#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Alice_Rivers]

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So we just don't do something because it'd take time? Because it might be hard? Talk about laziness. Someone once told me "If something is worth doing at all then it's worth doing properly" and I hold it to be true. If healing if worth fixing, then healing is worth fixing, not dps. And if fixing healing means going back and rebalancing content then so be it. When I look back on previous content I see healing really start going downhill when tanks start getting increasing amounts of self-healing and damage stops outpacing mitigation by any appreciable margin, the natural result of which is the reduced need for healing, I also see a reduction in interruptible attacks and esuna-able effects during the same period which further compounds the issue.

If they're going to take maintenance healing to the level that missing five seconds to do a mechanic would result in deaths then they should make that mechanic such that there is no additional healing requirement during it, i.e. There is no unavoidable damage (autos included) while the mechanic is playing out. It's really not that hard. Would fixing healing run against current dungeon/encounter design? Possibly. But that's the devs own fault, thus it's their job, their responsibility, to fix it and I will give them no leeway or forgiveness for what is ultimately a dereliction of that duty and responsibility, nor should I, or anyone else give them carte blanche to destroy any role in this game the way they have been healers. To do so is simply to permit, even ask for, more of the same and 876 pages says we've had enough, it's time we acted as such and drove that message home to CBU3.

A bait and switch changing the game from Trinity to whatever your suggesting is not a solution 11 years into the game's release.

And this... Why not? Is that not exactly what the devs have spent three expansions of expanding tank and dps self-sustain and sidelining healers doing? At this point the duty finder healer requirement is mostly a formality in 70+ content. Even going up to savage and some ultimates, the "bait and switch" is already happening, why not formalise it? It's not even that hard, just push tank self-sustain skills down the level range a bit and give them a bit of a buff, make every mitigation come with a heal and/or regen and/or healing buff and you're there. Job done, money due.

But, for the record, I do not advocate this course of action. I simply see it as the logical progression of FF14's design for the last three or more years and, in case it's unclear, I find it thoroughly detestable.