Your Opinion on the Current State of Job Identity/Balance in 6.4?

[Renathras]

The heck does any of this have to do with what you quoted?

Oh, it's the nexted quote thing. Fixed it in the post now. I was agreeing with you.

Specifically this part:

we should just return to SB times of content design

My post was talking about how SB wasn't really the best. It was good for SCH after 4.1, and it was decent for AST though like you say some things were weird. But it was a horrible time to be a WHM. ShB and EW have been far better for WHM other than 6.0-6.1 specifically due to their MP issues being hurt by the Thin Air nerf but Misery not being damage neutral until 6.1 to make up for that (~1600 MP a minute of pseudo-regen by not having to spend on Glares)

In short, I was agreeing with you, not disagreeing.

2 patch notes later...
<ability name> recast time was changed from 40s to 30s to properly align with the 2 min marks.

The sad thing is, I could see this happening.

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/yawn

No.

While there is a part of me that wants to counter and contest and debunk you point by point...I already did that, and it did nothing. So I won't continue feeding you.

I already told you, if you want to have an immature feud, you'll be having it with yourself.

What gauge gimmick though? Most of them don't even qualify as that, it's just building gauge and using it on one skill or it's AoE version. Then they can have fluff like free charges of that skill and whatever, but it's mostly identical.

That includes WAR, DRK, SCH, NIN, SAM (to be fair, you use Kenki for gap closer and for disengage), RPR is all about these bland gauges, MCH and I probably missed some. None of these have any real gimmick or mechanic behind it, you just build gauge and spend it on one skill. If your meme about 7.0 would become true, it could end up being an upgrade. But I doubt they will not double down on 2min meta, because not only it has made game terrible for players, but it also made it bad for developers to balance all the outstanding variance and other side effects.

Wait, for SCH, are you talking Aetherflow or Gaerie Gauge? Because Faerie Gauge is pointless and should just be removed at this point (Aetherpact could just be a Sotera-like thing that boosts Eos' healing potency for a bit or a CD that puts a HoT on a specific target), but Aetherflow is pretty useful and has several options to use it with, as well as Recitation allowing some more flexibility there and Dissipation, despite being a really crappy skill that needs a total rework, also having something to do with it.

If you mean Faerie Gauge, though, I 100% agree. They should have left Fey Blessing on the Faerie Gauge and just removed the CD. 30 Gauge for a (pretty small, honestly) AOE heal is completely fair, especially since it's more often that I want to hit a modest AOE heal than it is that I want to hit a channeled modest heal on a single target that also locks me out of my other heals, including my...modest AOE heals.