A summary of healer issues

[elioaiko]

You think that's bad? Try even mentioning that shit on the Reddit page for 14. You'll have people arguing over f***ing semantics and telling you how wrong you are, while asking for your logs, never posting theirs, demonstrating zero understanding of healing (only knowing names because google is thing), thinking that because FFXIVMOMO said healers are fine it's all guchi.

The sheer amount of disdain for the Healer community and absolute disgraceful way they treat us will come to a full head next expansion, mark my words.

While I think he's a really good raider, I do believe people don't really have another influencer to watch healer-related content for. Most of the popular influencers are either tank or dps mains. There're some out there of course but very under the radar.

The lack of this in turn causes people to kinda of grow a mindset where if it makes raiding numbers better, then it's okay. Which is not okay personally, because at the end of the day, it's still a video game and having with your favorite job and role is top priority for me regardless of the numbers.

Unfortunately, I suppose that for example AST in its current state is balanced beautifully in a raiding sense because now their buffing mechanic is more consistent rather than straight RNG. Or maybe complacency is what we're used to since SE has never seem to fix any of the major issues.

I guess that's where a problem lies in the community. Where the gameplay and lore of a healing job is secondary to its raiding potential. And yes, while I do raid and think AST's new cards are better for numbers, I still prefer SB AST.

Why? Because the old system had way more thought put into it. Yes, RNG utility is not useful because you can't rely on it and since Balance existed, it was the only card people preferred because more dps = faster kills. I would have rather SE marry this new card system with the old one for a happy medium. Perhaps, keep Divination and remove dps cards altogether.

I do believe 6.0 will either make or break the healing community. Be it another excuse for why we can't get another healer and the white knights can defend yet another xpac of adding more healing and removing more identity for balancing them by literally having them become copies of each other more and more.

I do want to believe that they'll give us something for being neglected as we are, although their record doesn't show anything positive thus far. We'll see but my expectations are already low.