Live letter expectations.

[Mindiori]

Expect more 1 button spamming and boring homogenization. The days of dynamic, interesting differences are over. The only differences for healing jobs these devs seem to care about are cosmetic in nature.
I've no hope things will reverse from the 5.0 design philosophy. They've all but ignored this community for 2 years.

It always appeared that Yoshi and co took the admiration of WoW a little too literally, following it would seem the route of dumbing down with age. Perhaps to refresh the appeal to milked demographics as they grow/change. It is a business after all.

Sure you can push for the 1% of scripted challenges that require some level of consciousness but that's hilariously ignorant of the majority of the game. Unless a skip pot or two happens to pop out of the pocket to relieve a new player of whatever the lower levels are now meant to be; You'll be nigh spamming a single button ad nauseam, a challenge regimen for staying awake at best. There is plenty to like about the game but a sense of complexity or depth sure ain't one.

[VictorTheed]

I'm hoping to see the new moves for each job as well as current moves changes in potency, animation, or if u get em at a different lvl now and of the moves do anything different.

I know this stuff usually comes in a media tour but are they even gonna do that this year.

[Risvertasashi]

I know this stuff usually comes in a media tour but are they even gonna do that this year.

Seems pretty unlikely. Although the event was leaky as a sieve anyways, I still doubt SE would be willing to hand out pre-release builds to computers they don't control (not to mention, since they'd still need a server, support/setup would have its technical obstacles that they might not want to deal with).

Then again, maybe they could just give the trusted media outlets remote access to the test machines. Or maybe they'll try to make up for it in some other way, throwing more info than usual into other channels. Only time will tell...

[ItMe]

I remember them saying before Shadow Bringers that they wanted to bring all jobs back down to a baseline in 5.0 so they could rebuild them into new things in 6.0.
I just wanna see if / how that pans out.

[MintnHoney]

I remember them saying before Shadow Bringers that they wanted to bring all jobs back down to a baseline in 5.0 so they could rebuild them into new things in 6.0.

I don't remember the "rebuild" part, but they definitely brought all the healers down.

[Deceptus]

I remember them saying before Shadow Bringers that they wanted to bring all jobs back down to a baseline in 5.0 so they could rebuild them into new things in 6.0.
I just wanna see if / how that pans out.

What sucks is getting nerfed back to step one while everyone else is on step four.

[HyperiusUltima]

Honestly I just want a SCH kit that doesn't lock up similar to how SMN locks itself up when their stuff doesn't interact well.

But of course, SE is never going to listen to Healers. Because we're only supposed to heal...even when they put it in their own damn role tutorial we can do other things than healing. If anything, I'm prepared to have Sage become literal garbage and just a hodge podge of what AST was since they need another Shield healer.

Is it that hard to ask for fun, interactive gameplay for healers?

[SpiralMask]

57 minutes as of posting. lets see if healing is going to suck for another two years or not.

[SpiralMask]

sizzle reel showed an additional redundant heal (SCH got an aoe one) and no apparent new skills otherwise, so it's not looking good for the "please dont keep playing like ass" camp, but the healer cards are yet to arrive on stream

[Risvertasashi]

I'm hoping to see the new moves for each job as well as current moves changes in potency, animation, or if u get em at a different lvl now and of the moves do anything different.

I know this stuff usually comes in a media tour but are they even gonna do that this year.

Looks like we get can answer to how SE will handle things this time sooner than later. To follow up on this, it looks like the current PLL is giving the info that'd normally come out in the media tour.