#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Supersnow845]

The main sub isn't joining in this because you all are being so ridiculous. Healers aren't dead. They never were, and they never will be. The healer role will be just fine without you loud minority lot. The devs likely know this, because this is the exact same screeching people have before every single expansion.

Y'all are judging an entire expansion based on 1 dungeon, the very first dungeon, which is supposed to be the easiest content in the game. Y'all are absolutely ridiculous. "Yawntrail" lmao. No one has even played the game and this is already being coined. 99/100 people will think this is unfair or ridiculous.

Take a chill pill. Take a break. Do what you gotta do. But stop with this pointless doomposting.

Okay let me ask you this (and I genuinely want people who think this whole thing is stupid to answer this not people who already agree saying “they obviously have no argument”)

Are we not entitled, as consumers who have done exactly what we have always been asked to do; go on the forums and offer feedback on changes we don’t like. We have offered an absolute mountain of feedback, we have offered feedback that we believe benefits all sides of the playerbase and we have attempted on the whole to be respectful to an explanation of sorts as to why our feedback is not changing anything.

We have been ignored for nigh on 8 years at this point, not even receiving a “we appreciate the feedback but our data shows that the direction we are going in is the correct one”. We are the only role that has no flexibility in the difficulty of the different jobs, they are all too easy

What are we genuinely supposed to do? Our complaints fall on deaf ears, we lost AST with DT and people continue to tell us “if you don’t like it don’t play healer”. So we collectively decided we won’t play healer anymore and somehow that’s also the wrong thing to do

If people think this is stupid please I genuinely want to know what I should be doing instead

[Absurdity]

If people think this is stupid please I genuinely want to know what I should be doing instead

I'll tell you exactly what they want you to do, they want you to shut up and eat the slop or leave.

Because they're perfectly happy with getting served utter mediocrity, at best, from their holy grail FFXIV. If you're not happy with pretty VFX sparkles, and god forbid you see the bafflingly terrible gameplay for what it is, then you're just a hater and should disappear.

No it isn't. Check the healer thread on this forum.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/419013

So far every single post from AnnRam in here and in similar threads has been dripping with sarcasm so you're probably wasting your time, they already know.

[Asari5]

i mean... holminster is the first dungeon but its also the most jard hitting dungeon in shb. who says its not like that in DT?

now, we cant be sure about that

[Sani2341]

i mean... holminster is the first dungeon but its also the most jard hitting dungeon in shb. who says its not like that in DT?

now, we cant be sure about that

I mean we saw it be done healerless during the media Tour already, so ymmv.

[Duskane]

strike with your wallet

only way for them to care is if they lose customers and if you are gonna still be subbed while prordering DT its not gonna matter.

[Aword3213]

strike with your wallet

only way for them to care is if they lose customers and if you are gonna still be subbed while prordering DT its not gonna matter.

Maybe

But I like the idea of starting no healer party on Party Finder. It sends the message to the public.

[Gemina]

strike with your wallet

only way for them to care is if they lose customers and if you are gonna still be subbed while prordering DT its not gonna matter.

That's not a strike. That's quitting the game. The motivations behind each of these actions are different, or at least should be.

When I talk about going on a strike, I am talking exercising a power you have to refuse to accept the direction the game has gone. One of the ways that this is done is by not queuing as a healer, but instead you queue up for group content as a tank or DPS. What this does is removes one healer from the overall players queued up, and adds an additional player as one of the two other roles. If you quit the game, you forfeit this leverage.

When you quit the game, you are effectively saying you are done with FFXIV. You give up everything. Your playtime, your house if you have one, all your achievements, all the items and glamour you have accumulated including but not limited to mounts, online store items, your company chocobo, everything. This is extremely drastic, and actually points to a more personal issue that goes beyond the game. It's like burning your house down to kill a spider. Leaving the game should not be a decision driven by emotion, but rather a rational decision made because you feel you have done everything you have wanted to do, and you are ready to close the book on your adventures within the world of FFXIV, and move onto other things.

Many of us are not done with FFXIV, but we are done with healing in its current state. A lot of us have already moved onto to DPS/Tank jobs, because healing has become so mind numbingly boring to play outside of instances where many players need healer assistance due to all the mistakes they make. I am probably a DNC main now more than anything. I have absolutely fallen in love with that job. But I will always be a healer main at heart. If I no longer cared, I probably would just quit.

[Aravell]

It is the year 2024, we are not allowed to criticise anything unless we've experienced it ourselves, despite the fact that we have almost all information available already (the only thing we don't know is how hard later dungeons will hit).

All criticism is now labelled doomposting and anyone that dislikes any part of the glorious MMO FFXIV is labelled a doomer and mocked relentlessly by the greatest MMO community this side of the universe.

As we, the doomers, line up for our much deserved tongue lashing, we should all remember and recite the sacred motto.

WoW bad, XIV good.

[Aravell]

That may be true, but if the hashtag does get traction and people look up this thread, they won't find feasible information because not everyone uses the forums. I think at least linking the most common issues and multiple threads spoken about healers would do just fine.

Might be fine to just link the 170+ page "Summary of healer issues" thread. I think that one compiled and explains the issues decently well.