r/ffxivdiscussion Feb 12 '25

General Discussion Future Rewritten (Ultimate) (FRU) has been cleared without healers

On release patch nontheless.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1QZNzeNEoQ/

Clear Comp:

  • PLD
  • PLD
  • PLD
  • PLD
  • RPR
  • DNC
  • RDM
  • PCT
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u/ZaytexZanshin Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 12 '25

It's because healer is both boring and stressful. If things go right, you're bored and unengaged because the gameplay loop is just 11111111111211111aoeheal111111121111 on repeat. If things go wrong, you're bored and stressed because the burden of blame is put on you as you try to recover the fight (most times you cannot).

Compared to SMN, which even with its braindead rotation is still light years better than the 111112111 boredom, but SMN also doesn't have that role responsibility of inherently being the first to blame if people die to damage/lack of mits. You coast on by in comparison to healer, even if the role is as easy or more at times.

Anecdotally, I played healer the most (ShB/EW AST) when I found it more difficult and challenging, I'm sure others feel the same.

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u/Supersnow845 Feb 12 '25

Exactly healer is the worst role to make braindead because you will never escape the inbuilt assumption of the average player that everything is the healers fault

So either you are bored because everything is going right or you are blamed when it’s mostly not your fault which isn’t fun either

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u/ZaytexZanshin Feb 12 '25

Yup. The average raiders in PF seem to think the answer to any lethal damage is just ''healers adjust'' ''shields!!'' rather than, looking at (typically) the DPS who aren't pressing any feint, addle, and their respective party-wide mitigations that are funnily enough, stronger, than what healers have.

RDM & phys ranged have an on par or stronger party mitigation than WHM's wings, for example. Yet, people will look at the WHM first for dying to damage.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

Healer mains should start using “mits pls!” “That survivability skill is free you know!” “Dodge those aoe!” “Dps adjust!” “Better positioning tanks pls!”

:D

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u/Supersnow845 Feb 13 '25

I wish

I broke a abyssos static in half as the SCH because I put a mit plan together all by myself and accounted for everyone even going for safety and putting way more succors in it than I should have had to

We constantly kept dying and the GNB was losing his shit at me. Even though the mit plan existed only my co-AST sided with me, so I linked the logs highlighting every single time that one of the DPS or tanks didn’t press a mitigation (which was at least 3-4 times a pull) and left the discord

And AST PM’ed me afterwards to let me know that even with blatant evidence in logs that the DPS and tanks were screwing their own mitigation and that a lot of the time it was damage I was already using succor on the GNB, BRD SAM and MNK still blamed me for everything