Where are all the healers?

[Revanslave]

I use my SCH for roulettes so I can blaze through them in a quarter of the time. However, I'm not good enough to raid with that class sadly plus it's undergeared. I think the fact that so much relies on me as a healer it scares me away from the harder content because it's not my main so I don't have a ton of practice.

[Madepossible]

Well, to be honest, I think a lot of people hung up their white mage and scholar robes due to Stormblood's handling of their jobs.

White mages have a mechanic which doesn't mesh well with how they heal. In fact, they heal just fine if they they ignore the mechanic. Months of feedback have resulted in minor tweaks but no real fix to mechanic.

Scholars were nerfed and no longer play like they used to play. Shields are much weaker, their fairy was majorly nerfed, and mana regeneration is slashed. Months of feedback have resulted in the introduction of an AoE damage spell. No fix to the job's critical issues.

Meanwhile, two powerful and fun to play damage dealers were introduced. Guess where a lot of those dissatisfied healers went?

That's why there's a shortage of healers.

Exactly my reason switching back to War again. The scholar nerf was too much and I don't like the other healer classes.

[Saefinn]

*Puts hand up* I mained Scholar from 2.0 right around to SB. The changes to Scholar for SB weren't interesting enough to keep me hooked over Red Mage. So I main Red Mage now, despite longer queues. But I too believe Scholar was nerfed too much and believe it was genuinely in need of a nerf. I still love the job. Whilst I still play SCH, it is a secondary job now that's played when it's needed. So in those PF groups and roulettes? You'll most likely find me queue as a RDM.

And I fear the changes to healers is why we don't see so many. Whilst there is more of a balance between SCH, WHM and AST, I don't think SCH and WHM are in the good places they want to be. And AST despite nerfs still is the favourite. WHM's last changes seem hopeful, but they've still got some work to do for people to be happy with it.

Then add normal healer frustrations on top and how some of the changes may amplify those frustrations. I suspect a number are playing other roles because of it.

[Tint]

i quit healing because of the dps meta. you people talk that much about healer should dps and not being lazy that i push way too hard for dps, wich causes massive stress. on the other hand if i don't push for dps i feel bad. this is not fun anymore. the removal of cleric stance made it easier to dps, wich just caused more stress, dancing between healing and dpsing even more than before... i play tank now.

[Taika]

i push way too hard for dps, wich causes massive stress

Definitely the right decision for you if you were feeling so much stress over playing a certain role. Hope you're happier with tanking!

[Jxnibbles]

1) Media Tour and Stormblood Launch turned off alot of Healers and made some go to different Roles.
2) Cross Role system doesn't feel good it feels really terrible right now.
3) Tanks not popping cooldowns, and Dps are allowed to be babied by the *No meter rule* and with alot of players talking about Healer Dps I think Healers just role swapped due to stress?
4) No incentives to play a Healer right now.
5) I don't know if it is just me but the abilities that were given to us for Stormblood feel really lackluster. None of the Healer abilites made me go "Wow Cool"

I am curious where do we go from here as a Role?

Edit: I've also heard some players say they feel bored with the Role in its current state.

[Hugowulf]

I enjoy healing at endgame as a SCH. Only real issues I run into are just MP..and co healer AST not switching out of Noct stance.

[DynamoAce]

Where are the healers, you say?

The playerbase scared them off. : D *shot*

[lokowoko]

i've been wanting to do omega savages, managed to clear O1S once, but after that day most learning/practice pf's i've been in give up too easily or are just rude to people, and statics i see don't seem to want a sch, so i've kinda stopped bothering with them for now

[NatSilverguard]

You people create healer hate threads every day on this forum and you wonder why healer population has gone down?

this is the main reason!