#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Myrany]

My rule for healing is this. If you are new I will heal and rez endlessly cause your learning old or new content. If you are veteran I will heal and rez endlessly in NEW content to get through it. But if we are in old content and you are dying repeatedly cause of your own lack of effort or ignorance. The I will only rez you 3 times after that you will be waiting for another healer to peel you off the floor.

To be honest with the exception of one boss in on dungeon I don't die all that much even in content that is new to me. That wall monster with the slippery floors and spinning sides I just flat can't do with any consistency no matter how hard I try. I've done it like 4 times now...I think I survived the fight once. My hands just do not like that fight and spasm every time. Once that happens I am toast.

Mind you although I have been playing over 5 years I am just now doing shadowbringers for the first time. So in that content veteran newbie fits LOL

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

This strike is ridiculous. (ranting)

This post is ridiculous, that is all.

[Turtledeluxe]

There's quite a few who have decided they can't stand that there's even one single positive thread about healing on the forums, and have felt the need to invade it and make passive-aggressive and snarky comments about people enjoying healing. I'd definitely see that as griefing.

I wasn't aware griefing referred to forums. Griefing typically refers to in game actions.

[AlaineIV]

Its like what 300 people not playing healers? That's like a drop in the ocean. It's not even going to affect queue times for the roulettes or raids. People want quick que's they will heal themselves. That's just how it is. Nothing is going to happen.

[Kes13a]

I think you have it a little backwards. Healer DPS was NOT apart of the devs fight design till ShB. Healers were not really "required" to DPS in ARR, HW, or SB and only became a widely accepted thing in HW because the DPS checks were so tight in Gordias. You can see this because they HEAVELY streamlined healer DPS from ShB onward, when they started designing fights with Healer DPS in mind. So I find it a little contradictive when people say they want to go back to ARR/HW/SB Healer design, when Healers weren't designed to DPS in the first place. You can say you preferred that style of DPS, but you can't say it was the devs design when we as the community pushed for it to be easily acceptable as it became the new norm.

Yoshi-P himself even stated in the media tour before Stormblood: "First of all, we do not expect healers to contribute to DPS. However we know a lot of the cutting edge players enjoy this aspect about the job and that those progressing in the raids early on use it help clear the fights. We decided to make it so that the idea was more approachable and less punishing so that if a player wants to try it, they aren’t sacrificing all of their healing capabilities to do so like they were with the old Cleric Stance. We didn’t like seeing healers doing entire dungeons in Cleric Stance, especially if they forget to switch back and heal!

That being said, and I want you to really reinforce this to your viewers, I firmly believe it shouldn’t be mandatory and we do NOT have the expectation of them to DPS."

the unfortunate part is that apparently the devs decided that ALSO meant we werent expected to heal much either. that is where we currently sit.

[SargeTheSeagull]

Its like what 300 people not playing healers? That's like a drop in the ocean. It's not even going to affect queue times for the roulettes or raids. People want quick que's they will heal themselves. That's just how it is. Nothing is going to happen.

Yet another person who doesn't read. Always fun.

[Bellsong]

There's quite a few who have decided they can't stand that there's even one single positive thread about healing on the forums, and have felt the need to invade it and make passive-aggressive and snarky comments about people enjoying healing. I'd definitely see that as griefing.

There's quite a few who have decided they can't stand that there's even one single negative thread about healing on the forums, and have felt the need to invade it and make passive-aggressive and snarky comments about people concerned about the state of healing. I'd definitely see that as griefing.

[Amity_Roji]

I find it telling that the anti-strike posts always say things like "stop whining" and "this is hurting others in the game," but none - none - of them address our main concerns with the healing role:

1. Healers spend more time DPSing than healing at all content levels, verifiable from data parses.
2. Our DPS "rotations" primarily consist of a DoT and a single direct-damage ability spammed ad nauseum.
3. The game meta has evolved around this general devaluation of the healer role, evidenced by things like wall-to-wall pulls being expected and tank self-sustain growing to ridiculous proportions.
4. There being no encounters in the game that highlight/prioritize the healing role.

It's fine to be critical, but you gotta come with better arguments than "suck it up so everyone else can have fun."

[AlaineIV]

Also why are yall starting the strike on probably the most LEAST effective date which is the launch date.. Shouldn't the strike happen like a week or 2 weeks ago when it actually matters.

[Rolder50]

I find it telling that the anti-strike posts always say things like "stop whining" and "this is hurting others in the game," but none - none - of them address our main concerns with the healing role:

1. Healers spend more time DPSing than healing at all content levels, verifiable from data parses.
2. Our DPS "rotations" primarily consist of a DoT and a single direct-damage ability spammed ad nauseum.
3. The game meta has evolved around this general devaluation of the healer role, evidenced by things like wall-to-wall pulls being expected and tank self-sustain growing to ridiculous proportions.
4. There being no encounters in the game that highlight/prioritize the healing role.

It's fine to be critical, but you gotta come with better arguments than "suck it up so everyone else can have fun."

Yep, even on the worst ultimate clears, you can check the healer and they are still using 70%+ of their GCDs on damage.