A summary of healer issues

[elioaiko]

I love healers and i think this is the first time they are balanced and all 3 perform well. Good job SE. Cant join the salt train. Im having fun with them

Glad you're enjoying them. I can see the appeal of wanting balance over more enjoyable gameplay, however healing as a role has been pretty wonky for a while and people would like healers to be treated with the same love as DPS jobs instead of making them the same. Same goes for tanks.

Also your comment on the "salt" train? I would say there's a bit of people on that train so I'm guess we're just the whiners to you. Whether or not you are complacent with how healers are currently doesn't mean that people can't voice their opinions. There's a reason why there's a massive thread of why healer mains have quit.

It's actually sad that SE wanted more healers by making them "easier" when those who do get bored of the staleness of healers then move onto other roles.

Actually, it's pretty dumb that they wanted to lure in more players from other roles. DPS players will always be the majority, them actually switching to healer or tank is quite rare. They get bored and go back and I don't blame them.

What SE should've focused on was making healers more intricate and building on the foundations they set. They should have focused on the existing player base rather than try to appeal to the masses that never were interested. Healer-minded players will always gravitate to the role and SE should have capitalized on that.


So yeah, glad you're liking the current state but your negative comment is not needed.

[Side-Eye]

It's actually sad that SE wanted more healers by making them "easier" when those who do get bored of the staleness of healers then move onto other roles.

Exactly. WHM would have served as a great "entry" healer, with the other two jobs being more complex early on, and white mage picking up more finesse abilities at later levels. Squeenix trying to make ALL heal jobs easy, from early to later levels, has left a mighty big gap of BOREDOM for all three heal jobs. There is no doubt in my mind that 6.0 will introduce a new healer ... my expectation is that it will have an even easier entry threshold than WHM, and none of the jobs will see an increased skill ceiliing (they'll probably all receive more insta-heal abilities).

This game has been amazingly successful and popular.. but Square Enix is going to KILL it, if devs don't invest some time and effort into making sure healers have something to do besides heal.