They are gutting Black Mage even more in 7.2

[Azurarok]

Especially since PCT and RDM are at the limits of their movement potential (and SCH is already in the “just drop casts to position you are a healer anyway” phase)

wouldn't be surprised if they've also deleted Energy Drain from SCH and gave it a charge of RuinIV every Aetherflow to match SMN

[Maltothoris]

Do you have a link in regard to PCT?

It's from the live letter. Can't really screenshot it but they basically said according to the translators, "We tried really hard not to nerf picto but we have to. It is only a slight nerf though."

I would not be surprised if the melee buff is to compensate for the picto nerf in addition to whatever else they will do.

[Valence]

What is their obsession with melee dominance

PCT dominates the meta for 2 patches and their response is to nerf PCT, lobotomise BLM AND nerf it AND buff the melees

Like why do they hate casters so much

I mean, if casters are the drowning kid, what about the rphys skeleton at the bottom of the pool?

[Supersnow845]

It's from the live letter. Can't really screenshot it but they basically said according to the translators, "We tried really hard not to nerf picto but we have to. It is only a slight nerf though."

I would not be surprised if the melee buff is to compensate for the picto nerf in addition to whatever else they will do.

The melee buff was unrelated

That was their flawed design premise that they could buff melee then make melee uptime harder….even though melees already do 10% more damage than the non damage casters supposedly for this reason

[brinn12]

Even with all the complaints about VPR/MNK/DRG/AST/BLM, jobs are being dumbed down yet again.

How do they expect us to believe in anything good for the 8.0 job rework? It also seems that the raid design won't be much different this time, and 7.2 was supposedly the beginning of a new fight design that would pave the way for the 8.0 job changes.

Something also tells me that the PCT changes will either be insufficient or outright kill the job. There is no middle ground when the main issue we have is the interaction between PCT’s toolkit and Ultimate, yet they only focus on numbers rather than the toolkit.

[Supersnow845]

Even with all the complaints about VPR/MNK/DRG/AST/BLM, jobs are being dumbed down yet again.

How do they expect us to believe in anything good for the 8.0 job rework? It also seems that the raid design won't be much different this time, and 7.2 was supposedly the beginning of a new fight design that would pave the way for the 8.0 job changes.

Something also tells me that the PCT changes will either be insufficient or outright kill the job. There is no middle ground when the main issue we have is the interaction between PCT’s toolkit and Ultimate, yet they only focus on numbers rather than the toolkit.

PCT’s change will either be

A) nerf it so hard it needs ultimate amounts of downtime to even approach melee damage, otherwise it’s doing DNC damage with no rezz
B) make motifs require a target AND nerf it not quite as hard

There is no way PCT makes it out of this in any sort of somewhat decent shape and it’s still being treated better than BLM

[Underscore]

Never played Back Mage in my life, can anyone explain this in melee terms?

[OliverQ]

It's from the live letter. Can't really screenshot it but they basically said according to the translators, "We tried really hard not to nerf picto but we have to. It is only a slight nerf though."

I would not be surprised if the melee buff is to compensate for the picto nerf in addition to whatever else they will do.

The melee buff is to compensate for supposedly less possible uptime due to the new mechanics.

[Neneyo]

if these changes actually happen, I'm going to end up deleting my account.

[Supersnow845]

Never played Back Mage in my life, can anyone explain this in melee terms?

Take 5.0 SAM and in one patch turn it into 7.1 VPR