Quote Originally Posted by SlickPaws View Post
You realise that most SAM mains probably don't main healers, right? Laying on the blame on SAMs for not defending you because you didn't fight hard enough is just straight cope. If you want healers to get fixed, rally all the healers to come up with *specific* reasons that their classes and the role feels bad. Come up with mathematical analysis, come up with empassioned speeches, do something that isn't simply "healing is braindead now, fix it please!" because that's not passing on any information other than the fact you're displeased.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-healer-issues Thread discussing healer issues in general, including all of that you mention. I reccomend reading through this as it goes in-depth as to the healer complaints in general as well as the dev hypocrisy on several issues.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...e-quit-healing Thread discussing why people have given up healing and their opinions on healing in general. Most giving in-depth reasoning for their choices to quit or to tolerate it.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...t-currently-is. Thread talking about bad sign comment by the director.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ouble-Standard Thread talking about the hypocrisy around healer discussion and the hypocrisy of the devs regarding healers.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-play-Ultimate Thread about the very tone-deaf answer given during the most recent QnA regarding healers, and the state of healers as is.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ealer-designer. Person talking on why we need a healer designer and discussion around such.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ogizing-for-it. Thread on someone tired of bad healer design that spread off into a debate on healer design in general (I also have a comment there that got admin deleted on trying to organize things into megathreads, lol).

And that's just off the top of my head. If you go to the healer forums and read thread by thread you'll find countless arguments, almost all of which are in-depth and back up their statements. We have been arguing like that FOR YEARS and we've gotten nothing but being forgotten and minor changes for it.

As for the other part about being rude. My friend, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Ergo, I don't care how blunt I have to be as being kind with wording for YEARS has gotten me nowhere, I will be the most obnoxious person on earth if it means actual change. Hell, I'll shout it from the rooftops if I have to, if it means more people know how shit healer gameplay is. And I do genuinely believe if we as a community got onto the devs about this shit back when it was affecting healers, we would not be in this situation right now.

I want you to understand that I hate the SAM changes as much as most others here, utterly despise them, but these could have been prevented if the community just acted earlier and stuck up for the healers back when these simplification changes were first manifesting. Should've stuck up for Dark Knight players as well, come to think of it. But the time is too late for them, I suppose. Best we can do now is rally behind this issue, and you SAM players do have my support (hell, I was a sam main ever since they gutted SMN with 6.0, thus my hatred for the changes is more than blind support). I'm just being realistic when I think it'll do little good, and when I say healers were the hint, I mean it. You all have my support with this shit, and I'll add my voice to the pile, but you should know this was preventable in the first place.