#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[…]Pesonally, I'm of the opinion that the game should slowly ramp up in difficulty while offering support for players to improve at their jobs. Not knowing the basics by 80+ is stupid. I don't mind that people want to treat FFXIV as a single player game but, even on easy mode, even most single player RPGs I've encountered required at least some level of competency to get through.

It’s a conundrum, yeah. It’s why I believe having more fail states than we currently have at the moment would’ve been healthier—by that I mean, introduce them gradually. Let players build that resilience against frustration. It’s good for them as a player in long run. Let them grow; let them learn; let them fail; let them relearn, they’ll come out better.

Lack of such resilience compounded by how watered down the jobs are made us focus incessantly i.e. over minor 1-3 dps losses because.. what else there left to focus on? Everything becomes black & white. Encounter design in return cannot account for the in-between, they just straight up become a one shotting galore.

[KitiaraIornsight]

It’s a conundrum, yeah. It’s why I believe having more fail states than we currently have at the moment would’ve been healthier—by that I mean, introduce them gradually. Let players build that resilience against frustration. It’s good for them as a player in long run. Let them grow; let them learn; let them fail; let them relearn, they’ll come out better.

Lack of such resilience compounded by how watered down the jobs are made us focus incessantly i.e. over minor 1-3 dps losses because.. what else there left to focus on? Everything becomes black & white. Encounter design in return cannot account for the in-between, they just straight up become a one shotting galore.

If encounter design is ramped up too much you will have the speed runners who queue in duty finder raging because they can't clear a dungeon in less than 10 mins with randoms. I mean its already bad enough when DPS go zooming past sprout tanks and healers in content they are literally viewing cutscenes in to pull trash mobs because they "don't want their time wasted" While I would love to see a return to the original difficulty of optional hard mode dungeons return, the dev team has made it clear that's been abandoned it seems and they are always going to ensure casual content stays casual and easy to clear.

[sindriiisgaming]

I will tell you in clear cut terms why this healer strike is a doomed failure.
I will outline 3 major reasons now

• Mentor status and Novice network
• All level 100 Achievements
• Having an easier time quing for duties

so you see regardless of how much following and support you get, the three hundred something likes is probably ALL the support that it will EVER amount to. as the majority of the player base will not be willing to sacralise these perks for a small things like this

[Supersnow845]

I will tell you in clear cut terms why this healer strike is a doomed failure.
I will outline 3 major reasons now

• Mentor status and Novice network
• All level 100 Achievements
• Having an easier time quing for duties

so you see regardless of how much following and support you get, the three hundred something likes is probably ALL the support that it will EVER amount to. as the majority of the player base will not be willing to sacralise these perks for a small things like this

You mean all these new people who currently don’t or barely play healer will flood into the healer role to fill our gaps and make my PCT queues faster

Count me in they can have the healers all to themselves

[Absurdity]

You mean all these new people who currently don’t or barely play healer will flood into the healer role to fill our gaps and make my PCT queues faster

Count me in they can have the healers all to themselves

That argument never ceases to be hilarious.

"It's never gonna work because all the DPS players will just switch to healer."

1. No they won't, that's why we're in this mess in the first place. The Shadowbringers rework to both tanks and healers was supposed to attract the eternal one-trick DPS main to those roles, it hasn't worked, it never works. They might try a healer for an hour, or do a roulette with it and then shelve it again immediately because they're just not interested in the role.

2. Even if they by some miracle do, I'm perfectly happy with them switching to healer or tank. I get to enjoy the only role that gets any good design in this game while they're stuck on the shit roles now, sure sounds like a win to me.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

That argument never ceases to be hilarious.

"It's never gonna work because all the DPS players will just switch to healer."

1. No they won't, that's why we're in this mess in the first place. The Shadowbringers rework to both tanks and healers was supposed to attract the eternal one-trick DPS main to those roles, it hasn't worked, it never works. They might try a healer for an hour, or do a roulette with it and then shelve it again immediately because they're just not interested in the role.

2. Even if they by some miracle do, I'm perfectly happy with them switching to healer or tank. I get to enjoy the only role that gets any good design in this game while they're stuck on the shit roles now, sure sounds like a win to me.

Ironically by having those non-healer to fill up the healer queues would simply help our cause

Great, go play that garbage role while we take the dps/tank's cakes. Have a taste of how horrigibly designed the role is for this game. Like it? Cool! Fill our queues then! Don't like it? Well they can add their voice and make more noises together, or wither away in silence, it doesn't matter.

It's a win/win scenario.

[Supersnow845]

Ironically by having those non-healer to fill up the healer queues would simply help our cause

Great, go play that garbage role while we take the dps/tank's cakes. Have a taste of how horrigibly designed the role is for this game. Like it? Cool! Fill our queues then! Don't like it? Well they can add their voice and make more noises together, or wither away in silence, it doesn't matter.

It's a win/win scenario.

I think you mean “don’t like it?” Go play ultimate and shut up you are an NPC to fill out queues

[Aravell]

Majority this, minority that.

Some of you honestly need to get new material.

[Vladmiere]

The chances of this being a success is basically zero. Until SE sees these changes impact the bottom line the current trajectory will be for the par. The only group of player base SE developers listen to is the Japanese portion of the player base and this does not seem to be even a concern to that aspect of the player base. Seeing posts were people are talking about healers being the new player friendly role does bother me.

[rawker]

Au contraire, the japanese players thought that the devs are listening to NA.