#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ThaCa]

Hopefully having a massive thread like this at least manages to land on their desks, they can't pretend that everything is just fine when a decent chunk of community has expressed their concerns over years and are finally piling it into a proper movement.

[ty_taurus]

Wait, are we elites who don't understand the needs of casual players or casual players who don't understand the importance of balance in high end content?

I keep getting mixed signals here.

[Turtledeluxe]

Saying you should unsubscribe because you are unhappy with one element of the game is like saying you should close down a restauraunt because they're bad at one dish.

I mean a better analogy would be just voluntarily refusing to go to the restauraunt but I wanted to capture how it's overkill and really kind of a stupid thing to do.

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

~ Reactions to the Manifesto Part 1 (snip)

Somehow after a little over a month of
playtime I'm now an elite, look ma! You typed a lot of words yet somehow nothing of substance

[BaconBits]

Wait, are we elites who don't understand the needs of casual players or casual players who don't understand the importance of balance in high end content?

I keep getting mixed signals here.

A real Arwing would never speak like that, clearly it's an Aparoid in disguise.

[Zaytex]

Who would've thought asking for my role to be actually needed and for my rotation to just not be glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare dia glare glare glare glare glare glare on repeat is ''elitism''

Funny how people who don't play healers are criticising us for ''disrupting'' the game for other people. It's almost like you could play healer yourself on DT release right? Oh what's that? You don't enjoy healer? Crazy, I wonder why

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

If you read the entirety of my post, split into three, you'd see that I requested the same thing here. Sage feels fulfilling because my ranged AOE DPS...

Sage doesn't even have a ranged AoE except toxicon which is practically a meme it's so useless,

AST is unique in that with Gravity, unless you meant something else?

[Arwing]

If you keep bubbling the tank and dance among the mobs a little at the same time, using Phlegma and Dyskrasia, you regain your Toxicons and unleash them on the mobs at range. Those who haven't truly mastered the art of being a Sage don't understand how it feels. It's a true rush.

It's true that only Astrologian truly rocks with its Gravity spam, but that's what sets that job apart from the others.

[PeppermintBrown]

This isn't really disruption in the first place. You're not out in the streets blocking traffic etc. You're just not healing in a video game. With no way to enforce a picket line to stop other people from coming in to heal. And if you could do that, the GMs would just crack down and suspend people for it. Even calling this a strike is giving the movement a false sense of grandeur. The addition of Viper and Picto will have a bigger, and longer lasting, impact on queue times than this 'strike' will.

[Zaytex]

Healer skill expression is also the only one out of the three main roles which is actively punishing:

Tanks: You mitigate better? Congratulations, you now get to pull more and hold aggro better, surviving TB's and feel like a big man, whilst being able to pump out more DPS via optimising your rotation as well. In EW, you can even play without a healer in a vast amount of content and feel borderline immortal in some cases, or just play WAR.

DPS: You do big numbers, and if you played something like BLM/MNK pre-DT, you were on hard mode. Who doesn't like big numbers right?

Healers: Congratulations, you heal efficiently with the least amount of GCD healing and stretch your OGCD's are far as you can? Your reward is.... 111111111113111111111

Healers really do need some type of DPS rotation, since newbies who struggle on the role are still having fun figuring out how to heal effectively, but for veterans or just good healers in general, past the very early stages of a prog for a new encounter, you are literally stuck to mashing one button. This role has the least to optimise on, I would've suggested AST for people who wanted something more on healers but even that job is getting homogenised now. 111111113111111 into an occassional OGCD unless you're in high end content prog, so fucking boring.