#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ForsakenRoe]

I really tried to give the benefit of the doubt but the lack of any real danger once people have modest gear and skills is sad.

Yup. It was only like, 2 months ago? When people were insisting 'look, DT Expert dungeons are truly 'expert' because look at the damage the party's taking from the Dolls at the end of Strayborough/the Jar things in Tender Valley!'. Well, now look at that same raidwide spam now that we have some gear. Even with the 710 gear from NM/Crafted, it was instantly neutered, and with people getting more and more capped tome gear, it's going to get weaker and weaker. And this was 100% predictable, because it's happened every expansion, yet somehow there were calls of 'nah see this time will be different'. Surprise, it wasn't different

[Havenchild]

Yup. It was only like, 2 months ago? When people were insisting 'look, DT Expert dungeons are truly 'expert' because look at the damage the party's taking from the Dolls at the end of Strayborough/the Jar things in Tender Valley!'. Well, now look at that same raidwide spam now that we have some gear. Even with the 710 gear from NM/Crafted, it was instantly neutered, and with people getting more and more capped tome gear, it's going to get weaker and weaker. And this was 100% predictable, because it's happened every expansion, yet somehow there were calls of 'nah see this time will be different'. Surprise, it wasn't different

And they are not going to make expert dungeons suddenly do crazy amounts of damage either because not only will the playerbase rebuke that in spades but it doesn't make much sense to make casual content that much more difficult. People (including vets) already despise something like Strayburough Deadwalk. I have yet to hear anyone say they enjoy the first boss there much less asking for it to do even MORE damage.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I mean... this thread exists, alongside those "I like it pls don't nerf"-replies with hundreds of upvotes regarding the Strayborough Deadwalk.

In-game, I've seen good share of people liking and disliking the dungeon. Any reasons to dislike the dungeon usually comes from the fact that people just aren't used to "bullet hell"-type of mechanics, or "so much purples..." from 2nd boss (the latter myself incl).

None of them speak of the damage intake or 'omg so many heals needed!'.

Idk, all of that hardly sounds like "I have yet to hear anyone say they enjoy the first boss[...]" to me. :shrug:

[Hyperia]

not true, I am willing to bet they mention something about tanks. seriously... something minimal just to let tank mains know they are being heard, some small buffing x ability to be more in line with y tank... but since this is part 1, its likely all about the story and nothing to do with jobs. but even in part 2... I say tanks get mentions but healers? nope. well... maybe a picture of one.

Due to the lack of healers, all tanks have been given aoe and single target heals that proc off of their damage. Tank LB3 now prevents all damage, heals everybody to full and brings back all dead at full health with timers reset.

No comments will be made about healers and all images with healers will be blurred out.

[Kes13a]

Due to the lack of healers, all tanks have been given aoe and single target heals that proc off of their damage. Tank LB3 now prevents all damage, heals everybody to full and brings back all dead at full health with timers reset.

No comments will be made about healers and all images with healers will be blurred out.

is it sad that I wouldnt be surprised if they did?

I can see thir meetings "oh, healers are whining, they must not know how to play, I man we designed it so even Yuki in Accounting can play it although she quit a couple days after saying 'job dissatisfaction...' but we designed the perfect brainless job so there is no stress.... must be the players"

[BunnyQueen]

is it sad that I wouldnt be surprised if they did?

I can see thir meetings "oh, healers are whining, they must not know how to play, I man we designed it so even Yuki in Accounting can play it although she quit a couple days after saying 'job dissatisfaction...' but we designed the perfect brainless job so there is no stress.... must be the players"

This sounds about right.

[Aravell]

is it sad that I wouldnt be surprised if they did?

I can see thir meetings "oh, healers are whining, they must not know how to play, I man we designed it so even Yuki in Accounting can play it although she quit a couple days after saying 'job dissatisfaction...' but we designed the perfect brainless job so there is no stress.... must be the players"

The funny thing is that plenty of new healers popped into the forums during ShB and EW to ask if healing ever becomes fun.

You'd think that would tip off the dev team that their approach to cater to new players isn't working, but no.

