Quote Originally Posted by Tsunenori View Post
Are lillies/confessions counter-intuitive to the way WHM works? Somewhat. If someone is telling you they don't cast cures they're a liar, especially in progression content or undergeared content where regens alone get you killed. But regen effects are an undeniable part of our toolkit and as has been mentioned time and again it's bizarre that they don't give us a method of leaning into those more. Is CDR a terrible mechanic? No, absolutely not. Boring? Absolutely yes. Sometimes underwhelming? Sure. Unreliable? Maybe if you're not the kind of player who is able to adapt or plan.

The class is, on the whole, stronger in Stormblood if we pretend Lillies/Confessions don't exist at all than it is right now. While I'd love to see a more interesting mechanic in place and brand new toys to play with, this sky is falling rhetoric has to stop. As has been mentioned in here already, the players themselves are the ones creating this PR disaster for the class. We need more constructive feedback and less outright hysteria.
Frankly, the Lily-related information from the media release build was enough to get the fire started.

WHM resentment has been building for years, though I didn't really consider it that warranted until somewhat recently. When you take a sub-community that had been largely hoping for certain improvements and for the overall Job identity to be shored up and give them a first look at a new Job mechanic that is so problematic that you can tell through theorycrafting alone that it needs help, well...the shitstorm should surprise no one.

I'm all for constructive discussion and am happy to support the dev team even when they don't get everything perfect the first time (god knows they've still missed a spot here and there), but this one was a serious "what the hell were they thinking" moment.