Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
(The good news is the devs seem to be very good at using their own internal metrics to see what said "silent majority" really wants and then going that route.)
Did this 'silent majority' ask for Miasma to be removed from SCH? Or Shadowflare? Did this 'silent majority' ask for Kaiten to be removed from SAM? I don't think they did. Because if they did, then they'd stop being 'silent', surely.

I think it's far more likely that the devs make changes, and 'silent majority' is simply a convenient nebulous amalgam that can be pointed to as the scapegoat for any bad decisions.

But as for goalpost movement, I agree with you. The devs have internal metrics to work off of. Unfortunately for your point, though, said metrics should include things like 'the picture of a JP PF I linked one page ago', which show the terrible lack of healers for high end content. So, if they want to 'see what silent majority really wants and go that route', it looks to me like the 'silent majority' silently decided they didn't feel like healing M4S and so they gotta make some changes to bring them back. And call me cynical, but I don't think 'another OGCD that heals the party for X potency, with a 90s CD' is going to lure people back onto the green