A summary of healer issues

[Aravell]

I wish they’d be a bit more forthcoming with information about healers going forward. If nothing else at least to put some of these arguments to rest. Even just like, ‘we’re looking into doing X’, or ‘we may look into Y’ or the like.

There’s likely around 10-11 months before Dawntrail releases and the silence is already deafening…

Will Astrologian keep its cards? Will Scholar get more DoTs? Will White Mage get..anything? We’ll never know because we’ll all be skeletons by the time they announce anything

Edit: I know there’s the whole ‘people complaining before trying it’ thing they’re worried about but people are kinda gonna do that anyway. Isn’t it human nature for people to make snap judgements?

If I recall correctly, they were very sour about people pushing back against Stormblood lilies before the expansion even launched. But I think it was a bit later that they completely removed any job updates until the patch notes comes out.

From what I remember though, the pushback was often warranted, some of the decisions they make just either don't fit with how the job is played or fundamentally breaks the job. Every healer (except SGE, because it's new) has been affected by this problem.

WHM's SB lilies weren't usable in the way the job is played.
SCH's ED removal in ShB fundamentally broke the job and turned it into an overheal bot.
AST had ShB launch Sleeve Draw, that was actually unplayable on controller.

Honestly, I don't think the AST rework will do well, we all already know that their current design choice for healers isn't going to pan out well, but they've shown no indication of knowing anything is wrong or even acknowledging the growing discontent towards healers from even the JP side. It's becoming increasingly obvious that they just don't know what to do with healers, also shown by how they keep giving every other role more and more healing and mitigation while designing fights that do less and less damage.