Hello Yoshi-P

[Katoar]

There is nothing shameful in admitting that you are not very knowledgeable of how healers play out in Final Fantasy XIV. Once you do I would like to suggest that you turn to real players and dedicated healer mains who have spent hundreds of hours playing a role you barely know for feedback and directions.

We know you have a vision of how you wish or would have liked the healer's gameplay to be. However, the structure of the game does not support in any way that vision. A void is created for those who want to master healing jobs, caused by the incoherence and incompatibility between the vision for the healing role and in-game expectations.

As time passes it grows. Its influence expands as it starts affecting other jobs aside from healers. At its centre lies the fervent desire to make the game perfectly organised which is achieved by making everything simple, easy, straightforward, predictable, scripted and the same. That desire, once beneficial to the game and its world, now exists to its detriment.

[GoatOfWar]

Just stop playing healer if the 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 gameplay isn't engaging enough. They already know about our complaints. Evidently, they aren't changing anything. They just don't care because you're still playing.

[glamazon]

This is the best answer. Everyone should just not play healers. Don’t do roulettes use party finder. Go tank or dps

[GoatOfWar]

This is the best answer. Everyone should just not play healers. Don’t do roulettes use party finder. Go tank or dps

This is the only way we're ever going to see any meaningful changes. Our complaints are dismissed, and they're refusing to improve the situation. I wish everyone else would just stop playing healer too because frankly, the 1 button gameplay is just inexcusable. Just start playing dps and tank. The devs will have to deal with queue times then. If nobody is healing they will be forced to make it more appealing.

[george357]

so many angry demanding memes wanting attenion and calling people names if they don't get what they want

[Dionysius]

Play Savage/Ultimate if you want "engaging" contents for healers.

[AnotherPerson]

Play Savage/Ultimate if you want "engaging" contents for healers.

That's probably the biggest issue people have with healers currently - healers have already disproven that "engagement" improves at higher-end gameplay. Savage and Ultimate healer gameplay is pretty much the same as regular normal gameplay. You just spam 2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 nonstop because everything is scripted. The healing engagement doesn't exist because all jobs and roles contribute to reducing lethal damage - not healers. At high end fights, healers just do a bit of healing every 30+ seconds. High-end fights are only mechanically difficult compared to their normal counterparts - but that goes for all roles and jobs. Every DPS and Tank has to deal with mechanics as well, but they also get a nice DPS rotation in their downtime. Healers just have nothing in the vast majority of the time they wait for more damage other than 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1, which means turn brain off for a large portion of the fight. Not very engaging, mind you.

[Katoar]

Play Savage/Ultimate if you want "engaging" contents for healers.

I now know better and I am aware that Ultimates do not offer an interesting healing experience. Although I have not cleared one, I have proggred Ucob for two or three instances. Gameplaywise the most difficult thing is coping with buggy mechanics, unlucky server ticks and mechs interrupting Dosis casts. Ultimates are a spectacular time sink. Their greatest challenge is finding 7 other people to waste time with. It is actually very poorly designed content and the play rate stands as proof.

As for Savage, there are countless clears done with no healers so it's irrational to think that being irrelevant can somehow be engaging. Week 1 healing is a farce. I did week 1 with PF for Asphodelos with 0 Piety and was still able to heal when needed, rezz and recover from mistakes whenever possible. If we wiped it was never because I was out of mana.

As of now, I am playing different games, not MMORPGs, to get a sense of thrill and excitement, free of idiocy and degenerative elements. I happened to witness the severity of Yoshida's lack of understanding of healing jobs in FFXIV and so I felt compelled to speak.

[GoatOfWar]

Play Savage/Ultimate if you want "engaging" contents for healers.

What about the other 99.9% of content?

[SenzorialBoundries]

Play Savage/Ultimate if you want "engaging" contents for healers.

savage is not different its the same 111111111111111. you have like 3 gcd heals cast per fight.