#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Gossamer]

+1 I'll join in the strike as well! I've been a healer main since ARR, and as much as I love this game I've been feeling increasingly disenchanted as a healer, especially after ShB and EW. I want to not feel superfluous in casual content, and I want the gameplay to be fun and engaging and let me feel like a healer.

[Supersnow845]

The problem is Mr Flower that if we make the easiest content in the game challenging enough to force the casual playerbase to learn how their characters work and actually play the game properly, they'll just cry and leave instead of actually challenging themselves. It happens EVERY TIME ANY GAME DOES THIS. I'm not saying I think healers should only have a challenge in harder content, I'm saying its not possible if square wants to keep a playerbase.

Because nobody wants to raise the floor, people want the ceiling to not be on the floor

Madam sylphie can still get by cure 1 spamming, I’d like something to do since I don’t need to cure 1 spam, somehow the other roles have this

[Carin-Eri]

Didn't YoshiP say once that when the people playing healer on the dev team get too good at it they get replaced? I wish I had the quote but I think it was healer specifically. I wonder if that happens for the other roles.

What a strange mindset! Imagine applying that to any other job! "Sorry Mr. Car Mechanic - you're too good at repairing gearboxes, so we're replacing you".

[TBerry]

I'd be bored out of my mind too if I didn't do anything beyond healing and being terminally online in Limsa Lominsa. No one ever told you you have to make this game your job.
Go take a break from healing and do something else in game. Outside Limsa.

[KitiaraIornsight]

But you just said you have another account, your beta account.
And that is such a stretch of an excuse that you're providing for another person. Maybe let them speak for themselves? (≖‿≖)

I had a beta account for ps3. I lost the log in for that YEARS ago. I don't even remember what email I used or what my character's name even was back then.

[Katish]

The problem is Mr Flower that if we make the easiest content in the game challenging enough to force the casual playerbase to learn how their characters work and actually play the game properly, they'll just cry and leave instead of actually challenging themselves. It happens EVERY TIME ANY GAME DOES THIS. I'm not saying I think healers should only have a challenge in harder content, I'm saying its not possible if square wants to keep a playerbase.

I mean maybe if they made it the most difficult thing ever, perhaps...but I think the real reason a player base disbands is because there are just not enough players/content to satiate the players in the game. This has been seen in many an mmo; when there are no longer the people there that want to do "X", "X" looks less interesting to newcomers who want to do "X" because there isn't any communal excitement behind it, and therefore "X" becomes obsolete leading the newcomers to quit.

[Stormhold]

So let me get this straight:

• Healers should only have engaging healer gameplay in certain niche areas.
• Arguments are only valid if someone's a subjectively "elite" player doing "elite" content.
• There's no need to address the verifiable fact that healers don't focus on healing in the vast majority of content in this game because it's inconvenient.

Yeah, nah.

And for the record I've done all levels of content in this game from ARR to present, but that doesn't matter. This isn't a difficulty issue - it's a design one.

Imagine if Bard only used Heavy Shot, Venomous Bite, and Quick Nock in all content except Savage/EX. That's where we're at.

Yeah nah indeed.
1) If You make engagin DPS rotation for easier content, high end content must be balanced around healers doing this engaging DPS rotation = even less healing.
2) You don't account sprouts doing sprout content either. So Your arguments as valid as mine (lol).
3) I dunno how verifiable it is. We talk about min ilvl sprouts doing dungeon together for the first time or people like me and You who can run it 4 healers without tank?
You can W2W Tower of Zot and Babil? How's Aurum Vale runs going? Doma Castle pack before first boss?

But I run dungeons with players who used Heavy Shot, Venomous Bite and Quick Nock through all dungeon. They often have this green icon near their name. Your argumnets also doesn't account for people with low skill capacity, so is it still valid? What about accessebility options? For people with less agility to press buttons. I mean who cares they'll struggle in dungeons made for everyone, I wanna have my fun, am I right?
If anything should ask for more demanding content, than job design. Ask for boss doing more DoTs on raid, screw You up everytime, do Heartless Angel type move before raidwide and before Heartless Angel aslso have Raidwide so healers don't be lazy and not heal before mandatory drop to 1 hp. It's not dungeons problem, it's not healer design problem it's lack of harder well designed encounters. And I remind You -- P3S made healers quit!
P.D. You crowd even made "Depicted as Soyjak" analog by putting legit arguments into "Healerstrikebingo" and I must just drop it?

[jameseoakes]

I'd be bored out of my mind too if I didn't do anything beyond healing and being terminally online in Limsa Lominsa. No one ever told you you have to make this game your job.
Go take a break from healing and do something else in game. Outside Limsa.

That's what the strike is but apprently talking about doing that is bad

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

I'd be bored out of my mind too if I didn't do anything beyond healing and being terminally online in Limsa Lominsa. No one ever told you you have to make this game your job.
Go take a break from healing and do something else in game. Outside Limsa.

That's a good idea, we should make a forum post about why exactly we're playing a different job too. Call it something catchy with a hashtag like... #ffxivHealersAreQuitting no that's too long...

[KitiaraIornsight]

Was mostly curious, since according to your lodestone achievements you do not have any on content EW EX (besides relatively recent Endsinger) clears, so yes, i could claim you're too casual, but that's beside point.
Playing the game mostly for the story content is fine. But then why should you care about this strike?
When Dawntrail is released you can go and complete MSQ on Sage, why suddenly come to forums and complaing about the strike, when as you claim it does not concern you and you will continue playing Sage just fine?

And there's the gate keeping. So my opinion on a ridiculous strike and pointing out WHY its not going to accomplish what yall think it will because I don't do endgame savage content makes my opinion any less valid? The complaint is healers aren't fun, and here I am saying I find them fun. And so do most healer mains i know, including those of my friends who DO do the hard stuff.