Request for Better Dev Communication Regarding Job Balancing and Adjustments

[Faafetai]

Samurai's Iaijutsu range extension in 6.05 served almost no practical purpose, as a SAM main myself I have not encountered a single situation in the current Savage tier where this change was beneficial. On the other hand GNB has been drooling over this change for their Continuation skill.

I know this may not be a huge issue on teams who are use to playing together, but dear lord in prae, castrum and every dungeon I have Midare Setsugekka or Tenka Goken. Sometimes the tank will move just slightly backwards and it would cancel the cast of these two skills. Higibana was usually at the perfect time where they wouldn't move, but this honestly would make me pull my hair out. I know you have to move sometimes as a tank because I tank, but it would get so obnoxious. It could have also been an issue with mobs not being where they were for me as they were for the server. I have had many issues with other things ping related where the mobs will be farther away than they actually were or somehow behind me and my character would do a half spin to get to a mob that was way in front of me on my screen. I feel it was just a minor gripe honestly, but I could see how this change could have been one people wished for not playing with decent ping.

Mechanist has been getting the short end of the stick for really no reason. I agree with pretty much everything you are saying and would wish for them to be more open and communicate honestly with why they are making these changes and maybe hold some form of vote with the player base through the game. Steam does this for its census data to know what types of pc's people are playing on to better understand who has a potato pc and who is actually using their platform, so they know not to go through with changes that would needlessly increase performance. Though it was not very transparent that I could have a simplified steam until I did an extensive search about how to get the clutter from my steam library (streams playing in the back ground or random gifs just loading on the community pages, you can change it so you just have your library and nothing else) so I could play Pyre. This still stands though at least they ask. I would like for them to ask what changes not just go through with some or mention many and just I guess forget about them because someone higher up told them we need to change things for those use to mobile gaming because that is where the quick money is currently.

Ask everyone what they actually want. Even a poll on what classes everyone plays the most, how often they play in general, playing habits could also help. Knowing if many just do not jive with a class but wish to stick it out and they are who the devs are changing things for not the people who enjoy the classes for many hours a day or week or months. I do not mean to just listen to everyone and not have an idea for how they wish the game to be played, but to take into consideration the voices that maybe play the jobs more than they do such as healers. The devs do not play them so listen to people who actually do.