The tonedeaf Live Letter LXXXVI 86

[Rithy255]

see for yourself, they fully leaned on the Rose theme as if WHM's lilification wasn't enough

Yeah I did notice this honestly, I kinda wish they leaned into stances having more unique aspects such as white shift having strong support/survivability tools while black shift being big damage and debuff tools.

Though personally I have issues with how Healers are designed to basically be dps because of how free the self healing is in PVP. I did actually like how jobs felt outside of that in EW.

[Azurarok]

Yeah I did notice this honestly, I kinda wish they leaned into stances having more unique aspects such as white shift having strong support/survivability tools while black shift being big damage and debuff tools.

Though personally I have issues with how Healers are designed to basically be dps because of how free the self healing is in PVP. I did actually like how jobs felt outside of that in EW.

I still do find myself healing in more fun ways than in PvE a lot of the time though (Except SGE but it's the dps healer so that's fine).

That reminds me, I've been using AST far less often there now too because they ripped away Draw from it

[Kozh]

see for yourself, they fully leaned on the Rose theme as if WHM's lilification wasn't enough

Well, **** me in the *** then. Just when I thought I want to do pvp again because it was fun, they do this sh*t to my main.

[Valence]

Yeah I did notice this honestly, I kinda wish they leaned into stances having more unique aspects such as white shift having strong support/survivability tools while black shift being big damage and debuff tools.

Though personally I have issues with how Healers are designed to basically be dps because of how free the self healing is in PVP. I did actually like how jobs felt outside of that in EW.

The removal of stances for RDM and junction for GNB is a bit of a shame to my eyes as well. I think their reasoning was that some stances were never used, but then again it was similar on BLM and they managed to keep the system by giving them relatively mutually exclusive purposes with both meaning (damage/aoe for fire and defense/mobility for ice, with the icing on the cake being able to combine for example mobility and aoe with wreath of fire + ice spells). Incidentally it consolidated RDM and GNB so much that their toolkit can be pretty oppressive since all of what they have and their new toys are now usable within the same unique stance.

Currently though pvp healers (except for SGE) are borderline overpowered due to the sheer healing output and what it allows teams to do vs teams that don't have them in crystalline conflict. Whether the answer is less healing, or less damage, or something else, I don't know.

[Kohashi]

I mean, listen, at least he didn't skip legs day ;D

[Auro_Seldaris]

We can only hope/assume that 'use item for 'higher chance' to enter' means 'the higher chance is 100%' because if not, it would imply that you can use an item, a limited resource, and still lose the roll to someone who did not use the item

They're so stupid that they brought back portals. Well, THIS is going to end well.

[Hanayumi]

Uhh... for folks that keep mentioning "improved encounter design" that was just YoshiP giving battle devs the OK to try out new mechanics in fights, really... DO NOT expect massive changes from these devs... it aint happening...

[User202503201232]

Uhh... for folks that keep mentioning "improved encounter design" that was just YoshiP giving battle devs the OK to try out new mechanics in fights, really... DO NOT expect massive changes from these devs... it aint happening...

If there are so many communication issues (like Yoshi P saying he didn't actually want to quit the board and that's just a rumor) maybe they should finally hire translators for live letters?? Lol?? Whose fault is it that people thought they promised improved encounter design?

[YukioKobayashi]

We need Nakagawa to be full in charge for most endgame-encounters. (Nidhogg,Sigmascape,O12S,E4S,TEA.ect)
I have no idea why this company keeps changing the designteam more than some gamers take showers.

[WutWut]

Well, **** me in the *** then. Just when I thought I want to do pvp again because it was fun, they do this sh*t to my main.

RDM is in a solid spot right now, imo. Forte is a barrier that becomes a stun if it's depleted, and stance dancing on melee combo was replaced with barriers + guard pierce dmg. I enjoy playing the job a lot in PvP right now, and would recommend still giving it a shot if you want to do PvP again.