#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Connor]

You are right the devs play the game so they obviously know everything about how everyone else plays the game so they obviously don’t need feedback because the devs know what’s going on

Maybe they do but they’re all just really really bad at the game and all the gameplay changes are specifically for them lol.

I mean, they’ve gotta be aimed at someone , and I really don’t see anyone like ‘wow I’m so glad they made the healer role functionally redundant so I can spam any button and succeed’. Maybe it was aimed at the devs themselves all along?!

[Aravell]

Maybe they do but they’re all just really really bad at the game and all the gameplay changes are specifically for them lol.

I mean, they’ve gotta be aimed at someone , and I really don’t see anyone like ‘wow I’m so glad they made the healer role functionally redundant so I can spam any button and succeed’. Maybe it was aimed at the devs themselves all along?!

The recent interviews actually shined a light on this a little bit. In their internal testing, they identify "common stress points" and just aim to remove those regardless of any player feedback. Basically they just assume the playerbase is awful at playing the game and they want to remove anything that could possibly cause stress to the players, so that explains why they removed a lot of the failure points in job rotations and such, can't have the players making a wrong decision after all.

[Supersnow845]

The recent interviews actually shined a light on this a little bit. In their internal testing, they identify "common stress points" and just aim to remove those regardless of any player feedback. Basically they just assume the playerbase is awful at playing the game and they want to remove anything that could possibly cause stress to the players, so that explains why they removed a lot of the failure points in job rotations and such, can't have the players making a wrong decision after all.

That actually does well explain why they don’t really see the excessive amount of tanks soloing the bosses with their immortality as a priority because they don’t see that as a downside of the system they see it as their completely incompetent playerbase being carried by a benevolent “talented” player

[Maltothoris]

So how much do you think they will buff whm and sge? I'm going to guess that sge eurkuian dossis will get buffed to 85 per tick, and phemgla and psych to 650. Then for whm, dia to 80, and probably glare 4 to something like 680, most likely higher.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[...]So how much do you think they will buff whm and sge? I'm going to guess that sge eurkuian dossis will get buffed to 85 per tick, and phemgla and psych to 650. Then for whm, dia to 80, and probably glare 4 to something like 680, most likely higher.

Psst! They'll also buff the other dps/tank jobs for whatever reason which also feeds to SCH and AST, bringing us back to square one lmfao.

[Aravell]

Psst! They'll also buff the other dps/tank jobs for whatever reason which also feeds to SCH and AST, bringing us back to square one lmfao.

"Oh no! We buffed every DPS job up to the absurd numbers of PCT and now the 2 healers that have party buffs have pulled ahead! How could this have happened?"

[ForsakenRoe]

So how much do you think they will buff whm and sge? I'm going to guess that sge eurkuian dossis will get buffed to 85 per tick, and phemgla and psych to 650. Then for whm, dia to 80, and probably glare 4 to something like 680, most likely higher.

They could buff Glare 4 to be like 850p and WHM will probably still fall behind AST/SCH again by the end of the expansion

You either tune the raidbuff classes to be roughly inline with the 'selfish' classes like WHM based on nobody having any gear (eg everyone's in full crafted), which results in the raidbuffers creeping ahead because of everyone getting gear, or you tune the raidbuffers to be inline with the 'selfish' when everyone's in BIS, which results in the raidbuffers feeling like they're 'working harder for no reward' during prog

It's always going to end up with the raidbuff classes being ahead, unless they do some crazy thing like making the potency of the raidbuffs scale based on your gear level


But also remember that all of this is smoke and mirrors, making WHM actually be inline with AST/SCH doesn't change the fact that the gameplay loop for healers needs adjustment

[Supersnow845]

They could buff Glare 4 to be like 850p and WHM will probably still fall behind AST/SCH again by the end of the expansion

You either tune the raidbuff classes to be roughly inline with the 'selfish' classes like WHM based on nobody having any gear (eg everyone's in full crafted), which results in the raidbuffers creeping ahead because of everyone getting gear, or you tune the raidbuffers to be inline with the 'selfish' when everyone's in BIS, which results in the raidbuffers feeling like they're 'working harder for no reward' during prog

It's always going to end up with the raidbuff classes being ahead, unless they do some crazy thing like making the potency of the raidbuffs scale based on your gear level


But also remember that all of this is smoke and mirrors, making WHM actually be inline with AST/SCH doesn't change the fact that the gameplay loop for healers needs adjustment

It’s not like a 10 potency buff every sub patch is really that hard to do. Just slowly buff the selfish healers over the expansion as the buff healers creep up with more gear and you’d be totally fine. They basically already do this with MCH where they constantly give it 10 more potency on its tools every patch to compensate for DNC and BRD creeping up with buffs

[miraidensetsu]

So how much do you think they will buff whm and sge? I'm going to guess that sge eurkuian dossis will get buffed to 85 per tick, and phemgla and psych to 650. Then for whm, dia to 80, and probably glare 4 to something like 680, most likely higher.

Buff WHM? They won't.

[Azurarok]

They also upped the effect time of divination and chain stratagem without changing the buff amount so it scales more than before too.

I've wondered if they didn't account for that when they made the potency buffs in 7.05, at least with WHM/SGE