Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
I think they said they wanted to make it possible to express skill in other ways in the patches, but I doubt this will be damage-related necessarily, or not in a way that means a gap of 20% damage. Trouble is all these intentions are going to take time (the next 2 and a half years into 8.0), so some players will probably want to check back at what's changed then.
"Play how we want you to."

In other games developers are delighted when players find creative solutions to puzzles the developers lay out. And in single player games sometimes they even cheer for exploits in speedruns.

In this game, if you so much as dare to do anything that gives you a 1% damage boost the devs don't expect, which impacts literally no one other than the 0.1% of the playerbase who needs to clear Savage week 1, and where the impact is so mild that players don't even factor in that MNK can do optimal drift or that BLM can do opti nonstandard lines when deciding what comp to use for prog, you WILL get neutered because you don't fit into the dev's vision.