Why I stopped Healing (A casual perspective)

[Inidra]

Imagine having build up a major bad guy over soooo many years, imagine the Expension, where you can fight that bad guy...Call him Zodiark...Zenos...what ever you want to call him.

Now imagine the epic sequences and dialogue that took place and then fiiiinaallly the fight begins and you....you only press one button? Well that's not fun and immersion breaking at all right? *Insert sarcasm* It's the power fantasy we all wanted right? Being so op that i can spam one spell and the occasional heal to defeat the first primal god ever to exist.

On a more serious note however. As someone who only plays the story, rps and only grinds dungeons, if the loot will fit my character for rp. Having only 1 actual dps button, combined with the obvious, but understandable focus on the main character being a meele class in the cutscenes, where it kinda always felt off, facing a guy with a giant demonic energy surging sword with a fat book (the metal cover of the book will hurt sure). That was always a minus in terms of immersion, but an understandable one, because of scope. Adding 1 a one button dps rotation however, made it unbearably boring for me and I would say for many people who leveled through the Endwalker story as a healer.

I thought I should write this, since the only things that I see is people complaining about, is in terms of dungeons/raids, which for me and probably some others are not all that important.

[Nizzi]

Definitely a valuable perspective. Healers are incredibly unfun in the MSQ solo duties as well and it feels like nobody at SE has thought of this as the game moves towards a more "solo play" focus. I played through all of EW on SCH, and the final solo duty at the end of the story made me laugh with how awful it felt. It wasn't hype, it wasn't satisfying; all I could think about was how much fun it would've been if I was playing a job that wasn't spamming their 1 spell over and over. Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil at what was supposed to be the climax of a 10 year long story arc.

[Alpheus]

Definitely a valuable perspective. Healers are incredibly unfun in the MSQ solo duties as well and it feels like nobody at SE has thought of this as the game moves towards a more "solo play" focus. I played through all of EW on SCH, and the final solo duty at the end of the story made me laugh with how awful it felt. It wasn't hype, it wasn't satisfying; all I could think about was how much fun it would've been if I was playing a job that wasn't spamming their 1 spell over and over. Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil at what was supposed to be the climax of a 10 year long story arc.

That's exactly why i went through EW as SCH and SMN for all solo duty fights

[Deceptus]

That's exactly why i went through EW as SCH and SMN for all solo duty fights

I learned this last expansion and did the same for Endwalker.

First job to 90 was SMN/SCH. SMN for the MSQ, SCH for when I needed a quick queue into a dungeon.

[Alpheus]

I learned this last expansion and did the same for Endwalker.

First job to 90 was SMN/SCH. SMN for the MSQ, SCH for when I needed a quick queue into a dungeon.

I just wanted to end the first arc on SCH same as I began back in ARR, and because of the Roe SCH in the lore that has ties to Sharlayan as mentioned in the lore for the ARR SCH relic The Last Resort more than anything. I'd have done it all on SCH if the solo fights on healer wouldn't have been so dull as I correctly assumed.

[shade62]

If Yoshi-P and/or his team were to take anything from these forums, I think this should be up near the top. Playing Healers in the MSQ--the easiest, most integral content to the game--is probably the worst experience I've had in this game. The absolute displeasure and boredom I feel spamming the singular damage button every new expansion is simply awful.

[Tint]

Throwing rocks never got old for me. But this Glare stuff? Booring. Also I liked the old casting animation of WHM a lot more. Why do I now have to do a pirouette every 2 seconds? :x

If the visuals were at least better with this 1 button spam...

[GoatOfWar]

Welcome to the club. Headbutting 1 button over and over untill the boss dies isn't fun.

[Derio]

Playing healer through MSQ? You might have more fun by having your chocobo with you and them getting close to dying a few times or you might have more fun watching paint dry.

[Mithron]

Making more complex healer damage rotations is arguably the #1 priority and issue in this game currently in my opinion. Until healers either actually have to heal more in majority of content or have more complex DPS rotations, it's going to be a role that very few want to do very often.