#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Azurarok]

Technically no job "needs" more than a single button for DPS; take the average potency of an entire kit, put that onto one spammable button, and boom, you have a job capable of doing enough DPS to beat enrage.

It's boring as all hell, but if we only focused on what we "needed", you'd only get 3 jobs: a tank with a spammable attack and mitigation, a healer with a spammable attack and a heal, and a DPS that only has the spammable attack.

Thankfully the more sensible jobs have a more robust kit where that average potency is split amongst a variety of attacks that require us to think on how to unlock those attacks, when and where to use them, etc. It'd just be nice if healers were among those jobs.

Yes! It adds a layer of depth to the combat, and trying to execute your job under different circumstances is a big part of the fun. It shouldn't prevent folks from completing content, but it should serve to offer room to improve a run, especially since this game highly encourages repeating content

[Ayalu]

Well in my Datacenter as DPS you need to queue 20-30 Minuts for each Roulette because barely anyone plays something else.
The reason for that is mostly that we got two new DPS Classes (the Pictomancer does play nicely i will add) i did hear some FC Mates talk about the Healer Strike and those were not Forum visitors.
So who knows maybe it did contributed to the Situation.

[Tunda]

When this strike page started almost 600 pages ago I was firmly in the camp of “this won’t affect the queues but hopefully the catchy name and the discourse will finally allow people to see how bad healers are”, which in a way it did. I don’t know if they will hear any of it (or if they will spend the entire expansion fixing the travesty that is BLM) but I’ve reached a point that I don’t care

PCT is so hilariously well designed compared to anything around it and I enjoy it so much that the healers can genuinely go rot in a corner at this point.

If you wanna be contrarian to the strike please you have my every blessing to make my PCT queues faster, I’ve genuinely stopped caring about the state of healers and have moved to “I hope this strike continues to generate contrarians that will fill my queues so I can have fun

I said it once if you don't enjoy current healer state just play picto having fun is the most important

[Sani2341]

Well in my Datacenter as DPS you need to queue 20-30 Minuts for each Roulette because barely anyone plays something else.
The reason for that is mostly that we got two new DPS Classes (the Pictomancer does play nicely i will add) i did hear some FC Mates talk about the Healer Strike and those were not Forum visitors.
So who knows maybe it did contributed to the Situation.

More than likely, it's just another drop in the bucket. BUT we managed to make people aware that we have issues. Like you said, even non forum goers have heard of a healer strike going on.
This is probably the most we could achieve on our own. People are talking now. They might Attribute part of the queue times to us or Not, but word that many veterans no longer enjoy Healers has finally left the forums and lonely reddit Posts.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

There has been people shouting something along the line of “How’s that healer strike going now, huh? Got my quick pop.” in new zones. Ironically by saying things like that they’re inevitably assisting in our endeavor: to get our discussion points being known to common players. I never try to actively speak of the strike to most of my CWLS & just yesterday they came to ask if I know anything about the healerstrike because they recognized that I’m a healer main & they heard of it in their first trial of DT. Had a good conversation with them as I gave them the enlightenment

[Aidorouge]

There has been people shouting something along the line of “How’s that healer strike going now, huh? Got my quick pop.” in new zones.

Ah yes, I've seen some of those dorks as well, albeit in the older major cities.

Nothing a good blacklisting couldn't fix though, and being Dynamis, it might actually sting them a bit if I wasn't the only one who did that, because it probably isn't the greatest idea for them to make annoying fools of themselves on a locked down, low pop world.

[Ayalu]

Also apparently the strike is big enough that phishers use its hashtag. Of course that is bad that this is happening like all phishing is.

[Blixie]

I support this effort.

I've been following this thread from the beginning. And I have never played a game that systematically destroyed its own balance the way this one has.

I want to say thank you to the OP. You put yourself in the line of fire, knowing you would likely be targeted by the puerile and seriously disordered that appear so clearly in this thread as festering sores on the backside of the FFXIV community. I haven't posted on the forums before specifically because the privacy features in this game are/were appalling and I haven't been willing to risk being targeted myself.

And thank you to all the healers who kept the constructive conversation going in spite of the best efforts of all the above mentioned festerers.

To all those crowing about stepping into the healer role for a day-
Get back to us in a few years and maybe we'll talk.....

[sindriiisgaming]

Today I saw 428 healers.

[Lucyfurr1988]

ast changes are the reason i no longer play healer.

im sick of the devs giving every other role the attention when they cry out for it. especially those with big content creators playing the job.

healers ahve been asking for changes for YEARS and the devs juist keep doubling down on the decisions.

the devs do not like healers that much is clear. they dont want us having fun