How are healers fairing right now?

[Rasikko]

unless your party eat every shit they run across so you can use your healing part of the kit.

..and you wipe in a blaze of glory because your highness cannot heal through the damage incurred from those waltzing around like little oompa loompas with their 6+ vulnerability stacks.

Meanwhile Willy Wonky is about to ban hammer you for stealing an everlasting gobstobber.

Tell me, as you clearly want more than '1' to press and dealing damage isn't enough for you, so what do you want?

[PondHollow]

..and you wipe in a blaze of glory because your highness cannot heal through the damage incurred from those waltzing around like little oompa loompas with their 6+ vulnerability stacks.

Oh, the healing kit is good enough that you often can! It's just normally unjustified to use.

[CrimsonGunner]

..and you wipe in a blaze of glory because your highness cannot heal through the damage incurred from those waltzing around like little oompa loompas with their 6+ vulnerability stacks.

Meanwhile Willy Wonky is about to ban hammer you for stealing an everlasting gobstobber.

Tell me, as you clearly want more than '1' to press and dealing damage isn't enough for you, so what do you want?

more then 1 or even a good synargy of the kit skills maybe?

anything to be honest, dps/buffs/debuffs you know options,something that most classes have.so we could choose what to use then simply just glare,glare,glare/broil,broil,broil/malefic,malefic,malefic... and if that is so hard for SE to do maybe put some synergy to our kit. having them proc something that will help us like spamming glare speed the lily gauge/broil give a stack that increase healing for the next spell or grant a crit heal/malefic grant a stack that the next spell is instant or whatever even with the dots could have better synergy then cast every 30s.

you really think having 1 skill to spam is good.... that it actually good for a class to spam 1 skill most of its time.... and even more so a skill that have literally 0 synergy with anything in the kit,do you really find that interesting gameplay for a class?

you have dps with skills that actually interact with each other more then simply deal damage but actually buff other skills.
and if you compare tanks that have mitigation skills to healers with healing skills then just like we use healing when needed ,tanks use mitigation skills when needed but until they need them ,they actually do a skill rotation unlike us.
healers have barely something that break that 1 button spam every once in a while and we aren't even tackling the issues AST and SCH actually have with their own systems.

[Sloprano]

After a 3 month break i decided to come back. What i want to know is how are each healer job doing right now?

Side note: i noticed that some white mage spells casting speed is a tad slower then i last remembered, it could be just me.

Welcome back. Can't rightly tell you about raid presence or how well they parse. Scholar is the same as start of 5.0: Job still heals and mitigates everything I've been to without issues so far if you're looking to heal with it. Only change is Seraph got a 2 second built-in delay before performing any actions, that might feel a bit off at first.

If you were hoping for more Lily interactions on the pet healer job or getting more dev response to the 5.0 changes I'm afraid there have been nil. Our cornerstone skills still contradict each other, Lily's scaling potency with healing is lower than ever, pet hotbar still has holes in it, Selene's skills are still MIA, Lily/Seraphs skills still sometimes goes on cooldown without being actually used, Aetherflow still only usable incombat, Arcanist skills still missing, oGCD cooldowns still heal for massive amounts, all which unfortunatley leads to Broil III/Art of War still being the most used buttons on my Scholar, both in solo and group content.

I have the opposite on Crystal. Even when it's tank in need,healer will pop instant while tanks have to wait 3-5 minutes.

Either it fluxtuates too fast for the Duty Finder to register changes or someone is pulling wool over our eyes. For the last months I've been in party with couple friends and see "Tank in need" and sign up as tank. We wait at least five minutes, I withdraw, change to healer and it pops instantly on Chaos. Would put it down to coincidence, but this is happening regurarly.

[Deceptus]

Boring, bland, and bad.

[Miziliti]

It is no mystery that the healer population went straight down hill in this expansion. Let's not kid ourselves, unpopular healers are just as bad as unpopular tanks. People are begging for healers everywhere from DF to PF.

I will say this much: In pursuit of SS tier story writing, SE has gave up almost every other aspects of the game including job designing department. Combat system and story are my bread and butter of FFXIV. Now that bread is gone, I can only enjoy so much butter before I get sick of it.

Stormblood had C tier mediocre story writing, but things were never this bad. I was still leveling alts in 4.1X and having fun.

Now Shadowbringers for me is: Oh wow story sooooooooooooooo good. The end. Game pretty much went from MMORPG to single player JRPG to me because of how suck the expansion job designs are. I'm not sugar coating anymore.

[Risvertasashi]

Stormblood had C tier mediocre story writing, but things were never this bad. I was still leveling alts in 4.1X and having fun.

They were for WHM. Maybe not for the other healers. But trying to main WHM was torture. Even when you found someone that would reluctantly take you, they'd push constantly for you to switch off to AST

[Lodi]

I distinctly recall pressing more then two buttons when I did my roulettes yesterday. But that's just me. MB that's true with WHM, but SCH at least has energy Drain and ruin II to play with and AST has its cards. And before you say "but what about stuff before that level" I'll just have to point out that's not just a healer only problem.

RDM, SMN, BLM, DNC, MCH, BRD, SAM, NIN, DRG, MNK, GNB and WAR have an equally (or more) complex damage kit at level 18 as a level 80 healer: roughly four or more damage skills.

And not a single one of them uses the same action 70% of their time.

Ain't that sad?

[Jandor]

WHM: Job feels fine to me, I'd even go as far as to say I quite like how the job is now. Give me Aero III back though plz.

SCH: feels quite a bit worse than SB, it seems stripped of so much.

AST: I couldn't honestly say, I should really level it at least a bit at some point.

[GrimGale]

I have the opposite on Crystal. Even when it's tank in need,healer will pop instant while tanks have to wait 3-5 minutes.

Yeah this happens on Chaos (EU) all the time. "Tank in need" 3-5 minutes of waiting. Then I switch to Healer and I get an insta queue while forfeiting the bonus.

I am not about to scream conspiracy from SE but... There is certainly some inacuracy regarding what role is in actual demand.