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Evolved mode looks awesome. Starting from a clean slate gives SE the opportunity to experiment more with legacy jobs and my prediction is supports are going to play fundamentally differently with a new boss design philosophy, healers in particular. I'm a little sad that we're losing buff alignment but it'll be ok. At the end of the day no matter how a job is designed there will simply be a correct sequence of buttons which kills the boss and what that sequence happens to be is just a matter of taste and feel.
Boss design will not change. They were very clear in stating at the beginning of Dawntrail that they didn't want to change fight and job design in one go and that 7.0 would focus on encounter design while 8.0 would focus on job design. The only difference will be no pauses for 2 minute burst windows.