Bring difficulty back to job rotations, not just boss mechanics.

[Valence]

If people still have any huff of copium whether 8.0 is actually deliver on its promise to make jobs fun, unique and engaging again, they should really think and reconsider. 7.2 is supposedly their new creative and fun encounter design, and it's only been doubling down on DDR and mechanics related checks, and little else. They even further demolished jobs in 7.2 like BLM or DRG to accomodate. Jobs are just there to keep people's fingers occupied while doing so, and check if they can multitask properly when mechanics happen.

Without encounters not offering a single bit of actual RPG combat gameplay, and the devs continuing blindly into this new action game design, who in their right mind can even think that reworked jobs will suddenly gain any player agency and intricacies to play around if the encounter design can't even interact with jobs in the first place? The only way we'd get anything interesting would require them to reinvent their encounter design, so do you really think they'll do this once more after saying they'd do it for 7.2?

If they do this I think they will make it optional because they have said they aim the game's normal difficulty to work for members of their marketing team that never played the game previously (so most likely they are button mashing).

Well, are they designing their game for actual MMO players or just bob from accounting? Not that I hate bob from accounting mind you, but I find the thought puzzling, to say the least.

We can go in circles with this argument as much as we want. “SE needs to be brave and make the game more interesting again.” What’s interesting to you isn’t necessarily interesting to everyone else, and vice versa. I understand where you’re coming from — wanting something more intricate — but realistically, the chances of that happening are slim. It would alienate a large portion of the player base, even more than it already has.

What about the part of the playerbase that has been alienated when they watered down everything? It's suddenly okay because it doesn't affect you I bet?