[Dev1235] Job Adjustments

[Dale]

You are really stupid aren't you? The devs do obsess over damage. It is literally their jobs. Every thing they change in every update is them obsessing over damage. They don't just pull random numbers out of a hat to make up the stats on new equipment, they think, compare it to gear that is already in the game, and build it. And yes there is a massive imbalance between samurai and other damage dealing jobs. I know that, the devs know that, everyone knows that. Why don't you know that? You think the reason it balances out is because they take more damage? They are a heavy armor job; also with +1 skirmish armor any job can have capped pdt mdt. The reason you see samurai get face rolled is because they are doing something like wearing 109 instead of 119. Comparing one job at 109 and another at 119 is not a very good way of balancing things. And yeah the devs are trying to balance jobs. Why else would every update have job adjustments if not for that reason. Also I'm sure this will come as a shock but when picking a damage dealer for a party, the amount of damage they can do matters. That's why when you pick a healer you get a white mage, because they heal the best. Player's measure worth in worth. Also when they spend hours shouting, it's for stuff like bard. The world is lousy with samurai, nobody needs to shout for that.

There is a difference in attempting to balance damage appropriately and then someone obsessing over it. Such as someone acting as if it's the only thing that matters and they must have the job that does the most damage to do anything.

Also, I should point out I heal content all the time as my Red Mage. I've never had any players try to give me the boot because I'm not worth as much as a White Mage to them simply because they can heal better.

Not all players measure others in the same way you seem to. And it would be a huge mistake for the developers to try and equalize all jobs in an attempt to appease this kind of thinking. I've seen what it can lead to and I would prefer not to see that kind of shallow gameplay come to this game. Because I like job diversity and how different jobs have strengths and weaknesses. And it's not worth giving that up just because some players can't be bothered to accommodate each other and learn to work as a team to overcome weaknesses and instead just choose to concentrate on the jobs with singular strengths and ignore everyone else.

As far as Samurais being so massively over-powered, I just haven't noticed it. But since so many people feel so strongly about it I'll admit there is probably some work to be done here. I just think it's being exaggerated and players are needlessly obsessing over it even to the point they won't even group with other DD jobs who now feel they don't even contribute. And that is probably why you don't see the developers coming out of their boots to rush to solve it. I doubt it's because all of the developers play Samurai. They probably realize it's being blown out of proportion as well and will probably just do minor tweaks in an effort to gradually stem the madness.

[Ulth]

There is a difference in attempting to balance damage appropriately and then someone obsessing over it. Such as someone acting as if it's the only thing that matters and they must have the job that does the most damage to do anything.

Also, I should point out I heal content all the time as my Red Mage. I've never had any players try to give me the boot because I'm not worth as much as a White Mage to them simply because they can heal better.

Not all players measure others in the same way you seem to. And it would be a huge mistake for the developers to try and equalize all jobs in an attempt to appease this kind of thinking. I've seen what it can lead to and I would prefer not to see that kind of shallow gameplay come to this game. Because I like job diversity and how different jobs have strengths and weaknesses. And it's not worth giving that up just because some players can't be bothered to accommodate each other and learn to work as a team to overcome weaknesses and instead just choose to concentrate on the jobs with singular strengths and ignore everyone else.

As far as Samurais being so massively over-powered, I just haven't noticed it. But since so many people feel so strongly about it I'll admit there is probably some work to be done here. I just think it's being exaggerated and players are needlessly obsessing over it even to the point they won't even group with other DD jobs who now feel they don't even contribute. And that is probably why you don't see the developers coming out of their boots to rush to solve it. I doubt it's because all of the developers play Samurai. They probably realize it's being blown out of proportion as well and will probably just do minor tweaks in an effort to gradually stem the madness.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. That has to be the most infuriating part about your posts. You Don't know what you are talking about, how the jobs are unbalanced, or how people are actually playing, but you still act like you do. The two of you arguing this entire time is pretty annoying, but at least Afania knows about the game mechanics, which is the topic of this topic. Or I think that was the topic before all the nonsense started. Either you are some sort of troll, in which case congratulations on the amount of trolling you accomplished, or you need to work on being informed before hitting reply.

[Dale]

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. That has to be the most infuriating part about your posts. You Don't know what you are talking about, how the jobs are unbalanced, or how people are actually playing, but you still act like you do. The two of you arguing this entire time is pretty annoying, but at least Afania knows about the game mechanics, which is the topic of this topic. Or I think that was the topic before all the nonsense started. Either you are some sort of troll, in which case congratulations on the amount of trolling you accomplished, or you need to work on being informed before hitting reply.

You are the one calling people stupid and resorting to personal attacks here. So if anyone is being a troll it's you.

Jobs are not suppose to be balanced purely around how much damage they can do. That would make for a very boring game - which is why a lot of the more modern MMORPGs are just that: boring with absolutely no interesting gameplay or versatility. Just bland DD/Heal/Tank jobs who all function basically the same and serve the same purpose because of thinking like this: which judges the worth of every party member based solely on how much damage they can do or how much their heals can do etc.

[Ulth]

You are the one calling people stupid and resorting to personal attacks here. So if anyone is being a troll it's you.

Jobs are not suppose to be balanced purely around how much damage they can do. That would make for a very boring game - which is why a lot of the more modern MMORPGs are just that: boring with absolutely no interesting gameplay or versatility. Just bland DD/Heal/Tank jobs who all function basically the same and serve the same purpose because of thinking like this: which judges the worth of every party member based solely on how much damage they can do or how much their heals can do etc.

A personal attack is something like "you are wrong because you're stupid." When I called you stupid it was more of the point I was trying to make. "You are stupid, here are the reasons why you are wrong." I do find it funny that you would try to take the moral high ground on personal attacks though. Since you do have like 30 pages of you making them. However in my last post I should have made more of an effort on why you clearly don't know what you are talking about, but I'm only willing to spoon feed information to people that will actually listen. And since there isn't enough hours in the day to correct every wrong thing you say, I will leave it at that. Feel free to reply; I know you like to have the last word.

[Dale]

A personal attack is something like "you are wrong because you're stupid." When I called you stupid it was more of the point I was trying to make. "You are stupid, here are the reasons why you are wrong." I do find it funny that you would try to take the moral high ground on personal attacks though. Since you do have like 30 pages of you making them. However in my last post I should have made more of an effort on why you clearly don't know what you are talking about, but I'm only willing to spoon feed information to people that will actually listen. And since there isn't enough hours in the day to correct every wrong thing you say, I will leave it at that. Feel free to reply; I know you like to have the last word.

Show me these 30 pages of personal attacks. I'd like to see them.