#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Aravell]

I'm not claiming the issue highlighted in the post is due to the strike or not, but at the very least, if the healer role is languishing in this dull state, you'd expect the good players to be the best to jump ship.
Which seems to be what's been happening for a while now.

Considering that the role becomes more boring as you get better at it, it's kind of obvious that the better players would jump ship eventually.

[Striker44]

"Clearable by the low end of the pool." That would be a reasonable argument if a one armed player like me required consistent healing, but I don't, I have cleared content while my healer dpsed the whole way through and didn't get to heal. Your argument hold no water in this instance because I am a bottom of the barrel tank and can still do it healerless.

Hate to say it (actually it's probably a good thing in a way), but if you've cleared content like that, you're nowhere near the actual "bottom of the barrel" in tanking. I could see it appearing that way if you compare yourself to people doing higher-level content, but when it comes to the wider playerbase...you're definitely not at the bottom!

[Ramiee]

I came into EX2 as a WHM cus my fc needed someone to heal and I needed a earrings for my Monk.
Let it be known I have never taken WHM into any hard content except two extremes in HW.

I pretty much brainlessly healed through it without even really trying, only time I thought about doing something specifically for healing was moving forward during the platform split to hit the people on the other side with my heals. Yeah this role is really really braindead.

[ForsakenRoe]

Seeing a lot more Diagnosis/Prognosis spam from SGEs recently

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Seeing a lot more Diagnosis/Prognosis spam from SGEs recently

Been leveling my dps via solo queue into DT dungeons as well. Freecure Mage? Check. Adlo Mage? Check. Benefic I Mage? Check. Prognosis Mage? Also check!

Also guess what, when they died, 7 out of 10 times, we don't even need their presence.

[Mortex]

Pretty much how a lot of things are MMO's full of people, some will encounter stuff and some won't.
Personally I haven't noticed or even heard anything about the strike ingame.
Does that mean that people aren't striking? No, I just personally haven't encountered any signs of it.

Me losing all hope in humanity having the worst of the worst healer or worst heal buddies in ex fights in more then 70 % of my runs. Feels like I’m really in the matrix trying to farm some ex primals early in the morning. And then my one healer in the 97 dungeon dying 3 times on the rotation mech and we don’t have a war for the 3 man kill.

[Mortex]

Keeping an eye on the rest of the party and anticipating needs is part of the healer gameplay. It is the most party oriented job category out there. If you don't do that part, of course it isn't going to feel like a full engagement job.

Meh either they survive and you have shit tons of ogcd and top them up instant or they die cause they get hit by two aoe at the same time then you just swift cast rezz and continue spamming 1. Raid is the same almost (fresh stuff for the first 3 runs and then sleeping again) And the hardest fights in this game are just spreadsheet mania anyway and have body checks 24/7 and almost always one tabs from mech anyway so you can’t even care either. Fun reacting as healer if some one just flops over in the most difficult fight and then a second later you just go boom.

[Mortex]

It already is, though, if you're running typical content with a typical DF group. That's where a key issue comes in - there is a significant disparity in skill across the massive size of the playerbase. "Normal" content has to be reasonably clearable by the low end of that pool. It's why a variety of increasingly more difficult content is then created on top of that "normal" level, so that players of successively higher skill have progressively harder content to engage with.

So I have to hope my entire party is dog water times 10 that I actually have a challenging time and can press more then 1 button for the entire dungeon ????? Peak design decisions if you ask me. It’s like a car having an air conditioner you can only use while you are in the desert. Maybe a vacuum cleaner that needs it to be rainy outside.

[Ryaduera]

Been leveling my dps via solo queue into DT dungeons as well. Freecure Mage? Check. Adlo Mage? Check. Benefic I Mage? Check. Prognosis Mage? Also check!

Also guess what, when they died, 7 out of 10 times, we don't even need their presence.

The first tank I leveled I had good healers, or maybe PLD sustain just didn't require as much. But leveling DRK/WAR/GNB in that order was an ordeal with the healers I had. Shoulda done DRK first honestly because not even DRK needs GCD heals but I had so many not using any oGCD heals and just fishing for freecures and spamming Adlo and Prognosis and I was baffled. They even did it when I was leveling Warrior. Warrior.

[Kes13a]

Hate to say it (actually it's probably a good thing in a way), but if you've cleared content like that, you're nowhere near the actual "bottom of the barrel" in tanking. I could see it appearing that way if you compare yourself to people doing higher-level content, but when it comes to the wider playerbase...you're definitely not at the bottom!

so what your saying the entire game has to cater to bottom of the barrel people. everyone else just has to put up with it being dull and boring or.. leave