Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Ivtrix]

It's your opinion that people aren't playing healer because they are bored of it. I countered with my opinion. Nobody has provided any studies or anything like that. There are no numbers, just conjecture.

Citation needed

[RobynDaBank]

But that doesn’t matter to the playerbase. Many people say that FFXIV isn’t supposed to be your main game. You play the story, try the raids, then put it down for another game when it’s finished. The less content we have with each patch, the more time they have to play better games. It’s why FFXIV is still one of the most critically-acclaimed games of our time. It respects your time instead of bogging you down with stuff to do. I personally look forward to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight next week. No MMO other than FFXIV lets me focus on another MMO while on the subscriber rolls.

Just take it from the latest ads for the game:

That's... an actual ad put out by SQEX?

[Semirhage]

you won't play any other roles

Joke's on you, I swapped to maining a DPS at the end of Stormblood. And wouldn't you know it. It's so weird! Me swapping to DPS somehow, amazingly, improbably, didn't make healers any less boring.

[Midareyukki]

That's... an actual ad put out by SQEX?

Can't be. Doesn't use the official logo for the game, they wouldn't use the werewolf ears on Miqo'te, and... I don't think vanilla in-game female chests are that large but I'm not looking either way, so... uh...

looks sus

[Renalt]

Can't be. Doesn't use the official logo for the game, they wouldn't use the werewolf ears on Miqo'te, and... I don't think vanilla in-game female chests are that large but I'm not looking either way, so... uh...

looks sus

I'll sacrifice myself and look for the both of us buddy. Once I've done some serious research that may or may not take some time...I'll report back to confirm.

[Ivtrix]

Can't be. Doesn't use the official logo for the game, they wouldn't use the werewolf ears on Miqo'te, and... I don't think vanilla in-game female chests are that large but I'm not looking either way, so... uh...

looks sus

It’s 100% a modded top

Source: I know

[ThaCa]

It's kinda sad how much more fun Healers are in PvP than in PvE.

[Midareyukki]

It's kinda sad how much more fun Healers are in PvP than in PvE.

Imagine if WHM's PVP LB were an actual skill in PVE.

[Recon1o6]

eh id say sch still sucks in pvp. that aside the pvp healers are FAR superior to the pve versions

there's also a fantastic and fun healer in the regular game. its called blue mage. No ogcds here folks, you got a handful of gcd tools, limited mp and an excellent downtime kit. Oh wait it cant go into df...


Once in SHB I solo healed as a Blu for a party of blu in O11n. Didn't have strotram either so it was one hell of a challenge. It was the only time I had fun healing in the last 3 years. I quit healing in 5.1, did it in 6.0 as sage for the role quest and early savage and that was it.

Unless you are doing blu or pvp healers (again except sch) healing is miserable currently and has been miserable for the last 3 years

[Zebraoracle]

Just cleared TEA for the first time, and as a healer I can say, there's one mech in there that actually deals with healers using their heals that's fun and somewhat engaging (J Waves). Every other mech has nothing to do with healers being healers and more of just overall fight mechanics. The fight itself is pretty fun, but as a healer I spent a lot of it *spamming dosis*. Woo, I get to have fun doing mechanics but not playing my job. And for my reward I don't even get to pick a sage weapon because SE doesn't want to go back and add jobs to the Ultimate rewards for some mind boggling reason.

"But why should they go back and add rewards to old content" you might ask, to which I say okay, if it's irrelevant then why should healers have to do it to find this supposed engagement in the game?