Has anyone quit healing?

[Ceasaria]

I can tell you since 5.2, I am playing SAM now for every content.
It has quite a high CPM and multitasking/room to improve (as it was for me with AST/SCH before) with 3rd eye, self healing, feint, positional management, back jump / enpi / dash management, kenki and sen management.
It doesn't have stupid restrictions, endless 1-2 buttons spam or ghost issues.
It's fun !

[Renka777]

I can tell you since 5.2, I am playing SAM now for every content.
It has quite a high CPM and multitasking/room to improve (as it was for me with AST/SCH before) with 3rd eye, self healing, feint, positional management, back jump / enpi / dash management, kenki and sen management.
It doesn't have stupid restrictions, endless 1-2 buttons spam or ghost issues.
It's fun !

Yes I can see that,perhaps it's just me after all :/
I'm very glad to know that you're still enjoying this game without being a healer

[ForteNightshade]

I haven't just stop healing, I've just about stopped playing entirely. I have a 50-60 hr workweek as a manual laborer so I'm generally too exhausted for things like Ultimate/Savage. Instead, most of my time in the game is from more casual elements; standard dungeon runs and the occasional EX are my bread and butter. While such content has always been fairly easy the classes (especially AST) were really fun for me to play, but since ShB dropped I barely find *any* entertainment as the classes themselves no longer feel as fun to play. I feel like they're balancing the role around Savage/Ultimate levels of healing, something which I've never seen nor needed.

Everything feels so dumbed down, I'm no longer juggling Royal Road, Spread, Minor Arcana on top of my healing. I'm not multitasking with my fairy while doing my standard Scholarly activities. I like some of the new AST healing abilities, but I can't always justify having to use them. I feel like a discount WHM at times instead of having my own separate class identity. Having to pray for a poor group just to get some entertainment is incredibly demoralizing. So I've just about left.

I barely play the game now, I log in maybe once or twice a week. Before where I'd play even after an exhausting day of work for at least a couple roulette's every single day, I now deeply consider ending my sub until at least the next patch. Maybe even till more news about the next expansion.

And now I can't even be sure if that news would be enough to bring me back.

This is what I think the dev team continuously fails to appreciate. The more you lean on making something easy and accessible for brand new players, the less engaging it will be for everyone else. At least not unless you add a wealth of content at max level that's at a more average pace. They haven't done that. Instead, we have jobs getting increasingly trivialized and no content to essentially hide that "dumbed down" feel. FFXIV has always prioritized new players but Shadowbringers really feels like they went so far out of their way in some aspects, it hurt the veteran playerbase—even those who have no interest in EX or Savage.

[Mesarthim]

I think I'm entering maintenance mode. Probably only subbing to keep my house (is demolition even active?) when necessary, new patches/story. With the NA PSO2 out after nearly a decade (after a 5 year leave of the JP servers) I've basically been playing it over FFXIV at a 95:1 ratio.

I'm not really quitting healing, I'm mostly quitting the game actively in general.

[EpicOverlord85]

I think I'm entering maintenance mode. Probably only subbing to keep my house (is demolition even active?) when necessary, new patches/story. With the NA PSO2 out after nearly a decade (after a 5 year leave of the JP servers) I've basically been playing it over FFXIV at a 95:1 ratio.

I'm not really quitting healing, I'm mostly quitting the game actively in general.

I barely touch my SCH anymore. The only times I generally bring it out is when I decide to run the daily Alliance raid roulette, but other than that I can’t stand how dull the job feels now. 1 DOT spell, 1 spam spell (Art it Bore isn’t even worth listing), and a fairy that’s had most of its identity ripped away is not why I started playing SCH all those years ago.

[Joven]

There are times when cuts and bruises seem to linger longer than usual and I worry that something is wron-....oooooh, you mean in the game. Gotcha. No I don't really adhere to a single class anyways so when I feel like healing I go heal and when I don't, I don't.

[einschwartz]

But seriously,I don't think any real healer main can actually quit healing for good

Exactly what I'm feeling now.
I maxed up NIN and RDM. Picked up tanking: DRK and GNB. Tried other jobs from scratch: MCH, BRD, SMN (alongside SCH). While I can say playing GNB and SMN is a lot of fun, I still come back to healing since I feel more natural at it.

I thought I would switch between SCH and WHM for dailies (not touching AST I'm still salty of the changes) but I'm sick of roulette putting me with another scholar (sigh). Back to nurturing blood lilies I go.

[Recon1o6]

But seriously,I don't think any real healer main can actually quit healing for good

I'm pleased to say I haven't healed on a healer (rdm :P) since I quit all the healers in April (page 47 of this thread in fact)
I was an Ast for about 2 hours in 5.0 and threw my globe into my saddlebag tacklebox. Perhaps all the pretty lights could help attract that blasted giant takitaro. Picked up WHM and it was...ok I guess. I was an Ast main in HW and SB with WHM secondary in HW and DRG in SB.

It functions now and is really strong but its somehow even more dull than sb launch. Come back 2.0 ;n; I miss you!


In fact, this coming weekend will actually be the first time I have touched my Ast since SHB launch, but not for any battle content! No, I'm doing it for a friend's eternal bonding ceremony where I will be wearing the constellation attire as its Ast exclusive
Hopefully my globe doesn't smell too much of fish...

[Mimilu]

But seriously,I don't think any real healer main can actually quit healing for good

We're too use to the queue times.>w>
Plus, we've all developed the habit of looking at the party-list when tankbusters and raid-wides go off... >w>

[Lovelle]

I don't typically post on forums, but the Shb changes to SCH have left me in a strange position with this game. I still enjoy the story, but I no longer enjoy the gameplay. SCH is one of the few jobs I've enjoyed playing since I started around HW, but a lot of what I enjoyed about the job was removed with this expansion. It just doesn't feel rewarding anymore, and they changed way too much imo. Fairy management is basically gone (no longer has her own gcd, really SE?), Selene is gone (which I enjoyed for solo play and things like Potd/HoH/Eureka), Energy Drain is now the only AF dump for some reason.

Really enjoyed the DoT/debuff based gameplay and I feel it flowed much better with SCH's healing tools than spamming Broil/Art of War, as it allowed you to heal and dps simultaneously. The nature of SCH's kit gives it a lot of downtime when played well, but currently the only reward for doing so is spamming Broil, and I just don't think that's right when you compare it to other jobs. The last thing SCH needed was more healing, as the healing tools it had prior to Shb were already incredibly powerful.

I've basically put playing this game on hiatus until the devs can figure what they want to do with SCH. I'm not too fond of this whole "pure healer" direction they seem to be trying to take it. In my perfect world they would just revert SCH back to how it was in Stormblood, but the chances of that happening are slim. I would gladly give up Recitation for SCH's old gameplay back, as that's the only new skill I like anyway.