The death of savage raiding and SE's lack of action

[Havenchild]

“There’s always been this sort of shortage with healers”

Yes that’s the problem, there shouldn’t just be the assumption of a shortage that must be accepted, make healers good to play and you won’t have this shortage, they seemed to have figured this out with tanks

More people cleared this tier because it’s easy as hell, that doesn’t preclude a healer shortage, but you also didn’t read my post saying that

Mr.Math, it still means that more Healers did clear the raid content than before amidst a Healerstrike.

Now as for a shortage or problems with the role, those are both seperate matters than to what the healerstrike specifically contributed to, which with current evidence, is completely contrary to showing any measured affect of the healer strike. Which means, it amounted to nothing.

Again, discontent on forums does not translate to PF especially when those expressing such discontent are largely in optimized statics, the only true realm where the healer "issues" are even noticeable. PF with its random deaths, terrible mitigation, and healer skills overlapping for either overmitting or overhealing wildly disintegrates issues with the healer kit on average, especially when the kit becomes far more useable.

Lastly, you are wildly misinformed on why no one plays Healers. I assure you, every MMO mimics the same issues. No matter how fun you make a healer, MMO players on average just don't like to play the Healer role. They don't like the responsibilities that on average come with the role, moreso in XIV, where healers have more responsibility now than every other role in the trifecta and battle design.