Has anyone quit healing?

[IceBlueNinja]

Lets contribute to longer qeue times for DPS and make the healer role even less popular than it already is, great solution. I wish people like you were the ones designing this game. I'd unsub in a heartbeat.

95% healer 5% dps play fyi my gear explains alot and its a problem if i want to play another job? so you are allowed play dps and I cant is what your saying, how ironic, you can always unsub now if your upset about long dps queues no one is stopping u. Reality check I dont play dps in solo queues period I only play dps with trust system or with friends. 100% healer all the time for solo queues.

[RinaShinomiya]

95% healer 5% dps play fyi my gear explains alot and its a problem if i want to play another job? so you are allowed play dps and I cant is what your saying, how ironic, you can always unsub now if your upset about long dps queues no one is stopping u. Reality check I dont play dps in solo queues period I only play dps with trust system or with friends. 100% healer all the time for solo queues.

I haven't said you're not allowed to, I just said it's not a solution to the problem. It just causes more problems.
Also funny you mention trusts because i literally fell asleep leveling SCH through that system.

[IceBlueNinja]

i play sage it has enough dps buttons for me no issue with it cause of oh toxi phelgma and that 90 thingy i didnt say i just heal only.i both heal and dps equally but i wont repeat this over 1000 times cause did already over tons of times. I just play the game that is 12 years old and stop complaining and accept what it is. I just sit now and lol over the same 10k+ healer complains wanting more dps. I doubt any healer raiding will seriously just sit there and heal..thats ofc a instant boot

oh easy to use entire kit as sage or healer specially when its paper dark night with their lack of defenses vs the other 3 tanks.

[IceBlueNinja]

"If you want to dps go play a dps" is no longer a valid response after countless threads of "please give us more engaging gameplay than spamming one button for 10 minutes" followed by countless examples of high end content requiring barely any healing.

Hey tell the devs that not me lol it dont bug me sage has more than 1 dps button at least that more is ast sch issue even clunky whm got misery and assize

[Beddict]

Hey tell the devs that not me lol it dont bug me sage has more than 1 dps button at least that more is ast sch issue even clunky whm got misery and assize

What do you think players have been doing for years now? The devs don't give a shit or deliberately twist questions to give non-answers in their Q&As. Players ask for more outgoing damage in raids so they can heal more? It will overwhelm lower skilled players. Players want more DPS options to fill in the downtime? Bad Healers will get harassed for not using their kit because adding an extra DoT is so difficult for these Slyphies. Players want to feel more engaged playing their Job? Tough shit, Healers have been designed to be the basic bitch role that cannot fail in order to reduce stress for the bad players and to attract people that literally don't even like Healer anyways. Players are bored as shit with Glare spam? Go do Ultimate, it's totally fine there /s. So yeah, players have been telling the devs, and the the response has been either silence or the middle finger.

[DanielNegreanu_Adamantoise]

I started tanking in EW because of queues. I enjoy both, so its no biggie for me.
I expect healing and tanking will level out by 2023 and i'll split my time between healing and tanking.
DPS I've basically given up on. I'm not gonna wait 20 minutes for a queue. If I want big numbers that bad I'll just play DRK

[BrokentoothMarch]

Ex-AST player. By which I mean, since the start of HW, I used to have only AST at max level: Give up. It's over. Yoshi's remark was nothing short of flippant and the dev team's perspective on how healers should be played is clearly going to be enforced on all. That role only belongs to the sylphies now. It pains me to say, but if they want healers to be only playable by people with two brain cells? I'm sadly an owner of three and I hope most of you have more than that as well.

Anyways, I'm gonna go back with my friends and complete content with light parties consisting of 3 DPS' and 1 Tank or, if we do big stuff, 2 Tanks and a lineup of SMN's. Because healers are literally just mediocre SMN's and RDM's.

Adios, amigos.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I loved ast so much in stormblood, hated the card changes in 5.0 (also dont like the sleeve draw change I liked the speediness of it) but stuck with ast and then the 6.0 changes made me drop the job completely and I swapped to scholar for savage. But as I said in another thread my eyes now just glaze over when healing even in savage at this point. It's just so boring to do. At this point I am barely playing so I hope to enjoy 6.1 story.. I have decided this tier is my last as a healer and I will swap to dps where I hope I can find the fun in fights again.

[IceBlueNinja]

I loved ast so much in stormblood, hated the card changes in 5.0 (also dont like the sleeve draw change I liked the speediness of it) but stuck with ast and then the 6.0 changes made me drop the job completely and I swapped to scholar for savage. But as I said in another thread my eyes now just glaze over when healing even in savage at this point. It's just so boring to do. At this point I am barely playing so I hope to enjoy 6.1 story.. I have decided this tier is my last as a healer and I will swap to dps where I hope I can find the fun in fights again.

Yep stormblood ast was the best as soon as EW took away stances and we kept the same boring shadow bringers system cards but 10x worst i just toss my star globe immediately and hop on sage, its really sad, but you know alot of ungrateful people found stormblood ast too over whelming to play it seem so it got bruised into a worthless copy clone full whm with yawn 5%/8% single dps cards.

[MaikoRaines]

RE: Has anyone quit healing.

The ire I hear from main healers in recent months (a year? maybe?) is that some statics/PUGs or even pick up runs tend to ask or push healers into pushing more and more damage than to focus on their main role of keeping the party alive. As someone who heals with mainly WHM or AST, I find I can weave in damage and DOTs in between keeping the tank alive from tank busters but I feel I am nowhere near a pro DPS healer as I am more so focused on making sure the entire group is alive.

For me I can't focus on 3-4 different things at once. My main focus is to make sure tanks survive tank busters, the group lives thru multiple AOEs and mitigate damage as best I can - while throwing down some damage/DOTs in the middle.

I think healer burnout is a real thing.