A summary of healer issues

[Recon1o6]

Its known the role in need is still biased in favour of tanks. They added a bias but never took it off.
I've been tank in need and still took 5-10 minutes queues. Or more if its alliance roulette. Healer always gets in instantly no matter what the in need says these days though because nobody is playing healers for some reason
*eyes summary in frustration*

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Sure you see those tank icons being in need. But reality is, everytime I'm queueing as a tank (I want the tank credit achievement too!) when it is showing tank icon in need, I rarely get an instant or under 3 minute pop ups. Five to 7 minutes of waits are the more common occurrence. Then if I switch to healer, 9 out of 10 times the duty will instantly pop. Nine.out.of.ten.times.

This is not unique only to when I see my tank queue wasn't instant despite being in need. Healer queue are almost always instants, regardless of the icon shown in the adventurer in need slots. Can you still even call that a mere coincidence? Personally speaking, no. And I'm aware I'm not the only few ones that noticed this oddity.

[Nizzi]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the recent Lucky Bancho census show that at every level of the game, healers are by far the least played role? I think that would almost definitely prove that the "in need" bonus has a bias/manipulation rather than being indicative of reality. My experiences echo the same of other healers in this thread, I have to wait when I queue on tanks but healers are always instant queue for me.

[Allegor]

They may say tank but even tanks have a 2-3 mins queue time, queue for anything as a healer and it pops before you can even close the tab

[IDontPetLalas]

Typically there may be a few minutes wait on Crystal even when it displays healer in need during peak times. Incidentally, tanks are more often in need than healers.

[Recon1o6]

My sub runs out in 2 days, so if folks would be kind enough to keep this thread bumped that would be grand

[currentlemon]

My sub runs out in 2 days, so if folks would be kind enough to keep this thread bumped that would be grand

Thank you for fighting the good fight. To be honest, I'd probably drop my sub as well; but since there's still one more healer I haven't tried yet (AST), I will give the game one more shot.

[Recon1o6]

Thank you for fighting the good fight. To be honest, I'd probably drop my sub as well; but since there's still one more healer I haven't tried yet (AST), I will give the game one more shot.

Its just like the others- 1 button dps but unlike the others its got a coin flip to pass the time between gcds

[QooEr]

My sub runs out in 2 days, so if folks would be kind enough to keep this thread bumped that would be grand

its kind of a thing that happens with this forum where perfectly reasonable posts get buried if you dont have something controversial to keep ghem afloat. especially after pretty much everything said has been discussed a million times.

perhaps we should thank all the trolls that actually kinda keep the healer threads alive

[rewd]

AST is going to get major changes in 6.2 and we all know what that means anyway. If you dislike it now, you will probably still dislike it in 6.2. If you like it now, my condolences. Go to the support room with SAM and NIN mains. Make room for DRGs too.