#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Galvuu]

I'm reiterating this for like the tenth time, but people are always free to queue up as healer. Hells, in most content it's trivial to play, so I guarantee you that if you have any modicum of experience in modern FF XIV you can make it work effortlessly.
It will even help you, in a way- if the healer shortage is that severe, the queue will pop instantly!
Unless... there is some number of reasons why people don't want to do it themselves, and would prefer if the usual group sacrifices themselves by queuing as healer as usual :>

[Connor]

Yeah, fair enough. I guess I'd just rather not make life harder for others because I'm unable to accept something. Healing isn't the best but it doesn't stop me playing with friends or enjoying the story. So I have no desire to participate in a strike that, if it gains enough traction, would cause chaos and probably create issues in other fields for the rest of the expansion. But I guess others don't see it that way.

I said before but I won’t ’participate’ in the strike myself either, if not just because I tend to queue as Scholar out of habit more than anything else lol. At the same time though, I completely understand why people feel like that it’s the only choice we have left. If things were fine before this expansion I’d totally be on the ‘at least wait until it’s out’ side of things. But sadly given how history has repeated itself, it’s hard for anyone who experienced it to imagine things going differently without taking radical action.

Basically, I don’t think the idea is to make out that people who don’t participate are somehow ‘guilty’ of perpetuating the type of game design. Personally I think the current state of healers is fine. It’s not bad but I don’t find it ‘unplayable’ either. And I think it was the devs that done that rather than any player lol. And there isn’t anything wrong with saying ‘I enjoy healing the way it is currently’ and continuing regardless. Nobody wants to advocate for things to be taken away, they just want to be able to use the things they do have. I think lol

[mackhax0r]

This is beyond frustrating, and I'm in!

It's already boring in dungeons where the tank is a Warrior, I can pretty much do no healing and the warrior can self sustain. I guess this statement is a complete lie:
"Producer Naoki Yoshida wants to make Final Fantasy 14 more challenging for players in future updates, admitting to making the game too stress-free."

I guess that is a lie.

[Gember]

Zepla made a video of the strike. (I am still watching it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_-J2AMh0U

[Loggos]

Zepla made a video of the strike. (I am still watching it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_-J2AMh0U

Thank you! I haven't watched everything yet but so far she seems to agree with the core problems regarding the state of healers and made some very good points. Not sure if she's fully on board with the idea of a strike but she understands people's frustrations.

She actually said that she explicitly wanted to cover this topic/thread because she knows the devs watch streams and hopes that Yoshi sees this.

So no matter her stance regarding the details she actively wanted to give visibility to the healer issue and I think that's great.

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

If it gains enough traction, would cause chaos and probably create issues in other fields for the rest of the expansion. But I guess others don't see it that way.

How exactly does a, say, 20 minute DPS queue cause chaos?

That's all we're doing, people keep saying that but is it just the big bad "strike" label? We're not DDoSing servers here, we're just playing other jobs.

[prinny25]

Even though I'm a tank main I'm throwing my support in for the strike

[Fukuro]

When I play DPS I get to use my whole kit no matter the difficulty of the content. As healer the better you get, the less you use your skills. This is straight up bad design and I'm wondering how it is lasting so long. I don't think people want to get the content much more difficult for healers, just make it so that you actually need to press stuff. Wether it is heals, buffs ect.

[QuviSae]

I'm absolutely joining this because not only is the ignoring our feedback in of itself unacceptable, but the changes in DT are....horrid. Seeing these comments really shows how non-healer players thing/feedback has effected us too. I wasn't a fan with the astro changes going into shadowbringers, but I stomached them because the job still seemed fun and did what I liked, which was SUPPORTING. Unfortunately, the last bit of Astrologian's identity has been wiped going into dawntrail. The randomness didn't feel the best, but the problem with that was the seal/astrodyne/old div system didn't feel good for randomness. Not only that but the only other big problem with astro I specifically had was it's double weave/constant clicking opener, yes yes, I know, skill issue and the such, but it didn't feel good. These cards are just (mostly) our existing skills? Like these would have been nice.....pre-endwalker maybe, before exaltation/intersection but they're just...pointless now, at least with the DPS cards I felt like I was SUPPORTING my DPS players.

I always go into an expansion playing AST, but for this one, I've made the extremely hard choice not to, not out of malice, but out of my love for the job and wanting to see it be better and fun again. As constant others have said, stormblood astro was best. I understand TP is gone, but there's tons of ideas for other effects. We're losing the beautiful animations of draw and redraw too. I sure love getting....just a burst-nuke, an aspected helios upgrade, and a.....aoe 10% mit, you know, that thing the ranged DPS get in early levels!

I hope my own, and our gathered efforts for them to notice our reactions to this will pay off in the end. Like I said, I want Astrologian to be what it once was, at least....some semblance of that.

This is not my beautiful home, this not my beautiful wife.

[XiaoShengwu]

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