Quote Originally Posted by Aevalyn View Post
Side rant, if new players think the game is too hard then the answer is make the content easier, not make the jobs simpler.
Disagree with this.
If new players think the game is too hard, they should probably be playing something else because the only real challenge that exists anymore is current Savage/EX/Ultimate. Most of the game can be cleared by turning your brain off and spamming 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 on the majority of classes. Even at that, the game could make one hell of a better effort of incentivisng players to learn and improve for themselves by updating outdated features like Hall of the Novice. A revamped HotN with individual job tutorials teaching about unique job mechanics such as teaching new healers what an Esuna is or when to use Rescue, teaching tanks how to properly manage their CDs and not overlap, teaching DPS how their rotations work along with how their gauge interacts with it... But instead what we've got is a lacklustre introduction into group content that nobody touches. If the game isn't going to give new players the tools and advice they need to improve, the devs and the playerbase can't sit there with surprisedpikachu faces when new players don't improve.

I do agree with all your SAM points though. It's not even like it was a hard class to pick up or difficult to master once you'd gotten the hang of it but now it just feels so boring and unsatisfying. Wouldn't have thought the removal of one ability would have such a knock-on effect to the rest of the class but thanks to these 6.1 changes, I'm dropping the class until it changes. Truthfully I'm considering cancelling my sub for a while as well because I'm logging in less and less these days due to general dissatisfaction with the game which has just hit a new low. Obviously nobody's going to care that a select few are thinking of cancelling their subs because it comes across as melodramatic cope, but that's literally where I'm at right now and it feels shit considering how much love I've had for this game over the years.