A summary of healer issues

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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!

Please keep in mind that content requires a specific set of roles. Of course there is no healer shortage in the clear numbers. While it can be done sometimes even without a healer, basically all people will stick to the standard roles.

More interesting would be overall clear numbers compared to active player numbers in different expansions. But that would be useless as well because there plays more into it than just that someone has to draw the short stick and play healer. The raid scene fell apart in HW for example.

I should note, for the record, I disagree a good deal of the post quoted.

What I'm trying to see is what a more general audience thinks of it. The place it was posted is a bit of an echo chamber and I'm curious what people not part of that echo chamber feel related to it.

I think healers are boring.

Spamming Glare is not fun and bosses don't do enough damage and tanks are so tanky and have so much selfheal that I barely need to heal them. But honestly after I have played BLU healer I realised: I don't actually want a healer with a complex dps rotation. I want an illusion of complexity. Maybe a second DoT like we had in ARR and HW would already be enough.

And take away the selfheals from other roles or increase the damage output of bosses accordingly.

There is no need anymore to keep the damage low so that even the worst healer imaginable can clear the content when every DD and tank has mitigation tools and heals available.