Quote Originally Posted by Deo14 View Post
My bet are instacasts. After all, melee with hardcasts is about only identity SAM has left, which makes me think this is what they'll focus on removing next. They can use that action bloat excuse again, but now it would be justified, since hardcasts do make weaving harder. Other than that and positionals, I really don't know what else could they possibly take from SAM without fully reworking it and creating another SMN.

To put salt into wound, they'll bring back Kaiten, but now it's not tied to Kenki, it has regular CD, and makes Iaijutsu instacast.
Wouldn't surprise if this were to happen... Even the short discussion today in the Balance about " Tenka Goken " being easier or not as a Circle or Cone... reminded me that a good portion of the player-base champion the idea that...

" If it's that easy to do? Remove it / change it to whatever is that is easier now"
Heck... they would encourage it. And rather or not what was removed will be replaced with something new and improved any time soon or ever? is up in the air with question marks. Why are we surprised that Square makes everything hollower if this is the line of thinking people encourage... We truly get abysmal suggestions with this line of thinking like Meditate/Hagakure/Positional removal, which is in line with removing cast-time from SAM. Bit-by-Bit making it easier/comfier/cozier then it already is or ever needs to be... making the gameplay bland/boring/unengaging. And I make it sound like its going to happen... it kinda already has.

Not to spread doom and gloom and meme's aside? I love FFXIV still, I would not be on the forums if I didn't... otherwise I'd be silent and not giving a damn and not playing. And even though I don't agree with some things Yoshi P states? there's one line I remember that just fits with this...

" if given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of the game "
Streamlining our Rotations and the Job designs? just feels in line with this. Not that I blame players for it as they aren't the once that coded the changes... But accepting every change coming our way in silence? is not helping it if you ask me if what players want is having their jobs be a lil more engaging then it is, mhm.