We're doubling down on the 2min meta

Half the raid buffs now unlock new powerful actions, tied to the 2 min bursts. They're not backing down from it, they're doubling down.

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Originally Posted by Valence

Half the raid buffs now unlock new powerful actions, tied to the 2 min bursts. They're not backing down from it, they're doubling down.

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haha, already saw that a mile away.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...81/164/a56.gif

ppl were on heavy cope if they thought otherwise

It was very unlikely for them to remove it that early, they tend to double down on their decisions for at least a while before reversing course (no matter how much criticism they face).

Wonder if they'll scramble when the playerbase starts to dwindle in DawnTrail.

How could the graphical update not keep players engaged and subscribed? Spent so much money on it!

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Originally Posted by Valence

Half the raid buffs now unlock new powerful actions, tied to the 2 min bursts. They're not backing down from it, they're doubling down.

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And everything outside of the 2 minute burst is getting dumbed down even harder.

At least they should shift the power from party buffs to only be 5% in total and more dps increase from personal buffs, it wouldn#t feel as bad..

Some of the jobs just have a party buff for the sake of having one, despite their job identity being absolutely selfish otherwise..

I like to imagine, that during their balance passes for DT, as they were adjusting their 4th reactive 2 minute burst aoe, that someone had the realization that they need to start working on making the jobs more distinct for 8.0.

I didn’t expect anything to change when they actively said 7.0 is going to just continue adding to the existing pool and this seems exactly as advertised… now 8.0 it could change and the reason there is they’re likely thinking how to tackle levelling and what’s beyond lvl 100 that in turn taking feedback in I can imagine another combat overhaul akin to stormblood or something where jobs change again because a new meta is occurring or whatever they decide to do. That’s what I think may happen but we shall see, end of the day I don’t exactly mind what theyre doing anyway. With all these mitigation buffs just please imply things hit harder but doubtful lol

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Originally Posted by MisterNublet

Wonder if they'll scramble when the playerbase starts to dwindle in DawnTrail.

How could the graphical update not keep players engaged and subscribed? Spent so much money on it!

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Playerbase dwindling has nothing to do with the combat in the game and more to do with how terrible EW's post patches were.

I doubt most players even care about the simplification of combat

Honestly its not even the "2minute meta" just the job design outside of that is getting 10x worse

Buffs being on 2min I don't mind at all, 3 min litany wasn't nice

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Originally Posted by Oizen

Playerbase dwindling has nothing to do with the combat in the game and more to do with how terrible EW's post patches were.

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This isn't some mutually exclusive issue. It can be both. EW's terrible post patches just helped shine a big light on the state of FFXIV's gameplay. Now, it won't even matter if the fight design improve in DawnTrail, if the gameplay to engage with said content continues to be trash, nobody will want to run it.

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I doubt most players even care about the simplification of combat

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Yeah, those players tend to be the ones that only subscribe for the MSQ story content and then quit till the next patch.

Gotta understand that there will be a trickle down effect. When the top end players grow bored and quit, no longer producing content or guides for the high/mid end playerbase to follow, those high/mid players will begin to quit too. Casual players will then end up struggling without those high/mid end player base helping them through new content, then will proceed to quit themselves.