#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Gwenkatsu]

The problem is mostly how we reach out to the casuals who are silent about this. Most of them probably don't know or care this site exists, so we and Square can only guess what they are thinking unless they are actually in party with our characters.

Since you asked... super casual here. I'm playing FF14 for years, never set a foot into anything the game did not ask me to do (i.e. blue quest icon). No savage, extreme, mythic, absurd, unreasonable, or whatever it's called these days The raids I played on normal are some of the most beautiful places in the game (Ivalice), but the mechanics are counterintuitive and unfun, so I do not even think about setting my foot into harder content.


I like healing since I started playing healers back in WoW/WotLK. I also like the healer roles in FF14, and am fine with the state they're in. I don't involve in theory crafting, so I have no idea if spell X is 2.8579% more effective in situation A, B, or C... nor do I care. And as long as the people in my groups know what they're doing, I can do a decent amount of damage while keeping everyone alive (this does not include the Perfect Legend DD running ahead of the tank, pulling 5 groups, then dying graciously at the next wall before anyone can even reach them ).


And now I stopped healing completely for the simple reason that the game's mechanics are getting too complicated for me. Golbez, Zeromus, and now Strayborough first boss - I cannot for the live of me survive this guys. Strayborouh is the newest and the worst: I tried with players, with NPCs, watched videos, but I just cannot get beyond this guy. And whenever I died as a healer with no RDM or SUM around, it was a wipe. So much for the forum's theory that healers are useless. Maybe on the level you're all playing on, but the people I get mixed with in roulettes definitely need them... and I cannot play the role any longer in what I consider as my personal endgame. This sucks.


And if you all get your way to make the healer role more challenging complicated, I guess this will be the end of me playing my favourite role at all. I hate being a carry or leaving groups, but this is where I'm at now (whenever Strayborough pops up in the extreme roulette I'm instantly gone, I just refuse wasting my time in this ****hole - consider this to be my very personal strike).

tl;dr: healers are ok, but it feels like raid encounter design is more and more spilling over into normal dungeons, making them an unplayable mess.

Of course that's just my 5 cents, so have fun roasting me for good