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    Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
    Again it really isn't a good argument you just come off as saying play healer for any support option, when healer currently isn't even designed well, you don't realise that people do want to play that more support orientated "DPS" You're just closing off any discussion or arguments by saying that.

    Hybrids *can* work they're just a mess to balance and I do see where you're coming from at least from a balanced view point it would be very messy and un ideal to balance., it is boring job design and I'll stand by this to have no sort of general "support" options, but its likely the most balance if you gave all dps no support options and the same damage.

    Also Its a issue with BLM not really being a job that's good in progression so the current balance of raise is a mess.

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    I edited that comment fyi, Don't want it to make you look like you were misquoting me.

    I can agree with that to be fair, the ability still makes sense from job Idenity
    Its a sound argument, the current state of healers is irrelevant to the logic. That logic being: If you want to play a job primarily for its support and healer fantasy, then you should play the role designated for that job. If one's primary fantasy and reason for playing RDM is to raise people, one should instead play a job focused on healing and support. There's no two ways about it; to argue otherwise is to say "Healers suck so we're gonna play other roles like we're healers anyway."

    Here's the other trick though: the people who play RDM like that? Probably wouldn't even know healers suck. The greater likelihood is they're not confident (assuming the best) or wanting the fantasy without the responsibility (assuming the worst). On a healer filling the healer fantasy they may even have fun because they wouldn't be the ones spamming glare, they'd be living their dreams drowning the tank in cure 1.

    Also here's a fun tidbit: BLM is a good prog job. Absent raise, it'd even be better than RDM. It's more immediately mobile than RDM, hits WAY outside RDM's weight class so enrage won't be a big concern, doesn't need to play fast and loose with a pretend
    fifth melee spot like RDM, and even has a personal mitigation so it doesn't need babysitting from the healers. Raise is the ONLY benefit RDM brings to prog because outside of that? Barrier is okay at best.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
    Its a sound argument, the current state of healers is irrelevant to the logic. That logic being: If you want to play a job primarily for its support and healer fantasy, then you should play the role designated for that job. If one's primary fantasy and reason for playing RDM is to raise people, one should instead play a job focused on healing and support. There's no two ways about it; to argue otherwise is to say "Healers suck so we're gonna play other roles like we're healers anyway."

    Here's the other trick though: the people who play RDM like that? Probably wouldn't even know healers suck. The greater likelihood is they're not confident (assuming the best) or wanting the fantasy without the responsibility (assuming the worst). On a healer filling the healer fantasy they may even have fun because they wouldn't be the ones spamming glare, they'd be living their dreams drowning the tank in cure 1.

    Also here's a fun tidbit: BLM is a good prog job. Absent raise, it'd even be better than RDM. It's more immediately mobile than RDM, hits WAY outside RDM's weight class so enrage won't be a big concern, doesn't need to play fast and loose with a pretend
    fifth melee spot like RDM, and even has a personal mitigation so it doesn't need babysitting from the healers. Raise is the ONLY benefit RDM brings to prog because outside of that? Barrier is okay at best.
    "Just go play healer lol" has no substance, again we have to take into account current healer design is nothing like current DPS design, you cannot have a fun or varied rotation on a job like RDM While playing healer, having some support options on a DPS role is different from being a "pure support" some people like some responsibility, some people like a lot more of the responsibility of support, Just play healer isn't a really good argument, now that you're presenting your points outside of that your view point makes more sense and doesn't come across as dismissive.

    I'm sure some people have tried out healer and disliked it but enjoyed Red mage having a backup raise, it's not even about a pure healer fantasy, it's about having support options such as magick barrier and raise to help, obviously I don't always think peoples fantasy should play apart in job balance. The job shouldn't be designed to be the "fill in for a bad healer" but it's nice it has those options, a clear way of changing this is making veraise and summoner raise be unuseable in Ext, Savage ect. So they can focus on it's job damage and balacing out the casters without any tax.

    Blm was good this tier because of the insane check, if anything SMN has been the best prog job because of massive mobility, BLM and rdm do struggle with mobility, you might be right that RDM struggles more, you might have a point there.
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