Dark Knight Megathread

[Lyth]

SCH was mandatory throughout Heavensward. SCH had very deliberate nerfs during the transition period going in to Stormblood so that players would actually get to see WHM/AST comps being used in content. The SCH playerbase pushed back hard because they wanted their stuff back. SCH was then made mandatory for the rest of Stormblood. The end solution, which we've seen this expansion, was to simply turn SCH into its own healing subrole and create job alternatives to it, splitting that playerbase. Heavensward and Stormblood were some of the worst periods in the game for job balance because of how grossly overpowered the toolkits of some of these jobs were. It was incredibly difficult for the rest of us to push for the status quo to actually change to something more equitable for all, simply because when a job becomes that dominant, it also becomes incredibly popular and builds a strong following that resists any change.

There's no defense to excuse how those jobs were tuned compared to their counterparts.

[RyuDragnier]

Part of the problem with that lies in how they set up AST. From how things went in HW, it was clearly obvious to ANYBODY who healed or paid attention that the problem with AST was the Sects, they were nigh impossible to balance. Make Nocturnal too strong, and nobody will take SCH. Make Diurnal too strong, and nobody will take WHM. We saw that happen multiple times in HW AND SB, and I'm still surprised it took them until EW to actually deal with that damned problem, when they could have dealt with it back in SB.