Letter from the Producer LXII

[Michiko]

Glad the Hrothgar stuff is starting to look nice. But honestly that's the only thing I gleamed that was something that we didn't already know. Still no explanation of why adding a 4 tank for 'balance' is the answer while refusing to do a new healer class for "balance". Guess I'm still sore that we spent all of 4.0 with the constant "balance" issues and yet nothing was ever actually done about it. Holding hope on the Live Letter on May 23rd for this "revamp" but.. I am already not expecting much but probably more homogenization between the healer classes..

But again.. at least the Hrothgar is .. pretty cute

[Derio]

I honestly cannot agree with the healer decision until I see the changes to healers in 5.0

[keichirou]

While i do see mr producer make some contradictions in the letter i think is good he addressed those things , now one question popped in my mind, i see bunny race have heels , is that a thing now ? ������

[Nyvara]

That is one handsome ass motherflippin Hrothgar.

Yeah! I was indifferent about them till i saw that image now me likey!

What a great letter. It's a reminder why Yoshi was chosen to head this game.

[KageTokage]

Wait a second. Did I miss something? All races can be heterochromic, isn't it? It's an option in eyes color when you create character, always was, at least since 2.16 when I started to play.

I guess that's what happens when you've never bothered looking at the options for any races other then Miqo'te/Au Ra.

Well, that and I've never seen a non-Miqo'te/Au Ra character with heterochromia.

[zeylos]

That Hopeful Viera guy is probably shaking right now~

Anyhow Viera and Hrothgar looking good!
That Earring placement on Viera tho oof here i come emperor earrings

I mean, why should he be shaking?
If its from happines, I get it, but they have basically said they are trying to make them

[Maero]

Ty OP for posting, that really was a great read and so awesome to read about the hard work they have been doing

[Iscah]

The earring placement looks a bit awkward on the Viera, I think it should be placed higher up on the ear, where the ear is more curved, but that's just me.

I agree. I think they might just be reusing the placement for Miqo'te?

[Seraphor]

Talks about adding a 4th tank to help with the balance but then says cannot add a 4th healer for the sake of the balance.

Yeah I thought that too. You could easily make the same arguments for the other way around, it's just that they had a good idea for a Tank and apparently nothing for a healer so far.
But there is an argument for them possibly being more able to come up with a new healer if the healer balance changes over the next couple years though.

[Syphin_Polaris]

Talks about adding a 4th tank to help with the balance but then says cannot add a 4th healer for the sake of the balance.

Then talks about how there's only 2 ranged melee DPS so they feel they are doing good by adding another ignoring the fact that idk theres a ton of DPS!? Who cares if there's only two melee ranged, it's all under an umbrella.

And of course, their gender locked races ordeal which they try to defend but you can't really defend that nonsense. 1.0 was criticized for this and they did away with this stupid locking with 2.0, but it's like we're reverting back.

I completely disagree with your stance on the races and their explanation regarding them, because it seemed very reasonable to me. Personally when I think of gender and/or race locks, i think of locking specific gameplay behind those. An example would be Tera making reapers or ninjas only playable on the little girls, or brawlers being humans.

That's my thoughts on that matter, but I wanted to ask a question: What else could they add as a new flavor for healing? We have powerful healing and regens from White Mage, we have good healing and high shield related healing from Scholar, and a mix of both worlds with a list of buffs from Astro. Also at the current moment, white mage is a very powerful healer, but thats kinda all they really bring a group, where as scholar can help prevent damage and increase crits against a target and astro has amazing raid utility in the cards. I don't main healers so I don't know all the finer details on what makes an average healer and a great healer so I'm sure I'm missing some other key details. I want to know what they could bring new to the table that isn't regens, shields, and RNGesus blessed cards. I'm genuinely curious.

I'm also sure the players that like ranged physical DPS care about having a 3rd job to play with also, healers have had their 3rd for awhile now.