Is the healerstrike still a thing?

[Aidorouge]

Isn’t it so hilarious how those snarky healers didn’t get what they want. Their stupid strike was pointless and I’m glad square didn’t listen to them

Now here’s my 8th post today about why cosmic is unbalanced and they should fix it

My favorite is how some of the ones dunking on the healerstrike were also among those who were screeching the loudest about the possibility of one-button rotation for other roles, or even just consolidated 1-2-3 combos. Apparently it's only a problem when it comes after THEIR jobs, but they're perfectly fine watching healers feel miserable.

That said, healer still seems to be the one role that takes the longest to fill on Dynamis, and AIN is half-green most of the time, so it's being felt somewhere at least.

[LuciaMirain]

You can tell there are healers missing when you get up to the higher levels of gameplay. When you have to recruit a healer for savage or ultimates. That is where you can tell. I play healer myself and while I support the healerstrike I still love to play the game as a healer and there are groups asking for healers very often in recruitment channels (I get tagged every time) and when I had to recruit a healer it was a pain in the butt as well, so much so we had people in the group offering to go as healer instead of dps just to get things rolling. So the lack of healers isn't really noticeable so much in casual content, but higher up, at least in my experience.

[Averax]

I mean, I'm not healing anymore. Not because of the strike, but because the role is so incredibly boring that i can't stand to do it anymore, after being a healer main for years. I realized i was only having fun when content was new and mistakes were being made, because otherwise there's not enough damage happening to make me feel like i'm contributing anything.

That itself wouldn't be a problem if the dps rotation for healers wasn't just one button 90% of the time.

[CVXIV]

It was always kind of interesting reading posts from people that mention barely needing to heal because in my personal experience I get paired up with people that get hit or die constantly so I need to keep healing and reviving

[Valence]

Wait, the healer strike was actually about mounting a real strike? People boycotting the healer role?
I always thought it was about making a point, which seemed to have worked better than usual considering how it spread like wildfire over social media and big streamers back then... If anything it's a bad that people aren't talking about it anymore, but kinda expected.
If I don't play healers anymore (or supports really) it's just because the role sucks and makes me want to pull a Quintus before the duty is over. Not that the tank or the DPS will need me anyway.

[Qyoon]

I mean, I'm not healing anymore. Not because of the strike, but because the role is so incredibly boring that i can't stand to do it anymore, after being a healer main for years. I realized i was only having fun when content was new and mistakes were being made, because otherwise there's not enough damage happening to make me feel like i'm contributing anything.

That itself wouldn't be a problem if the dps rotation for healers wasn't just one button 90% of the time.

Yup, exactly...

It was always kind of interesting reading posts from people that mention barely needing to heal because in my personal experience I get paired up with people that get hit or die constantly so I need to keep healing and reviving

Not the case unless people mess up really bad. In harder content, messing up leads to people dying anyway.

[Nero-Voidstails]

I only do a warrior strike but all tanks need a nerf to be honest

[Raim]

I think people realized that nothing at all will change the developer's approach to this game. You either accept it for how it is or move on.

[Lorika]

I mean, I'm not healing anymore. Not because of the strike, but because the role is so incredibly boring that i can't stand to do it anymore, after being a healer main for years. I realized i was only having fun when content was new and mistakes were being made, because otherwise there's not enough damage happening to make me feel like i'm contributing anything.

That itself wouldn't be a problem if the dps rotation for healers wasn't just one button 90% of the time.

Like i said many time : having a DPS rotation as a healer won't fix the problem.

As it stand right now, having a rotation will just transform us into a 3rd rate DPS that will still do less damages than tank.
What need to be fixed is how mit/shield/tank self-sustain work... Unless a series of nerf and adjustement are done to make healing more relevant, adding or modifying skills won't change nothing in the end : healing will still be easy and boring.... And a DPS rotation would juts be like putting a painting/poster on a wall to hide the big hole caused by mold in it.

And for those who will say : do both.
Nope. What the point of having a shiny new DPS rotation if, in the end, we won't use it because the healing requirement has gone up and don't leave us the time to realy use it.

[Saraide]

Like i said many time : having a DPS rotation as a healer won't fix the problem.

As it stand right now, having a rotation will just transform us into a 3rd rate DPS that will still do less damages than tank.
What need to be fixed is how mit/shield/tank self-sustain work... Unless a series of nerf and adjustement are done to make healing more relevant, adding or modifying skills won't change nothing in the end : healing will still be easy and boring.... And a DPS rotation would juts be like putting a painting/poster on a wall to hide the big hole caused by mold in it.

And for those who will say : do both.
Nope. What the point of having a shiny new DPS rotation if, in the end, we won't use it because the healing requirement has gone up and don't leave us the time to realy use it.

We used to have more intense healing and a dps rotation on healers. SE just removed all that. Healer wasnt even the role that needed to be bribed with mounts to get played back then.