FFXIV Healer Strike and the 'How would you fix it?' line

[Hallarem]

Its hilarious that there's multiple threads about the healer strike, but no actual strike yet to be seen anywhere.

[Shurrikhan]

Its hilarious that there's multiple threads about the healer strike, but no actual strike yet to be seen anywhere.

There are multiple threads about the healer strike... because the reasons behind haven't abated, and half the activity is meta-commentary like yours above or even less directly stuff like my post here. Why would anyone be shocked about this? This is the forum that made "Titanmen" a thread genre.

Thread count, post count per thread, and total post count across threads don't meaningfully scale with the level of activity of the thing they talk about, only the ideas that launch that thing and how defensive others are about those rationales being discussed.

Meanwhile, I'm not a striker, but heals still remain the most instant queues for me, rather than the norm for the last several expansions (tanks), green slots are most often the last to fill in PFs, and while leveling non-healers, matchmaking definitely averaged maybe 30% longer (usually in finally finding said healer) than at similar times in prior expansions (including double-DPS-addition ones), so I'm not sure what was so invisible about it unless Chaos DC just didn't happen to be as affected.

Apart from that, maybe you don't see the healers who are striking... because they're striking?

Now, of course, some then get replaced by those wanting the most instant of queues and couldn't care less about the role since it's just a way to more quickly get braindead content over with, shrinking that gap in matchmaking, but nearly only place you'd then see the "career" healers who may or may not strike would be... the only place healers might remain interesting -- in Savage/Ultimates, which those who can conditionally still enjoy healing in its own right may then still do... while they're still interesting, to then be replaced by others afterwards because... the slots mostly still need to be filled for near-PuG purposes, tank sustain or no.

Effectively, the replacement may make the role look healthier than it is -- split in half between those whose expectations for it are bare minimum because... they're just doing bare minimum content anyways while Netflixing, and those who only play it in precisely the other situations (Savage/Ulti prog), with far fewer through-and-through healer mains anymore.


tl;dr: You're talking about something that quickly hides its own evidence of activity (since people pulling out of a ratio-ed need then vacuums in replacements for them through then-increased margin of reward/immediacy), and even then things have looked far enough off the norm, even if less so now, that a strike does seem to have made some impact.