#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ToodlesElNoodles]

It’s funny how the expansion is about the leaders listening to the struggles of those under them and learning/understanding the issues - and do what they can to make them happy.

Instead of telling them to “just leave and go somewhere better”, to instead find how to improve things so people won’t have to leave or make such hard sacrifices. Yes, some may be happy with how things are, but some see how those things aren’t sustainable or better.

It’s a very disappointing disconnect to see the very team preach one thing and their actions do otherwise. It’s also disappointing in the lacking empathy of some of the posters here mocking the heal strike. If they played this expansion, they’re not paying attention to it.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The thing is, they do listen to the community... But the part they listen to is that they find a few Japanese players who are content with the gameplay essentially being in maintenance mode and think they represent everyone.

[ToodlesElNoodles]

Which is sad, because that’s literally what the antagonizing sides of the story do.

[Wasusu]

So.....is the strike happening or no?

Cause i cant really say anything fells different queue wise

[FemmeFatale]

So.....is the strike happening or no?

Cause i cant really say anything fells different queue wise

It was never happening to begin with, just a vocal minority screaming into the void.

[Kozmakis]

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.

The funny thing is.. it hasn't officially started!

If the Devs pay a little bit attention, even 10% of the entire community's focus on this, that would still, in my opinion, lead to positive change. What we need now is perseverance, because such changes would not be coming very soon - and that is a "lost art" in today's instant gratification world. But, who better than healers can persevere in difficult times, hehe

[Ramiee]

So.....is the strike happening or no?

Cause i cant really say anything fells different queue wise

It has, a bunch of Healer mains have converted to DPS.
The strike in the name was basically just a clickbait about Healers who quit the shitty role to play the fun Roles and explaining why. Have to say a lot of the healers I have got in trials are complete noobs who haven't played the role much, we had a Sage who almost exclusively GCD aoe healed instead of oGCD/Mit. Had a bit of an effect in that way at least.

[HighlanderClone]

This is expected, though, because both of the new classes are DPS. Someone earlier dug up a thread from the SB-era (the last time 2 DPS classes were introduced) showing even several months into that xpac, the DPS queues were exceptionally long. I've been consistently finding in roulettes that tank queues are instant and healer queues have minimal time (< 15 seconds). I don't really do DF content on DPS, so no info on those queues.



No, what you've (the collective "you" that has been posting, not necessarily "you" specifically) been doing for 5 years is giving your own opinion on why you personally find healing terrible for you. That's very different than proving that healers are actually in a terrible place from the perspective of the larger playerbase and game design. Some of those very same things that one person will claim makes healers "bad" is exactly what makes another person enjoy them (for example - people who want healers to have more dps abilities vs. people who want healers to focus considerably on healing and specifically don't want to be running dps rotations while playing a healer role).

Tank queues are 10 mins long lmao, and we don't have a new tank.

[AtchinBum]

On this XPAC im going for a DPS, I won't touch a healer, until the role starts to be fun again. (Main SAGE last Xpac)

[Lyth]

Expert roulette queue times on one of the highest population NA servers is currently roughly 20+ minutes with healer as the role in demand, and that's after pushing past the swarm of levelling DPS. Day 1 levelling roulette queues were in excess of one hour, again with healer in demand. This was in contrast with 5 minute baseline queues pre-expansion.

In fairness, I think the newer fight designs do add some value to good healers, but I doubt that will turn things around.