#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Aravell]

986 pages and 9857 posts. At this point, it is clear Creative Studio III is going out of its way to ignore us. There is no way the forum moderators would not mentioned this thread to someone.

I feel like the fact that the playerbase happily blames other parts of the community for any faults they see with the game means that SE can eternally hide behind their shield of "Players don't know what they want and can't agree on anything, that's why we can't change anything!".

I think if we're capable of presenting a united front of "We want changes for this thing because it's just badly designed, we don't care about the details, just change it", that would be much harder to ignore.

Unfortunately, trying to get the community to present a united front is effectively impossible (because people understandably put importance on different things, like some people want everything just balanced with 0% deviation with no regard to fun), so we're unlikely to see any changes until the dev team does their experiment in 8.0.

[Kes13a]

Unfortunately, trying to get the community to present a united front is effectively impossible (because people understandably put importance on different things, like some people want everything just balanced with 0% deviation with no regard to fun), so we're unlikely to see any changes until the dev team does their experiment in 8.0.

I doubt the "8.0 experiment" will be all that much of a change. whether or not we all agree on the same thing, as consumers of the game, the fact that a single thread has gotten this large with zero acknowledgement from SE tells me they are in their ivory tower, healing in their mind is perfect and needs no changes. thats fine, they are entitled to think that, and once I feel thy no longer earn my money, I will stop giving it to them. I have left far bigger games than 14, and never looked back.

[Oizen]

8.0 job identity isnt even real

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

IMHO that's just a smokescreen. Something to get players off their back before they continue to remove something else yet again. What would that be I wonder? :P

[GartredZW]

8.0 job identity isnt even real

It's a little microcosm of why I think they're so silent about the Healer Strike.
Yoshi'p merely hinted that they'll try to focus on Job identity in 8.0, and suddenly it gets Telephone-Game'd into people thinking we're getting an every job full rework in 8.0 where they'll consult with fans across the world to make every single class perfect.
I think they'd rather just keep things close to the chest and figure out a way to help us without setting any expectations. Just have it come out of nowhere so our first impression is just what we get. If they tell us "we're working to make healers more interesting in 8.0" then you'll start to have all sorts of brainstorming on everything they do. To the point that anything less than everyone's wildest dreams is just a disappointment.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I feel like the fact that the player base happily blames other parts of the community for any faults they see with the game means that SE can eternally hide behind their shield of "Players don't know what they want and can't agree on anything, that's why we can't change anything!"

Hey! I apologized!

/em sticks out tongue

I think if we're capable of presenting a united front of "We want changes for this thing because it's just badly designed, we don't care about the details, just change it", that would be much harder to ignore.

Unfortunately, trying to get the community to present a united front is effectively impossible (because people understandably put importance on different things, like some people want everything just balanced with 0% deviation with no regard to fun), so we're unlikely to see any changes until the dev team does their experiment in 8.0.

Yeah, trying to herd healers is like herding cats. We're a chaotic good bunch.

But, I feel, collectively, the healer community has done pretty well in conveying how unhappy we are with the current state of our jobs and roles in this expansion.

Yes, there have been trolls, some of them quite determined to derail our movement. But, if the mods ever got around to deleting those posts, you'd see we've been pretty united.

Yoshi has said there won't be any real changes until 8.0. So, I wasn't expecting a mid expansion overhaul of the white mage, scholar, astrologian, and sage jobs.

But, it would still be nice to have #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE acknowledged. Even a statement along the lines of "We've heard you and your concerns will be taken into account when we make changes to the jobs in the next expansion," would somewhat allay our fears healers will remain in their current state or worse.

[Lorika]

But, it would still be nice to have #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE acknowledged. Even a statement along the lines of "We've heard you and your concerns will be taken into account when we make changes to the jobs in the next expansion," would somewhat allay our fears healers will remain in their current state or worse.

This is the thing : they won't aknowledge the healer state because, it would be the same as aknowledging that their beloved tank and some of their beloverd DPS are too OP and need to be nerfed. And also, that they used Powercreep to try to hide thoses facts (but,too bad for them : It didn't work for this Add-on).

And seriously, who still believe in the 8.0 at this point?

I wouldn't be surprised if the healer role disapear and the current healer become either DPS or Support job.

[Kacho_Nacho]

*snippity snip*

And seriously, who still believe in the 8.0 at this point?

I wouldn't be surprised if the healer role disappear and the current healer become either DPS or Support job.

I remain optimistic about 8.0. It's far too early to discount it. We'll have to wait until the big reveal of the next expansion before we truly know if it has been all a smokescreen or not.

I doubt they'll erase the healer role completely.

[Alice_Rivers]

I wouldn't be surprised if the healer role disapear and the current healer become either DPS or Support job.

This is more or less what I expect of them, it feels like when a government wants to get rid of something people like - They make it terrible, people complain that they made it terrible, "we understand that this is terrible so we're getting rid of it".

[Lorika]

I doubt they'll erase the healer role completely.

When you look at the 7.0 Monk and at the Picto (Earth Reply and Starry Muse), it smell like the GW2 Route (Add War Shake It off and some of the dancer skill, and it smell the GW2 route even more)