Please buff AST

[Sebazy]

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Uh I think you're misunderstanding my point here. And meh, I'm being civil no? I've chewed you out far harder in the past, over the 3dps vs 2dps dungeons for example. It's an interesting discussion, frankly far more interesting than Lisa suggesting that ASTs are too weak at least. I don't care if it was aimed at me or not. If I see someone saying something that's clearly incorrect and I feel I have either the knowledge or examples on hand to correct them, then I'm going to do so. Discussion and debate != fighting FYI.

The example you use is meaningless, your first example above is routinely confirmed with DNA and clothing fibre analysis. As for the rest, even if you're lucky enough to not have experienced them first hand, It takes me all of 30 seconds to find a robbery, car crash and wrongful arrest on YouTube. These are things that happen often enough that they are well documented.

Whilst recorded and documented examples of 'bad behaviour' in Ffxiv aren't quite as prevalent, if you need to hand wave away the tales from DF thread, lets go to YouTube and try to find actual gameplay videos calling out healers then. First search = Ffxiv terrible healer

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkimGCu9ReY - (Gonna break the link for this one, might want to mute it if you watch it!) - Old school, the title is also a little unfair, the healer appears to have a broken or super low level weapon equipped for what it's worth with their benefic IIs healing for less than the SMNs Physics, the Nin is clearly asleep at the wheel. So this is just someone venting about what is a comically bad dungeon run all round. If the healer sorted their weapon out I imagine it would have been fine. Note that despite all the profanity, the guy isn't grumbling about the healer spamming heals. It's about the heals doing nothing and the healer having no spatial awareness to boot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzjSMEcqekI - Ohoh what's this, it's a recent video of someone calling out their co-healer over GCD heals... Except they are calling them out because they aren't GCD healing enough, oh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0nnp7m7c1Q - A self upload critique video of someone who is seemingly pretty new to healing. Bucket loads of errors top to bottom: Bad choice of stance, slow reactions, poor targeting, poor triage choices and the dps in the group weren't exactly making his life easier with chains either. Basically the wrong dungeon to be learning on the job, that boss was evil if people didn't break chains fast. But importantly to us, still no dice on finding any complaints about too much GCD healing.

Let's search for FFXIV Worst healer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrY5ghs0M4 - It's another video complaining about a healer not healing and having a fight with the tank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXDnSyx07RI - BLM pulling agro, tank and healer premade getting grouchy over it and letting the blm die then kicking.

I think at this point youtube's not going to turn up a vod of anyone chewing out a healer over using their GCD heals too much.

Let's see what google says when I search for ffxiv healer gcd healing too much

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._to_gcd_heals/ - First result is a reddit hit, and again, it's someone complaining that healers have an aversion to GCD healing, not that they are abusing them too much:

'I'm not talking about properly using oGCD heals to keep the party healthy and occasionally casting a spell or two, I'm talking about using all of them and just flat out refusing to remember Cure is a thing. It's not like they're tunnel vision-ing on their own DPS because some of them don't even! Hell, some healers just refuse to raise others unless Swiftcast is up...what.'

The responses range from 'if you died to your own mistakes, I'm not raising you without swiftcast either' to 'are you sure they aren't using afflatus?'. I don't see a single complaint about healers GCD healing too much. Next!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...white_mage_in/ - This one's a little bit more interesting, finally we get something relevant!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ge_in/jiehfiz/ This part of the thread really sums the whole thing up in a nutshell:

Healy healer states that they would rather spend their GCDs healing and doesn't understand why some others are so adverse to it.

Raidy healer responds pointing out the optimisation benefits of trying to get healing done with oGCDs first in the pov from someone who likely progs savage or may even just be habitual try hard.

Rando responder jumps in with the regular '1 GCD per raid wide isn't going to hurt' retort.

Raidy healer responds clarifying that basically GCD healing isn't bad, but it can be wasteful and inefficient.

IMHO taking in these sorts of discussions without understanding the context and actual expectations in game is what gives people like Zeastria raid anxiety. They are judging themselves to theory crafter ideals that get waved around places like here, reddit and the balance without understanding the fact that these are ideals, goals and standards to aim for rather than a level everyone expects little Timmy to be able to play to.

The TLDR of all of this is that people aren't complaining about healers that are GCD healing a bit too much. They are complaining about healers with missing/broken gear, they are complaining about healers that are afk, playing like a bot or doing meme worthy things like spamming Medica II endlessly. I can dig up threads griping about all of these things, but I can't find a single thread genuinely chewing out a healer in game that's using their GCD heals too often without it generally being rooted in something else like the healer letting them die, doing 0 DPS, failing mechanics or just being AFK.

I'm not going to sit here and say that it never happens, but I am going to say that I suspect that you're more likely to get moaned at over your choice of glamour, name or race than you are if you cast Cure II a few to many times.

In that regard, Zeastria's comment is pretty solidly untrue IMO.