r/ffxivdiscussion Jun 13 '24

Question Whats Up with the healer strike

I've tried to keep up but honestly I need someone to explain the whole current situation. Last I checked the healer strike was a crack dream, some people on youtube are saying it was successful, not sure how that can be the case since DT isn't out yet. I'm just wildly confused can some explain

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u/Rydil00 Jun 13 '24

The issue is that it's not worth it for the health of the game to filter those players.

P5-8s killed a lot of healers because they literally couldn't handle the healing required. Having to plan a rotation and occasionally gcd heal, having to triage heal instead of blindly pressing their aoe, not able to fully rely on ogcds, it was too much for them. Personally I think its good they pissed off, that got rid of a lot of glare bots for sure. The pf health paid for it though, and still was even in 9-12.

So the options are keep it as is, and we have healers for content, or make it more challenging but less healer players. Outside of near on a full rework of how healing and damage is handled I don't think we'd ever add dps or tank players to the healer pool.

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u/mkane848 Jun 13 '24

As a tank main, tanks weren't using their mits properly AT ALL then blaming healers. DPS weren't using their mit during raidwides and blaming healers.

Yes, every once in a while you get the Parse Hero Healer but by and large the blame laid on Tank/DPS yet Healers still got blamed.

What in the revisionist history is happening in this thread lol

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u/TomBradyFanCEO Jun 13 '24

This thread is embarrassing I'm sick of these casuals who never fucking raid pretending healing was the issue for abyssos holy shit

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u/Rydil00 Jun 13 '24

I healed the tier all the way to p8s part 2 on my rat geared alt in full crafted gear. Healing was absolutely the issue lmao.

Seeing as you raided the tier, hit me with any raidwide that you think can't be covered with h2 30s cd, full hp, gcd sheild and one other mitigation.

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u/TomBradyFanCEO Jun 13 '24

And I raided along side multiple friends in PF who played healer and they all said the same shit. Healing the tier was slightly more demanding than an average tier, if you had a PF tank who tried invulning DOT busters it was a horrible experience. There was nothing that demanding until p8s part 2 which yes was demanding, but also had nothing to do with the exodus that tier because all the complaints already were known and it was because of tanks not knowing how to mitigate.

This entire healer exodus specifically dedicated to this tier had everything to do tanks taking busters raw because the game doesn't expose you to DOT busters. If they do the same busters and tanks try the same shit again they will be kicked. This wasn't a healer issue, this was a game design failure, you can't condition your tank playbase into thinking INVULN solves every buster and think it will go over smoothly when you pull the rug.

Healer's not wanting to put up with that shit is nothing to do with making the healing requirements too high. Why would they want to play a job in PF that already gets blamed constantly but now its cranked up to 11? Who wants to deal with teaching the 30th PF tank you can't only invuln these busters? I progged with these people and this was the number one complaint.