Is it fun?

[SieyaM]

I see a lot of people talking about the balance of healers and how they can make them all play evenly, but I never see people asking the better question. Are they fun to play? I have been playing healer more since the queues are faster and I enjoy it well enough but it seems over the years the more we moved towards balance of the healers, and other jobs, the less fun they become. When you log in and select your character and the world is loading, are you genuinely excited to get in the world and play your job? Or are you thinking about what kind of DPS numbers the job has and if you should just change to something with better numbers? The fact the people change back and forth between jobs nearly each patch because of the numbers suggests to me that no one is really enjoying the way each job plays, most are just doing the math and playing what has the highest DPS.

[inhaledcorn]

Not really. I don't even think about what I'm doing DPS-wise since I just know I need to smash Broil most of the time and then occasionally press Ruin II if I need to weave or hit Biolysis if I need to refresh that.

[Laphicet]

No... I keep waiting for it to be fun again or for the devs to make it more fun... but no... it's not :L

And it'd take some notable changes for them to be fun, first and foremost being the devs admitting they fucked up and going against the design changes they made in the first place, which is unlikely to happen.

[Mesarthim]

If I found healing fun this expansion I wouldn't have quit healing almost entirely since 5.2

Hopefully Endwalker will remedy this, albeit I only expect slightly.

[SieyaM]

If I found healing fun this expansion I wouldn't have quit healing almost entirely since 5.2

Hopefully Endwalker will remedy this, albeit I only expect slightly.

I doubt that endwalker will do anything with healing that would make it more robust or interesting. With the focus being solely on balance and meta there is no way that they can design a class that will be engaging and fun to play, because they simply are not worried about that aspect of any job at the moment. If you can find it please share but I have not once heard the dev team talk about job design or changes as making them more fun or engaging. It is almost always about making them more balanced or making them viable in meta compositions.

[Coletergeist]

I find healing fun only when a party is struggling. Lmao

[Reimmi]

I find healing fun only when a party is struggling. Lmao

Yeah... healing would be alot more fun with this current design if fights actually required healing more frequently so we're not spending 90% of a fight pressing 2 buttons.
Either give us a interesting dps rotation or more stuff to actually heal in fights!

[Mesarthim]

That's why I'm keeping my expectations low. I just didn't take too kindly to what they did to SCH and AST (the two I bounced between the most) for Shadowbringers so I'm "hoping" Sage will at least make me tolerate the role when I feel the need.

[ItMe]

Fun is what you make of it.
I think SMN is a right mess of a job, but I still have fun playing it.
Healing? Oh yeah. I've never enjoyed it more.

[SieyaM]

Fun is what you make of it.
I think SMN is a right mess of a job, but I still have fun playing it.
Healing? Oh yeah. I've never enjoyed it more.

I noticed that you said healing and not any particular healing job, which lends to my argument that jobs themselves aren't fun to play, your just playing a numbers game with different visuals. I am not asking this to be antagonistic but can you explain what it is about healing you are enjoying?