A summary of healer issues

[Reiryuu]

Out of curiosity, how is everyone feeling about some of the extra healing the tanks are getting? I'm not sure how I feel about it, personally. My initial reaction though is... why need healers?

[Melorie]

Out of curiosity, how is everyone feeling about some of the extra healing the tanks are getting? I'm not sure how I feel about it, personally. My initial reaction though is... why need healers?

When I looked the paladin toolkit (the only tank i've looked tbh) I was really surprised to see such amount of healing. Seems over-the-top to me, unless they really push the damage (which... historically we know that it doesn't usually happen). I can maybe see more 8man content being made with just one healer.

[KDSilver]

Out of curiosity, how is everyone feeling about some of the extra healing the tanks are getting? I'm not sure how I feel about it, personally. My initial reaction though is... why need healers?

If nothing justify so much healing from others jobs than healers, I feel bad for it.
It it's meant to compensate for higher damage taken, it could be okay tier I guess ? (that still something we won't be healing which is the contrary of what we've been asking).
But I won't hope too much from that theory.

[Calysto]

Some posts I made recently agregated into an idea (that's probably already been posted at some point in some form, but whatever)

Job Trait : quickened <whatever> : reduce the cast time of some 90s/120s ability.

That effect is almost unnoticeable by other players : no pressure.

And now my genius idea to proc it that so everyone is happy : Just base it on MP spent.
-Spam glare : bonus
-Spam cure I (because you hate dpsing) : bonus
-Watch Netflix : who notice if you don't shave a bit of your CD ?

No skill floor change ; reward always casting (even if not optimally, but whatever)
It doesn't fix the glarespam issue, but It just feels a little bit rewarding for every cast you make.

[Sunhwapark]

My main issue is that they keep scapegoating casual players to justify speedrunning how fast they can make the average skill ceiling collapse into the floor.

[Deceptus]

Out of curiosity, how is everyone feeling about some of the extra healing the tanks are getting? I'm not sure how I feel about it, personally. My initial reaction though is... why need healers?

To me it just shows the developers have no idea what they're doing with jobs because Tanks used to have good healing (Steel Cyclone, Abyssal Drain). Then it got removed in ShadowBringers, only for it to come back in Endwalker.

It's like they don't understand that people have memories and can remember this stuff and speak up.

[Absurdity]

It's like they don't understand that people have memories and can remember this stuff and speak up.

Maybe they just secretly hoped for everyone with a functioning memory to have left the game at this point lol.

For the most part think healers are alright, there is at least a sence of variety with them, not as overly homogenized as tanks are, Whm pure healer, Ast atk buff support, Sch def buff support, and Sge dps healer. It still blows my mind that player subject themselves to just 1 job, but that just my opinion... Anyway from various interviews with Yoshi P it would seem like they are planning to continue the increase in healing mechanics, might just be why tanks got a whole lot if self healing?

I don't know in what world you're living where the actual healer gameplay has any variety between those jobs, but it sure as hell ain't the one I'm living in.