Worthless Live Letter

[GrimGale]

The amount of people from "reaction" videos that go OOHH, AAHHH everytime SCH does an action makes me irrationally upset.

They all stare wide-eyed at the screen, marveling at the pretty colours and animations from abilities that existed in the game for more than 4 years.

Deployment Tactics: Ohhh that looks cool! is that new?

No

Whispering dawn: Ohhh so pretty, looks so cool!

No

Fey Blessing: Oh whoaaaa, that's new! Love the butterly effects!

No

Then when the actual new abilities show up they just stare in confusion or don't even notice them. SCH's trailer is truly a failure.

[Boizinho]

The amount of people from "reaction" videos that go OOHH, AAHHH everytime SCH does an action makes me irrationally upset.

They all stare wide-eyed at the screen, marveling at the pretty colours and animations from abilities that existed in the game for more than 4 years.

Deployment Tactics: Ohhh that looks cool! is that new?

No

Whispering dawn: Ohhh so pretty, looks so cool!

No

Fey Blessing: Oh whoaaaa, that's new! Love the butterly effects!

No

Then when the actual new abilities show up they just stare in confusion or don't even notice them. SCH's trailer is truly a failure.

They're definitely relying on people not knowing the Shadowbringers kit for some jobs in order to make it look like Endwalker isn't just the same garbage all over again. Both SCH and DRK in the job actions trailer were like "spot the difference" games.

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

They're definitely relying on people not knowing the Shadowbringers kit for some jobs in order to make it look like Endwalker isn't just the same garbage all over again. Both SCH and DRK in the job actions trailer were like "spot the difference" games.

/think (sarcasm warning)....But.. that would imply that there were enough differences to even be enough for a spot the difference game...

[AngeliouxRein]

I gotta say… it was absolutely hilarious watching different YouTuber reactions and literally everyone was trying to play spot the difference. The ones that happened to have others or guests there to tell what was new and wasn’t for DRK and SCH made it all the more hilarious. The disappointment in their voices as they slowly realized and tried to play it off. It was a good laugh.

[Videra]

I will laugh like a bloody hyena if Energy Drain gets the yeet again.

[FoxCh40s]

I will laugh like a bloody hyena if Energy Drain gets the yeet again.

It totally will, they've tried every expansion since HW to get rid of it.

[Aword3213]

It totally will, they've tried every expansion since HW to get rid of it.

The removal of ED from previous patches seemed to me that SCH job designers either had no information from content designers, or they simply solo heal everything during testing

[Truen]

The removal of ED from previous patches seemed to me that SCH job designers either had no information from content designers, or they simply solo heal everything during testing

I honestly don't think any of these developers spend any length of time playing healer. It's the most boring experience ever casting the same spell over and over again.

[AikenDrum]

I dunno, it's a too obvious thing to not notice. Nobody is *that* incompetent.
I'd say they just had a priority of making a job to look like a healer much higher than making good gameplay.
They did succeed in the first part i think? If i was new to xiv and checked any healer i'd probably think this looked like a good healer design, and it'd take me quite some time to realize otherwise.

[ItMe]

I honestly don't think any of these developers spend any length of time playing healer. It's the most boring experience ever casting the same spell over and over again.

This is something that I keep hearing, but I don't understand how this could be.
At the end of the day... for each expac they still have to rigorously playtest 12 raids, about 7 trials, many dungeons, any deep dungeon, exploration content, any public dungeon(s), and (since Stormblood) at least 1 Ultimate.
And then rigorously playtest it 2 (now 3) more times on the other healers.

And we know the battle team only has single digit members. So there isn't a way to pass the buck around enough that no one really gets time to understand healing. They should be experienced enough to know what's up.
What's happening?
How does it seem like they're staffed with such (pardon the awkward expression) green healers when they've been running their own content so much and for so long?

I really wish the dev team posted videos of them doing content together because I'd love to see how they playtest stuff, what their approach is like, how they communicate, etc.
And I wanna see what their healers are doing.