Quote Originally Posted by HappyHubris View Post
If old scholar was the only thing keeping you in the game, what is keeping you on? (Not trying to tell you to leave, just curious.)

The devs don't "hate" any job, it's just that SCH/SMN were some of the farthest designs from the New Way Of Things - homogenized and simple. And the pet never worked well with the tech, so it had to be neutered.
Shadowbringers' story. Additionally, I was able to enjoy Dancer for a while. What I've come to realize though was that while I do think Dancer is fun, it lacks the shining quality that made me enjoy FFXIV's combat like how I did before Shadowbringers. Because Dancer doesn't have very many options in the way of choice management. I don't have a way to be greedy with MP like I could with ARR Scholar's Ruin II or SB Scholar's Miasma II. I don't have any choices to make with my resources, unlike what Energy Drain offered. I'm not responding to the needs of my team. My gameplay is largely static. The procs and feather generation help a little, but it's not what the older Scholar or Astrologian offered.

With Endwalker, I first wanted to genuinely give Sage a shot, both to refresh my experience with healers so that when I say healer design is dogshit, I can say so from experience. I am in love with Sage's aesthetic design, so I really wanted it to work. I did end up in a static and made some good friends, so I was doing that for a while as Dancer, but we stopped prematurely in tier 3. Since then, I don't actually play the game. I keep my sub to continue giving feedback, logging in briefly to renew my activity status. I haven't progressed the story since 6.4, I haven't engaged in events. I helped some friends who were playing through ARR do the last dungeons a couple weeks ago. Otherwise the only thing I actually play is PVP Sage on occasion, and that's it.

Also, saying that the pet had to be neutered is a very intense opinion and nothing more. It didn't work because they didn't try to make it work. So few adjustments were ever made to pets, there was never any experimentation with how to balance pets more effectively. It absolutely could've been handled better if they had any care at all for these jobs and wanting to make them work for their target audiences.