Hi everyone,
I recently started playing FFXIV. I levelled up the conjurer to white mage, and now I am working on finishing the msq. In the short time I've been playing up to lvl 53, I feel perhaps I made a mistake in choosing to heal. I played healer in WoW for a long time, but FFXIV feels different for healing.
1. I feel the mechanics of healing in this game creates a community that doesn't value healing whatsoever.
2. I asked about healing in raids, the first question they asked me was how my DPS was. (my dps? I thought. I'm a healer, not DPS)
3. I feel that healing is a side gig in this game, which makes me feel useless. I feel as though I should be doing DPS first, and healing is just a side thing I should do every now and then casually. I hate this.
4. This makes me frustrated but also sad, because I want to feel valued in the role that I play. I don't want to feel forced to DPS when that is not the class I want to play.
5. I've posted some stuff on Reddit and was just downvoted because the whole community there just said in this game you dps first, heal second. That's just the way it is otherwise you are compleletely useless and lazy. That's the mentality the FFXIV has about healers? But I can understand this because the game mechanics don't seem very good for healers to have fun and play, so far.... IMO
I know I haven't finished the msq, but does healing get better after or is this pretty much the mentality of the game forever?
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I recently started playing FFXIV. I levelled up the conjurer to white mage, and now I am working on finishing the msq. In the short time I've been playing up to lvl 53, I feel perhaps I made a mistake in choosing to heal. I played healer in WoW for a long time, but FFXIV feels different for healing.
1. I feel the mechanics of healing in this game creates a community that doesn't value healing whatsoever.
2. I asked about healing in raids, the first question they asked me was how my DPS was. (my dps? I thought. I'm a healer, not DPS)
3. I feel that healing is a side gig in this game, which makes me feel useless. I feel as though I should be doing DPS first, and healing is just a side thing I should do every now and then casually. I hate this.
4. This makes me frustrated but also sad, because I want to feel valued in the role that I play. I don't want to feel forced to DPS when that is not the class I want to play.
5. I've posted some stuff on Reddit and was just downvoted because the whole community there just said in this game you dps first, heal second. That's just the way it is otherwise you are compleletely useless and lazy. That's the mentality the FFXIV has about healers? But I can understand this because the game mechanics don't seem very good for healers to have fun and play, so far.... IMO
I know I haven't finished the msq, but does healing get better after or is this pretty much the mentality of the game forever?
Continue reading...