Players who post here on the Healer Roles forum have repeated their concerns and complaints over and over, and sometimes talked past each other or used similar terms to mean different things.
The following order does not reflect importance or priority and you might have made a different list, but go with it please:
1. Overall healing potency potential of a job
2. Available frequency (either by number or length of cooldown) of OGCD healing spells
3. Helpful mana management tools
4. Number of buttons to press (regardless of their effect)
5. Great animations and sounds for spell effects
6. Mobility while healing
7. Needing to think and decide frequently (often on the fly) about how best to respond proactively or reactively to situations in group content
8. Having more things to do when not healing (even those things aren't especially complex or challenging to understand or use)
9. [Contribution to] high DPS numbers
10. A strong sense of job identity/distinction from other healer jobs
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For all healing in general in FFXIV, how would you order these things from most important to least important to you?
And for your favorite healer (or each of the healers if you want), what do you think should be the priority for developers from most important to least important?
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The following order does not reflect importance or priority and you might have made a different list, but go with it please:
1. Overall healing potency potential of a job
2. Available frequency (either by number or length of cooldown) of OGCD healing spells
3. Helpful mana management tools
4. Number of buttons to press (regardless of their effect)
5. Great animations and sounds for spell effects
6. Mobility while healing
7. Needing to think and decide frequently (often on the fly) about how best to respond proactively or reactively to situations in group content
8. Having more things to do when not healing (even those things aren't especially complex or challenging to understand or use)
9. [Contribution to] high DPS numbers
10. A strong sense of job identity/distinction from other healer jobs
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For all healing in general in FFXIV, how would you order these things from most important to least important to you?
And for your favorite healer (or each of the healers if you want), what do you think should be the priority for developers from most important to least important?
Continue reading...