Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
I agree. I don’t think it makes sense to do jobs and combat separately. But if you are going to do them separately anyway, it makes less sense to do encounters first for one major reason.

Throughout an expansion, job change is mostly an all-at-once transition at the start of an expansion, and mid-expansion changes are usually more mild or are about one or two jobs max. Not all of them at once. But encounter design is handled in waves as new dungeons, raids, alliances, field ops, etc are released with each patch. So you could in theory change the jobs and keep the .0 content mostly familiar while gradually introducing more changes in direction with each successive patch. So if the argument is we can’t handle it all at once, changing jobs first allows for a more gradual adjustment period.

Still, gameplay is 50/50 encounter design/job design. They should’ve been designed concurrently.
What prevents them to change jobs halfway anyway? What are their battle system designers even working on during those years before the next expansion?