"Players who already like the way things are can feel at ease..."

[ty_taurus]

Increase the amount of metrics in combat content tenfold. While people still love making tier lists and discuss the viability of jobs in pvp, there is a reason some top players like Brian will tell you that they're always reluctant to make definitive tier and meta lists because there is way too many metrics and comp configurations (and maps) for it to make a lot of sense. The more metrics there is, the more drawbacks, strengths and weaknesses will be drowned out by the amount of possibilities.

Back to the OP though, I do find interesting that Yoshida would say something like that. Where was he when they decided to completely change the jobs multiple times in the past? Nobody to tell us that for the people that like it the way it is, they shouldn't worry? There is only two explanations for why:
- He didn't think it would be a problem back then and learned from it.
- They actually knew people would have to worry when they butchered MCH, SMN, and every healer in ShB. Which means that if they're saying that players shouldn't worry today for 8.0, that incidentally the changes are going to be microscopic in comparison and the direction is going to remain the same.

There’s also the possibility that he’s actually referring to something else, and not specifically the job kits themselves. I’m not particularly a fan of Mr.Happy, but I saw that he interpreted the statement immediately as Yoshi P saying players shouldn’t worry that the combat system is suddenly going to pivot toward action combat. And yeah, that’s also a logical interpretation of the article’s quote, meaning he might not be referring to job design at all there.

But that’s the problem with how Yoshi P speaks. It seems almost tactical how open to interpretation his words are to the point where he may as well say nothing at all. I’m not holding out hope anyway, but regardless of what he’s actually referring to I still find the statement very tart as someone who’s been done dirty by the continued job lobotomization paradigm.