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Patently false. MCH in SB, SCH in 2.0-4.0, SMN in 2.0-4.0, BLM for much of the game's life span and SAM up until 6.1 all required a higher skill threshold to be maintained in order to obtain optimal...

To paraphrase good ol' honest Abe, you got the facts right but you came to the wrong conclusion.

I won't speak for other SAM's, but for myself....once I saw that they were just going to...

I'll kind of disagree-but-not-really and say that I don't think they're bad, I think they're burnt out.

I don't know how to fix that, as you can't just bring in new blood and expect them to pick...

That'd be the job right there. Maybe we can crowd-fund one of those high-quality foam builds of the new circular Tenka so the cosplayer can Fart of a Thousand Cuts while on-stage and maybe get that...

No, but they're adding in some buff timer functionality on the party list because people were using a mod to do the same thing. I figure if we can get useful UI elements added into the game via...

Soon as someone makes a 3rd party mod that gives SAM's a Kaiten button to push before Iaijutsu and Ogi, if the recent LL is anything to go by.

On the one hand that's true, but on the other it's both such a niche situation and also an incredibly low-stakes one. You can take as much time as you want in the variant dungeon, as long as you...

Hmm, good to know, thanks. I asked because I've seen a few different definitions of "player" when it comes to this kind of thing. If we just take the 25 million number that's been thrown out by SE...

Appreciate that. Was there any mention of demographic range? "All players" can mean a lot of things. It can mean "all players" in the literal sense, or it can mean something entirely different,...

And as with all statistics, people read far too much into it. Lies, damned lies and statistics, as Mark Twain once said.

rDPS was a mistake. Like, I appreciate it in the sense that it highlights the contribution from buffs in a way that people can easily see, but the hyper-focus on rDPS to the exclusion of the actual...

Ok, that is a useless article because I don't speak/read Japanese and I am not going to spend the time to translate it. Pull some numbers out from there or tell me where to look exactly because I'm...

I never said they did. Don't put words into my mouth. What I *did* say is that it's part of a pattern of slippage that's been happening more often recently and that it has a number of people...

The biggest issue is that it shouldn't have gotten that bad in the first place. The greater concern that a lot of people have isn't with the nuts and bolts nitty-gritty output of job performance,...

Right, and how many people challenge savage? Ultimate? A minority of players, with the hardest content being something cleared by no more than 5% of the total playerbase (and that's being...

Early on in 6.2, WAR/PLD were so far behind GNB/DRK that the functional dps difference between the highest tank (GNB) and the lowest tank (WAR) was nearly 10%. This was addressed shortly after, but...

This is the crux of good video game design; if something is more difficult to do then it has to have some kind of commensurate reward. While some people like to do things that are more difficult as...

Yes and no. HP% shields are stronger the weaker the attack is. A savage tank buster - designed to be threatening to an actual tank - is something else entirely. Assuming 60k HP at level 90 (for...

MNK, probably. As Imragarn noted, RPR/DRG have better physical defense but MNK has the advantage of RoE giving them dmg% reduction. I've seen savage/EX fights where a MNK eats a tank buster that...

I laughed. I cried. Then I sighed in resignation because it's the truth. It was quite a little emotional ride.

If we go by the historical CD's of finisher skills, no, they wouldn't interfere with rotations any more than adding an extra oGCD would of some other type would interfere, because all of them were on...

Yes and no. The absolute difference, in terms of physical travel time, is still very low if you position yourself correctly. People need to understand that the edge of a boss' hitbox isn't the only...

Yeah that guy cracked me up too. Perfect example of someone who doesn't browse past the first page. I don't expect people to go ten or twenty pages deep, but to check out the first five isn't a...

Pssh, right?! I mean....who would do such a thing.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/460458-Compiled-SAM-threads-against-6.1-changes-Kaiten-removal

If there's one thing we can take away from the Kaiten removal, it's that the dev approach has now officially shifted away from "let's do it right, even if it takes more time/effort/energy" to...