#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[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

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

That's a whole bunch of 'nothings' said lol.

[...]Just giving people my reason to be cautious about using what they see here and thinking it must be true of everyone.

This is the only important sentence amongst those word salad. #healerstrike lives rent free lmao but also thanks for the free bump,

Anyway...

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Might go a little bit tangent here: there's this interesting post made in DPS forum (first post); I wonder if the same can be said for good amount of healer 'reworks' as well. Personally, lack of confidence had never crossed my mind before.

What's everybody else's thought?

[Aravell]

What's everybody else's thought?

I honestly think lack of confidence in direction is only one part of it. There's also the lack of creativity and crippling fear of upsetting certain players.

Let's look at VPR, they said they want a fast and technical job. There's many ways to achieve it, first thing that comes to my mind is short GCD, mode switching, maybe with poison application and consumption for various buffs or debuffs. What did they do? They ripped out timers from MNK so they can slap timers onto VPR, that shows lack of creativity. Another thing that shows lack of creativity is when SGE launched as a 80% copy of SCH, but we already beat that one to dust already.

Now, as for crippling fear of upsetting players, we only need to look at the latest balance patch. The easiest way to make sure all is balanced for the savage patch is to nerf PCT and give some minor buffs to other jobs that are lacking a bit, but they instead massively buffed everything else (not you MCH) to compensate, which led to an undertuned savage raid and a nightmare of future balancing. They're so scared of upsetting people that they don't even dare deal out necessary nerfs.

[Azurarok]

Let's look at VPR, they said they want a fast and technical job. There's many ways to achieve it, first thing that comes to my mind is short GCD, mode switching, maybe with poison application and consumption for various buffs or debuffs.

I would've been much more interested in VPR had the dual wield and combined blade been stances that mattered. Have the slower combined blade for maintaining buffs/debuffs and maybe even utlity while the dual wield be for high speed dps instead of the tired 'charge resource for burst' design we've got

[Saraide]

That's a whole bunch of 'nothings' said lol.



This is the only important sentence amongst those word salad. #healerstrike lives rent free lmao but also thanks for the free bump,

Anyway...

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Might go a little bit tangent here: there's this interesting post made in DPS forum (first post); I wonder if the same can be said for good amount of healer 'reworks' as well. Personally, lack of confidence had never crossed my mind before.

What's everybody else's thought?

That was my thought aswell. The immediate changes to a core mechanic of viper is proof job designers have no confidence in their own work.

[PapaIggy]

You left out the creative team from SE actually plays the game too. So it is not likely they are completely clueless how their game works. A few hundred people screaming notice me on the forum isn't going to make much of a wave. This is not to say they aren't listening they just aren't over here doting on every comment that demands it be noticed.

Now add to this that there are people who seem to live on these forums, posting 100s of times a day. Acting like gate-keepers and self assigned forum moderators. I just block those people and move on. It has been my personal experience they add nothing to the conversation and often just want to revisit old gripes from years ago. Frankly I only come to the forum about once a month and look at some threads out of morbid curiosity.