What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Nabby]

Man, these official forums are wild.

[Mapleine]

Man, these official forums are wild.

The official forums are just the venting grounds, I was venting a bit too until 6.1 rebuilt confidence. They used to be a bit better though, like people were still whiny messes in ARR (me too) but the WoW exodus had a highly obvious effect and some people just found that type of miasma to stew in due to it.

Consider that this is the largest x.1 we've had by a fair clip, and we have the handful of denizens on this forum complaining about the exact opposite right in its wake. Just the roadmap listing for 6.2 makes 5.2 look like anemic by comparison. COVID ran a spike through Shadowbringers, as they stressed about 3 times, and we're barely now recovering. That much is obvious.

I do think people are in the right about job design though. It's not "ruined" or anything but it's on a worrying trend. Healing has always been a confused mess, from ARR to now, it isn't a recent occurance. I really wish they'd just give up on it and make the PvP WHM a reality. XIV is a game about puzzles and patterns, it's scripted and its rough to make exciting healing for that.

So gimmie my damn lily beam and seraph strike.

[Atelier-Bagur]

The official forums are just the venting grounds, I was venting a bit too until 6.1 rebuilt confidence. They used to be a bit better though, like people were still whiny messes in ARR (me too) but the WoW exodus had a highly obvious effect and some people just found that type of miasma to stew in due to it.

Consider that this is the largest x.1 we've had by a fair clip, and we have the handful of denizens on this forum complaining about the exact opposite right in its wake. Just the roadmap listing for 6.2 makes 5.2 look like anemic by comparison. COVID ran a spike through Shadowbringers, as they stressed about 3 times, and we're barely now recovering. That much is obvious.

I do think people are in the right about job design though. It's not "ruined" or anything but it's on a worrying trend. Healing has always been a confused mess, from ARR to now, it isn't a recent occurance. I really wish they'd just give up on it and make the PvP WHM a reality. XIV is a game about puzzles and patterns, it's scripted and its rough to make exciting healing for that.

So gimmie my damn lily beam and seraph strike.

This right here, is the most sensible post Ive seen yet.