Stop rewarding tanks/healers! We all put in the same effort.

[DisFlavored]

I was just waiting for a thread like this to pop up.
The point of the Adventurer in Need cluster reward is to fill a void in the player base. Not that many people enjoy healing, and even fewer enjoy tanking. Everyone wants to play a DPS. It has nothing to do with the effort of the class (that's a whole other discussion). This void exists in most games because those roles require a higher amount of responsibility that DPS just doesn't have.

As a lover of the DPS role, I'm not against this incentive. The three hours I had to play yesterday before maintenance was largely spent waiting and finally doing Leveling, 50/60, and Trial roulette. That's crazy. Will I level a healer? Absolutely, I'll even lvl my 50ish AST because of recent changes. Will I level a tank? Begrudgingly, you bet! Sure I would love to spend all my time in FF as a DPS, but there's a balance to this game and I'll do my part to try to keep it.

[ximxim]

Well SE only give rewards to Super Special players who is called "dedicated tanker/healers".

You DPS users want to take our super special rewards... meh! you are not special so, DUH!

[Tizzy_Tormentor]

I like the part where OP entirely misses the point of the new rewards and then refrains from discussing it further.

Tanks/healers get more because they need more players to play them, so they add more incentives to start doing so, asking for DPS to get the same if not more rewards will only make it worse.

Also, disagreeing is not the same as flaming either.

[AxlStream]

Tell me this is trolling... As a Warrior, I usually do more damage than our so called damage dealers in roulettes. The times where I don't it's like herding cats and trying to make you understand, standing next to me might not be the brightest idea in existence.

[Niqote]

Perhaps you do not realise its rewarding the role in need.
As in... if we had too many tanks then DPS would constantly be getting the incentive to queue, however it just so happens the role most parties need is usually a tank.

[technole]

Tell me this is trolling... As a Warrior, I usually do more damage than our so called damage dealers in roulettes. The times where I don't it's like herding cats and trying to make you understand, standing next to me might not be the brightest idea in existence.

Oh I believe it.

Last leveling roulette in level 65 dungeon, the Paladin and myself as White Mage did more damage than the Ninja overall. Like they never finished with even 4-digit DPS. Imagine if I was just a stand-around 0 DPS netflix healer in the entire dungeon.

Like the thread title says, "we all put in the same effort".

[Oscura]

This isn't "rewarding tanks (and marginally) healers."

It's "begging tanks to come back to their role."

They talked the talk about how Tanks/healers never really left their role and how most people who originally played DPS didn't stay DRK/AST and went back, so they made two DPS and were going to "balance" healers/tanks. Most people tried to have faith including myself only to see said balance was complete garbage. Most tanks I've known have quit for Samurai entirely or just dropped tanking for a DPS role. I would not be surprised if they just saw dramatic shift and a huge crash in the tank population and panicked.


It's okay for me though, they've successfully and very willingly murdered the Materia VI market and made it even cheaper than before. With tanks being able to literally print tier VI materia it'll at least make it more readily available.

[Zojha]

This isn't "rewarding tanks (and marginally) healers."

It's "begging tanks to come back to their role."

This pretty much. It's them trying to bribe players to fix their failures in their stead.

[Enla]

Like others have said it isn't them saying tanks are worth more than dps, it's SE trying their hardest to bribe people into playing those jobs in the first place. Tanking is hard and the amount of people who are actually willing to suffer through it when it isn't their inclination is rather low. Especially when one wrong move can wipe the entire party. It's half the reason I stopped tanking in the first place because I simply could not handle the stress. Not everyone can and where as others might thrive in that environment, it's not for everyone. Because of this it's the least played class in roulette's and SE has to do whatever they can to encourage people to switch.

[AlphaFox]

Dunno about you but I enjoyed my 14 minute wait for leveling roulette today vs the 30+ the past few days. Granted I am also leveling AST so I got to snag quite a few bonus clusters whenever I saw "Healer in need".