2017/07/06 Hotfixes: Grade 6 Materia aplenty!

[Exiled_Tonberry]

They need to start addressing the core issues, rather than bribing people.

In with you 100% of the way. Instead of really making healers sand tanks fun to play, they'd rather throw tons of incentives at us. Mounts, special titles, Materia. This is Diadem 2.0 all over again. Rerelease shit content and throw a ridiculously powerful weapon in there to make people run it rather than just making fun content.

And the worst thing about this is they'll take the number or tanks and healers running Leveling after implementing this, and use it as assurance that people do play these roles. Sigh

[NefarioCall]

Solo in an mmo.... does not compute I hope the NPC system sucks its a game for playing with others not with bots... if you want to play solo play a single player game... jeeez.

Perhaps i need to elaborate.
I always loved playing with others in FFXI,
And i rather enjoy the primal fights in this game,
But speed running corridors culture is crap and i'll seek any other content to side step it.

[Dauntess]

And the worst thing about this is they'll take the number or tanks and healers running Leveling after implementing this, and use it as assurance that people do play these roles. Sigh

As a tank main, this is the first thing that popped in my head. WAR and DRK have issues and I just have this feeling they're gonna look at stats and say tanks are popular now so they are fine and don't need tweaks.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I don't believe there's any amount of "making tanks and healers fun to play" that will address the primary reason most folk don't play them. Fun is subjective. Healers and tanks are just as fun as dps... for those who find healing and tanking fun. The primary reason fewer people enjoy tanking and healing is because those roles have far more personal responsibility attached. It is impossible to "make tanking and healing more fun" in the manner dps is, because there is no way to untie the personal responsibility that comes with those roles.

Tanks are thrust into a leadership position. They are forced to set the pace (or let dps run roughshod over them and pull at a whim which only makes tanking less fun). They are expected to know the dungeon layout, the pulls, the boss mechanics, and to pull fast enough and big enough that itchy trigger finger dps don't go off the rails, but not so fast or big that they can't handle surviving. Which brings us to...

Healers are expected to not only keep the party healthy, but to also contribute dps and/or buffs (AST/SCH). Particularly, healers are expected to be able to keep the tank alive amidst large pulls. Pulls that SB content have made far more punishing on tanks than what we grew accustomed to in Heavensward with overgeared everyone and perhaps more forgiving dungeons (in some cases).

All dps are expected to do is... well.. to dps. They don't even have to be particularly good at it (but its really nice when they are). Their role has no personal responsibility attached outside of that which tanks and healers also have (not standing in bad, observing and reacting to mechanics). At least as far as dungeons are concerned, DPS have no added pressure on them to excel at their role whereas tanks and healers do. Obviously enrage timers in savage content are another animal entirely. DPS also have the epeen tape measure of big numbers.

So those who wish to avoid any extra personal responsibility and those who need their ego stroked by a 3rd party meter, are going to choose the dps role. Now this is not to say all dps are like that. Just as many if not more simply enjoy the role of dps for a variety of reasons that have little to do with responsibility or ego. But those who are drawn to dps for those two reasons inflate the pool of dps and obviously aren't filling the pool of tanks and healers. Making tanking and healing "more fun" isn't going to get these people to change their stripes.

[BloodRubyXII]

We never get AIN as healer anyway

[Fredco191]

We never get AIN as healer anyway

Hopefully you all get the bonus you deserve eventually.

[Warlyx]

good change , the issue is that u are kinda forced to play a tank for this bonus , even if u have the 3 tanks maxed wasting DR Leveling :/

[Dzian]

Personally like many people I don't really care for materia melding anyway, Gear just doesn't last long enough to bother with materia.
So meh.... won't encourage me at all. I'll just go as whatever job I need the exp on. far more valuable than materia anyway.

I also think that that something like this would probably only work in the very short term because once the materia supply is at a certain level the value is going to plummet. and that in turn kill the incentive.

Doing a roulette as AIN for a 300k materia might seem tempting to some players but.
Doing it as AIN for a 50k materia... nahhhhhhhh i'll pass... exp is more valuable

If the AIN bonus was an exp scroll of sorts I could use on any of my jobs including dps. Something I and other people suggested here Then you'd more likely see me as AIN in roulettes all day long.

But materia nah, i'll just stick to whatever needs the exp as exp if far more useful and valuable than materia

[Mature]

I see the incentive but it's so easy to get clusters from new A ranks and S.

In the other hand cracked Crystals are non existent unless you transmu materia. I'll be doing leveling if Crystal were included

I guess a good move from team to encourage people to Q up

[MistakeNot]

Yeah, it can happen that the Adventurer in Need switches while waiting in queue.
It's been like that since before SB since it happened to me in HW atleast once.
And that is how I learned that it can change while waiting.

It can indeed change while waiting, but every time it has happened to me I got the Adventurer in Need bonus based on what was shown when I signed up.