Quote Originally Posted by Oizen View Post
In which we'd be forced to make them all have the same defenses too, in which we'd get even closer to having exactly 1 tank class with 4 different cosmetic options.
It already happened. That's what tank mastery trait did and turned all tank stances into a one button set and forget it. Enmity is such a joke that I wouldn't be surprised if tank stances were just baked into the job and instead they introduce OT stances back since they are so adamant on turning every tank into a pseudo dps. They've literally jumped the shark when it comes to tank homogenization.

Imo 1-2% should be the minimum though if you play a job that cannot clear savage content week 1 because you lack gear then there is something wrong with the balancing. Though I already knew that for years ever since 4.1 destroyed WAR.

The real issue is how the 2 min timer windows destroyed gcd focused jobs. Every job must now dump all their damage in 15-20 secs and if you have a job that's mostly ogcds vs a job that's only gcds guess what will happen? It also doesn't help that FC and EoS are the same potency. Think about that. WAR has to spend a gcd for FC and a combo to get 10% while DRK can double weave EoS in between a gcd and get its dmg buff asap. 1 sec recast > 2.5 sec recast and that is a fact.

I'm also not a fan of this rng dmg that started with WAR's IR that spread to other jobs. I'm not sure why they think hitting the same button only to get wildly varying dmg is fun. I can tell you personally as someone who stuck with WAR through thick and thin that seeing bigger numbers but not actually bigger damage is jarring. It's also not fun knowing that my performance is based on a dice roll. Anyone who has crit their biggest hitting button vs not crit knows what I mean.

Ultimately this won't affect 99% of the playerbase but the fact that it happened in 2022 where you bring your favorite job that you love to play to raid and are then told that you cannot play that job because we won't be able to clear means that we haven't progressed much from HW gordias.