#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Venarius]

The strike is working as intended.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...is_astounding/

Kinda funny to see some of the mental gymnastics though. Surely Dawntrail is too hard so instead of striking, those healers just straight up quit! /s

Keep it up fellow strikers.

[Somnolence]

The strike is working as intended.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...is_astounding/

Kinda funny to see some of the mental gymnastics though. Surely Dawntrail is too hard so instead of striking, those healers just straight up quit! /s

Keep it up fellow strikers.

This was only ever going to have an effect on higher end, because there is a limit how many expansions of "optimize fun away" playstyle people can handle.

[Aravell]

The strike is working as intended.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...is_astounding/

Kinda funny to see some of the mental gymnastics though. Surely Dawntrail is too hard so instead of striking, those healers just straight up quit! /s

Keep it up fellow strikers.

I thought people were thanking us for striking because all the healers who are striking are bad? That's what we were told by anti-strikers.

[CaptainLagbeard]

It's the Schrödinger's Strike.

It's both happening and affecting things, at the same time it's totally not doing anything.

[Evergrey]

It's the Schrödinger's Strike.

It's both happening and affecting things, at the same time it's totally not doing anything.

Pretty much how a lot of things are MMO's full of people, some will encounter stuff and some won't.
Personally I haven't noticed or even heard anything about the strike ingame.
Does that mean that people aren't striking? No, I just personally haven't encountered any signs of it.

[Naychan]

In a thread cheering at all the terrible healers people are encountering since the strike...is it?

Maybe coming over from Everquest 1 & 2 set my standards a bit high?

Healing, DPS’ing, Buffing, Debuffing, Crowd Control, Kiting.

[Naychan]

Not to be rude, but if someone is playing a healer and gets distracted from healing and someone dies, that is a pure, unfiltered skill issue on the part of the player.

And hopefully they learn from it. No different then a dps who does not do mechanics or a tank that gets distracted and does not pop def CD’s. Should we get rid of mechanics so the dps dont have to move? Or do less damage so the tanks don’t have to learn their def cd’s? Healers are not stupid they can learn to weave DPS abilities in between their heals. A simple rotation that is not interrupted by healing spells should not stress out a healer anymore then it stresses out a tank or DPS class.If SE keeps going at this rate might as well just put a (complete button) at the start of the msq dungeons.

[Naychan]

thats an understatement. SE is currently in the business of stripping all responsibility from healers

They are! Might as well give health potions at this point then we wont have to worry about getting a bad healer. /lol

[CaptainLagbeard]

There is no contradiction here. A healer's DPS not being needed doesn't contradict with his comment on downtime and healers having time to dps.

I think the point is they want healer damage simple, because that way they can focus on health bars (heaven forbid they also have status effects more regularly too - maybe we will with the Esuna questline), mechanics, and not also be looking for RNG procs or complicated rotations a DPS has. This would probably result in too many average players just completely failing at their actual purpose - healing.

Personally, I find the lack of gameplay the biggest distraction as a Healer. It's very easy to stop paying attention to the game as you just mash one button and you might not notice the DPS standing in fire.

[Eyrilona]

Personally, I find the lack of gameplay the biggest distraction as a Healer. It's very easy to stop paying attention to the game as you just mash one button and you might not notice the DPS standing in fire.

Keeping an eye on the rest of the party and anticipating needs is part of the healer gameplay. It is the most party oriented job category out there. If you don't do that part, of course it isn't going to feel like a full engagement job.