Your tank is EXPECTED to die to this unless he pops a cooldown. You’re all EXPECTED to live at exactly 10% hp each. Everyone’s healthbar Yoyos around in ffxiv because of how fight design is.

Healing in particular is so scripted and easily predictable, that healers spend more of the fight spamming 1 DPS button than actually healing, and heals are so much bigger that you pop off 1-2 heals on the whole party and everythings K. Anything that does is often nerfed or changed fairly quickly. They can’t have anything be too unique in that game, because they can’t have it break their precious and delicately designed fights in any way shape or form. Every fight has a very specific way it’s done in very specific windows, and deviating from that at all will kill you. FFXIV has to remain sterile and clean at all times. They will NEVER introduce a melee healer that has a window where they heal by damaging, or a healer that gets a bunch of it’s healing from damaging enemies like Disc. I can easily argue with you that something like stagger or ignore pain would NEVER exist in ffxiv. I can GUARANTEE you that no healer will have a heal that damages the target after if they don’t take damage. I can say with CONFIDENCE that no job in FFXIV will ever have a spell-reflect like warrior. The real issue with the way FFXIV is can be broken down to design philosophy. You’ll be spending most of your time rotating like a more boring DPS, then popping a cooldown once a big hit is about to come, rinse-repeat forever. FFXIV doesn’t have this, well, they kind of do but on a MUCH lesser scale. Ignore pain, the stagger mechanic entirely, Blood constantly self-healing etc. See, in WoW, most tanks have some form of active mitigation that they’re maintaining at all times as part of their rotation, and you’re fully engaged in tanking the whole time. They’ve openly admitted they were having trouble balancing the healers, which is why we haven’t gotten a new one in so long, and in an attempt to balance them they homogenized the healers, and DESTROYED the gameplay of one in particular, and it’s in a joke state that makes it very undesired at end-game. …buuuut, if we’re talking about tanks and healers, that’s a different story. With a few rare exceptions DPS rotations in FFXIV almost spoiled WoW for me with how much better the DPS rotations are… See, most of these posts you’re going to see are from DPS players, because in many ways DPS rotations in FFXIV are way better. I see a lot of vocal people talking about how the rotations are better and more robust in FFXIV…and for the most part they’re completely right!.if you’re a DPS player. Now I’m going to talk to you about why I’ve left FFXIV and come to WoW, and loved every second of it, yes, even during BFA where I’ve been told it’s the weakest in a long time. Melee dps, Ranged DPS/mage, Tank, Healer. I used to do End-game every time new content came out, on at least one of each class type. Keep in mind that I’ve played since launch and was one of the turbo-nerds that would max and gear every combat job for fun for a while.

I’ve seen so many people on here talk about how FFXIV is some kind of amazing game and 2nd coming that is totally killing WoW and so amazing.

Tank buster control wow