#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ForsakenRoe]

People are not happy with their role. How will the devs know why? We tell them. -> Literally that easy.

If it were 'literally that easy' we wouldn't be in this situation. JP thinks the devs only listen to the West, the West thinks the devs only listen to JP. We hear they make changes based on 'feedback' but they never say where the feedback is from. Who told them that healers needed to have every DOT removed except one, so that their gameplay (across all four, mind you) is 'press DOT once per 30s, press filler spell ELEVEN times until DOT expires'? Sometimes it feels like there's no player giving this feedback. That it feels like the dev team has some warped vision of what the Healer role should be, and that saying 'it's based on feedback' will placate the players, or at least, get them to argue with one another instead of against the devs' vision of the role.

Please let me show everyone, some examples of what other jobs would look like, if they had Healer gameplay:



Enjoy the new Warrior, everybody, no need to worry about overcapping on gauge, because there is no gauge here. Just put your Once-Per-30s buff/debuff up, and fill with your filler ability for 11 GCDs in a row! That way, you won't have to worry about having no room to weave mitigations, after all, you're a tank, your primary job is to mitigate damage, not deal it!



Does this look familiar? Well, it might look like ARR Bard gameplay, but that's where you'd be wrong, as ARR BRD had a couple of key differences! Firstly, it had Bloodletter procs to spend, secondly it had Misery's End at the end of a fight, thirdly it had Flaming Arrow as a ground-target OGCD akin to Shadowflare, fourthly it had Straight Shot procs to spend (and the associated buff to maintain), fifth, it had Repelling Shot which did damage for some reason, and sixth the same for Blunt Arrow (resulting in some Silenceable casts not getting silenced because the BRD had used Blunt Arrow for damage). Finally, seventh, saving the biggest for last, Venomous Bite was 18s duration, not 30s, meaning you'd use 7 GCDs between refreshes, not 11. That's right, whenever there's nothing to heal (which happens far too often), Healers have less gameplay than ARR Bard. Or, EW Bard in ARR level dungeons. Either or.

Did you do this? Because unless you can do this with little to no practice, it doesn't make your role as healer irrelevant. I don't care that someone who is likely in the top 1% of players can do something. This attempt was 1 hour long, and I imagine it took many more hours of practice to pull this off. This is less efficient than doing it with a full party, the only reason you'd ever do this is to prove that you can. I do think it should be possible to do crazy stuff like this because of how cool it is.

I did not. This is not me. This could be me, if I wanted to spend an hour proving a point. I likely have the level of skill required to do such a thing. The fact that it is possible to do, is a damning indictment of the idea that we have three co-equal pillars of a trinity system (tank, healer, DPS). I think that there is a time and a place for 'do crazy solo challenges', like Deep Dungeon solo runs. Not something like this.

As an aside, did you know that, if the current WAR kit were available 6 years ago in SB, this 'WAR solos first normal mode raid' video would have been impossible? O1N, yes normal mode, has an enrage timer. A long one, admittedly, but it's there, and you can go test it out to see it for yourself.

[Mortex]

Did you do this? Because unless you can do this with little to no practice, it doesn't make your role as healer irrelevant. I don't care that someone who is likely in the top 1% of players can do something. This attempt was 1 hour long, and I imagine it took many more hours of practice to pull this off. This is less efficient than doing it with a full party, the only reason you'd ever do this is to prove that you can. I do think it should be possible to do crazy stuff like this because of how cool it is.

The man clicks his abilities with the mouse so im pretty sure it took him less attempts then you think. Hardest part is not falling asleep playing war for 1 hour also this normally should not be possibly with fights that are on content. Even wow had this only when you bug abused the snoot out of specific classes and these were fixed fast.

[SenorPatty]

Not even sure there's even a need to encourage healer strike since even before this thread was made, I already made my peace with what I'm doing with mine: cap asap and put to rest until the changes surpass 1 button dps during downtime. YoshiP maybe playing his own game but he's clearly not in the skin of someone who heals on the regular.

[Pip_Chick]

If it were 'literally that easy' we wouldn't be in this situation.

Sorry, that was a mistake on my part. What I meant is how would the devs know we don't like something if we don't tell them? That being the point of the strike. We are striking because we don't like the current role direction and lack of an engaging content.

Sorry again, I could have worded it better!


And uf... those diagrams...

[Telkira]

Basket weaving forum lingo? In my final fantasy?

would you rather it be wholesome puppers and updoots?

[GrimGale]

would you rather it be wholesome puppers and updoots?

Nah, they are about as obnoxious as the other stuff.

[Turtledeluxe]

Just a friendly reminder that it's not just top 1%, it's also the other 99% since a team cleared a dungeon first time inna brand new expasion with the same meta party we have now, which does not include the healer role.

Clearly something is broken, whether it's one job, multiple jobs, encounter design, all of the above. Fix it SE.

Waiting for someone to tell me how people had hours to prep for the brand new dungeon on the exclusive media tour that just launched.

[Kayokane]

Just a friendly reminder that it's not just top 1%, it's also the other 99% since a team cleared a dungeon first time inna brand new expasion with the same meta party we have now, which does not include the healer role.

The WAR that posted that video is in the top 1% you know that, right? and two other players are also well known content creators with multiple ultimate clears... the only name Xeems said that I didn't recognize was Todd.

[Sesera]

The WAR that posted that video is in the top 1% you know that, right? and two other players are also well known content creators with multiple ultimate clears... the only name Xeems said that I didn't recognize was Todd.

I think "Tom" is Llamatodd.

[Galvuu]

The WAR that posted that video is in the top 1% you know that, right? and two other players are also well known content creators with multiple ultimate clears... the only name Xeems said that I didn't recognize was Todd.

They were playing poorly. Xeno himself admits it. They kept face tanking mechanics for no reason and Xeno was literally arranging his bars mid fight.
It's as if Faker was playing while drunk and blindfolded, "but he's Faker guys!".
Xeno is a good tank player, but he definitely was neither trying in that specific run nor was he in a comfortable setup to begin with (he literally starts the video complaining about no MMO mouse and his hotbars being messed up).
I mean, just check the vuln stacks they keep collecting in the bosses...