#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[XiaoShengwu]

Hot take, they should draw inspo from PvP. Give everyone strong self heals, rework all the healers to have a mostly DPS kit, and move toward freeform compositions where all the players can play whatever and it works. DRS is peak combat design.

dear gods no. Anything but this.

They applied a single pvp system to the entirety of PvP. which was the WORST decision they could've made. Frontlines, (while still entertaining at times, when there's none of the premades from the PvP discord running their BS) has suffered imo because of it. CC PvP mechanics should have stayed locked to CC. They old PvP system could've been kept. instead all they did was "frontline" their new PvP system into all forms of PvP. (pun intended)

I do not want them treating our roles like the PvP balancing system. Gods no.

[mallleable]

Hot take, they should draw inspo from PvP. Give everyone strong self heals, rework all the healers to have a mostly DPS kit, and move toward freeform compositions where all the players can play whatever and it works. DRS is peak combat design.

I mostly disagree with giving everyone else more self sustain, but I do strongly agree with using PVP job design as inspiration to elaborate healer offensive capabilities. Like let SCH buff Biolysis, and spread it with Deployment Tactics. Give AST Double Cast, and build a DPS rotation around it. It's great that they gave WHM a dash, but give it Seraph Strike! Yes, turn SGE into a green DPS.

[XiaoShengwu]

Please make sure to demolish your houses while you strike, i could use more shells

[Reinha]

I get the feeling this strike is everyone saying "design a healer that suits my specific play style" and everyone having a different play style. Some want more damage and randomized damage, some want more DPS options, some want more support options, some want to change it into a support role and add other jobs to it. In the end the problem is that there are very different wants from everyone and no matter what they choose the people that didn't get their way are going to be right back here saying the same things.

Then they can make the jobs unique while respecting their original concepts. Sage was supposed to be the dps healer so give it more dps buttons. Astrologian has support cards, so make the cards more interesting and add back the time modification and spread effects for advanced card play.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

One word for this.

Cringe.

[Connor]

One word for this.

Cringe.

Agreed, Cringe is the best way to describe current healer design

[KageTokage]

Yes, it's cringe for people to have finally hit a breaking point after their role has been repeatedly ignored after around five years of well-articulated negative feedback.

I'd say it's already succeeded at the purpose of drawing attention to a problem considering multiple media outlets and content creators have reacted to it. Whether they actually agree with it or not is irrelevant.

[Turtledeluxe]

Making every job a jack of all trades role wise is one solution to this problem, but not one I support. Since this version of FF opted to dive into jobs, I feel like they should stick to the traditional job design of FF or just make an entirely new game. FF isn't GW2, it isn't any other MMO.

[Kes13a]

Please make sure to demolish your houses while you strike, i could use more shells

still planning on playing, but nice try.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

I don't even see anyone in game going on about it.