#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[miraidensetsu]

There's been an interview where yoship talks a little bit about job design so I guess it's time to bring this thread back.

Here's the link if anyone wants: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/fin...-gamescom-2025

Relevant part is this:


Call me jaded or whatever but that doesnt exactly make me hopeful. No details, current battle design will stay (the body checks will continue until morale improves). Big plans but also doesnt want major changes. Get ready for the big change of +5 dot potency and another glare reskin.

I think Yoshi-P won't do any radical change. And that is what we need rn: radical changes on how fights works, on how healers works.

So, he'll likely double down on healer division ("pure" healer vs shield healer), on job balance (WHM being the weakest job, AST outclassing WHM at everything, SCH being the default shield healer, etc), on how useful healers is on non-savage content.

Frankly, this response is a bath of cold water on whatever I was expecting about 8.0. That gave me courage to let go my house and just let my sub run out.

[BunnyQueen]

YoshiP really needs to address the fucking healer situation

[Xuled]

so.. how did this strike turn out after all? seems more like a DT strike to me

[Appleboops]

Never knew the Healers of this game were unionized ... interesting O.o

[Connor]

YoshiP really needs to address the fucking healer situation

“Best I can do is 1 New 90s DPS cooldown skill locked behind a new 90s healing cooldown. Please look forward to it (damage output from encounters will remain the same)’ - Yoshi-P, probably.

[Daudream]

so.. how did this strike turn out after all? seems more like a DT strike to me

This strike came about from issues long before DT, the fact a lot of players dropped out due to DT was just coincidence (or maybe not), what effect this may or may not have had will not really be seen before 8.0. But with how all the jobs have been handled I don't think anyone who did/sported the strike (if they are still even playing) will get any of the changes they hoped for.

[Gwenkatsu]

so.. how did this strike turn out after all? seems more like a DT strike to me

Apart from filling 1100+ forum pages, nobody cared about the strike.

[Shurrikhan]

Apart from filling 1100+ forum pages, nobody cared about the strike.

1100 pages isolated to one thread. If only, say, repeated glamour demands/requests for the exact same item could consolidate themselves so neatly...

And the reasons for the "strike" remain as real as ever, sadly. You just hear less about it because so many veteran healers did exactly what they said they would: they either stopped healing or stopped playing altogether.

[ForsakenRoe]

I was promised that I would 'not even have time to DPS, because Healing requirements will increase so much' going into DT. But when I do my EX roulette (to cap tomes on my onetrick SCH alt), I'm standing in AOEs on purpose in Mistwake (the final pull of the dungeon where they keep using the orange circle to make the Tank move) because they hit for like 40-50k each and I have like 6 different tools to deal with that amount of damage that I can just cycle through. And that alt is in last tier's gear still, just imagine how ignoreable those AOEs will be when we've got 790 gear! Considering how some were cheering the 'spammed raidwides' that the trash used on the final pulls of Tender Valley/Strayborough Deadwalk, either we've fallen a long way, or the 'increase' was never real

Even if everyone who supported the strike were to stop supporting it, the strike still will have served a purpose: Either SE noticed, and makes changes (as the strike asked for), or we have conclusive evidence that SE is perfectly willing to ignore one of the largest threads the EN forums have ever seen (by post count). And that would then prove one of two things: Either SE really does 'only listen to JP', or 'SE is willing to ignore things they don't agree with because they think their vision for the game is the best way forward' (which means they don't listen to EN OR JP). This happens to be the exact mentality that gave us 1.0


Guess we're waiting for 8.0 news, to see if SE actually does read EN forums at all, and/or if there will be any changes

[Connor]

I was promised that I would 'not even have time to DPS, because Healing requirements will increase so much' going into DT

I mean, they were probably right. In like, week 1 ultimate content prog but everyone forgot to save Gil or whatever so they don’t have a lot of crafted gear lol.

Apart from filling 1100+ forum pages, nobody cared about the strike.

Doesn’t the fact a single thread reached 1100 pages alone signify there’s very likely something going on there? Though I guess it could just be one overzealous person repeating themselves over and over (it’s me I’m the problem).