They are gutting Black Mage even more in 7.2

[Tint]

Do you think SE might be sacrificing current BLM playerbase to create a job that might attract more people then ?

Edit: As well as fall in line with new encounter design requiring more movement.

Their main goal seems to be to prevent Flare Star from falling off. Without a timer you don't have to switch to UI when the boss becomes untargetable etc. so you can just continue your AF phase where you left it.

Paradox will need a potency adjustment, I am more concerned about Despair. It was a finisher and a disengagement tool. Flare Star took it's place as a finisher and now you don't disengage anymore, so you don't need a disengagement tool. Despair becomes button bloat now.

[Supersnow845]

Their main goal seems to be to prevent Flare Star from falling off. Without a timer you don't have to switch to UI when the boss becomes untargetable etc. so you can just continue your AF phase where you left it.

Paradox will need a potency adjustment, I am more concerned about Despair. It was a finisher and a disengagement tool. Flare Star took it's place as a finisher and now you don't disengage anymore, so you don't need a disengagement tool. Despair becomes button bloat now.

A better solution would have been to have never add flare star considering it was always a terrible addition that nobody wanted

[Daralii]

Their main goal seems to be to prevent Flare Star from falling off. Without a timer you don't have to switch to UI when the boss becomes untargetable etc. so you can just continue your AF phase where you left it.

Paradox will need a potency adjustment, I am more concerned about Despair. It was a finisher and a disengagement tool. Flare Star took it's place as a finisher and now you don't disengage anymore, so you don't need a disengagement tool. Despair becomes button bloat now.

Prediction for 8.0: Flare and Despair will be removed and Flare Star will be learned at 50 instead.

[Valence]

Their main goal seems to be to prevent Flare Star from falling off. Without a timer you don't have to switch to UI when the boss becomes untargetable etc. so you can just continue your AF phase where you left it.

Paradox will need a potency adjustment, I am more concerned about Despair. It was a finisher and a disengagement tool. Flare Star took it's place as a finisher and now you don't disengage anymore, so you don't need a disengagement tool. Despair becomes button bloat now.

Yes it's pretty hilarious that's the actual solution they came with.

[Basteala]

You know the sad irony is that high difficulty--but rewarding--jobs is good midcore content in and of itself without needing to find a premade or deal with the party finder nonsense.

The problem is that a lot of high difficulty jobs weren't rewarding enough vs their mindless faceroll counterparts.

SE's solution? Get rid of the difficulty. Brilliant.

CB3 needs a new voice.

[Auro_Seldaris]

Can anyone show me who asked for theses changes? I'm very curious, seeing as how CSIII is often so tight-lipped on WHY they are implementing job changes. I know the rumor that the VPR changes came from a single JP post with only a couple of likes, but can anyone identify the source, if there is one?

Was it just general "WAAAH I DON'T LIKE IT, CHANGE IT, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T PLAY THE JOB AND STILL WON'T!" ? I'm tired of this modern-day mentality of "ruining something for someone else that enjoyed it as it was, by demanding that it change to suit me, even though I didn't interact with it and still will not, even after they bow to my capricious whims."

And the answer was simple. Just... nerf PCT. That was it. Or maybe give us some potenct buffs on BLM. Instead, we get whatever the F*** this is supposed to be.

I am genuinely disturbed and curious as to who wanted these changes.

EDIT: Just realized. They're doing this because of the mobile version. They want jobs to be more action combat-y, so they're beating all the jobs to death so they fit the "shape" of the mobile version better. Which means there's no room for an immobile turret caster. Either they were "inspired" to take this direction by the mobile devs, or Yoshida just wants to remake FFXIV into an "action combat spectacle fighter", like it's Devil May Cry or something. As if I didn't already hate the existence of the mobile version enough, now they have ruined my favorite job.

[Auro_Seldaris]

Do you think SE might be sacrificing current BLM playerbase to create a job that might attract more people then ?

Edit: As well as fall in line with new encounter design requiring more movement.

They're trying to make it more "Cool" and "ACTION-Y!" like the mobile version. hence the new encounter design and the gutting of playstyle.

[Azurarok]

if anything flarestar should've been a followup to flare/despair like everything else they added this patch

[Absurdity]

They're trying to make it more "Cool" and "ACTION-Y!" like the mobile version. hence the new encounter design and the gutting of playstyle.

Let's not put the blame entirely on the mobile version, this has been a creeping problem for like 3 expansions now.

[Auro_Seldaris]

Let's not put the blame entirely on the mobile version, this has been a creeping problem for like 3 expansions now.

Oh I never did. I'm just saying that it's clearly had a compounding effect on their job design ideas. They just finally decided everything is going to be gutted and braindead now.