IGN Brazil Asked Yoshida about 2 min meta

[Reimmi]

When we asked to homogenize cooldowns, that didn't mean make all the tanks play the same and prune everyones abilities though

[Turtledeluxe]

When we asked to homogenize cooldowns, that didn't mean make all the tanks play the same and prune everyones abilities though

As I posted in another thread, this is because players have unknowingly homogenized the classes by complaining about their class. Because the combat of XIV is limited in scope, there's only so much devs can do to spice up a class right? They don't think "make it fun to play" when players complain but rather

- increase potency
- give it utility
- give it healing
- give it mitigation
- give it mobility

And sometimes that is because players directly ask for those things with respect to their class. The problem with XIV is with so many classes it becomes hard to deny it because depending on party you need to have the same balance of dps,buffing, healing etc. It is impossible to align this properly so devs have gone in the extreme direction and decided to make all the classes basically the same within the role (except maybe BLM). This is why to this day you get discussions like "if we add this to x class doesn't that take something away from y class"? Yes it does and we have done that like 50 times already. "If we nerf or take away X from this class no one will play it"..yes because players now are so used to their self created homogenization.

all of this

Also I huge agree with the futility ot making classes viable for group play. Nothing works and there will always be a meta, to your point about SMN aka the melee in magic clothing clothing. Also yes toxic players will usually stay toxic, casuals usually casual, and so on...no amount of dumbing down the classes has resulted in meaningful change other than balancing dps in raids. I would argue the reasons most people.do not mess with high end XIV content has nothing to do with gameplay at all.

[Deceptus]

When we asked to homogenize cooldowns, that didn't mean make all the tanks play the same and prune everyones abilities though

Same with healers. We all didn't want the AST DPS rotation without the benefits of having the cards to occupy downtime.