#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

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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

But that's just kinda how game design works. Impose a bunch of rules on the player, and then put them in a space that tries to contradict the player, but you actually want the player to succeed so you give them the tools to overcome these contradictions. I think it highlights more a problem with phys ranged than it does casters as there isn't anything in the game that tries to contradict how a physical ranged player plays their job unlike every other role. Physical ranged gameplay does not change if you are close to an enemy or far away, running around or standing still, and that's not good game design. There is no challenge.

It's also a healer problem as when there isn't any healing for any reason there isn't really a game for healers to play to fall back on.