Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Again, making it so that doing just X performs as well as X and Y creates imbalances across all jobs; short of that, there is no difference in gameplay between having access to both X and Y and being able to clear off just X but able to further carry with Y vs. playing a job that can only do X and can clear with just X but lacks that excess margin for using Y as well.
I wonder, let's take my example (because I'm familiar with the numbers for it). WHM, Banish is 40p more than Glare, generates 5 gauge instead of Glare's 1, but has 15s CD. If the pitch were changed, such that the potencies were identical, and the only difference was that Banish generated 500% as much gauge as Glare, would that somehow be more acceptable to naysayers? You'd still have a difference in damage regardless, because faster gauge generation = more access to 'the funny damage neutral heal tool', but is it the direct 'not using the new damage skill = damage loss' that is the issue, or is it ANY perceived damage loss that's the problem

Put another way, the question, not just for my WHM Banish (not using it is 160p per min loss) or AST Minor Arcana (not using it is 200p per min loss), but for any pitch that hopes to add more variety to the damage rotation for healers, is this: if you can clear any content in the game, by playing the same way as now (that is, refresh DOT when it falls off, spam nuke, ignore the rest), what is the magic value of potency per minute at which the design becomes 'unacceptable'? Because there's clearly a line in the sand, but I don't understand where it is

Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Again, I happened to choose "truncate" (among plenty of other terms) because it conveys that the intent of that action is to limit what future growth or action is possible, which seems your very clear intent. Call it "limit" instead if you like, or "curtail", or "preclude", or "hamstring" healers' future improvements or if it makes you feel better. I do not give a damn.
I might start referring to it as 'Bonsai Job design'