You've done it again with SMN.

[Nemekh]

The irony, Gallus, is that you said contrary in response to our own concerns. These were all known well in advance. Only to receive from other players a chorus of "You haven't played it yet, wait" and other notions that it won't be that way. Surprise surprise, we've played and it's how we claimed.

[Gallus]

The irony, Gallus, is that you said contrary in response to our own concerns. These were all known well in advance. Only to receive from other players a chorus of "You haven't played it yet, wait" and other notions that it won't be that way. Surprise surprise, we've played and it's how we claimed.

Hey wait a second here. I don't recall saying SMN was going to be easy. What I said back then is the fact I liked how the potencies were looking because while Bahamut and Phoenix were DPS increases, they weren't the beginning and end of everything so our DPS was looking more like a stable line. A few weeks later Ifrit's egi auto's potency goes from 135 to 80, Ruin III potency goes from 250 to 200, and Phoenix fountain of fire and brand of purgatory's potency is buffed. Literally the opposite of what I wanted. Then, to add salt to the wound, they remove the autoattack Egi Trait that would've allowed us to stack a lot of Ruin IV spells and thus give us a lot of instant casts to weave all the overwhelming amount of OGCDs (that would've been a little bit less overwhelming provided this did not happen as we would've had a lot more mobility without DPS loss).

But yeah, you are right about one thing and it's that I did not predict the OGCD mess it was going to be, but who did? How could we know double weaving egi assault and egi assault II could result in an OGCD being lost? And how could we know they would troll us the Ruin IV Egi autoattack trait at the very last second?

We didn't know how the hell SMN was going to be until the very first day of the expansion where we could play it ourselves. Too many relevant changes at the very last second happened to predict anything here.