Has anyone quit healing?

[Saefinn]

I'm not asking for the cards to be buffed even more. I'm asking for the cards to be fun again with different effects on each card aka bring back its lore. I don't want another Bard situation to happen to AST having our cards become even worse with a 3% arrow effect or 3% more crit. The reason why I think nerfing malefic is a good start is because I want our cards to be fun and feel like it's making a difference, without having to nerf them into the ground with the way they did the bards songs.

Oh I know, which is why I said "improvements" rather than "buffs". I agree that by making them more meaningful again would mean something else has to give and malefic is a perfectly acceptable thing to nerf.

I guess the downside would be for solo stuff, I don't know how much a nerf would impact doing solo DPS on stuff as AST, like for story.

But there also remains the option to give WHM and SCH more too, as they are in a position where they need it. So AST would still have the weakest DPS with a more meaningful card system and at the same time, not step on WHM's or SCH's toes in terms of DPS.

[MOZZYSTAR]

Wow, I am shocked this thread is still going (and at 30+ pages no less).
I guess I'll update while I'm at it: after the original post, I actually stopped playing for a few months. Had no drive to. It was unintentional and unusual (I usually get bored around a year or a year and a half into an expansion and then wait for the next one). Upon returning, I tried AST again but I really just couldn't do it. I've since learnt that my biggest issue with AST is actually a gamepad issue with how the execution of the cards work, so at least I know it's "not just me." The card system is actually not gamepad friendly and it really needs to get fixed ASAP because that's a gameplay fault and nothing to do with the effects of the cards. It genuinely makes it nearly unplayable for gamepad players. (Nearly is the keyword. It's not impossible.)

I still have an issue with the cards effects. That in itself makes it super unfun. It basically loses the intent of the AST class. (It's meant to be an adaptive healer, and if you're just fishing for Bole I'm convinced you're not playing AST well or even right and should go back to WHM or SCH or whatever other class you played before [sorry, these are fighting words, but it's true] because that was what essentially ruined the class for everyone who does play the class right/well.).
WHM was originally my main and I will never go back to it. I don't care how good it gets, I hate it.
SCH has effectively lost its identity just like AST has, so I'm not inclined to play that either (my alt is a level 54 SCH. I never got far on it, but I did like what I knew of it).

I'm totally having healing withdrawals, especially when there's a reall rough run (because those get my BLOOD GOING! WOO!) but... I just can't play the classes. I physically can't play AST. I might level SCH on my main despite it being less than AST in terms of what it does. But probably not at the same time. So, yeah, I've effectively quit healing. DPS life for me now, I guess. It's boring. (Side note: I do tank, but only solo and for friends. It's always been that way, so crappy healers did not encourage me to go on the tank route. Because I'm a royal pansy)

[Ritian_Stone]

Never post anything on the forums but I'd figure I'd throw my two cents in. Main healer since I started playing the game back in 2.2. Over the years in multiple raid tiers, I've progged on all 3 healers depending on what was needed per fight (or what my new cohealer mained each tier). In SB, I spent most of the time on sch due to its design between the micro managing aetherflow, pet abilities, and fey gauge as well as a decent amount of dps abilities to try and maximize. Edens gate is the first tier I did not prog and still have yet to even try to heal mainly because of how clunky, disjointed, and unsatisfying the job feels now. I still feel the need to go and try to play healer as I've enjoyed healing in this game for many years now but the current design leaves alot to be desired.

[Aomine1992]

My biggest issue is that AST had the most potential to be something great with the cards and time mage aspect. They could have simply expanded off the old card system implementing different kind of healing effects to maybe an enhanced royal road, horoscope should change maybe a cards buff to what would benefit the job most since horoscope is essentially future telling or anything. There is just so much they could have done but instead we got a bunch of balances lol even the parser voice still calls every card balance...

That coupled with AST ability to not heal in the beginning just started the drastic downfall of that job to now a terrible job to play although I play it still is mainly cause it’s my favorite and only healer I preferred since I started healing in HW

[MitsukiKimura]

My biggest issue is that AST had the most potential to be something great with the cards and time mage aspect. They could have simply expanded off the old card system implementing different kind of healing effects to maybe an enhanced royal road, horoscope should change maybe a cards buff to what would benefit the job most since horoscope is essentially future telling or anything. There is just so much they could have done but instead we got a bunch of balances lol even the parser voice still calls every card balance...

That coupled with AST ability to not heal in the beginning just started the drastic downfall of that job to now a terrible job to play although I play it still is mainly cause it’s my favorite and only healer I preferred since I started healing in HW

It's sad honestly because the lore of the Astrologian is all about reading the future. Well there's no need to anymore if you already know what kind of card you're going to draw. Honestly if they can turn Minor Arcana into a quick step progress, then why not do the same for Royal road? There's so much potential that can be done with the cards but out of every possible detail, they completely made the worst choice of all. Now I won't even do daily content such as roulettes or anything as a healer, if I have to sit and wait 25 minutes as a DPS to get a que then I'm perfectly fine with it. At least there's enjoyment out of playing dps classes than to drag my feet going as a healer to do it.

[Sloprano]

Ho ho ho. It's oh so quiet, it's oh so still, and soon current iteration of our jobs has persisted for over half a year with but nary a word. Thought I'd shamelessly copycat Mitsuki and make my own collage of missed skills, traits and pet actions. Suppose as a christmas wishlist.

Still barely find myself filling healthbars these days if not on BLU. Here's to 2020 being more kind to our jobs.

[Averax]

No, because i still like watching the health bars go up... even if we're barely doing that anymore.

DPS is just not for me in this game, well at least none of the ones that exist are really doing anything for me, and forget about tanking.

[Sekari_Katsura]

I've been playing SCH since HW and I main a healer role in every game that I play. This expansion hasn't made me quit playing SCH, it's just made me really sad about it. I'm always going to heal, but I've never had so many reasons to be upset about my job before now. I miss controlling my fairy. I miss my dots. I miss feeling like I'm doing something besides spamming 1 button throughout a 10-minute savage fight. At this rate my keyboard's going to need a new 3 key because of the 300 casts of broil I do every pull.

I'm not going to quit healing, but I really wish SE would fix things so I didn't have to be sad. I almost feel like my healer died in SHB and I'm working with a lifeless android. Where'd my SCH go?

[Vitreus]

It's pretty disappointing watching a friend try healing for the first time and having to downplay how bad the dps is. Or how much the new astrologian card system flies in the face of lore. Or just bad game design in general. "So wait if I get a party with two ranged or two melee dps I'm kind of just screwed and it doesn't matter how I give cards to?"

Please revert these changes, preferably before the next expansion. I really miss how much more fun it used to be.

[RinaB]

Tank changes in this Xpac have not been friendly to healers. The dumbing down of the role and adding a gunblade tank at the same time is just a recipe for disaster. I can barely make it through roulettes because my tanks are consistently brain dead.