I think it's reasonable to level a job before forming a final opinion. Failing to do so is a bit like writing a review on a piece of media without finishing it. If people wanted your guesswork on how it plays in raiding situations, couldn't they do the same themselves?

You also don't need to fate grind a job to 80 simply to validate a set pre-conceived notions on it. It's a waste of your time, because you're not having fun, and it's a waste of time for people who are looking for information on how it plays.

You might say that this is a catch-22, and it is. But such is the nature of credibility. People are generally able to tell if you're giving something a fair shot or not.

It's hard to find coherence in some of these complaints. Shadowbringers is too easy because DRK has one combo, so let's revert it back to Stormblood. What? Listen, I know that some people are confused over Delirium's role in Heavensward and thought that the job had two combos. That's fine. But what part of Stormblood did you have a second combo in?

You have people complain that the resource management is too simple, yet in the same breath demand increases in the rate of resource generation so that they don't have to worry about being stuck without MP for TBN or blood for LS. This is a resource management job. Do you want it harder, or easier? These two contradict each other.

You have people complaining about how Delirium is too simplistic, yet simultaneously take issue with the fact that missing hits under Delirium punishes your dps. No. Way. This isn't Continuation Arts, where you have 15 seconds between combo steps to grab a coffee and order a pizza. Do you want it harder, or easier?

People are complaining about TBN not breaking. Well, you're right, it doesn't break off of single target autos. That's not it's function. But do you honestly think that the devs are going to make the duration longer so that you can have more than 50% uptime on the ability? Or do you think that they're going to just nerf the mitigation value instead if you complain enough about it? This strikes me as a common sense issue.

What baffles me is that a lot of the people complaining now were the exact same people specifically complaining about DRK in Stormblood. And now you say that you want to go back to the Stormblood version? Unchanged? Because you liked it so much? What?

I don't think that DRK couldn't do without some improvements, but I was hoping for a slightly more nuanced discussion than "Lv. 71 DRK was too boring for me, so I'm playing GNB now for the pretty explosions." Good for you, I guess? You could just post that the one time and be done with it. Preferably on a blog.

I really want to see an actual discussion on this subject, but it feels like it gets drowned out in a sea of gut reaction posts.