SE: your deadline

[SovereignAegis]

I am a scholar main however I loved the idea of a "machinist" as far back as when I played the original final fantasy tactics game. I adored it. I am sitting at level 59 with it and going to reach 60 in a few days/if not sooner.

I am staggeringly disappointed that the machinist is not viable (I can argue the fact that the skills are... not what we were lead to believe through the description but viability is obviously the #1 concern).
HOWEVER I am confident that the development team released these classes (AST, DRK, MCH) all undertuned intentionally so that they avoid the ninja "crisis" where they had to outright nerf hard many aspects of their kit. So INSTEAD they release it knowingly undertuned and then buff multiple aspects of the kit.

Furthermore no developer that cares (And believe me the FF14 development team obviously cares a lot about it's players) would shrug their shoulders and let a class of theirs die.

Stay strong and just enjoy whatever you can at present, do not let anyone take away your fun! Stay positive- we are all confident that buffs are along the way!

[RyuRoots]

OP, you are *hilarious* if you think SE gives a crap about your whining post or your one measly subscription.

[FoxyAreku]

Threats don't work. You'd be more inclined to be listened to if you calmly explained what you think is wrong in a friendly criticism way.

[Ephemiel]

Never claimed to be their boss, never claimed to give them an ultimatum.

Never gave them an ultimatum yet you threaten to leave the game if your demands aren't met by a certain time.

Be sure to give your items and gil away before you leave because people like you aren't really needed here at all.

You want to make a difference? Do what Violyre said instead of making threats to leave the game simply because you aren't happy.

[Kaedan]

Ultimatums are useless and immature.

[PrimeEvilPanda]

something something something dark side

I wouldn't attack OP so harshly. I love the game, but he might be expressing the opinions of a great many players that don't troll/give a fuck about the forums and share the same view.

[Scholar-]

They gun miss u boy

[Hiraki]

Pls uninstall.

[Duelle]

Let me preface this by saying I agree with you. Bards suck right now and you are completely right on that side of the problem. I don't think Wanderer's Minuet really should be fixed, it adds an interesting dimension to play and an interesting choice to each boss battle that I find refreshing.

Erm...no. This claim might have weight if the devs had made it part of BRD gameplay from MUCH earlier in the leveling process and adjusted everything that was BRD's DPS model to make it work (putzing around with potencies outside of WM, removing most of the oGCD attacks that they weave in or possibly have WM change how they work as a whole). WM was basically plopped on to BRD at lv52 with two of the new shots being gated behind it. Nevermind the overall lack of synergy between WM and the rest of BRD's arsenal (and by proxy, MCH has a similar issue).

Yes, sometimes you will be down on the charts and that really sucks but some day you will be back up. We Bards got 2 years on the top of the mountain, both being able to contribute insane DPS (seriously, I could solo bosses in Vanilla) and being a crowd favourite among healers. Admit it, we could afford to be taken down a peg.

Barring poor design decisions or not adjusting stuff until later (WAR at launch, DRGs with lower magic defense during Final Coil), this game has been pretty good when it comes to balancing jobs. What you're alluding to to never really happened. The worst I think was the anti-melee stance some FCs running content took around 2.2-ish. And even that I blamed on the fact that since raids don't have multiple bosses, it's more difficult to encourage balanced raid comps.

Alexander is an unacceptable wait?

It sort of is when these changes should have seen a lot more testing. A beta test like what we had for ARR would have been nice, if only because several of these issues we've seen could have been ironed out then. I'll add that SE wanting to keep everything about this expansion secret is partly to blame.

[Evangela]

they'll have more time when you renew your sub anyway.