BLM Changes Are Fantastic. The timers were so annoying. Thanks FFXIV team ! :)

[Valence]

If tomorrow you take any DPS job and turn it into a singe damage button, that's competitive enough and viable, you'll have everybody flocking to it. You'll also have a gigantic uproar everywhere how it's awful, but you'll still have everybody going for it nonetheless because most players take the path of least resistance. They want their loot and their clear. That's a universal variable that you'll find both in casual and challenging content.

In challenging content you'll also have class power and meta considerations, but in casual why do you think most jobs we see are dancers and summoners? And on the healer side? White mages everywhere, followed by sages?

[Aysin]

If tomorrow you take any DPS job and turn it into a singe damage button, that's competitive enough and viable, you'll have everybody flocking to it. You'll also have a gigantic uproar everywhere how it's awful, but you'll still have everybody going for it nonetheless because most players take the path of least resistance. They want their loot and their clear. That's a universal variable that you'll find both in casual and challenging content.

In challenging content you'll also have class power and meta considerations, but in casual why do you think most jobs we see are dancers and summoners? And on the healer side? White mages everywhere, followed by sages?

Forgive my bluntness but I don't think they made changes based on casual content, as in fact they outright stated for savage content to have extended periods of movement was the reason they simplified Black Mage. So in the interest of consistency and understanding the direction intended by the devs, I think it's only fair to compare same types of content. In this case we're looking at savage.

[Supersnow845]

Forgive my bluntness but I don't think they made changes based on casual content, as in fact they outright stated for savage content to have extended periods of movement was the reason they simplified Black Mage. So in the interest of consistency and understanding the direction intended by the devs, I think it's only fair to compare same types of content. In this case we're looking at savage.

So why did they make PCT less mobile in the exact same patch

[Aysin]

So why did they make PCT less mobile in the exact same patch

Oh that's easy, they don't understand potency per second, miscalculated hammer vs standard rotation, and just assumed people will do what they used to while playing PCT, they did not intend to change the playstyle.

[Supersnow845]

Oh that's easy, they don't understand potency per second, miscalculated hammer vs standard rotation, and just assumed people will do what they used to while playing PCT, they did not intend to change the playstyle.

So we should be trusting them with job reworks for reasons they can barely substantiate while we can’t trust them to understand PPS

Yeah we are doomed

[Wayfinder3]

How is SMN a good example of this

Easy, because People play it anyway, they simply don't care much beyond the surface and thats the part to understand. Most players playing the game aren't as invested in job complexity and skill expression. They just want a comfort pick. So no matter how braindead the SMN class is. The job still sees tons of play

If tomorrow you take any DPS job and turn it into a singe damage button, that's competitive enough and viable, you'll have everybody flocking to it. You'll also have a gigantic uproar everywhere how it's awful, but you'll still have everybody going for it nonetheless because most players take the path of least resistance. They want their loot and their clear. That's a universal variable that you'll find both in casual and challenging content.

In challenging content you'll also have class power and meta considerations, but in casual why do you think most jobs we see are dancers and summoners? And on the healer side? White mages everywhere, followed by sages?

Exactly

[Supersnow845]

Easy, because People play it anyway, they simply don't care much beyond the surface and thats the part to understand. Most players playing the game aren't as invested in job complexity and skill expression. They just want a comfort pick. So no matter how braindead the SMN class is. The job still sees tons of play



Exactly

But it doesn’t, SMN is the least popular caster by a pretty wide margin right now

[Arohk]

black mage got shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcv2_JqHSw

[Wayfinder3]

But it doesn’t, SMN is the least popular caster by a pretty wide margin right now

Do you have an actual metric for that and please don't show fflogs

[Supersnow845]

Do you have an actual metric for that and please don't show fflogs

Do you have an actual metric and don’t show a completely valid metric

SMN is the least popular in savage, it’s the least popular in FRU, its second least popular in juneo (surprisingly PCT is least popular) and it’s the least popular in dungeons

Like do you have a metric that disproves FFlogs