jpgames.de Gamescom 2015 interview with Naoki Yoshida

[Duelle]

Considering that the damage being taken by players scales up also, a flat % mitigation caused by Protect, or a % of HP mitigation such as with StoneSkin hardly seems OP - even with Pro-shell and Granite Skin traits. Removing those traits substantially decreases the potency of those moves for WHM. Given that we are supposed to see WHM as a raw power healer (apparently), it would make more sense to me for he WHM ability with SS and Protect to be more powerful than when SCH or AST cross skill it. Instead though, WHM loses those exclusive traits.

And in exchange you got more heals to throw around.

The reason you lost exclusive passive mitigation (Pro-Shell) is because with magic damage scaling the way it does and its prevalence in current content, you'd be shoehorning WHM into every raid comp because neither AST or SCH would be able to provide passive magic mitigation. The alternative would have been to remove Protect entirely, but you'd have even more people frothing at the mouth over that.

Right now AST needs some help so the meta is WHM + SCH but hopefully with some adjustments to AST that relaxes somewhat and people are more willing to experiment. They have to be careful though, so that the meta doesn't end up being AST + AST with the other two healers left out in the cold.

Part of the problem stems from the fact that they made AST's healing be sort of like WHM and SCH. Nocturnal and Diurnal stances shouldn't really exist because ideally the job should have it's own style of healing, not merely ape the existing healers. AST could have been a purely HoT-based healer or maybe a healer designed around smart heals.

[Brickshouse]

4-5 day maintenance? T_T

The thing is they will need the time to transfer all the data from the servers in the Americas (where EU servers are currently hosted, think Canada) to Europe down the main cable under the atlantic. Now think if the chaos server cluster has 1m players on it, all the data to each character (and players have multiple) could be 100mb you are probably looking at petrabytes or even exabytes+ of data to move, test, do server load tests once data is accross, check for errors etc. etc. Its not something that can be done in a few hours or couple of days.

Also don't forget cost I doubt they would be spending less than £3m to move the servers.

[Blood-Aki]

Part of the problem stems from the fact that they made AST's healing be sort of like WHM and SCH. Nocturnal and Diurnal stances shouldn't really exist because ideally the job should have it's own style of healing, not merely ape the existing healers. AST could have been a purely HoT-based healer or maybe a healer designed around smart heals.

He stated we wanted healers to be equal what else can AST get, all new jobs have some form of "similar" abilites to each other, like MCH having MP regen abilites, just like BRD, etc. SO AST needs a regen ability and or a shield ability.

I mean, what else can they give it to make it look attractive? regen is very useful and so are damage shields. they just gave a much weaker version of both.

[Ashkendor]

Part of the problem stems from the fact that they made AST's healing be sort of like WHM and SCH. Nocturnal and Diurnal stances shouldn't really exist because ideally the job should have it's own style of healing, not merely ape the existing healers. AST could have been a purely HoT-based healer or maybe a healer designed around smart heals.

Yeah, I agree. I wish they'd gone with something new instead of this six of one half a dozen of the other bit.

The cards are kinda cool, but you don't get something that's of immediate use all that often.

[Mindylou]

WoW's Garrison & FFXI housing It's better than XIV.

Rift dimensions has them all beat 1000 fold.

[raelgun]

Rift dimensions has them all beat 1000 fold.

And how many players did RIFT have during its sub model again?
Just giving you a hint, it went free to play for a reason.

[Duelle]

He stated we wanted healers to be equal

Equal in performance and healing throughput, not equal in mechanics. There's ways to implement healing in a way that's different from WHm and SCH.

[Colorful]

And how many players did RIFT have during its sub model again?
Just giving you a hint, it went free to play for a reason.

What does that have to do with its housing system?

[raelgun]

What does that have to do with its housing system?

Less people playing means you can let each person have a bigger slice of the current server capacity, its simple maths

[Colorful]

Less people playing means you can let each person have a bigger slice of the current server capacity, its simple maths

Less people playing means less profit, which means less server capacity as you put it. "It's simple maths".

Edit: Reading up on the Rift's housing system now, you can have two dimensions for free, and I'm assuming these spaces are much more massive than Manors in FFXIV. On top of that, you can own an extra 18 dimensions by either paying, or through in game gold. This is per character by the way.