The new player experience and how FFXIV fails as an MMO.

[Raikai]

I'll however disagree on that last part, as it is absolutely obvious with a lot of job changes notably the latest BLM patch that they do this specifically to accommodate for increased pacing and DDR.

This made me think... Are we ever going to see a turret caster again who needs to be very precise about their placement versus uptime?
BLM 8.0's patch notes: Every ice spell is now instant-cast on Umbral Ice lol.

Why they're doing this? To accomodate the faster doubled-down DDR? To me it just speaks hints on how they want to have less work balancing fights. In theory, it should be easier to plan an encounter if you don't need to account for certain jobs having limited mobility.

[Daralii]

Why they're doing this? To accomodate the faster doubled-down DDR?

Yes. There was a comment in the patch notes that said long cast times and immobility are incompatible with their vision for high-end fight design.

[Valence]

This made me think... Are we ever going to see a turret caster again who needs to be very precise about their placement versus uptime?
BLM 8.0's patch notes: Every ice spell is now instant-cast on Umbral Ice lol.

Why they're doing this? To accomodate the faster doubled-down DDR? To me it just speaks hints on how they want to have less work balancing fights. In theory, it should be easier to plan an encounter if you don't need to account for certain jobs having limited mobility.

If the amount of movement required for every encounter in the game stays the same, then no, I don't think we're gonna see turret jobs anymore unless it radically dials back to pre EW/DT levels at the very least.
Because let's be real, BLM has stopped being a job being precise about their placement versus uptime after SHB, or even during SB (kinda in between). It's become a job about mobility casting, whether or not its spells were long casts by default or not. It's been a job about burning mobility tools in a clever way (or on a memorized spreadsheet per fight) in order to keep casting while moving. After HW it's ceased to be a job with no mobility tool other than swiftcast (on 90s) and sharpcast (on 60s) with literally zero insta casted spells but the occasional thundercloud that was about POSITIONING. Bring HW BLM into anything post ShB and the job would just not work at all, because HW wasn't about moving all the time.

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