#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Aravell]

It's tiring, and this strike is honestly a long time coming, I'm surprised it didn't happen mid-late ShB. I just want old SCH back; a handful of DoTs and Bane, is that really so much to ask?

I think it didn't happen in ShB because the dev team was still very communicative at the time and haven't totally destroyed any jobs yet, the healer role and MCH were their first victims.

People still had trust and were willing to wait and see the developers rebuild from a new foundation.

They managed to lose a lot of that trust in EW so DT was simply the breaking point for a lot of people while others broke during EW.

[Kacho_Nacho]

You guys did it. Zelpa is talking about it which Yoshi-P watches her videos. We will see what happens.

I saw that. Here's a link to Zepla's video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_-J2AMh0U
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[Aword3213]

Schrödinger's healer strike:
Before DT launches, healer strike is
simultaneously

A) a disruptive event that impacts the player base and may incite chaos

B) a futile attempt that has absolutely zero impact on Duty Finder queues because the vast majority of people are more than happy to pick up the healer mantle and take our place.

[Local_Custard]

Schrödinger's healer strike:
Before DT launches, healer strike is
simultaneously

A) a disruptive event that impacts the player base and may incite chaos

B) a futile attempt that has absolutely zero impact on Duty Finder queues because the vast majority of people are more than happy to pick up the healer mantle and take our place.

when they look at it it is useless when they look away it is disruptive

[Aravell]

Schrödinger's healer strike:
Before DT launches, healer strike is
simultaneously

A) a disruptive event that impacts the player base and may incite chaos

B) a futile attempt that has absolutely zero impact on Duty Finder queues because the vast majority of people are more than happy to pick up the healer mantle and take our place.

It's pointless when they have normal queue times, it's disruptive when their queue time is 1 minute longer than usual.

The strike is very flexible in that way.

[Rosenoire]

On the subject of tanking, I remember when EW launched, I did the Warrior nonsense and solo'd Hermis from like 55%. It really irks people but hey, I was curious back then if I could legit pull it off--not yet realizing how hilariously easy it was. Heck, I've had healers whine a little (including friends) because "Warrior really don't need heals..." Maybe we've finally reached the point where even average players have noticed how irrelevant healers have become.

I keep seeing people say this, and then I look at my normal roulette run last night, on P5. I was WAR MT and my friend was DRK. Everything was going well until we hit Devour. Both healers and two of the DPS died with Carby at 25%. One DPS died soon after, leaving three of us. I went down first after burning through all my mits, including Holmgang and my self-heals. The other DPS died, and then it was down to my friend the DRK, who made a heroic effort but died before Undead Rebirth kicked in with Carby at 1%.

Yes, occasionally a WAR can solo a dungeon boss from around half health. But the idea that this means healers are obsolete doesn't track with my experience, especially as a DRK main. Currently I have three self-heals: Souleater, the third part of my single-target combo which I don't use onb wall-to-wall pulls because I'm doing my AoE rotation. Abyssal Drain, which is on a 60-second cooldown and shares a recast timer with Carve and Spit; if I use AD on a second w2w pull I won't have C&S for my opener against the next boss. Oh, and there's Living Dead, which is on a 5-minute cooldown and includes three different 10-second phases and most of the time I die anyway. I'm thrilled that Dawntrail includes another self-heal, not because I don't need a healer, but because it makes my favorite tank more viable.

I get that healing is in a bad state, and I think giving healers more of a DPS rotation and having more damage go out in general would be good things. I'd even agree that WAR is overtuned when it comes to self-heals in normal content, but for most tanks the solution isn't to take away our self-sustain abilities, it's to fix the problems with healers.

[OliviaLugria]

I still had hope for ShB because at first it did seem like they were increasing healing requirements. You noticed it in the level 71 dungeon, especially at launch on AST. WAR was still not this crazy, yet.

EW just went in a completely nonsensible direction.

I was pretty miffed in ShB as well, but they said they needed to simplify it so they could rebulid the balance, of course... their rebuilding doesn't seem to be happening.

[Ayer2015]

I'm not sure why I came back here to the forums but it still makes me so sad to see people making fun of genuine complaints and people that simply just care about the game.

If you see me around again tell me to just leave these forums are horrible for my mental health.

leave. these forums are horrible for mental health

[BDBlaffy]

I cannot express how as a healer main with over 5200 hours in this game, and not having my sub lapse a single time since I started in Stormblood, I am so desperate for the healer role to be improved. I feel like I have not only been let down, over, and over, and over after every update since Shadowbrigers, but it's to the point where I ligitamately don't feel like the role is given any consideration or respect anymore. I choose to play a healer because I want to be that kind of support in the party, I want to have that responsibility. Yet I have none of it. When almost every single piece of content in this game can be completely cleared without my role, when tanks and even DPS have so much mititation and self healing that I don't even have to pay attention to the game anymore and continue to press 1 button with no engagement at all, it's depressing. It's infuriating. I'm lucky enough that the static I'm a part of allows me to coordianate all the healing, all the cooldowns for the entire party so that I can at least feel like I'm doing my job in the role that I want to fill, but why do I have to do that in the first place? Why do I have to tell everyone else when to heal in order to fulfill the fun of that role when I'M THE ONE PLAYING THE HEALING ROLE. It's so disheartening when the communication from the dev team is so extraordinarily tone deaf when it comes to healers.

I chose to play this role. I chose this responsibility. Please let me have it when I queue up as a healer. I just want to be a healer and actually have engaging fun doing that. I'm almost at the point of begging if they would listen. I love this game to death. It means the world to me. I want nothing more than to have them finally listen to the people who play the role and know what they want from it, because it's painfully clear the developers don't play healer and don't understand what the appeal of it should be. This is the first thing I have ever posted on the official forums because I feel that strongly about this. I hope the more voices we can add the more attention we can get.

[Wildheaven182]

Calling it a strike is just hyperbole. The big ask. I mostly play healer for a fast queue time so hey I'll just sit and wait and get to play dps anyway. Not only taking away from the healer supply but adding to the demand is even better.

Anyway the issue isn't healers needing more damage options really. It's that there is hardly any unavoidable damage in the game at all. Boss auto attacks, they might as well do nothing and just sit there staring at you like the striking dummy they are. It's not hard or game breaking to add in a good bit of more random dispersed damage. A boss howls to start an aoe attack? Why not have that deal unavoidable damage to everyone. Trash packs can do more than just auto attack the tank. Make them occasionally target a random other player and poke em. Better yet also bring back aggro management so healers have to assess how much healing they can put out at a time and when.

And we shouldn't be catering to rpers and plotwatchers who have never seen a duty without the message, "a player is new to this duty and a bonus reward will be granted..." They will never do that content ever again. But honestly, by level 50, some amount of skill must be required to play the game. And this is an mmo like it or not. If someone can only stare blankly at their screen with drool running down their chin as they wonder if Thancred is going to cry about how much he misses Minfilia again, you're going to wipe.

And that's that. If you can't clear a piece of content, you're not going to progress. That's a video game. Is this a video game or a cutscene simulator like FF16? A silent movie? At least FF16 had the graphics for it and voice acting.

Adding unavoidable damage and cleansable effects isn't going to gate anyone who is able to get to level 50 anyway. People are citing a problem that doesn't exist. At some point the game is a game and not an rp platform.
Also raids are invalid and raider opinions are invalid. Raiders can go pay a hooker to get their balls stomped on for the same effect.