Quote Originally Posted by whitemoonflower View Post
Can the same degree of mindful development that BLM receives be applied to the rest of the jobs? If no one in charge of job changes understands how a particular job plays (or even enjoys playing it for that matter), can the community—those who main it, not just those who play it casually or to cap everything—be sought out on these changes?

We're asking for two things: meaningful changes and to be part of the process of reaching them. Please consider this.
I won't argue about whether those changes are good or bad, I occasionally play NIN but always hated SAM, so idk.

But what you think about is an utopia, there is no one out there that would be able to do that in a way that makes the community like it. I don't know what the meaning of those changes were (Most probable guess : run homogeneization), but say we ask 100 parsers how to adjust jobs. They might have ideas that feel good, but will they be balanced ? Will they really feel good on the long term, when you don't get THAT crit, or have .01 too much GCD and your whole rotation gets thrown overboard ? Won't those parsers be hated by the community ?

I'm not saying the changes they made are good, or even purposeful. I'm just saying reworks like that will always be criticized, and it's no surprise the community as a whole despise it, juste like they despise the SMN rework, or pretty much every rework ever. Let's wait and see, and discuss once we all know what exactly we're talking about.