are you even talking about????

[Shurrikhan]

this question would be better asked of Striker44 actually

Who are you even talking about????

I'm going to hazard a guess that it's Striker44. As in the poster by that name on this thread.

[Wolf_Necros]

I'm going to hazard a guess that it's Striker44. As in the poster by that name on this thread.

Ya ok don't know them at all maybe it's someone I have blocked?

[Kes13a]

Ya ok don't know them at all maybe it's someone I have blocked?

would have to be since they very often post in this thread as the self appointed representative of the Majority.

[Wolf_Necros]

would have to be since they very often post in this thread as the self appointed representative of the Majority.

I'm new to this forum I don't know anyone here

[Striker44]

would have to be since they very often post in this thread as the self appointed representative of the Majority.

I sometimes wonder why I'm still paying a mortgage since I live rent-free in so many people's heads Heck, college football's underway - maybe I should do like the players there, get a helmet, and put a star on it every time that happens (or perhaps an Azem symbol would be more fitting...).

Anyway, to the person wondering who I was, if you check my posts, I don't claim to speak for the "majority" as claimed here. What I usually point out is:

1.) The playerbase is huge. Estimates we had from just before DT early access coupled with surge and retention #'s probably puts it somewhere around 1.25 million active players worldwide (about 35-40% of them in the NA region). Those of us who actually use this forum represent the smallest proverbial grain of sand on the beach in comparison, so I caution people against taking what they see here and thinking it must accurately apply to the larger playerbase. (Especially when people love to claim that this is the "only" place on the internet you can be negative about this game, and everywhere else is filled with people praising it and shouting down anyone who disagrees. That should give anyone caution that what you see here isn't necessarily representative of anything bigger.)

2.) SE has far more data, engagement metrics, etc. than any of us have a clue on. We don't know what the playerbase as a group is actually doing. SE does.

3.) SE is ultimately a for-profit company, and one that in fact relies on FFXIV revenue to fund many of its other projects. Combining that with #2, if they're making certain decisions, it's probably because the data they have that we don't suggests it's a good idea that the playerbase as a larger group will like. And when you consider how the game has steadily grown (and continues to grow) with each passing expansion, it would seem they're on to something there.

That's not claiming to speak for the majority. Just giving people my reason to be cautious about using what they see here and thinking it must be true of everyone.

[BaconBits]

I live rent-free in so many people's heads