Greetings to the General Discussion section of the forums. As some may be aware, there's a thread up in this section, about a 'Healer Strike'. Essentially, us Healers have given feedback in the Healer section of the forums, and been ignored, for some five years now. When laying out what issues the healer role faces, be that 'our damage 'rotation' is overwhelmingly comprised of a single button', 'there simply isn't enough damage to heal to warrant our bloated healing kits' or something else, a common reprise from some who don't see the point in the strike, the complaining, etc. is:
'Well how would you fix it?'
It's getting tiring, watching new faces enter that thread, say the line, and then I/others have to repost what we've already said about how we'd fix it, again and again, because it's simply not reasonable to ask someone to go back through 600+ pages of back and forth (a lot of it completely unrelated to the topic at hand). So, I figure I'll just make a thread here in General, which answers the question: How would I fix it?
A couple months ago now, I posted (in Healer, since it's Healer related) a thread for each of the Healer Jobs, which detailed a design that would (in my opinion) improve the gameplay of each of the jobs. These designs may well not be the 'silver bullet' that fixes the job's woes overnight, but at the very least, I believe they would 'buy time' by generating goodwill from the playerbase, allowing the dev team to spend time further down the line to implement a more robust 'solution' to the problems the Healer role faces (eg, increasing how much healing we have to output, across the range of content the game has to offer)
Rather than link to the threads (since many who ask 'how would you fix it' don't care to actually click the link to see 'how I would fix it'), I figure it'd be easier to just copypaste the thread OPs here, into one mega-thread, for ease of access to all four (rather than opening each in an individual browser tab). Please note, these were written some 2 months before Dawntrail's Media Tour, and as such, listed potencies use Endwalker values as a baseline (and Dawntrail actions are not listed).
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'Well how would you fix it?'
It's getting tiring, watching new faces enter that thread, say the line, and then I/others have to repost what we've already said about how we'd fix it, again and again, because it's simply not reasonable to ask someone to go back through 600+ pages of back and forth (a lot of it completely unrelated to the topic at hand). So, I figure I'll just make a thread here in General, which answers the question: How would I fix it?
A couple months ago now, I posted (in Healer, since it's Healer related) a thread for each of the Healer Jobs, which detailed a design that would (in my opinion) improve the gameplay of each of the jobs. These designs may well not be the 'silver bullet' that fixes the job's woes overnight, but at the very least, I believe they would 'buy time' by generating goodwill from the playerbase, allowing the dev team to spend time further down the line to implement a more robust 'solution' to the problems the Healer role faces (eg, increasing how much healing we have to output, across the range of content the game has to offer)
Rather than link to the threads (since many who ask 'how would you fix it' don't care to actually click the link to see 'how I would fix it'), I figure it'd be easier to just copypaste the thread OPs here, into one mega-thread, for ease of access to all four (rather than opening each in an individual browser tab). Please note, these were written some 2 months before Dawntrail's Media Tour, and as such, listed potencies use Endwalker values as a baseline (and Dawntrail actions are not listed).
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