Quote Originally Posted by fulminating View Post
Who cares if the only people voting on it are black mage mains? It’s not like every job has to be for everyone. That’s exactly what the complainant about homogenisation is.
I filled out the healer sections because I play healers. I did not fill out the Caster/Tank/Melee/Ranged, because I do not play those. Is it 'fair' for me, someone who DESPISES BLM gameplay, hate it with a passion, to fill out the BLM form, say 'its bad and trash completely start over' when others who main the class, enjoy the class for what it is? No, I don't think it is fair. I think that it's 'okay' to fill out the forms for your role, and if you really want, roles you previously mained (so as to indicate why you quit them).

Imagine if enough people who hate BLM gameplay because 'its too hard' or whatever cried about it so hard, that SE did a SMN on it, and made it super unrecognizable to the devoted mains of the job. Maybe that's ok in Ren's world but I think it'd be awful for everyone (mostly because the people who wanted it 'to be changed' would likely try it for a bit, then swap back to something else anyway, just look at healer churn)

Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
1) Cleric Stance almost tore the community apart, and Gordias/Midas almost ended the game a second time by destroying the raiding community. Yeah, casuals weren't using Cleric. And they were bitched at endlessly over it. Meanwhile, hardcores that used Cleric at a bad time and got their parties killed in casual content (which did happen) were also excoriated over it. HW was arguably the worst time in the game to be a Healer other than being a WHM in SB.
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I know I'm just one idiot in a sea of players, but I levelled every class to 60 in HW. NOT A SINGLE TIME, whether it was me or a rando as the healer, did I see any mention that 'you're not using cleric stance, fix it', or anything to that effect. I don't know where you're getting this picture that everyone was demanding full 100% sweaty CLEAR COMMS gameplay in the EX roulettes, but it sure as hell didn't happen to me. I think maybe your server is just toxic as hell? Or maybe it's an NA thing.

Saw a few 'you forgot to use Protect' instances though, or 'you forgot tank stance' because 'haha you level synced, time to clear all your buffs'