A summary of healer issues

[Jeeqbit]

It is clear that the dev philosophy isn't working and healers are becoming increasingly rare.

White Mage, Sage and Warrior are tied for the most popular jobs in all of FFXIV right now (although Dark Knight takes Warrior's place in raids specifically).

In high-end content, White Mage is the most popular job in all of FFXIV, more than tanks and DPS, it has been for a long time and it's not even close. So this just isn't true!

1. Lack of engaging gameplay from constant Glare/Broil/Malefic/Dosis spam. There is no skill ceiling or depth

Kinda is because a lot of healers spam their heals and shields when they can get away with doing DPS and weaving abilities instead. The belief that Scholar is meant to use Adlo every 5 seconds is prevalent among many players judging by how much I see them apply it to me. The gameplay is mostly engaging when there is a lot to heal ie. an undergeared tank or a leveling dungeon, both of which I healed recently.

-Pandaemonium 1 normal was completed SOLO by 3 of the 4 tanks https://youtu.be/fFcZCEny4x4
-Pandaemonium 1 and 2 SAVAGE was completed WITHOUT healers when current https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbvZJ-EU0U

So SE increased the amount of work for healers in Abyssos which seems to have been good.

[fulminating]

So SE increased the amount of work for healers in Abyssos which seems to have been good.

Q2: For this Savage, there seems to be a serious lack of healer participation going on. My question here to you is: Are you aware of the reason and is there something you will reflect on, and if any are there plans to address this issue (that is within the means and intention of the dev team), and if there is, may I know the plan to address the issue?

YoshiP: (Super long paused followed by a long "hmmm") Things to reflect on......things to reflect on? Well for one I did read something written on Matome (Summary) sites, something about "Green skin"※......Hmmmm? (another long pause) ...n...nothing much I can say about that... But we also experience situations where there is a serious lack of tank participation and this seems to depend on the timing and situation...(another long pause) If I have to make a comment about it, I think the reason would be because it's a high difficulty content, and there are other factors which contributed to this issue....well, this is hard to answer...I mean there's also the request we got from players that asks us to create more situations that require healers to heal, and among other things that is asked of us...(another long pause) So in this case, due to certain circumstances and certain "wall" which caused deviations (biases?) to occur, and this is definitely a thing after operating this game for a long while, but as for the state of healers right now, I think it's just an extremely......I mean this simply is due to the healer population in general as well as the population of raiders participating in this tier...but if I have to say anything on this matter what I am able to say at this point is "please give healers a try", and that's what I want to convey, since this is a game where you are allowed to handle multiple roles, and when you try playing a completely different role you'll definitely find something interesting through that experience....hmmm...well we will need to observe the situation a little more...yeah.

※ - A meme referring to "actually a DPS job in a healer skin"