Let's Talk

[Alathon]

You know what happens when I do 8 man or 24 man content through the Duty Finder? I end up being the only healer in the content. Technically, there are 1-5 more healers depending on the content. But you know what? I'm lucky if one of those healers throws up a regen or resurrects somebody that died... Most of the time I'm solo healing the content and bodies are dropping on the floor. I'm ONE person. I cannot heal everybody at once. The game wasn't designed this way...

I don't know what I can do to change this community for the better, but something has to give. This community is toxic towards healers and it is scaring new players away from healing. The mentality in this game has to change.

But the next time you are doing content through the duty finder... Heal... The healing numbers need to go WAYYYYY up. Stop complaining about healer dps changes in SHB, because nobody is healing to begin with in SB. At least not in my data center and I doubt my data center is different from the others..

Gotta get those healing numbers wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up before this community really has a right to complain about dps changes in SHB.

This isn't a matter of healer dps. This is a matter of lack of heals. There needs to be a balance between healing and dpsing as a healer. This is something this community really needs to work on.

Let's start fresh with SHB and not bring the SB toxicity into the new expac! A lot of people would greatly appreciate this!

P.S. If you find healing boring, then play a different job. Healing is not a job that is meant for everybody. It's the only job in this game that requires you to know everything about everything. If you don't know everything about everything, then picking a ranged/caster dps job to main would probably be best.

You say "let's talk", well, how about you listen. "Healer" and "Tank" classes which are not pigeonholed into doing nothing but heal or tank are a great improvement in FFXIV on the usual MMO crap. They create a virtuous cycle in which the better the party plays, the less damage they take, the more they can focus on offense and win faster.

The fights in this game are for the most part so easy that less than half of a healer's time need be spent casting heals if his party is vaguely competent. "Healers" who utilize their spare non-healing time to help with the fight are doing it right. As for your claim to being "the only healer" all the time, I see that sort of play maybe... once a month. Tops. You're exaggerating.