Can we talk about the Yoshi P double standard and bias here?

[Midareyukki]

Plot twist: he might do that already, felt that complicated DPS combo while healing at the same time was too much of a burden, so he decided to simplify the DPS aspect to brain-numbing simple.

...why do I feel like he would actually do that and cull DoTs on healers?

[NekoMataMata]

It's a bias but it doesn't seem like it's malicious. It's still annoying though as it makes it clear that developer attention is going to go to their own interests.

I just don't really see what you can do about it. If he's playing CC on his own time and these changes are the result, then you either accept it or you just stop taking his input from his own personal playtime altogether. Which sucks, especially due to his comments regarding healers...

[Larirawiel]

There was an old WoW meme back in the day about the lead designer at that time Tom Chilton whose character was named Kalgan. That lead designer happened to play a Mage.

The meme was: Kalgan plays a Mage.

Guess what job was very rarely undertuned, was almost always viable, and almost always "fun"? Why? Because Kalgan plays a Mage, and the lead developer wants to have fun, that's why.

It's the exact same here.

"Yoshi-P plays a Black Mage" so they'll almost always be tuned well.

Hihihi, and Tigole and Foror played Warriors. Guess, what was the most overpowererd class in WoW Classic?


Cheers

[MintnHoney]

...why do I feel like he would actually do that and cull DoTs on healers?

Stay tuned for that AST update to make them "less busy."

[Nethereal]

Small Indie Dev Company.

[Alien_Gamer]

An update
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ac1af14c1e3107

[Saraide]

An update
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ac1af14c1e3107

I would like to emphasize that the black mage is experiencing no preferential treatment by being specially mentioned here; we evaluate action balance for all jobs with a similarly scrutinizing gaze. I only present this instance as an example as it was particularly inconvenient and frustrating to many players, and I am truly sorry for the trouble we have caused.

[Aluja89]

BLM didn't need buffs, it's idiotically ridiculous now. All of a sudden I'm eating 200-300% more damage than usual compared to dealt.

This is why I call these devs incompetent, it's so obvious it's baffling how almost no one else sees this.

[SpiralMask]

An update
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ac1af14c1e3107

"I would like to emphasize that the black mage is experiencing no preferential treatment by being specially mentioned here; we evaluate action balance for all jobs with a similarly scrutinizing gaze. I only present this instance as an example as it was particularly inconvenient and frustrating to many players, and I am truly sorry for the trouble we have caused."

healers need to call bullshit on that one. very loudly.

[Deceptus]

I would like to emphasize that the black mage is experiencing no preferential treatment by being specially mentioned here; we evaluate action balance for all jobs with a similarly scrutinizing gaze. I only present this instance as an example as it was particularly inconvenient and frustrating to many players, and I am truly sorry for the trouble we have caused.

As so astutely mentioned on Reddit:

It would go a long way towards actually easing the assumptions that BLM gets preferential treatment if you deigned to mention the name of literally a single other job in the post. Like, idk throw out a job you think is over performing or under performing or something so that we at least get the impression you care about literally anyone else lmao.

Yep, exactly. Also saying BLM had a win rate 14% lower than the top job is a meaningless statistic without any other data points. Is that 14 less points? Or 14% of the highest value? How do the other jobs fare in comparison?