job balancing discussion (1.22a-hotfix)

[Chardrizard]

And I'll have to step in and remind you that class stacking is very much SE's fault, between class/job design, ability and damage spread between jobs, and encounter design and balancing (or lack thereof). Pacing of content has had a hand in it, and of course speed runs never helped. Sure, you don't care because you run with a shell, but many of us PuG things, and it's not all sunshine and rainbows; not to say it should be the prime way of doing content, but it should also not be the uphill battle it currently is.

Game mechanics influence the way the playerbase does things. This is why the community was so self-mutilating in FFXI as far as player choices went, and you insta-sucked if you went against the grain.

As I've mentioned in other threads, class stacking should occur as freak occurrences that generate laughs while making the dungeon run interesting and doable, and a varied and balanced group comp should be the way most if not all groups aim to do content. XIV has a LONG way to go before that becomes a reality.

Do you think FFXIV devs never thought of trying to balance it so hard so every class can participate? every contents is doable with every class. But, people still go with the path of least resistance unless they are forced to. (example Garuda where u need both melee damage and magic damage to win)

When people asked for unique-ness, we have to sacrifice balance. Of course they will try so hard to balance everything but fact is, there are never true balance without pulling gimmicks like proccing colors at abbysea that FFXI pulled and force people to bring other class. No game out there has successfully pulled it off properly.

Why do you think that is? because devs are lazy? Balancing is not like flipping table, it's not just adding number here and there.

Everybody here liked the idea of varies class, who doesn't? but nobody.. let me repeat NOBODY has came up with properly written idea on how to do balance things properly. All they do is cry and cry somemore.

What you say applies for the few initial tries you do things. After 40 runs you kinda get bored annoyed and frustrated from a non efficient party.
You said yourself that farming darklight isnt fun, so explain me how it is more fun to farm it with slower and less efficient party?

For example, take the Ifrit NPC where you trade the lamp. After 200 ifrit you get bored to talk to him 3 times each to get a new lamp. This is called efficiency, why cant they just give you xp and direcly ask if you want another lamp? 1 click , 5 seconds done.

Same goes for jobs, class stacking is SE fault because they seem to not play the game and just listen to people in forums. Again you do things with your friends for fun the first times, thats fine, but after a bit you see that going with 6 blms 1 war 1 whm is 3x times faster than going with other jobs, why on earth would you frustrate yourself, waste time, risk to lose, going with another setup?
Makes no sense.

The more you play the game, the more you repeat the tasks, the more you repeat the content, the less time you wanna spend doing it, so you always try the fastest/more efficient way to do it. Especially cause we all are paying for the game.
I have no fun to waste minutes to speakin to NPCs and do repetitive and boring stuff because they dont have an efficient development team, same thing applies to job balancing and class stacking.

Do 300 ifrits then you'll tell me how boring it is to get a 20 minutes kill when you can kill it in 3 minutes with blms/war.

The way you perceive this is doing setup in non-cookie cutter setup will results in a very ineffecient runs. No that is not the case. It's 2-4mins late in raids. You don't drop one of your arms when you are suddenly 2-4min late. You still get 5chests like everyone else.

Also 20minutes ifrit means you are doing it with noobs.

That is not the setup issue, that the issue with the people you are playing with.