Disrespectful and Dismissive.

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Absolutely did. The words "latest live letter" and "I wonder how that will turn out" make it perfectly clear. If you cannot make that connection, that is on you.

You said "latest live letter" in reference to ninja only. You can't expect anyone to extrapolate that you wanted that bit referencing the ninja changes to apply to your entire statement. Once again, I regret to inform you that I cannot read minds.

... I said I don't know what they're planning and that it's based on observation of their behavior. Yet what you're interested in talking seems to be assumptions and what we can't or cannot prove.

When you present statements such as "The existence of Bane, Miasma, Shadowflare today would preclude the existence of anything better than that in the future" as fact, I believe asking for them to not be an assumption is reasonable, especially when this is one of the core points that we're discussing here. There are some things that we can consider implied assumptions. This is not one of them. Remember this?

What am I assuming? I'm not assuming anything.

It'd be nice if we could not present assumptions as facts, and it'd also be nice if we didn't say "I'm not assuming anything" when in fact one of the most the most crucial point that we (in this case you) are making is at it's core, just an assumption. It's not rocket science and it's not philosophy either.

I don't understand why you're saying they don't want us to DPS... They do, because that's why we have DPS buttons.

"We believe trying to heal as little as possible and DPSing instead isn’t what a Healers role should be"

Interpret this however you want. The way I interpret it is that they don't like healers doing damage. They've said in multiple interviews both directly and indirectly that they do not like the mentality that healers should be damage dealers.

Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...54w3SuMgaL704g

Do I really have to put a disclaimer on every single statement explaining that it's not a claim of certainty, but based on observation of Squeenix' behavior?

Nope, but on some statements it's pretty important. Again, the statement that having bane, misama, and shadowflare would prevent us from getting new better abilities is a statement that has very little reason behind it and having proof here would be appreciated. If you can't substantiate that claim with at least some form of evidence, then I suggest that you don't present it as a fact like you did.

Here's two versions of scholar:
- Current 5.05 SCH
- Current 5.05 SCH with Miasma, Shadowflare, Bane.
Which of these two versions do you think is more likely to receive new abilities, given Squeenix' recent behavior?

5.0 sch was boring
5.05 sch is still boring, but it's slightly better.

Here is what I find most likely: sch (and all 3 healers in general) remain unfun to play for the duration of 5.0
Here is what I find to be possible, but unlikely: SE will listen to their players and healers will get some of the pruned abilities back
Here is what I find to be most favorable, but extraordinarily unlikely: SE does a rework of healers in the middle of the expansion, and gives healers new abilities that fit the classes better than the old ones we had in stormblood
Here is my prediction for 6.0: Healers will suck for the entirety of shadowbringers. SE will remain clueless in 6.0, and give us boring healers once again. Will I even be playing this game at this point? Probably not, if it continues like this