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[Connor]

No one here speaks on behalf of '' healers '' in FFXIV, we're just a handful of people on the internet.
And people who have issues are far more likely to speak about it because the people who aren't having issues have no reason to sit around complaining about it on the forums they're just enjoying the game.

I don't disagree with most of the issues that people are having, but people shouldn't think that they're these spokespeople on behalf of the '' healer community '' or whatever.
And I am saying this as someone who's extremely disappointed with how they've handled MNK too, but I am not going to sit here and proclaim to speak on behalf of MNK's and that I know what most people want.

It’s also worth mentioning that the forums themselves are not a representation of the community because of the simple fact that it’s a minority of players that post on the forums in the first place, regardless of what side of the ‘argument’ they’re on. I’ve seen people suggest that the consensus on the forum is the consensus of the community, which there doesn’t seem to be any actual evidence to support or reject. With people being unwittingly pushed into the groups of either “pure healer’ or ‘DPS healer’, any chance of a real community consensus becomes impossible (because people have already split the ‘community’ into diametrically opposed groups’). And even if you aren’t advocating absolutism on one side or the other, you’re automatically going to be assumed as belonging to one of these two groups. And I’ve not really seen many suggestions for a ‘third way’ for healers besides either DPS / oGCD heal or GCD heal / don’t DPS.

I don’t think anyone has ever taken actual numbers of players posting on forums compared to active subscribers, but honestly I predict that it would show there are much less players posting frequently on the forums than there are actually playing. Not to say that these players who don’t post would say something different than the forums, but I do agree that nobody on any of these forums really speaks for the ‘community’ outside of their own circle (even if that fact should itself be self-evident). I know I’m speaking for nobody but myself when I post, if not only because I always end up liking things I shouldn’t lol