#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ForsakenRoe]

All my queues keep popping and there doesn't seem to be a shortage of healers. What's going on? Did you cancel the strike or are people scabbing or what?

Got told that 'Healer kits are designed with Savage/Ultimates in mind', so I went and used them for Week 1 Savage prog. The same issues (mainly that our 'downtime rotation' is comprised almost entirely of one action) still exist there, even in Week 1. Especially in Week 1, in fact, as we're even more crucial to meeting the DPS requirement to beat enrage

Very annoying, that if we don't play Healer in content, we're told 'well you don't even play healer so your argument is invalid', but if we do, it's 'scabbing'. To say that I wrote all of this, and that at the same time I 'don't support the message the strike is conveying, because I used Healer for prog (the only place it's desinged to be fun, apparently)', these two statements don't math to me. Personally, I don't want the Strike to exist, ideally it never would have had to exist in the first place, but here we are. And rather than just be another complaining voice on the forums, I've offered (via the methods SE themselves recommend ingame) my feedback/ideas/recommendations. I expect that most likely, SE never sees it, or if they do, that they're too prideful to even consider implementing ideas not thought up by them. But every strike has mediators, people in the middle who try to help find a resolution that works for both parties, right? That's the role I decided to try and take on, because the alternative (just complaining) hasn't really gotten anyone anywhere for the past 5 years

Of course, there's no way you could have known that I'd written so much on the subject. Every time I've previously linked to that thread, is buried pages back in this one, because there's like 6 bajillion posts with the same old 'well my queues are still popping, so clearly the strike failed hur hur'. This time, though, a lot of content creators have been giving air to the thread, where they previously would dismiss it entirely, and not make a video at all. Even if they're making a video to say 'look at these idiots thinking they can change things', it's still putting attention on the thread

It's just a case of a ridiculously vocal minority making big waves on the forums and the general population not caring about this.

A forum post on JP forums was accredited with being 'the reason VPR got changed like 5 days after launch' (the removal of Noxious Gnash and the addition of Honed Steel/Reavers as the replacement). It had FOUR likes at the time. Smaller movements have accomplished changes in this game before

It's really true that the FFXIV community is its own worst enemy. Players like this one cheering on the destruction of one of the roles and the players who enjoyed it while simultaneously wondering in other threads why the game is dying.

Literally can't make it up. The cognitive dissonance is almost impressive

[Maltothoris]

I will say its probably most certainly visible in the savage pf. Most parties are looking for healers over tanks and dps. Lets say its 60 parties in m7s, its like 25 are looking for dps, 30 looking for tanks and 37 looking for healers. And the thing the dps is thst includes all dps of melee, range and casters.

[Kohashi]

Got told that 'Healer kits are designed with Savage/Ultimates in mind', so I went and used them for Week 1 Savage prog. The same issues (mainly that our 'downtime rotation' is comprised almost entirely of one action) still exist there, even in Week 1.

Ah yes very sad, anyway......

I will say its probably most certainly visible in the savage pf. Most parties are looking for healers over tanks and dps. Lets say its 60 parties in m7s, its like 25 are looking for dps, 30 looking for tanks and 37 looking for healers. And the thing the dps is thst includes all dps of melee, range and casters.

And why do you think there's a healer shortage? It can't be because healing is so easy and braindead.. right? Or?

[MonsutaMan]

Best way to perform a MMO strike, is with your wallet.

They are willing to let you vent, so long as you are still paying.........

When that money begins to get shorter, and investors start asking questions is when companies implement real changes.

[DeathNoodles]

Ran some of binding coil today. Felt a little closer to the healer makeup of ARR but just the battle design itself lends better to healers in general. Truly do miss how fights had to be a collab between everyone to MIT dmg and healers were dps cannons with 3 dps skills iirc (they still need more dps skills imo).

[ForsakenRoe]

Had an idea earlier, for a new trait for Healers (all of them, or just WHM specifically to give it a niche of its own):

Back From The Brink

Upon casting {Raise/Resurrection/Ascend/Egeiro} on an ally, ally is granted the status 'At The Brink' for 10s.
If the ally's HP is restored to Max before 'At The Brink' ends, 'At The Brink' is transformed into 'Back From The Brink'.

Back From The Brink effect: Upon expiration of this status, Weakness/Brink of Death's duration is halved.

In other words, if you do your job as a Healer, and quickly heal the player you just raised (instead of saying 'eh, OGCD regens will take care of it in time for the next raidwide'), the Weakness timer is reduced. It starts at 100s, subtract 10 for the 'did you heal in time' check, so that leaves 90s. Half of that, results in a Weakness/Brink timer of just 45s (plus having 10s of Weakness/Brink DURING the heal check), allowing the Healer player to make runs a lot more recoverable.

Numbers adjustable as required (eg maybe filling the HP to max in time reduces the duration by 30s instead of 45)

[Kacho_Nacho]

Had an idea earlier, for a new trait for Healers (all of them, or just WHM specifically to give it a niche of its own):

Back From The Brink

Upon casting {Raise/Resurrection/Ascend/Egeiro} on an ally, ally is granted the status 'At The Brink' for 10s.
If the ally's HP is restored to Max before 'At The Brink' ends, 'At The Brink' is transformed into 'Back From The Brink'.

Back From The Brink effect: Upon expiration of this status, Weakness/Brink of Death's duration is halved.

In other words, if you do your job as a Healer, and quickly heal the player you just raised (instead of saying 'eh, OGCD regens will take care of it in time for the next raidwide'), the Weakness timer is reduced. It starts at 100s, subtract 10 for the 'did you heal in time' check, so that leaves 90s. Half of that, results in a Weakness/Brink timer of just 45s (plus having 10s of Weakness/Brink DURING the heal check), allowing the Healer player to make runs a lot more recoverable.

Numbers adjustable as required (eg maybe filling the HP to max in time reduces the duration by 30s instead of 45)

Back From The Brink definitely should be in the game. The ability to reduce the rezz weakness timer would be a boon to all the healers, while at the same time, making the resurrection abilities of other jobs less valuable.

[Qyoon]

This is actually fun too see SQE saying they care about the community feedback while ignoring a 1000+ page thread for months.
Here is a proof the whole listening the community thing is just PR, maybe it will open some people eyes.

[Supersnow845]

This is actually fun too see SQE saying they care about the community feedback while ignoring a 1000+ page thread for months.
Here is a proof the whole listening the community thing is just PR, maybe it will open some people eyes.

Unfortunately the people who think square listens to feedback are the ones who laugh about and downvote an actual attempt to do something about healers

You can see them all throughout these pages

[Qyoon]

The only way to get a company to listen to it's clients is to stop giving said company money.
The rest is just hope and cope.
Healers are complaining since years nothing changed while SQE worked on other jobs changes.
This proves, for the dev team, it's fine as it is and can wait 2 more years until 8.0.
While this could go even worse, no promises have been made about making this role interesting.

To be honest the game might actually be better without healers at all, relying only on mecanics.
And i am saying that while Sage if the only job i enjoy in FF XIV.