Quote Originally Posted by tearagion View Post
This is the stupidest shit, why do I have to read it so often? No, it's not about being special or being loud about "oooh I love self flagellation soo much"; we just liked the job, and the job we liked was replaced with something not only borderline unrecognizable, but also comparatively mind-numbing to play. Why is that so hard to understand?

Your comments don't apply because you didn't like the job gameplay-wise or thematically. Spreading DoTs was cool, I liked doing it because it was a cool way to apply AoE damage. I liked Titan-Egi because he had a distinct purpose he was good at; it didn't matter so much that it was niche. Trances having a "gap" created a swell to the rotation, part of the reason SMN is boring as sin now is that there is no crescendo to the rotation. It's just big boring boss models every ~15s while you spam the same button. What's the point of using "all summons" if it requires that they're all the same? It doesn't even require this, just another way the rework is lazy. You straight up lack the mindset and preferences that old-SMN players have.
It's hard to understand because after a while I looked at the job in ShB and I saw that it was clearly broken. I very much enjoyed the concept and the theme. I heard about how it used to be and that sounded nice, but that just didn't exist anymore. You ask what's the point of having all summons if they all do the same thing? What was the point of having them if you didn't use them all? Don't even try to argue about my mindset like you even know me. You have no idea what I'm like and what I did beforehand. I'm just trying to understand what people saw in it and what could possibly come back in some way. Quit being so goddamned defensive over some simple questions. I could care less how much you've heard them. I'd like to know for myself.