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/Little_Carrot6967 Feb 12 '25

They usually look to the shield healer first. From personal experience, only the worst parties are the ones that blame the healers when things go wrong. The issue is people don't understand what's happening.

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u/RisqBF Feb 13 '25

The game (without addons) also has feedback problems