Healers

[KyahAlmasy]

I'll heal if there's *literally* nothing else to do, and if I have time for it, but I can say that I'm certainly not going to make it a priority to dps as much as heal. How much time I spend doing either depends on my group, and their performance, and the moment I know that I won't need that exact moment to throw a heal to save another player, I'll dedicate to damage.

The problem with this attitude is that players expect the healers to do decent dps even if the group itself is struggling, which makes very little if any sense. if people in the party are taking damage, even if that damage is avoidable, the healer is going to have to commit their cds to keeping them alive over getting dps in, and that's just how the cookie crumbles.

[Anhra]

This.

Joking aside - and forgetting the basic troll post - when will we be taken seriously?

I'm bored. I love the healer principle in FFXIV. The mapping, the "you have to plan ahead and know the strategy" part.
But overall, and despite my little experience on this game (came when Shb was out), 60% of the time I spam a key. Two when I have to refresh my dot. Even sage, which is a dps based job according to the description given, has only one main button for dps.

Give us more mechanics to deal with. Please. Most people will always choose dps anyway.

Sages Job description is nothing more than Quality Bait at its finest. It is still the same generic Healer as the rest are, with the exception of having 1 (!!!) more Dps Button than the other Healers.

Healers are faulty by design and dont fit into their Game enviroment, theyre bloated with a silly amount of raw healing and dps abilities and even if you cut away half the number of the former, all it would take is some small potency adjustments and noone would notice anything amiss.

I for my part, gave up on Healing entirely, once i have them all on lv90, i wont bother using them ever again until they get a full scale rework. And THAT, providing we keep Squeenix typical schedule in mind, will ONLY be possible on a future expansion release that will NOT feature both a new race, as well as a new Job, provided they even care and want to.

[SomeRandomHuman]

If I can't do some damage as a healer, then the rest of the group is doing things wrong.

It's rare for me to enter healer-panic mode, but oh boy is it deathly easy for me to not-so-quietly rage to myself in various obscenities about the underperformance of the rest of the party.

Nothing will ever solidify my borderline nihilistic rage as a healer more than having a co-healer scream at me for not casting esuna on them to cure their doom status. Yes, this actually happened in Dun Scaith. Said co-healer also tried to tell me I didn't know to play healers afterwards.

[Maxilor]

9 Pages? Come on people they weren't even trying.

I bet I can post a thread titled: 'DPS are forcing Tanks to big pull and it's toxic' and give a fake terrible argument and it would be 10 pages long of nonsense.

[Saraide]

9 Pages? Come on people they weren't even trying.

I bet I can post a thread titled: 'DPS are forcing Tanks to big pull and it's toxic' and give a fake terrible argument and it would be 10 pages long of nonsense.

I am pretty sure I have seen more than one thread exactly like that. Posted in them even.

[Kacho_Nacho]

It took me a sec to figure out why there were so many smilies in the original post.

[Jybril]

Healing is getting dull for me tbh. I heal in every MMO and game I can but XIV's current state of healing is: BORING.

Just revamp it so we can DPS more than we heal I guess. You already have every Tank with sustain save for Depressed Knight who got nothing. I'm finally tired of "Healing potency up by %" or "This skill now has a regen!" when you have 3 skills all having the same effect. We now have button bloat because of it.

I think it's now time for them to add more DPS options for every healer and stop adding the same, boring skill under a new skin
every expansion. SCH already took a hit because they admitted to not knowing what to do with it...(since they gave everything to SGE and SCH needs a rework imo but I digress kinda.) So yeah lol.