Quote Originally Posted by jon041065 View Post
It could have been a bad presentation and they didn't state that it was a testing phase but we are complaining about part of what they did tell us. Specifically, one slide and the reasons given that it has to be that way.



We are against this. The fact is that it could have amazing and challenging solo content but that wouldn't make up for the inability to play the job in current content with our friends. Hopefully that will change.
That's very limited information to have this much hate against it. Reading just that slide, "designed for solo play" and "not suited for parties" comes off to me as many abilities may be locked out of group play. Not suited for parties does not entail full exclusion. I know the class is locked to level 50 for now, which will be raised in the future. My guess to that is to adjust the job according to feedback and see how things scale from there (one thing I can tell you, FFXIV's scaling is not the best, but the other games I've played have none, so my perception is a bit skewed).

Just like I know there's some quote I've vaguely read/heard of Yoshida (maybe even someone else) talking about death possibly 1-shotting bosses (which may even be hyperbole - we don't know yet!). Without knowing the full context of the remark because of how very little information has been presented, this could mean a number of things (including, but not limited to: making sure abilities that are marked to not having access to in certain content cannot be made available through means like pomanders, squadron's ungarmax and scholar's ability to resummon their fairy while under dissipation; making sure checks to are in place that an under-abilitied BLU cannot be carried through content because they did not do enough things to unlock enough abilities to maintain a rotation; testing rotations for damage if they were ever planned to be allowed into current content).

Like I've been trying to say, we literally don't have enough information. It's fine to be cautious, but there's still a difference between caution and pessimism.