[dev1289] Job Adjustments

[Dale]

A lot of people are complaining that BST does too much damage and they shouldn't. It isn't nearly the strongest job in that regard. It is the best at surviving large damage spikes. But that isn't what people are complaining about. And oddly enough, SAM, MONK, DRK and WAR could just eat damage and have a WHM mule cure through it for years without a nerf. Or RNG could just sit there and shoot. So BST being able to do it through pet food shouldn't shock or offend anyone.

That's part of the problem we have now. The reason people are using BST so much is because half the people playing now don't have DT- sets or know what any of the defensive spells do, so they just bring bst to any event that they can't plow through by spamming Fudo or Rudra's. That's how long those other jobs have been OP DD tanks. People completely forgot that they aren't supposed to be tanks. They don't know anything but zerg now. And the sad thing is that nerfing BST isn't going to bring the zerg back. It just pissed off BSTs. Players have weak defense and low HP and changing BST did nothing to fix that. These people who cried about BST still won't be able to get in groups on SAM, MNK etc. because they cried to nerf BST when they should have cried for more HP / defense and less cheap AOE mechanics.

The affects are already evident. Now instead of seeing people shouting for bst, they shout for SCH and people still aren't engaging these high tier monsters because they have cheap crappy AOE mechanics. Given that this is close to the final update, I guess SE just wants us to RNG or SCH burn everything for the duration of the game's life.

I understand what you are saying. But t I have seen Beast Master pets out-survive my Paladin in full - damage sets while doing probably 100 times more damage than I would ever be capable of.

So it's just not realistic to imply all a Samurai would have to do is slap on a -DT set and he would instantly have the survivability that a Beast Master does.. I just don't see that happening. This isn't even to mention that equipping a full -DT set would significantly lower the damage output of the Melee DD anyway.

I personally don't mind so much the damage of the Beast Master. It's very high - perhaps overpowered - but I wouldn't be inclined to call for a nerf. It's only when you take into account this kind of damage combined with so much survivability that I believe it rises to level of needing to be nerfed. So take my comments in that context.

I agree with you about cheap crappy AOE mechanics. That's been a failing of this game since the beginning - and is probably one of the big reasons it never reached the pinnacle of MMO success that I believe this game could have.