#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Kayokane]

Believe me when I say this: everytime I zone into daily dungeon roulettes as any healer and see that I got paired with a WAR at lv56 or higher contents, I beg to the stars to (mis)align, hoping that they'll play like an absolute dog$h!t so I got something more to do.

Alternatively, I beg that somehow I can cause a glitch to the system and allow me to change to 3rd DPS so I can be more than a "3rd worse DPS" in the party. I'm NOT needed there.

Same can be applied to PLD from lv82 and above. They DON'T need me, at all.

I've only ever seen like 4 WARs die since EW... I'm not letting it happen again, regen pre-pull, asylum when up, PoM Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Assize, refresh regen when appropriate, its the most I need usually. I've needed tetra maybe once, twice at most.

[Kes13a]

Believe me when I say this: everytime I zone into daily dungeon roulettes as any healer and see that I got paired with a WAR at lv56 or higher contents, I beg to the stars to (mis)align, hoping that they'll play like an absolute dog$h!t so I got something more to do.

Alternatively, I beg that somehow I can cause a glitch to the system and allow me to change to 3rd DPS so I can be more than a "3rd worse DPS" in the party. I'm NOT needed there.

Same can be applied to PLD from lv82 and above. They DON'T need me, at all.

best duty to get as a healer is MSQ with a warr... I get to dps when everyone is up and actually get to heal the tank.. because I dont think they have any of that yet at the equalized level of 50.

[Fukuro]

Earth, Wind and Water elements? Those are for other jobs.
WHM is all about throwing glitter until the end of time now.

Offtopic but This is what alienated me the most about the job, it underwent a complete change in its aesthetics. I know many people love the lily aesthetic but man do I miss the druid vibe it had. Will never forget about Aero III.

I was shocked when I saw the media tour and WHM didn't even get any visual changes to the filler lol

This will be especially boring to look at when you do the MSQ. All you look at are the old animations for 95% of your time through the story quests. What an epic and engaging way to reach lvl 100 I must say!

[Wildheaven182]

The main problem is damage in the game, not the class designs themselves of healers. Healers have more than enough tools they need, they just have no need to use them.
People say that struggling parties are the most exhilerating on healers because you actually get to do something, or joke that they hope people will struggle.

A fundamental problem is that nothing deals any damage in the game. Vulnerability mechanics add to this problem, because what damage *can* be done makes you take more subsequent damage. Basically, 3 strikes you're out. If you get hit with a 3rd instance of damage, while you have 2 vuln stacks, you'll usually die if you're a dps, and as a healer for sure.
This is a problem because it prevents you from adding more damage to the game because any damage is highly punishing.
So, that leaves us with a playstyle of play perfectly or die, with nothing to heal in between. It should be okay to have aoe's that may be impossible to dodge in some circumstances. Instead because vulnerability is punishing, not immensely punishing, but punishing enough, it forces you to design aoe's to be easily avoidable and have practically no damage that isn't avoidable.

[HighlanderClone]

The biggest problem with this thread, like most forum threads, is that many of the people expressing discontent disagree strongly with each other on how to resolve the situation and/or improve healing in the game. Almost everyone here is suggesting a different idea.

Like Cordyceps, the issue has burrowed so deep into the nervous system that there is no single root you can look at to plug out and declare the issue fixed. It's a whole mycelium down there.

and almost every different idea directly contradicts another person's idea

But I frankly do not see this at all. I'm not sure how you got that impression. In fact what I'm seeing is the same ideas being repeated ad nauseam.

[ty_taurus]

yet Im told healers dont want more damage? Like bruh what even is this strike. I'd be ok if ppl ask to bring back old astro cards that had variety of buffs minus TP (your and OG if you know what that is, i dont miss it) Yet asking for engaging content means increasing dungeons to be even harder.....

I do not necessarily want to do more damage; I want the damage I already do to be broken up across more pieces rather than loaded almost entirely into one spell.

Does that help clarify any confusion?

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

Offtopic but This is what alienated me the most about the job, it underwent a complete change in its aesthetics. I know many people love the lily aesthetic but man do I miss the druid vibe it had.

We're getting outside the topic of the thread but they really should add an official spell glamor system like the pet glamors. I would happily replace Glare 3 with Stone 1 and throw rocks at gods, Stone 1 gets replaced so early you're already at Stone 2 in Satasha.

[HighlanderClone]

ok so play harder content would be the answer to that.

I'm just going to keep linking this because these pictures really just answer this often repeated argument for me.

Also, picture(s) say a thousand words:

Scholar casts in top 5 speedrun, Savage, A12S/O12Sp2/E12Sp2/P12Sp2

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50th percentile Scholar, Savage, A12S/O12Sp2/E12Sp2/P12Sp2

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10th percentile Scholar, Savage, A12S/O12Sp2/E12Sp2/P12Sp2

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[Rolder50]

I'm just going to keep linking this because these pictures really just answer this often repeated argument for me.

You should add what these same charts look like in the hardest content in WoW (Good comparison since it's basically the same website, and similar gameplay)