A summary of healer issues

[Hellebore_Ghrian]

How does that even make sense? Duty Roulletes exist and will synch you down. Just because soneone reached level 90 doesn't mean they're magically protected from a sprout going through Sastasha.

They're still expanding the trust system, we can't be sure that, in the future, they won't expand it to roulette to assure roulette to proc in a acceptable period of waiting time if healers are too scarce. Although I really doubt they will.

I'm only saying if a role become too scare in the future, I'm almost certain SE will use the trust system to fix the issue.

And as Mimilu said, if sprouts don't tag to standard dungeons and go through trust instead, there won't be any need for a lvl 90 player to go into Sastasha.

Finally, what will happen if, one day, the already instant queue trust system allows you to complete a dungeon faster than with pickups?

[Recon1o6]

5 days before my sub runs out. I'm not renewing it out of disgust for the way this game is going. I gave my gil and house to my eternal bonding partner. May rng favour her upgrading to a mansion. The demolition timer being paused is something at least.

I loved this game once upon a time. But while yoshida is saying "go play ultimate" and removing Kaiten while we are experiencing a massive content draught, there's little left for me here to give a damn about because it sure as hell seems the devs dont care for long term players

anyway, enjoy the updated summary of healer issues guys. I'll be keeping an eye out in case the intern on pvp job design sneaks in astro's cards again come 6.2

[D6Damager]

Ahh, I wonder how long before the queues suffer from no one healing and they're forced to pay attention

I play on three different data centers and they all still say "tank".

[Sebazy]

I suspect a large part of this is down to how the role in need is calculated tbh.

It's not often that I actually see healer in need on expert roulette, yet my queue as a solo healer is nearly always instant. The only time it isn't? Is when healer actually is the role in need (In that case it's usually about a minute).

[Recon1o6]

Its known the role in need is still biased in favour of tanks. They added a bias but never took it off.
I've been tank in need and still took 5-10 minutes queues. Or more if its alliance roulette. Healer always gets in instantly no matter what the in need says these days though because nobody is playing healers for some reason
*eyes summary in frustration*

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Sure you see those tank icons being in need. But reality is, everytime I'm queueing as a tank (I want the tank credit achievement too!) when it is showing tank icon in need, I rarely get an instant or under 3 minute pop ups. Five to 7 minutes of waits are the more common occurrence. Then if I switch to healer, 9 out of 10 times the duty will instantly pop. Nine.out.of.ten.times.

This is not unique only to when I see my tank queue wasn't instant despite being in need. Healer queue are almost always instants, regardless of the icon shown in the adventurer in need slots. Can you still even call that a mere coincidence? Personally speaking, no. And I'm aware I'm not the only few ones that noticed this oddity.

[Nizzi]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the recent Lucky Bancho census show that at every level of the game, healers are by far the least played role? I think that would almost definitely prove that the "in need" bonus has a bias/manipulation rather than being indicative of reality. My experiences echo the same of other healers in this thread, I have to wait when I queue on tanks but healers are always instant queue for me.

[MintnHoney]

I play on three different data centers and they all still say "tank".

Meanwhile, I'm sitting in Adamantoise like:


But personal anecdotes, blah blah blah, right?
P.S.: I ended up going into PVP anyway lol

[Allegor]

They may say tank but even tanks have a 2-3 mins queue time, queue for anything as a healer and it pops before you can even close the tab

[IDontPetLalas]

Typically there may be a few minutes wait on Crystal even when it displays healer in need during peak times. Incidentally, tanks are more often in need than healers.