Hissatsu: Kaiten

[Mapleine]

Since ShB launched the game has undergone streamlining on the hopes that it would expand the audience. I actually think they accomplished some of this fairly well, at least on non-healers, like Reaper is brilliant and Nu Summoner is a great baseline provided they don't back down on it in the future (give me more summons with more movement contrivances, this design is good for a puzzle-based combat game.)

I know this is charitable, but I'm going to be charitable to a game I like even as a long term genre vet who knows better.

I feel like they probably doubled down on things after the WoW-implosion, thinking their game design had something to do with it and went off the deep end in a few spots. Pruning like this feels misguided, especially when it goes right down to the bone - class identity.

This is why people want MMOs to have class devs/reps, which they sadly never do so there's no one to go to bat for you on the minutiae of the job. This stuff really matters when you play it for this long.