Who else HATES the new PVP system? change it yoshida, pls.

[Shut]

I would have apreciated those changes if they were correctly done. I would have liked customization via traits and pvp actions if it wasn't an illusion of choice, and at least half of them are a joke. I would have liked skills reduction if it was not boring as hell for most jobs. 0.14 secs reduction of GCD isn't compensating the loss of all CD we had. But I guess bots are thankful, it's easier for them to act as players during peak hours now

A skill based battle as opposed to a "Which job's on top right now" beat-down. I recall people kicking DRK out for lackluster everything in feast, followed by people dropping from a match because certain jobs were imbalanced to play against.

And how it is now? WAR is no longer viable, I don't even need to talk about AST. For melee, you just take the one with the best burst since they are basically "hit 1 button then pop dmg oGCD", and range, RDM is almost suicide and is only good at Ks and BLM still suffer LoS pb. There are much more unbalanced class comparing to how it was. It wasn't perfectly balanced in HW (show me a game where it is, except pong) but most class were more or less viable in feast leaving aside DRK. Now you have 1 or 2 class per role that are just really bad in 4v4.

In larger modes like 8v8 or frontlines, the loss of survivability made melee at the mercy of range even more than before. It feels completely unrewarding to play melee there because if you try to do something else than poking, you're dead. And I have yet to see the promised strategic battles that this system was supposed to bring:
"CRYSTAL!! <se.1> CRYSTAL!! <se.1> CRYSTAL!! <se.1> "
"no, kill mael, they are 100 pt from win"
"CRYSTAL!! <se.1> CRYSTAL!! <se.1> CRYSTAL!! <se.1> "
"Sandwich adders, go there by south"
"CRYSTAL!! <se.1> CRYSTAL!! <se.1> CRYSTAL!! <se.1> "