Confessions of a Toxic Elitist

[Tridus]

Look at all the crap thrown at the developers for the lily system when it was discovered it doesn't work with their normal minmax strategy.

And how did that work out? Good WHM players ignore the lily system entirely. Trying to fish for lilies makes you worse as a WHM. You could remove it from the game entirely today and people wouldn't skip a beat in terms of playing the job.

The trick is that players as a collective spend far, far more time actually playing than the developers do. Developers ignore that collective experience at their peril, lest they design something like the lily system where what they intend people to do and the reality are a country mile apart. Intentions mean very little when compared to what they actually do.

Or, as programmers often lament: "The computer does what I tell it to and not what I want."

[Mahrze]

And how did that work out? Good WHM players ignore the lily system entirely. Trying to fish for lilies makes you worse as a WHM. You could remove it from the game entirely today and people wouldn't skip a beat in terms of playing the job.

The trick is that players as a collective spend far, far more time actually playing than the developers do. Developers ignore that collective experience at their peril, lest they design something like the lily system where what they intend people to do and the reality are a country mile apart. Intentions mean very little when compared to what they actually do.

Or, as programmers often lament: "The computer does what I tell it to and not what I want."

This is true, especially when they have an "identity design" behind it that they use as a way to limit themselves on what they can do.

And then, when people asked for reduced CDs on DRK, they said Reduced CDs are not always a gain

Q: The adjustment made to dark knight’s The Blackest Night ability was nice; however the effects of Dark Passenger and Shadow Wall feel low compared to the MP cost and length of the recast time. I would like to see dark knight’s defensive properties expanded.
A: Since the major adjustments to warrior, the development team has received requests to adjust dark knight.

Looking at the usage rates of each job within the tank role, we believe that the balance between them is currently quite even, so we are carefully considering how we should adjust dark knight.

Content is balanced around the recast time of buffs, so a reduction in recast time may not always lead to strengthening the job.

Dark knight is under careful consideration at the moment, so please wait a bit longer.