A summary of healer issues

[Mesarthim]

Ever since Shadowbringers I cannot on the life of me bring myself to want to touch AST beyond the bare minimum now (leveling it). Even as of 6.2 they've confirmed they still can't stop messing with it (albeit it still needs fixes, of SE's own fault).

My main healer is Sage now though it's not like it's perfect, I just have less complaints about it compared to the other ones. Back in Shadowbringers during a brief static with a friend I even showed reluctance to heal for it, so I didn't. Strange since I was more than happy to heal for a savage tier (though in Stormblood the only tier I did was delta). Healing has basically become a dungeon grinding job for me for fast queue times for tomes, when in the past it was more than that to me.

[rewd]

on one hand please no just stop the torture already, on the other i am morbidly curious on what's actually left on AST to cut out wholesale short of removing it from the game entirely

Same, honestly. I'm curious to see what they came up with but I'm definitely not looking forward to it.

[glamazon]

They need to hire a dedicated healer dev and fix all of them so we aren’t spamming one freaking button how hard is that? How can they think that’s fun? Makes no sense still.

[Beddict]

AST is going to get major changes in 6.2 and we all know what that means anyway. If you dislike it now, you will probably still dislike it in 6.2. If you like it now, my condolences. Go to the support room with SAM and NIN mains. Make room for DRGs too.

How it feels when Yoshi-P says his team is looking at another Job he deems "too busy/complicated" or whatever other bullshit excuse comes to mind at the time:

[Lyth]

The updated OP from a few days ago is extremely well written and a significant improvement. I wish that it was presented in a fresh thread, such that the new upvotes would get the revision translated. As it stands it's easily missed.

[Rolder50]

How it feels when Yoshi-P says his team is looking at another Job he deems "too busy/complicated" or whatever other bullshit excuse comes to mind at the time:

Pardon me but wheres the door for Summoner?

[QooEr]

The updated OP from a few days ago is extremely well written and a significant improvement. I wish that it was presented in a fresh thread, such that the new upvotes would get the revision translated. As it stands it's easily missed.

i think so too

[GrimGale]

Just wanted to add something to the pile, it's just a copy paste of another post.

Currently, it is very hard to feel the impact of damage buffs/debuffs. Unless you have damage tracking software, the support abilities healers use provide very little feedback. What I mean is, in terms of feel, the game doesn't change much for an AST that has just used Astrodyne or Divination, or a SCH that has just used their Chain Stratagem on an enemy. The boss will still jiggle in the same way when its hit under Chain Stratagem, or the DPS will still look like they are just hitting things normally under a card.

It's very frustrating to see those supposedly signature abilities that have flashy animations only ring for a moment and then dissapear into numerical buffs that have a barely visually perceptible effect, beyond bigger damage numbers. To be clear I am not advocating for augmenting the potency of those buffs, just for their visuals to feel impactful.

For example, imagine if under Presence of Mind or Astrodyne, your Glare/Malefic spells had their animations changed or augmented with a screenshake and some additional particles, making them "feel" empowered. Imagine if the bosses flinched much more severely (Or grunted in pain) everytime anybody landed a critical strike under Chain Stratagem. Image the AST cards creating an elemental glow on the character weapons, adding some elemental particles to their attacks when under their effect.

The idea is to make support/utility abilities "feel" like they have an impact, rather than leave healers feeling hollow everytime they support their party with buffs.

[Recon1o6]

How it feels when Yoshi-P says his team is looking at another Job he deems "too busy/complicated" or whatever other bullshit excuse comes to mind at the time:

Surely Ast should be on the second door instead?

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I agree with that but I couldn't work out where to put it

The updated OP from a few days ago is extremely well written and a significant improvement. I wish that it was presented in a fresh thread, such that the new upvotes would get the revision translated. As it stands it's easily missed.

Thanks. Though I admit I'm a bit unsure whether to put it in a new thread or not. On one hand new upvotes, on the other there's a not insignificant chance it won't get as much traction due to the massive volume of healer problems atm and given how many healers quit in EW

[Beddict]

Pardon me but wheres the door for Summoner?

It could definitely go on there, yeah.

Surely Ast should be on the second door instead?

Yeah, it could be there for the loss of the old Cards. Could chuck WHM on the EW door a second time as well since the devs apparently forgot the Job existed at the start of the expac, BRD on the ShB door for when it's support kit got gutted going into ShB, MCH could probably go on every door, SMN for the rework that made the Job braindead. Wouldn't be able to see the damn doors if I chucked everything that's happened over the years on there so I opted to keep things simple.