Quote Originally Posted by Sylari View Post
My concern with this change is that it punishes casual players who are more interested in playing what they want than group stacking and that if it's significant enough to really matter it seems like it'd be more of a bandaid to class balance than.
I kinda view it the opposite way. Most casual players aren't going to care too much about how fast the LB builds. At worst they'll stand around in an early phase to build the LB bar (like how many did for Titan to LB the heart if dps couldn't burn the heart without a LB anyway). The hardcore players will care much more about how fast the LB builds because they'll be paying attention to not only when they can use it the first time, but also their subsequent uses of it later in the fight. They're the ones you had to worry about class stacking and benching other jobs anyway. I feel that casual players are also more likely to get more gear before doing a fight and thus outgear it, so more room to play with.


I seem to recall them mention class stacking impacting how fast the LB builds awhile ago - around when they talked about content up through Ifrit HM being balanced without cross-class abilities in mind. Maybe they were referring to the upcoming change, or maybe it was already in and the patch is just making the difference more pronounced if you class stack.