#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Saraide]

To nobody's surprise, new EX1 was already cleared by 8 tanks (in PF by randoms no less)

(Video is unlisted so won't share since the author did not intend it for public but its nothing special, really anybody can do the same)

Were they atleast close to enrage?

[Isala]

Fwiw, I don't think this dichotomy exists- the majority seems to want both. People want better healing content, both with more oncoming damage and more reactive healing (crit autos were an easy source of this in older XIV, but this mechanic basically vanished), but they understand that changing the encounter design in that way is both difficult and probably cannot be broadly applied to all content, so they also want more engaging dps tools. The better dps kit is super low hanging fruit, they literally need to undelete some of the 10 missing actions that healers had in HW. It's like, few hours of work and testing, most likely. The former takes more time, although I think it's a necessity to truly bring the healer support fantasy alive.

If you want an example, I mained SCH in HW, when it was at the peak of its dps complexity, and I really enjoyed keeping all the different timed dots rolling perfectly. But the peak of SCH gameplay for me was moments like, for example, in A6S pre-nerf, my team messed up the slow/stuns on the orbs in the Brawler add phase and, if you were a good scholar, using your own slows/Supervirus/Fey Illumination, you could salvage the pull and make it through that mechanic. That was peak Scholar gameplay, a combination of defensive buffs, debuffs and mitigation used tactically making it through a difficult mechanic. I still think back on those moments even more than I do on managing all the dots- I don't think the latter is enough without the former.

Bingo. XIV is the first MMO I've ever played where a healer is bored both healing, AND DPSing. Every other MMO gives us things to heal, and engaging DPS rotations when there's nothing to heal. I don't know why the current design in XIV is literally braindead, and frankly, I hate it.

[Somnolence]

Were they atleast close to enrage?

Boss killed in the middle of second Mountain Fire tankbusters, which is what, 40s before enrage? Comp was 2 of each tank jobs.

Edit: Different PF group https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ed_as_8_tanks/

[Iedarus]

Boss killed in the middle of second Mountain Fire tankbusters, which is what, 40s before enrage? Comp was 2 of each tank jobs.

Edit: Different PF group https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ed_as_8_tanks/

And in typical Redditor fashion, they mock our movement, intentionally missing the actual point of it in order to bow down to the perfect job designers.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

And in typical Redditor fashion, they mock our movement, intentionally missing the actual point of it in order to bow down to the perfect job designers.

Gotta love that these people are supporting us despite their condescension lol. Thank you for actually making healerless runs a more and more common public thing

[Silver-Strider]

Gotta love that these people are supporting us despite their condescension lol. Thank you for actually making healerless runs a more and more common public thing

And then the people just move the goalpost.

"It's just an extreme fight, wait til Savage".
"Wait til Ultimate"
"Wait for 8.0"

Rinse and repeat

[Aravell]

I'd honestly be surprised if a WAR can't solo the first floor of the normal raid at this point.

[Supersnow845]

With the ridiculous self sustain the tanks have and their rather high damage these days (an average tank is doing closer to a phys ranged damage than a healers damage) and the always easy first tier on patch clears using a third tank as replacement for the healer are going to become super common unless they hard implement role restrictions via actual true randomness

[Connor]

With the ridiculous self sustain the tanks have and their rather high damage these days (an average tank is doing closer to a phys ranged damage than a healers damage) and the always easy first tier on patch clears using a third tank as replacement for the healer are going to become super common unless they hard implement role restrictions via actual true randomness

SE: *makes role bonus 2%*

Also SE: What do you mean that didn’t fix it *shocked Pikachu face*

Edit: to elaborate slightly further I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if they made role bonus an additional 1% then honestly believe that it would just stop everyone using ‘non-standard’ comps.
Also it’s hilarious that they completely destroyed BLM (supposedly, I haven’t played it yet tbh) because it had ‘non-standard’ rotations, but they’re perfectly fine with the high viability of non-standard comps?
Like make up your minds lol, are you enforcing players to a specific ‘standard’ or are you going to allow non-standard things to exist. Because right now they’re basically trying to have it both ways

[Silver-Strider]

I'd honestly be surprised if a WAR can't solo the first floor of the normal raid at this point.

You mean WAR won't be able to solo every floor? Outrageous, plz buff

/s