Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[ty_taurus]

Well the word through the grapevine is that the media tour embargo ends around the end of this week. If so, that is when the information around all the new stuff will appear so that is when we have more concrete info about everything.

I don't know if I'm excited or scared tbh. I guess I already have fairly low expectations, so the worst that can happen is the results are as I expect them to be while the best is that there are some surprising changes that weren't mentioned?

The biggest thing I'm worried about is Toxikon. Nothing was said about it, but I really hope Addersting is actually changed into a real system that works. If so, that could be fantastic news for Sage.

[AnotherPerson]

Well the word through the grapevine is that the media tour embargo ends around the end of this week. If so, that is when the information around all the new stuff will appear so that is when we have more concrete info about everything.

For all we know, it could be Thursday early afternoon or something, considering the PLL is in June 14th.

[Absurdity]

Well the word through the grapevine is that the media tour embargo ends around the end of this week. If so, that is when the information around all the new stuff will appear so that is when we have more concrete info about everything.

Since my expectations couldn't be any lower, it's my guess that the changes will be exactly what we thought they would be.
The 2-minute meta stays for another 2.5-3 years.
Tanks get some more mindless oGCDs to spam during burst windows, or their rotation basically doesn't change at all.
Healers get more buttons they won't use.
DPS get the slightly more interesting stuff but in the current and very likely 7.X environment that's not gonna mean much, they've "streamlined" themselves so hard into a corner that it can't really get much more creative than "press button to make big number appear, either 60 or 120 seconds cooldown".

[Zadood]

Since my expectations couldn't be any lower, it's my guess that the changes will be exactly what we thought they would be.
The 2-minute meta stays for another 2.5-3 years.
Tanks get some more mindless oGCDs to spam during burst windows, or their rotation basically doesn't change at all.
Healers get more buttons they won't use.
DPS get the slightly more interesting stuff but in the current and very likely 7.X environment that's not gonna mean much, they've "streamlined" themselves so hard into a corner that it can't really get much more creative than "press button to make big number appear, either 60 or 120 seconds cooldown".

The way how they streamlined the "Insta Fill Job Gauge" abilities, it's pretty blatant telling that they don't even know what to do with Job Gauge in general.
Instead thinking why player hoard Job Gauge resource to begin, they just streamlined it further so it wouldn't be over-capped.
Job Gauge over-capping wouldn't be an issue if there's is a plethora ways to spend Job Gauge other than save it for burst window DPSing.

You can tell they want hardcore raiding to be as accessible as possible to as many mid core player as they can by move difficulty on job design to encounter design, so more mid-core player could raid-logging, which means more yearly revenue for SQEX.

[rawker]

Just chiming in.. they could add an overflow for gauge that decays over time... but given how they made a job super brain-dead and force a (an ugly) transformation to a healer makes me doubtful they'd implement it.

[Remember_The_Name]

So, from the media tour:

1) Tanks self-sustain getting buffed yet again. Rampart increases healing received, oh Warriors gonna LOVE this...
2) Healers are getting a DPS button on 2m CD to align with current meta, of course. Sage got theirs on 1m CD ("See, Sage is a DPS Healer!" /s)
3) Even more healing/mitigation tools for Healers.

Yep, another expansion of spamming one button, but this time with a luxury of ONE MORE damage button every burst window. How exciting...

And surely, SURELY, with all healing/mitigations buffed across the board, normal content damage profiles will get more engaging, right? Right..?

[Aravell]

So, from the media tour:

1) Tanks self-sustain getting buffed yet again. Rampart increases healing received, oh Warriors gonna LOVE this...
2) Healers are getting a DPS button on 2m CD to align with current meta, of course. Sage got theirs on 1m CD ("See, Sage is a DPS Healer!" /s)
3) Even more healing/mitigation tools for Healers.

Yep, another expansion of spamming one button, but this time with a luxury of ONE MORE damage button every burst window. How exciting...

And surely, SURELY, with all healing/mitigations buffed across the board, normal content damage profiles will get more engaging, right? Right..?

Don't forget that both SMN and MNK got an AoE heal too, along with all the buffs to party mitigation tools.

But I'm sure they'll increase damage to match all the healing we're getting.

Yeah, they're going to increase damage so much that getting hit by anything will instantly kill you.

[Remember_The_Name]

Don't forget that both SMN and MNK got an AoE heal too, along with all the buffs to party mitigation tools.

But I'm sure they'll increase damage to match all the healing we're getting.

Yeah, they're going to increase damage so much that getting hit by anything will instantly kill you.

About time to remove HP system enitrely and made it into "Health states" instead like Dead by Daylight does.
Taking unavoidable damage - Injured state
Taking avoidable damage from orange puddle/failing mechanic - Dying state
Every healing action restores one health state, two if it was "buffed" with abilities like Recitation/Temperance/Neutral Sect/Zoe.
At least one player in the Dying state for the next mechanic? A nuclear explosion goes off resetting the party to the start.

/S

[Rozeee]

They didn't nerf bloodwhetting..

[Zadood]

They didn't nerf bloodwhetting..

If anything, they double down the sustain part of Warrior, with the upgraded Vengeance now provide heals over times as well.