Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
But yeah- it's interesting when people say "well what do you mean when you say the game lacks job identity" or "what are your solutions" when the game's foundation has examples of it even if they weren't perfectly balanced or optimal. It's obvious that this scale of Job vs Encounter engagement has always existed and has simply tipped nearly all the way in the Encounter direction for too many jobs. When people say there are no new solutions-- There's a thread about new job abilities up right now. And I see players talk about their job rotations literally all of the time. The desire is there, the question imo is whether the devs will ever have the audacity to step on minmaxer toes again. Because that's what I think about when I read that thread-- "This sounds cool but the base of the game doesn't want jobs to be cool".
As a former min-maxer, I quit min-maxing after ShB, EW just made everything worse. What's the point of trying so hard to optimise when the guy spamming Dragon Kick isn't far behind you? Why try so hard to align everything when the other guy can do just as well with Yukikaze spam? No one who enjoys min-maxing wants low skill ceilings and easy jobs with automatically aligning buffs. Most of the fun of min-maxing comes from playing around the content using your experience and skill on the job, it's not fun when the job basically plays itself and alignment is never an issue because everyone delays buffs together if the fight requires it.

I said before in a different thread, but I'm fairly sure that these changes only benefit the people who want to min-max but aren't good enough or don't want to try as hard. People who want all the rewards without putting in as much effort, they like simplified rotations, they like having all their buffs align without thought.