BLU Balance

[Diavolo]

My question is why can't people express opinions about design adjustments?

Back in the past people asked for BST nerf, SAM nerf, THF rudra nerf, WAR MNK nerf, all the time.

In fact there's one very, very vocal BLU in FFXI community(not naming names) that always run around asking BST nerf, and went "SAM needs nerf ASAP" in SAM discussion when he thinks those jobs had advantage over other jobs.

And now that BLU has slight advantage over other jobs, this same BLU suddenly jump into every single BLU discussion and essentially attack anyone that asked for BLU job adjustment.

This is double standard.

He asked for a nerf. You are asking for a nerf. I'm sure he was met with both support and resistance, just as you are being met with both support and resistance. Where's the double standard?

Back when people ask for BST, SAM, WAR, MNK, THF or whatever job to be nerfed, there weren't massive wave of anti nerf opinions like today. Unlike these days people uses all sorts of excuses, including "just play BLU" or "just play with people let you come other jobs" to justify their reasoning against adjustments.

This made me laugh because it seems the answer to your problem continues to elude you, despite being right under your nose.

Job imbalances become easy to detect if they involve mechanics that everyone wants to exploit, which is the case that's been made, so if the dev team takes the time to monitor its servers and the number of people playing BLU over a period of time rises to an unacceptable level you can be sure they would address the issue even if there was no forum feedback whatsoever. Ergo, "Go play BLU" isn't an excuse - I'm not even sure how you've come to define it as such - it acts as a means to an end and doubles as a devastatingly powerful job choice if you happen to share the beliefs of others asking for a nerf, so hey, why not, right?

[Afania]

He asked for a nerf. You are asking for a nerf. I'm sure he was met with both support and resistance, just as you are being met with both support and resistance. Where's the double standard?

Exactly who was against SAM nerf in 2014? Even some of the most hardcore SAM players in the community at that time agreed SAM needed a nerf. There definitely weren't this massive wave of anti nerf people in 2014 saying the job in question is just fine.

Job imbalances become easy to detect if they involve mechanics that everyone wants to exploit, which is the case that's been made, so if the dev team takes the time to monitor its servers and the number of people playing BLU over a period of time rises to an unacceptable level you can be sure they would address the issue even if there was no forum feedback whatsoever. Ergo, "Go play BLU" isn't an excuse - I'm not even sure how you've come to define it as such - it acts as a means to an end and doubles as a devastatingly powerful job choice if you happen to share the beliefs of others asking for a nerf, so hey, why not, right?

Suggesting people "go play BLU" is fine, saying design adjustment shouldn't happen because you can just play BLU isn't. And the msg I kept getting from people.