After months (and even years) of healer mains in Ultimate Fantasy 14 complaining that Sq. Enix’s MMORPG has simplified and devalued the job, seemingly to no avail, aggrieved healers are going one step additional to make their opinion recognized: They’re happening strike.
The strike originated on June 9, when Sq. Enix discussion board consumer Gemina (a Scholar major) posted a thread succinctly titled #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE. The thread opens with a mission assertion for the strike. Gemina writes:
I want to make this the official thread for these in help of a healer strike as a collective voice to the dev staff to specific the dissatisfaction with the continued route the sport has gone regarding healer gameplay and what’s an arrived consensus that has deemed to be a negligence in the direction of the function, in addition to the gamers who major it.
The strike asks any participant who participates to abstain from taking up any healer jobs in any group content material (dungeons, raids, trials).
Whereas this isn’t a brand new concern for FF14’s healer group, Dawntrail previews have been the tipping level that led to the strike. Particularly, FF14 content material creator Xenosys Vex’s preview video, displaying a four-person get together beating the brand new growth’s first dungeon, Ihuykatumu, and not using a healer. After all, Xenosys used some intelligent get together make-up: The get together’s tank was a Warrior, a category recognized for its self-healing skills. The Warrior was then supported by three DPS gamers, with one selecting Crimson Mage to utilize therapeutic and revival magic with out the necessity for a real healer. Nonetheless, it’s not a very good search for Dawntrail and it has put a bitter style in lots of healers’ mouths.
It’s possible you’ll assume, primarily based on Xenosys’ preview, {that a} healer strike won’t get wherever because it proved how ineffective the function is in even Dawntrail’s primary content material. Nonetheless, when finishing party-based content material for the primary time in FF14, you’re required to stick to a strict get together make-up. 4-person content material requires one healer, whereas eight-person content material requires two. So gamers can’t take the Xenosys method of foregoing healers as quickly as Dawntrail launches, and a strike ought to remind those who they’re being taken as a right.
The grievances listed by Gemina sum up a constructing checklist of points gamers have had with the healer function—points which have solely been exacerbated by the approaching modifications coming to the brand new growth. The healer group, me included, has lengthy been complaining that every growth’s job modifications have constantly diminished the usefulness of healers in something however high-end content material, along with simplifying the precise rotation of play. For instance, the typical rotation of a White Mage in an encounter is to spam the one goal offensive spell Glare, whereas additionally preserving the injury over time spell Dia consistently utilized to an enemy. Therapeutic is completed very not often.
Which means you spend your time spamming two buttons, which is clearly boring in comparison with DPS and Tank roles with their extra complicated and fascinating rotations. To make it worse, Dawntrail appears to be like to simplify Astrologian, maybe the final semi-complex healer job within the sport, alongside the continued bolstering of self-healing skills in tank lessons.
As a healer, I perceive the frustration that led to the strike. I hope Sq. Enix is presently engaged on modifications to handle these long-vocalized points. There’s even some hope that Dawntrail would possibly supply an olive department to the healer group. Summoner is dropping its skill to revive gamers, which means that Crimson Mage would be the solely non-healer function with the power to revive. That provides healers a little bit little bit of goal again. Moreover, the Swiftcast skill is getting a shorter cooldown, one thing that might sign tougher content material for healers. Nonetheless, that may nonetheless be reserved for high-end content material solely, which doesn’t precisely repair the issue.
The #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE thread presently has over 300 pages of feedback including their help. To present gamers time to finish any Endwalker content material they should earlier than the following growth, Gemina proposes that the strike doesn’t formally begin Dawntrail’s launch on July 2.
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