#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[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.