We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[HyoMinPark]

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Calm down; I’m literally only building off of points you already provided, as well as providing a counterargument into why I personally think they added in the job lock to accessories—it is, in a way, to prevent tanks from using STR accessories; but that also comes from the developer’s way they think tanks should be played in this game (i.e., always in tank stance, always using their enmity combos, etc.).

I personally don’t think the change came from making it easier on healers to heal, as I never had issues healing STR tanks in HW (and I’m not a healer main, nor was I a Savage raider back then—I only did Ex trials up until the final months of Creator). With the change to tank damage scaling off of VIT in 3.4, there was no issues healing tanks then. But that change was reverted thanks to changing in how Weakness/Brink of Death functioned, which was already discussed several pages back (so I’m not going to rehash it now).

Not everything is an attack on your posts.


EDIT: If you would like me to specifically address DF queue cheesing, then there is a simple solution to this: regardless of the gear one is currently wearing, if their job meets the level requirements for a duty, they will always have the chance of landing in that duty (e.g., a person is level 70, but they don’t want to get Swallow’s Compass so they attempt to remove gear too lower their item level so it does not pop—but the Duty Finder ignores this and puts them in the queue for it anyways, as they have unlocked it and they meet the base level requirement for it; it would also help if the game was able to recognize “They’ve cleared this content before” to also add another layer of ignoring item level manipulations).