Kinda laughed

[Callidus]

Keep in mind the interview where he said there wasn't going to be a DPS buff for PLD was conducted over two weeks ago on October 21st. It's very possible that they decided to include the Swipe change in the intervening two weeks. I'd be surprised if they hadn't considered and tested a number of changes including everything from DPS enhancements to utility improvements - they just may not have 100% settled on the final combination of tweaks until recently.

Though it isn't as much as I was hoping for, the Swipe change seems a move in the right direction. We'll need to see how it turns out in practice and if it still requires a proc before we know just how happy or disappointed we should be.

The TP "fix" is pretty disappointing though. That it took several months and a major patch to get this tiny tweak to us while they went ape tweaking AST potencies in 3.07 seems a bit ridiculous. Though the AST problem prior to 3.07 was admittedly more serious than PLD's TP issues, it seems like such a minor tweak could have been delivered a bit sooner so the community could start providing feedback on the change and, by 3.1, they could have determined if additional changes were necessary as I suspect they will be.

[eagledorf]

Keep in mind the interview where he said there wasn't going to be a DPS buff for PLD was conducted over two weeks ago on October 21st. [...]

The TP "fix" is pretty disappointing though.

In two weeks they changed from not buffing DPS to basically only buffing DPS and doing almost nothing else whatsoever? Even if that were true it just means that they spent 2 months sitting on their hands and then came up with something else at the last second. There's no excuse, this is a very bad show.

The TP "fix" is a "break it even worse for everything but A4S". Now if anybody other than WAR is in their tank stance, you need to give them TP. Like 3 min for PLD and like 2.5 for DRK.

[Callidus]

In two weeks they changed from not buffing DPS to basically only buffing DPS and doing almost nothing else whatsoever? Even if that were true it just means that they spent 2 months sitting on their hands and then came up with something else at the last second. There's no excuse, this is a very bad show.

I totally agree.

I just wanted to make the point that, though it's still bizarre, we're looking at information sources a couple weeks apart that just happened to be published a couple days apart. Too lazy to look up who said it, but there was an implication that Yoshi-P must not know what's happening to his own game because he said no DPS buff just a couple days before the patch note preview announced a DPS buff, minor though it may be. I doubt he read the release notes with the rest of us and went "Huh, we changed Shield Swipe? Cool, I guess."

Hair splitting aside, I agree it makes the dev process look more chaotic than I would like to imagine.