[Hyperia]

The funny thing is that plenty of new healers popped into the forums during ShB and EW to ask if healing ever becomes fun.

You'd think that would tip off the dev team that their approach to cater to new players isn't working, but no.

The healer dev is the same dev who does caster and range DPS jobs. Until we get a healer dev, there will always be the gulf we face.

[Jojoya]

I can’t believe I have to explain that “enough people probably tolerate the decision that there is no point considering if it was bad” is not a viable way to run a live service game in the long term

By your own logic you could make literally every bad change imaginable and justify it with “people either don’t care enough or just grew to tolerate it”. Is it so bad that people want to actually enjoy the game they pay for, not learn to barely tolerate it

You're forgetting the third option: quit the game.

And that's what most players actually do when they feel bad decisions are getting made over and over. They quit. They don't hang around thinking that if they just keep screaming loud enough the developers will decide to make the changes they want.

Players quitting over bad development decisions have effectively killed MMORPGs (gone into true maintenance mode if not shutting down servers completely). It's only the major franchises that some companies rest their reputations on that try to hang on when players start abandoning their games because it takes a while for player attrition to put the games into the danger zone.

WoW has been there. Blizzard got extremely lucky that they had built up to 12 million active paid subscriptions at its height. It took a very long time but most of those players did disappear. Ironically what saved the game was Classic WoW. The popularity rammed home that players really did like some of the older systems more than the new systems added over time. Blizzard learned.

This game has been there. Look at 1.0. Players quit. The Meteor Survivor list in the 2.0 end credits may look impressive but that really is not that many names (32,000) compared to the number of copies sold in its first 2 months (over 600,000 - I couldn't find a number of total copies sold before the servers were shut down). SE took notice. They learned.

How many players are quitting right now? And specifically because of healing problems?

Doesn't seem to be a whole lot considering this Savage tier has already had the highest number of clears than has been seen in years. Only a tiny number of those clears have happened without healers.

Where are all the complaints from those healers about the state of healing? Shouldn't they have the best insight of all having cleared all the content?

You're trying to assert that every single one of them were just gritting their teeth and tolerating healing for the sake of their statics. Can you not accept that some of them truly are fine with it? It's possible to see problems with a system and still be satisfied or even happy overall.

PFs looking for healers? PFs have always been looking for healers. It's not new to this expansion. It's not specific to this game. My first character in WoW was a hunter. Why did I pick up a healer and become a healer main? Because my friends and I were having problems finding available healers. So I picked up healer so we'd have one and discovered I truly enjoyed healing.

I still enjoy healing. I can see the problems with the system here and wish that SE would address them but it does not stop me from enjoying healing.

I don't know what things are like on the JP side beyond the comments from the JP posters early on in this thread. Evidently, the healing design is what JP healers expect from a JP game. I may be used to something different because of my experience with western games but this isn't a western game. Where I and others have enjoyed the pressure that comes from western style healing, evidently JP players don't. I have to be flexible and learn to adapt to what's standard for JP games.

It's unrealistic to expect anything to change with healing design in this game. We can always hope but I wouldn't bet on it. It's not a western game. They're not going to make changes just to please the western audience at the expense of the JP audience.

Either adapt or stop healing completely. Don't cave to pressure from friends. If the group needs a healer, someone else can pick up the job just as I did for my WoW friends all those years ago. If they say they don't want to, you don't need to say anything other than "I don't want to, either. I've already done my share. It's someone else's turn". If they won't accept that, you just learned they were never really your friends in the first place.

Actual friends would understand. Actual friends would be happy to take turns filling the unpopular role so one person wasn't always left unhappy. That's what my WoW friends would do for me on those rare occasions when I didn't feel like healing and wanted to play my hunter again. One of them would switch to one of their alts that could heal.

[Rolder50]

You're forgetting the third option: quit the game.

And that's what most players actually do when they feel bad decisions are getting made over and over. They quit. They don't hang around thinking that if they just keep screaming loud enough the developers will decide to make the changes they want.

I mean, you can do both. Turn off the auto renewal on the sub and spend your remaining time voicing your concerns on the forums here.