#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Maltothoris]

it also seems that they really banking on ultimate for the use of esuna cause I remember a certain user here saying along the lines of "Esuna will be most likely be needed to be used more" and now that we have both the new content, that isn't quite the case really. Only maybe in Jade Stoa if you get hit by the ground exaflares but that's really it. Not the new dungeon or the new alliance raid.

[Kes13a]

it also seems that they really banking on ultimate for the use of esuna cause I remember a certain user here saying along the lines of "Esuna will be most likely be needed to be used more" and now that we have both the new content, that isn't quite the case really. Only maybe in Jade Stoa if you get hit by the ground exaflares but that's really it. Not the new dungeon or the new alliance raid.

with the new alliance raid it would have made sense there since its now instant... and that raid is very busy, wouldnt have much time to stand in spot and cast it

[Maltothoris]

Also look at how prevalent that MTTT is starting to become. First we had M1S with raining cats and now we have the ice phase in ex3. Heck even the stack that tries to force the swap with the tethers can still easily be ignored with invulns and of course we have reject authority.

[BunnyQueen]

They need to go back and adjust all dungeons level sync, hard sync all stats, boost standard damage, make more damage unavoidable. Boom both tank and healer are more engaging.

[KageTokage]

It's awkward that I felt more satisfied healing Byakko unreal then any of the current savage fights simply because you're actually allowed to cover for mistakes due to virtually none of the mechanics being immediately lethal and you can potentially survive things like the expanding AoEs overlapping, too few people in stack markers, or the add being too healthy by layering mitigation and timing heals.

Granted, the fight is easier as a consequence but it made me actually feel like I was playing my role better.

[AmiableApkallu]

They need to go back and adjust all dungeons level sync, hard sync all stats, boost standard damage, make more damage unavoidable. Boom both tank and healer are more engaging.

It's not only the quantity of damage that could do with some tweaking. It's also the pacing.

Predictable damage can provide only so much engagement. Predictable means it eventually becomes rote.

Crit autos need to make a come back. Random chip damage to random party members. Non-fatal mechanics where the likely outcome is that people avoid some but not all of the outgoing damage. Etc.

[Aravell]

The thing is, "balance so every job is viable" is a giant lie. The reason some jobs are not viable in certain fights in the first place is because of the move towards rigidity over flexibility.

Back in HW, if we had extended movement phases, BRD can choose to drop Minuet or spam Feint for less of a damage loss than simply not attacking. Even as recently as in EW, standard BLM rotation was said to be garbage for TOP p6, so BLM players worked around it with alternate lines.

The reason we have jobs that suck in certain fights rests squarely on the fact that the dev team forced every job into only one correct way of playing, there's no flexibility, there's no creativity, the job either sucks for that fight or it doesn't, so they try and "solve" this problem of their own creation by making the jobs that suck more like the jobs that don't suck.

[Supersnow845]

BLM especially is constantly getting hamstrung by the fact that the devs only design for hard mechanics these days is arena wide marathons and they really just don’t seem to know how to actually deal with casters

It’s like they design every mechanic for melee and tanks which instantly invalidates phys ranged advantage then tries (and often fails) to shove the casters into this design and it just doesn’t work a lot of the time

[Mortex]

with the new alliance raid it would have made sense there since its now instant... and that raid is very busy, wouldnt have much time to stand in spot and cast it

It had a 1 second cast time. Like you could literally slide cast it without any problems or difficulties. This change did like nothing at all.

[Mortex]

Also look at how prevalent that MTTT is starting to become. First we had M1S with raining cats and now we have the ice phase in ex3. Heck even the stack that tries to force the swap with the tethers can still easily be ignored with invulns and of course we have reject authority.

I mean we had that stuff in endwalker also with the PlayStation mech in 2 ultimates and an extreme trial and with “first in line” and “second in line” for top and p8. If they think a new mech is hot s… then it will happen more then once or even close too each other in battle content.