Quote Originally Posted by FoxCh40s View Post
Which jokes on them, because the game is really balanced around the lowest common denominator. Which is why the game is in the state it is now. It's a vicious cycle they refuse to acknowledge.

Bad players -> Bad Players complain, Good Players complain about Bad Players -> Square Enix makes game even easier -> Even Worse Players -> Even Worse Players complain, Good Players complain about Even Worse Players -> Square Enix makes game easier -> EXTREMELY bad Players -> etc.
Got news for you guy. Been playing this game since 2.0. This isn't exactly true. If it were, job performance would not be skill-based for all jobs (even the easy ones), job performance within a job wouldn't have such a wide gulf (no doing 2x the dps of the other guy in Pagl'than), everyone would be able to perform at a level where they could attempt savage or even extra (some people can't hack it). What you've seen is attempts to make the job more accessible, or job play less shit. Heavensward job design was shit. People need to accept that triple-weaving to do one ogcd was not good playfeel.


It's been like this with Healers since Heavensward, it started with Tanks in Stormblood, and now it's started with Dps in Shadowbringers.

Got news for you from the Healer side dudes, it's gonna get worse. A lot worse.
Yeah okay, Cleric Stance was ass though. You weren't skilled because you were triple weaving to get a heal off. Tanks weren't skilled because they forced the dps to play their role for them. That's not how... that's not how skill works.

Instead, the skill expression is different. Healers may be easier to pick up, but the actual healing side of the job is thiccer than it's ever been, and the cost for not managing that well are gcds--and by removing dots, and putting more power in the gcd-to-gcd nuke, healers got harder by increasing the punishment for not managing their ogcds well.

OGCD management for healing, by the way, wasn't a thing in ARR. So the current gameplay that healers revolve around--that skill expression--did not exist in ARR at all. So are you going to claim that Cleric Stance->Cast a heal->Cleric Stance is somehow skill?

Ugh.