#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[PercibelTheren]

Mostly heal? Mostly heal what exactly?

Exactly. I'd love opportunities to actually use my healing kit. Alas, the only times I get to properly have fun as a healer is when a pull is going HORRENDOUSLY wrong and my co-healer is asleep at the wheel, so I'm trying to mitigate a disaster and the game is actually putting me through my paces as a healer.

Obviously, I'm not asking for this kind of challenge in normal content (though having to press at least one button every once in a while would be nice) but from Extreme upwards, I want the game to push me and push me hard. Force me to run triage. Make me think about which healing tools I'm using and when because I will NEED to use more big heals soon.

Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. Thus, I'm asking for something, ANYTHING else to do beyond the mindless 2-1-1-1 spam.

[Equitable_Remedy]

The ostensible logic of the "strike" makes no sense.

Regardless of the "strike," if you don't enjoy playing healer, you should either play a different role or play a different game. It's a videogame, not your job, so you should always be doing what's fun for you. Thus, to the extent that the "strike" makes any sense, it only makes sense for people who enjoy healing - but then what are you even "striking?"

And what is the theory of the case for how the "strike" is supposed to accomplish anything? You succeed and make queue times for yourself and others longer, ???, healers are instantly completely reworked to be exactly what a tiny, loud minority on social media want them to be? That is not, to put it mildly, how anything works.

Lastly, the concept of a "strike" doesn't actually apply to not playing certain classes in a videogame.

(The "strike" does make sense as a way to farm likes/karma/etc. on social media. I can't argue with that part.)

[OliviaLugria]

Not sure what you guys expected. For man years Yoshi.P and the dev team clearly stated multiple times healers are suppose to mostly heal. (Their words not mines) So if you all thought if you posted your dissatisfaction with healer design that they would say okay we will change things then you set yourselves up for disappointment. Sadly.

If we're suppose to focus on healing then make fights that are made for our kits. If you're not going to do that then give us a kit that reflects the current state of the game.

If you healed feast you were happy that all you had was a debuff dot and a filler move as dps, you barely had time for anything else.

[kosmos_heals]

Commenting as I agree with the sentiment.
I wonder if its possible for someone to clear all the savages and ultimates and both healers, say white mage and sch, never place Medica 3 or succor (wtvr the new name is) on their bar. Why make new abilities we wont press? If every savage has electric floors and crazy tank auto's I will be happy to be wrong.

[iAxX23]

never place Medica 3 or succor (wtvr the new name is) on their bar. Why make new abilities we wont press?

Bro where have you been. TOP was cleared without any healers.

https://x.com/piaobiubiu/status/1658...690433/photo/1

[Yodada]

Count me in.

#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[mallleable]

Yeah, gonna save leveling my healers for last in DT, at least just for the role quest -- if at all. Healer gameplay needs to be improved.

[Kissune]

Yeah, gonna save leveling my healers for last in DT, at least just for the role quest -- if at all. Healer gameplay needs to be improved.

If you have to, level with trusts. That way the point of the strike (to not participate in group content) remains.

[mallleable]

If you have to, level with trusts. That way the point of the strike (to not participate in group content) remains.

Will do! Also PVP, and overworld stuff like tribal quests, and daily hunt bills.

[Taranok]

So, just throwing my hat in the ring without reading most of the posts. Tanks also share the problem of having bad tanking gameplay. Both healers and tanks have been thrown into such an extreme corner in terms of encounter and class design that the devs literally haven't made a new mechanic to threaten them since stormblood, as it's hard to beat dropping the entire party to 1 HP and then killing the DPS. You literally tanked the same way in HW as you do now, just with fewer buttons then. Same with healers, only you did some GCD healing because there weren't as many oGCD heals.

This is a big ask, it will be long and expensive to fix, but the game's encounter design philosophy has to be changed in such a way as to enable more diversified healer and tanking gameplay. If WoW could manage it, FFXIV can as well.