Quote Originally Posted by Illianaro View Post
Like, if he was actually serious about that statement, and they have legitimate plans to overhaul the jobs to restore their senses of identity in 8.0, how does he think tripling down on homogenization during the 7.x patches will help that? They’re simplifying the jobs to cater to the more challenging raid content, but if they actually do a serious overhaul of the jobs in 8.0, they’ll want to revisit the encounter design again after that because the overhauled jobs will no longer “fit” with the encounter design.

This is why it’s a fools errand to try and work on encounter design in a vacuum separated from job design. The two are intrinsically linked, and if you don’t build one with consideration for the other, you end up in a cycle of “fix encounters-fix jobs-fix encounters-fix jobs…” ad infinitum.
The last time I played an MMO that promised an emphasis on class fantasy in an expansion, it deleted at least a dozen skills per class and gutted its talent trees. I'm expecting every job to turn into VPR or SMN.