Healer Shortage? Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Patch 6.28

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There has been word around the Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker community concerning a healer shortage. Apparently, no one wants to play one in Party Finder. Let’s investigate!

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5 thoughts on “Healer Shortage? Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Patch 6.28”

  1. The job I have to wait for the most is a range DPS whenever I go on PF. At the same time, I heard that tanks were in short supply on some JP servers. I rarely have a situation where I’m waiting for a healer to fill up the last spot.

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  3. I enjoy healing in every game I play, but shy away from playing FF14 for its combat (I started a few months before EW and reactivate for 1-2 months per story patch.)

    Why? Because as you said, FF14 fights are very choreographed…and with how boring DPS rotations are and the lack of being able to 'wing it' due to that choreography, I sometimes don't feel like I'm in an actual fight. It's like I'm playing unfair mario, but with other teammates who can mess up and die no matter how well I'm healing.

    I switched from Scholar to Sage. Initially I thought "I probably won't stay Sage, but I'll try it." After finishing the Safe story and doing some DF of both sizes, I couldn't go back to scholar; the lack of movement, cooldown utility and DPS options just felt bad all of a sudden.

    It really sucks, because I love my character and absolutely loved the whole story (monotony of some quests aside,) and wish I liked the combat (healing in this case) more. I'll reactivate for 6.3 for story, and will be queuing as Samurai/Sage mostly, but outside of that I'm not sure what else to say about healer shortages. My experience is different from many who play FF14, so I can't project my issues onto the problem.

    Ultimately, if these two things changed (they won't) I'd be playing healer a TON in FF.
    1. No more delay. Server tick rate compared to WoW can be frustrating. That combined with slower GCD, I have a hard time thoroughly enjoying combat.
    2. More mechanics that are difficult, but aren't obscure and 1-shot you. Nothing tilts me more to dying to something that doesn't make logical sense even after learning the mechanic.

    The second point is how FF14 does raids though, and me wanting it changed would be going away from what current raiders like, so I believe it'd be selfish for me to actually hope/wait for it.

    This got a little bit off point, but I felt like I needed to rant a little.

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  5. Well ive watched several of these videos and 1 claim of healer shortage in party finder was that people were tuning the item lvl cap sky high, so people that could not get their augmented gear yet, had no chance of joining the groups with 610-620 item lvl unless their main, was a healer

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