#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[GartredZW]

2 of 3 NA datacenters have next to no healers, and waiting ages for one in PF.

2 of 3 NA datacenters have next to no raiders in general. That's a different issue though.
I've really never noticed any instances where Healers outnumber Tanks, especially in the current raid tier. It's been mitigated a bit in recent weeks though. It feels a little more balanced than week 1. If I had to guess, it's that everyone is just gearing alt classes, and don't want to raid week 1 on Healer because of the general trend of blaming the healer for anything going wrong in prog.

[BunnyQueen]

2 of 3 NA datacenters have next to no raiders in general. That's a different issue though.
I've really never noticed any instances where Healers outnumber Tanks, especially in the current raid tier. It's been mitigated a bit in recent weeks though. It feels a little more balanced than week 1. If I had to guess, it's that everyone is just gearing alt classes, and don't want to raid week 1 on Healer because of the general trend of blaming the healer for anything going wrong in prog.

As a tank main I don't blame anyone for not wanting to heal in this game with the state it is in RN, the devs at SE are too blind to see what is wrong.

On WoW I am a healer main and it feels soooo goooooood. They fixed healing over there and are doing more adjusting to make it even better. If you wanna heal 70-90% of the time WoW is where to go. They are still trying to make it so healers gotta heal even more in all content. Blizzard is finally listening to players other then tanks.

[Aravell]

I think we just have a multi-colour river in PF nowadays.

Tank and healer players are both suffering from the dev team homogenising their role to entice people who don't even want to play a support role in the first place. There's also the physical ranged players who are suffering from being barely relevant, bringing only that 1% party buff.

[Maltothoris]

Another thing for me is that this tier really had long stretches of time where there is no significant amounts of damage that happen to the party at all. First one that comes to mind is M1S mouser 1 where no big party damage happens for about 2 minutes and its just a tb during that whoile time with some autos. Next we have m2s with I would say beat 2 being pretty light on damage as well. For M3s from the first barrous barrage when also goes into the drought til the next lariat after that is about another minute and a half. M4s then has the transition phase before the arena is discarded with the exception of the transform and knockback aoe. Then you also have Midnight and Twilight sabbaths which are pretty light on damage into the chain lightning. The only thing going for chain lightning is that the boss autos hurt but that's it. Now to be clear, all other tiers and expansions had long periods of downtime but I would say is one of the worst offenders in that regard.

[Aravell]

Another thing for me is that this tier really had long stretches of time where there is no significant amounts of damage that happen to the party at all. First one that comes to mind is M1S mouser 1 where no big party damage happens for about 2 minutes and its just a tb during that whoile time with some autos. Next we have m2s with I would say beat 2 being pretty light on damage as well. For M3s from the first barrous barrage when also goes into the drought til the next lariat after that is about another minute and a half. M4s then has the transition phase before the arena is discarded with the exception of the transform and knockback aoe. Then you also have Midnight and Twilight sabbaths which are pretty light on damage into the chain lightning. The only thing going for chain lightning is that the boss autos hurt but that's it. Now to be clear, all other tiers and expansions had long periods of downtime but I would say is one of the worst offenders in that regard.

Is it really that much worse though? I checked back on Anabaseios and we also had 20-40s of downtime where there's nothing but autos or boss is casting something.

They really could stand to make the boss cast less though. Casts that set up a mechanic don't have to be that long, in fact, just don't cast to set up mechanics, just have the assets spawn and players can just figure out that it's time for a mechanic and what mechanic it is based on what just spawned. Like Barbarous Barrage really doesn't require a castbar, just spawn the towers.

[Supersnow845]

Is it really that much worse though? I checked back on Anabaseios and we also had 20-40s of downtime where there's nothing but autos or boss is casting something.

They really could stand to make the boss cast less though. Casts that set up a mechanic don't have to be that long, in fact, just don't cast to set up mechanics, just have the assets spawn and players can just figure out that it's time for a mechanic and what mechanic it is based on what just spawned. Like Barbarous Barrage really doesn't require a castbar, just spawn the towers.

Yeah rather than a 5 second cast that then gives you a 10 second debuff just make the cast instant and give you a 15 second debuff

Bosses autos get interrupted way too often to cast something that doesn’t need to be cast

[Tigore]

I guess there is a small hope for me to want both FF14 and WoW to both succeed and keep each other in check with competition. Although I left for story reasons as well as the gear rewards extremely being lop-sided to raiding. I could of swore even the PvP players got affected by that too. So it wasn't just casuals hit by that. If they did address those few issues, I might have to pretend some of the Shadowlands stuff "didn't happen" and Sylvannas was not getting her personality dragged through the mud while also causing other characters to lose the spotlight.

If anyone is interested, Captain Grim's parody video should say it all. He borrows some of the cut scenes and injects his humor into it, but it's still not very far off from what happened. He even made a couple for FF14 since he tried the game here too. Pretty much the off part was the end. I would have to check again, but the villain had some major disagreements with outlandish solutions for how the order worked for why he got banished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP9V8Ka3sQM

[ForsakenRoe]

They should have kept Brute Bomber punching the MT even during Fusefield, instead of squatting there for a whole 45s while everyone does their Fuse detonations

edit: if Provoke didn't have a 900 year long CD, it'd be cool if there was some mechanic there where 'each time a Fuse goes off, BB gets a buff that makes his next autoattack apply Physical Vuln for 5 seconds'. That way, every time someone does their fuse, the tanks would have to tankswap, back and forth for the whole phase

[Tint]

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