What has the job team been doing this whole time?

[Tunda]

To be completely honest I am starting to have the crack pot theory that the Graphical Update took away 90% of the devs resources for this expansion.

Like I for the life of me have no vlue how you could green lit the Jobs msq and the environmental design of this expansion. The first 3 zones are basically copies of one another with slight differences.

And the jobs have to now be completely reworked for 8.0.

This expansion has so so many issues its kinda unreal at this point.

is there a prof that they will rework the jobs or just whispering?

[Tunda]

it is a shame that they didn't increase the budget for graphical update!

[Zordrage]

is there a prof that they will rework the jobs or just whispering?

Yoshi P said it in one of ifts streams. they plan some more serious job overhauls for 8.0

[Zordrage]

it is a shame that they didn't increase the budget for graphical update!

its not finished yet.
it will be finished at the end of this expansions if everything goes right.
Also the engine is waaaaay to damn old and you cant really replace that engine with such an old game like this.

[AlucaDragonheart]

Contrast that with Paladin in XIV. There's no class fantasy. No identity beyond "tank with sword and board". No versatility

The sad thing is, Paladin DID sort of have an identity in ARR when you could actually use some White Magic.

[Shivaeyes]

Yoshi P said it in one of ifts streams. they plan some more serious job overhauls for 8.0

Yoshi P said what needed to be said to make us buy DT...

What he say is not what he'll do...

[Tunda]

I will not believe that Yoshi p will make interesting job designs for next expansion..
4 people can't rework 1 job what about 20 others and 2 added? I don't think so

[Cyrtip]

Nobody knows...monk plays even worse then before, so i had to drop it and now struggling to find a new dps class for me, after they destroyed Summoner in Shb and now Monk in DT.

I loved monk too before DT. Not sure if it'll help you, but I've been enjoying pictomancer so far, despite the fact that I've only really liked tanks and melee up to this point. It's got a lot to keep track of, and like monk timers interacting with multiple targets and boss downtime, you can do interesting things with the class' different GCD lengths and cast times.

[illutian]

Here I am glad they didn't add even more buttons I have figure out where to put.

[Midnight_Q]

Every time someone mentions a comparison between FF14 jobs and WoW classes it's safe to deduct at least 10 points from your estimation of their IQ.

It's about an apt comparison as apples and car tires. 14 has no skill trees. No specs. No crazy trinkets drastically altering job function. If you considered every largely different spec possibility in WoW (Disc Priest, Shadow, Demo lock, fire mage, ice mage, etc.) as an equivalent job you would have a much higher level of under performing and/or boring options in WoW. There is no equivalency.

They have reached a point where options are limited. They can't completely change how a job plays because it won't be the same job. People will complain. They have said they plan to do major job reworks starting in 8.0 which will likely be a replacement for one or both new jobs in the next expansion. They've reached a point where they are making more than 20 relics, artifact sets, weapons, etc. for every step of progression.

People will complain no matter what they do and having unrealistic expectations doesn't make an opinion better than any other.