Quote Originally Posted by Aravell View Post
I wouldn't bet on it. The dev team has shown that they're not opposed to doubling down on something until they get so much negative attention that they have no choice but to reverse course. The 2 minute meta also makes job design very limited, thus easier for the small battle design team to handle, so I highly doubt that they'll move away from it, though I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.
I mean, I'm not expecting mountains to be moved or anything, but prior to EW, I feel like most criticism was more subversive and not particularly talked about outside of forums, but these criticisms of buff windows, homogenization, and the lack of strong content are a lot more discussed outside of forums throughout EW. Even if they were planning to do a 180, I wouldn't expect that to show until after EW anyway, and given how much SE doesn't like information to be shared until it's finalized, I wouldn't expect to hear anything about any course changes until the job changes liveletter anyway.

But prior to EW, we did see more sweeping changes from one expansion to the next. And while the current stance has not been great, I also can't imagine that every expansions from here on will just be stagnant.