#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Lyndina]

God i'm so tired of healing...cant even force myself to do the daily expert because its so boring spamming the same 3 dmg buttons. Sucks the lfun out of the game completly. Yeah...im gonna join you guys. Not gonna play healer again until they change it. Maybe even change to wow because there i have something to heal, once my sub expires.

[Allegor]

is that in FF14? havent noticed that actually.

I havent noticed anything that actually "super needed" healing, so... you talking about a different game? if so.. which one? I am interested

As a casual, the single fight that actually got me to constantly heal is the very last phase of M4, and I'm sure even that will become way easier as the average ilvl scales.

[Connor]

As a casual, the single fight that actually got me to constantly heal is the very last phase of M4, and I'm sure even that will become way easier as the average ilvl scales.

Even sadder, I’ve noticed with gear improving it’s becoming more and more common to skip that phase entirely (by killing her before she has a chance lol). On the one hand I guess it’s nice to have an ‘extra reward’ for higher dps (phase skipping), but on the other hand there are so extremely few mechanics that actually make the healer have to do anything, so it’s pretty sad that it’s so frequently subverted by simply ‘hitting her harder’

[TBerry]

Aside from the mitigation checks being higher out the gate and tanks taking a lot of auto-attack damage during certain mechanics, it still feels like business as usual where once you've memorized the optimal timing for CDs you're going to need little to no GCD healing to keep people alive.

You mean you *GASP* did content often enough and learned from it?

[Supersnow845]

You mean you *GASP* did content often enough and learned from it?

Because being rewarded for getting closer to an optimal run by getting to spam broil more is such a fantastic design

Did anyone stop to consider the “optimal run” should still include 40 succors, 30 adlo’s and 8 damage options you are playing around with

What’s the incentive to improve when you are rewarded with worse gameplay, the funny coloured number isn’t worth grinding from 220 broils out of 240 to 225 broils out of 240

[TBerry]

Optimized gameplay is never "fun", it's just there to do the job.

[Kacho_Nacho]

You mean you *GASP* did content often enough and learned from it?

You should be rewarded for learning the content.

Optimized gameplay is never "fun", it's just there to do the job.

The thing is, optimized gameplay should be fun. Having it be "there just to do the job" is a failing in design by the game developers.

BTW, I love your signature. It made me laugh.

[Tigore]

I mean, I get the point that an activity logically gets easier when we master it and get good with it. However, when we are saying an important part of gameplay is never fun... We are kind of forgetting the whole point to playing a game.

I could even use FF9 as an example. Players have found using Zidane, Freya and Quina can be broken due to them having moves that can completely ignore defense with 9999 damage. You just need to grind using Steal / Mug, catching frogs and killing dragons to make them good. Quina is broken for a second reason, but that starts to get into more major spoiler turf on the final boss. Although despite this, I still use Garnet and Eiko summons and Amarant keeps their mana up easily with Trance Chakra. I think Vivi and Steiner can work too using dark absorb gear to change the Doomsday recoil damage into healing. Have to test that out if the game gives the gear to do that for all 4 party members.

The reason for these choices? Because it's fun to burn the enemies with laser beams, meteors and judgment rays. As long as the animations and sound effects have a strong impact. The ones using Freya and Quina for level 1 runs have fun too since it tests how well they can use equipment stats and the virus debuff to their advantage.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I mean, I get the point that an activity logically gets easier when we master it and get good with it. However, when we are saying an important part of gameplay is never fun... We are kind of forgetting the whole point to playing a game.

I could even use FF9 as an example. Players have found using Zidane, Freya and Quina can be broken due to them having moves that can completely ignore defense with 9999 damage. You just need to grind using Steal / Mug, catching frogs and killing dragons to make them good. Quina is broken for a second reason, but that starts to get into more major spoiler turf on the final boss. Although despite this, I still use Garnet and Eiko summons and Amarant keeps their mana up easily with Trance Chakra. I think Vivi and Steiner can work too using dark absorb gear to change the Doomsday recoil damage into healing. Have to test that out if the game gives the gear to do that for all 4 party members.

The reason for these choices? Because it's fun to burn the enemies with laser beams, meteors and judgment rays. As long as the animations and sound effects have a strong impact. The ones using Freya and Quina for level 1 runs have fun too since it tests how well they can use equipment stats and the virus debuff to their advantage.

Well said! The FFXIV is a game. Players should enjoy every aspect of gameplay. At this point, many healers aren't. They aren't even enjoying the majority of our gameplay because most of it is pushing one button repeatedly.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Strange how when you optimize the hell out of Profane/Aetherweaver WHM (or any healers in there, really) in BSF it can be rewarding, fun, or both of them sometimes.

Hmmmmm :P