#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Connor]

I'd say most bad players don't even know the forum exists, let alone reads what's here.

Who’s to say it’s just the forum? People’s attitudes and discussions around healers mostly follow the same route regardless of whether they’re here, on Reddit, X or whatever else in my entirely anecdotal experience. Cursed Facebook maybe lol.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Pretty sure the reason there are so many bad healers now is because they see the countless posts about ‘healer dps’ ‘healers can’t ever heal’ ‘dps is all they can ever have’ ‘it’s all oGCD heals’ ‘never use a gcd or you will be kicked blacklisted banned’, completely misunderstand what it actually means and that people are talking about design philosophy and not literal practice, then go into playing healer thinking they literally do not need to use a single healing spell or ability the entire fight so long as they maintain acceptable dps uptime. I mean, look how angry so many healers get at the idea of having to use an actual gcd spell…*emphasis mine*

It's crazy, isn't it? Players have to understand it's okay to use their gcd heals too. They may lose the damage from one glare or two; but, a healer is there to keep the party alive. So, if they don't have any ogcd heals, and the tank's health is dipping dangerously low, cast the damn Cure IIs already!

Only the most clueless individual will attempt to kick them for it, and if they are kicked, so what? They'll get another group in less than 5 minutes.

[Connor]

It's crazy, isn't it? Players have to understand it's okay to use their gcd heals too. They may lose the damage from one glare or two; but, a healer is there to keep the party alive. So, if they don't have any ogcd heals, and the tank's health is dipping dangerously low, cast the damn Cure IIs already!

Only the most clueless individual will attempt to kick them for it, and if they are kicked, so what? They'll get another group in less than 5 minutes.

I mean, it’s basically just an unfortunate game of ‘Chinese whispers’ that’s went from ‘healers need more dps/variety because of how encounters work’ all the way downhill to ‘healers literally don’t need to heal’. It’s probably compounded by all the talk of tanks being ‘invincible super healers’; which, I mean, they basically are lol. But by the time that filters down, the added caveat of ‘when played properly/with appropriate gear/etc’. End result being a certain group of people queuing as healer thinking the tank is griefing them for asking for healing lol.

And, I’m not suggesting it’s a specific thing like ‘omg healer strike did this’ lol, it’s been a thing of varying magnitudes throughout the game’s history. Whether it’s healers refusing to gcd heal in current times or healers refusing to turn on/off cleric stance in ARR (yes Lustrate is % based but that doesn’t help if you have no Aetherflow lol). And frankly I think SE ‘fixing healing’ and basically making it less of a joke is the only way they’ll really resolve it.

So long as the healer role has as many issues as as it does, it’s always going to end up attracting people with a completely distorted view of what healer is and how those issues actually relate to the role in a wider context

[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.

[gllt]

Blocked or you missed the last couple of pages of the thread, could be either one.

[Maltothoris]

Does anyone remember that bit in the patch notes or something how in 7.05, they said they increased the potency of several actions on WHM to keep in line with other healers. Well not sure when they changed but now it says the potency of dia has been increased to keep it in with other healers.

Also whm is lagging behind by a decent amount so I'm thinking whenever patch7.07 or 7.08 comes out, whm and sge are going to be getting a few buffs.

[Alice_Rivers]

Several? You mean one, they increased Dia by like five potency per tick.