Quote Originally Posted by Taranok View Post
If they touch it, it's most likely 7.3. Unfortunately, the devs released PCT extremely half baked, rushed it to release, broke it on rebalance for DT launch, and then broke it in the other direction trying to fix the initial launch problems. The class needed a solid 6 months in the oven in a rapid development environment just to fix things like holy in white not even being worth using as a movement tool or the fact that 7 buttons could be merged down into other buttons without meaningfully changing the rotation. We can see this same problem with VPR, in how they completely removed an entire gameplay component of it not even 1 month after launch (and good riddance, launch wasn't that good a design) but you shouldn't be doing stuff like that on a brand new job. It being bad design is secondary to it being a new job and being changed 1m after launch.

All of this more or less lends itself to a dev team in hyper-scramble mode trying to launch a product that was nowhere near ready. PCT from 7.0 to 7.1x was objectively bad for the game, but a half-baked class can't be changed, at all, without breaking the class, which is what happened. Dawntrail truly is a reprise of everything that made Heavensward an awful expansion. And make no mistake, that expansion was extremely bad for the game. Anyone with fond memories typically remembers the final tier only.
Why was PCT in any way half baked? Hell it’s probably the most well received class since SAM/RDM in 4.0. It’s only problem was it did a bit too much damage and people hated how it abused downtime in FRU. But it certainly wasn’t underbaked as a class