Please tell me there will be less healers soon...

[MakotoNano]

I've been a healer for 10+ years .. and I was super excited to go scholar and whm.

Now that I've noticed 40% of the player base ALSO intends on healing .. its killed that for me .... Do you think the amount of healers will die down any time soon? especially scholars...

[Hysterior]

Don't take it bad but you seem to complain about people playing the new jobs when yourself are currently leveling that class as well...
It will eventually not be everyone's cup of tea but yeah, many people are trying the 2 new jobs so yeah... need to wait

Edit: interesting, on my server I noticed much more SMN than SCH
I think maybe because the DPS jobs are a bit crowded, you have more chances to run a dungeon as SCH than SMN maybe

[MakotoNano]

Don't take it bad but you seem to complain about people playing the new jobs when yourself are currently leveling that class as well...
It will eventually not be everyone's cup of tea but yeah, many people are trying the 2 new jobs so yeah... need to wait

No I mean I understand the new job thing, but in every MMO ive played, healers are generally not that popular, Even in this. I see 4x as many scholars as I do SMN. Its not about scholar though its about healers in general. There is ALOT of healers which is very unusual for an MMO...

[Duelle]

No I mean I understand the new job thing, but in every MMO ive played, healers are generally not that popular, Even in this. I see 4x as many scholars as I do SMN. Its not about scholar though its about healers in general. There is ALOT of healers which is very unusual for an MMO...

And this is a bad thing because....?

[Beanor]

And this is a bad thing because....?

because hes used to being a niche class and getting free passes on party groupings just for being a healer. now the game is balanced out of his favor, so hes complaining.

[Emyrs]

because hes used to being a niche class and getting free passes on party groupings just for being a healer. now the game is balanced out of his favor, so hes complaining.

Oh, is that what's going on here? I was confused as to why this would be a bad thing.

[Kajimadoushi]

I've never really waited that long in duty finder to get into an instance and my main is a 35 WHM

There was even this one time in Haukke Manor when i got in, the 2 dps were the only ones in because apparently Tank and healer got mad at each other and rage quit. After 15minutes of waiting for new tank, we decided to do this on our own and actually pwned the place with a BLM, SMN and WHM only xD

So i don't know, maybe the population who do have a healer is big but the population of MAIN healers isn't all that big?

[Leiloni]

No I mean I understand the new job thing, but in every MMO ive played, healers are generally not that popular, Even in this. I see 4x as many scholars as I do SMN. Its not about scholar though its about healers in general. There is ALOT of healers which is very unusual for an MMO...

It depends on the MMO. Some games I've played had a lot of healers. TERA had a lot of both healing classes because it was fun in that game, and it's fun in this game. When a class is well designed, fun to play, well marketed, and has other fun things like a mount or a fairy, etc. - it attracts players to it. Games that didn't have a lot of healers were games where the healing classes simply weren't as good as others. And that comes from someone who has played healers in every MMO I've played. Aion as well had a lot of healers - again, both healing/support classes in that game were really well designed and fun to play.

And at 50, I still get insta queue's in DF if I dare queue in DF, although usually I make groups with guildies or via shout chat.

[Xayoc]

I've been a healer for 10+ years .. and I was super excited to go scholar and whm.

Now that I've noticed 40% of the player base ALSO intends on healing .. its killed that for me .... Do you think the amount of healers will die down any time soon? especially scholars...

For people leveling SMN, they are queuing as SCH because of a decreased queue times versus a DPS. Once the flavor of the month classes are leveled and people begin to focus on other jobs, the queue times for healers will go down.

[Neo_bahamut]

Well 3 main reason for this I figure the white mage need ACN as 15 so none of the healer are diverting out. Second The unicorn mount was place only on the cnj quest some people like to collect mounts even if I find the chocobo much better animated :/ and last since the Thm can use the cnj skills and form a Red Mage (sorta) they be nuts not to get protect and cure for the thm at the very least if not raise for their friends. oh yes and Paladin as well I am guessing this was done intentionally to avoid not enough healer and now they flooded us with them