Breaking the Majority’s Silence: A Job Criticism Thread

[Calysto]

What makes you say that "As for the Q/A, not breaking the game and "functioning as a whole", they most likely skimp on theses steps"? I don't see the evidence of that, if we look at Sage for example- it wasn't missing any critical skills on delivery, not was it far above nor way below the other healers. Did it get some adjustments late? yes- but they were relatively minor.

I would also agree that job designers likely don't start off from absolutely zero, however there is nonetheless a design/discovery process, reviews, presentations, discussions, approvals- before anyone gets into the actual detailed design, coding, QA, etc so no , I honestly doubt that 40 day estimate follows Square's methodology.

SGE at release was 90% SCH, that would explain why it was ok.
Wasn't 6.0 the only expansion with no job broken on release ? (because of homogenization mainly, so not really like it's a good thing <.< )

Simplifying down to flat potency only really works when you take a job in isolation. You need to factor in how jobs scale with each other as well, a task that in itself has spiralled as we've gotten more jobs over the years. I assume that this is the real reason why the whole piercing debuff thing was removed amongst other things.

As for them skimping, I think it's more a case of them diluting and homogenising everything to an extreme to minimise any risks of game breaking wombo combos springing up out of nowhere

It's the other way around. Jobs are already "tuned", so global increase is still balanced across the board.
I was not talking about "flat potency", they (probably) define that things will increase by like 20% (be that dps or healing or whatever, it's an example).
They know the nominal potencies. They know they can allow an amount to whatever; if it doesn't fit exactly, just drop new tier that compensate for the missing potency on existing actions.
Of course if it was done like that, you'd see early patches x.01 fine tuning the potencies.