Quote Originally Posted by aodhan_ofinnegain View Post
Think most players myself included at this point, typically dismiss DRK threads, simply because we're fed up with yet another DRK rework thread, if they were less abundant and let's be honest, a lot have terrible suggestions included within said posts, people might be a bit more amenable to these sort of threads. Thing is most people are not gonna be happy unless it goes back to HW DRK, but unfortunately that probably won't work with how the current tanks are designed.
from my point of view, most of these threads exist because the people who plays these jobs have ideas on how to make the job they are passionate about a little more fun. most of the ideas might be terrible to some players, a few might be good to others, but I think the fact that so many people just want the job to be fun over being balanced shows that square enix took a huge step backwards with the current design. the STB and HW designs for certain jobs might not have been "balanced", but if they're more fun to play than the current SHB iteration, then why bother playing them at all?

I've been playing this game since ARR, and although i occasionally lurked here, the only time i ever came to complain on the forums was during SHB when I realised that after a year of the expac being out, square had made NO changes aside from a WAR QOL (which was an oversight that they should have just implemented on release)

I just hope that people aren't too blinded by loyalty or something to realise that square really messed up this expac, and that the criticisms and complaints come from a place of love, and from people who want the game to be both fun and rewarding to play, which atm it is not, (if you're a tank or healer player from the past) despite what "the numbers" would say. i'm not even sure why more people aren't pointing out the fact that only 4 devs are working on the battle systems for all of the 17 or so jobs in the game, and that those devs even admitted they dont like playing tanks or healers.... hell' I'd give them advice for free if it meant that the game could see a return to form.