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#General - Nintendo Switch Forum

#General

Belaptir

However, I'm ok with the blue mage being like this. Knowing the mmorpg communities, that blue mage will be in a 99.99% of the cases another dps. And we don't need more dps in FFXIV, we need healers and tanks

Blizzia

Nobody's gonna play healers and tanks though, which is why they don't make more

Belaptir

On the contrary. People is starving for more tanks and healers in ffxiv because they are actually fun to play

Belaptir

The game demands you to be more than a healer, so in a normal end game content, you are expected to be a healer AND a dps

Blizzia

I saw a funny but informative dev talk on classes in games, where a guy was talking about how most popular mmos had like 1-2 tanks, 1-2 healers and then a gazillion dps classes.

He went on to explain the fun factor in each, and how it correlated with the type of people likely to play mmos, and ended up concluding that making a new tank or healer was in most cases a wasted effort because it'd attract only a fraction of the people a dps class would.

Pretty interesting.

Blizzia

But yeah I know ffxiv is a bit different with healers

Blizzia

you spend most of the time dpsing

Belaptir

That's why in ffxiv a healer has so many offensive spells. If you get to a raid with a healer that doesn't do his portion of dps, you're screwed because the group won't pass the dps check

Blizzia

but it's still rather streamlined - either you want big deeps, you want to hold aggro or you want to keep people alive. The majority wants big deeps.

LRD

oh my god

LRD

there's a coloring book on the eShop

Blizzia

coloring book? 😂

Belaptir

Saw it

LRD

and it's FREE

Blizzia

but does it let you swap it with people

Blizzia

😏

LRD

it's got local 4 player

Belaptir

And @Blizzia I know that most people want to be dps, but on the other hand, being something else has huge advantages: instant queue, exclusive loot you don't have to fight other to get...

Belaptir

And power. I live playing healer on ffxiv because I don't stand any of the others' crap. If I see a troll I can leave the dungeon and I know I'll find another game in seconds. But will they find another healer?