#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Hyperia]

I have not effectively played a healer role, or anything else since mid July. I have mained WHM for 10+ years now, probably won’t change until retirement.

Healing is what I do but every time I try to come back and try a trial or dungeon, 95% of what I do is dps and not healing.

I want to heal and not dps, is that such a crazy idea? Playing a healer job because I love healing?

I have so little to heal as a healer, it sucks the fun out of the game. This current version of the game bores me to the point where I just sigh and sign out. I remember the glory days of Brayflox Hard where it was a challenge to keep everybody alive on the first pull and what a rush it was when it worked. Those were the days…


This little goblin hiding here behind the bush apparently is trying to say something…


Weary healers, no need to heal this fight, no heals needed to live and fight.
Ho the end… it comes!
The dps, you dps!

[OliviaLugria]

I don't see why anyone would ever think SE would directly acknowledge the strike. That would be a PR nightmare.

If they do make any changes (which I'm finding difficult to belive) they'll just say some player feedback influenced them.

[Rolder50]

No chance they are actually going to make any changes, but it's still worth ranting so when player numbers plummet we can say we told you so

[Azurarok]

I have not effectively played a healer role, or anything else since mid July. I have maimed WHM for 10+ years now, probably won’t change until retirement.

Healing is what I do but every time I try to come back and try a trial or dungeon, 95% of what I do is dps and not healing.

I want to heal and not dps, is that such a crazy idea? Playing a healer job because I love healing?

If you even can call spamming 1 dpsing, especially with the numbers WHM does right now. Neither healers who want to heal or dps get to really do either.

[ForsakenRoe]

I have not effectively played a healer role, or anything else since mid July. I have maimed WHM for 10+ years now, probably won’t change until retirement.

Healing is what I do but every time I try to come back and try a trial or dungeon, 95% of what I do is dps and not healing.

I want to heal and not dps, is that such a crazy idea? Playing a healer job because I love healing?

Whether you're a healer who wants to have more things to heal, a healer who wants a more involved DPS rotation for downtimes, or somewhere in between...

The 'have a paradigm more similar to Stormblood' seems to be a solution that 'trends healers in the direction you're asking for', despite the two sides of the discussion (more damage options vs more healing to do) being pretty much polar opposites on the spectrum of 'what is the solution that would work the best'

[-Kairi]

If you even can call spamming 1 dpsing, especially with the numbers WHM does right now. Neither healers who want to heal or dps get to really do either.

Pretty much. Lol, which is sad.

[Aravell]

Honestly, I don't think the current healer role design fits anyone's personal job fantasy unless their job fantasy is to be a safety blanket that gets tossed out when people eventually grow up.

[Hyperia]

Honestly, I don't think the current healer role design fits anyone's personal job fantasy unless their job fantasy is to be a safety blanket that gets tossed out when people eventually grow up.

I'm starting to wonder if SE should consider some of the ways WoW allowed healers to switch from their pure healer modes to outright DPS monsters. Priest vs. Shadow Priest for example. You pick a mode and your locked for the duration of combat before you can switch.

[OliviaLugria]

I'm starting to wonder if SE should consider some of the ways WoW allowed healers to switch from their pure healer modes to outright DPS monsters. Priest vs. Shadow Priest for example. You pick a mode and your locked for the duration of combat before you can switch.

Ya... don't think SE could handle that on top. I can only imagine the playerbase being even more dissatisfied that they either don't have their full toolkit, have to keep switching, or their co healer refusing to go into heal stance.

[OliviaLugria]

Also... 92 more post. Absolutely wild. Maybe a little premature but I hope people reading through this are having their minds opened, opinions changed, and are thinking about ways the game could be improved!