A summary of healer issues

[lisaa]

If healer design is so awful why is WHM consistenly the most popular job? This forum is an echo chamber while everyone else is just playing the game. And holy magic is so much prettier than dirty geomancer magic. We are white mage not green and brown mage

[Sebazy]

If healer design is so awful why is WHM consistenly the most popular job? This forum is an echo chamber while everyone else is just playing the game. And holy magic is so much prettier than dirty geomancer magic. We are white mage not green and brown mage

I'd argue it's popular for a couple of reasons:

It's the only healer route that's open from your first login without jumping through a few hoops first.

It's arguably one of the most iconic FF jobs ever.

It has the least emphasis on cooldowns relative to AST and SCH, therefore it's easier to play at a very basic level vs the others currently.

Lastly and perhaps most importantly, all 3 healer jobs are as badly designed as each other

Writing all of this off because you think it's an echo chamber is a truly shitty outlook though. Should I start writing everything you say off as some mindless white knight? No, because that's shallow, petty and doesn't achieve a thing.

[lisaa]

Then why are SCH and AST more popular than BLM and SMN, even though BLM and SMN can be accessed at lv 1, are arguably the most iconic jobs in final fantasy, and for BLM easy to play at a basic level. I guess this means all 3 caster jobs are as badly designed as each other?

[Sebazy]

Then why are SCH and AST more popular than BLM and SMN, even though BLM and SMN can be accessed at lv 1, are arguably the most iconic jobs in final fantasy, and for BLM easy to play at a basic level. I guess this means all 3 caster jobs are as badly designed as each other?

Care to read the rest of my response?

It's arguably one of the most iconic FF jobs ever.

It has the least emphasis on cooldowns relative to AST and SCH, therefore it's easier to play at a very basic level vs the others currently.

I’ve always been of the impression that RDM is far easier to play relative to the other casters at the current level cap. Same for Dancer.

Do you actually want a discussion on this topic or do you just want a sarcastic mudslinging contest today? I’m happy to go with either tbh

[lisaa]

I honestly don't understand what is wrong with what I said.

Are you saying they are not iconic? When I think of FF I think of White and Black mage, or summoning shiva or ifrit or bahamut

BLM has the least emphasis on cooldowns compared to RDM and SMN and any other dps, and its basic rotation of B3 B4 F3 F4--- is very easy to understand and execute. It's ogcds can be used whenever you have weave spots and don't affect your rotation at all. You don't even need to worry about what skills you put under leylines because it is a speed rather than damage buff. The only thing you can say that is hard is that it requires to not move, but so does WHM. I love this job because of how simple and easy it is

RDM has several cooldowns that you need to think about, for example having a melee portion, manafication needs to consider how much mana you have and putting you into melee combo, or displacement/corps-a-corps considering your positioning. It's much more complicated than BLM