Heavensward and change not tested enough...

[silentwindfr]

A lot of change added in the jobs for heavensward feel untested, not check enough for see what they can or not do.
the best example is the wanderer minuet and gauss cannon... but a lot of jobs have change needed, some only in the aspect of the skill, like Dark Art aura... and other by the sound, mantra sound that some find disturbing.

all of this did get into live server, how is possible? i means if Yoshida and it team did create a test server for allows a part of the community to test the new skill, all of this error, will have never reach the live server.

Test server don't need to let us test the new area or new story, but the change affecting the gameplay must be tested before launch. actually Yoshida and his team spend time to change stuff after they did come to us.... when it was possible to do it before we did get it. it's loose of time for the futur content... and make them work under pressure.

And all of this because Final Fantasy 14 don't have a test server.
How do it:
- a panel of tester from the whole world, not only japanese is needed
- one test server per group of server must be deployed, for test the latency effect on the change.
- it must be placed under strict NDA and with selected volunteer player from the community. for allows SE to gather more information about them change in battle system or even new feature, like hunt or personal housing.( this change was a lot discuss after them release because of the lack of testing. even now hunt are still something that create debat. )

Yoshida did said that more communication between dev and player is needed for make a better game, but recently we don't feel this communication. at least for the non japanese player. some message about change incoming for the bard did arrive on the japanese forum and did never come into other forum. more important, we are often forced to wait 1-2 week for get a simple full translation of the live letter, when it can be done far faster! translation of information about how the game will evolve need to be bring to the community as fast as possible.

For make simple, more communication (and faster, not 1-2 week after) and test server are needed, is not possible to continue to offer this much content without a good test from the community for know if this change will work or not.

this message is for Yoshida san and his team:
You can't find all flaws of your game by yourself, let's us help you to make a better Final Fantasy 14 experience.

ps: sorry for my english, is not my maternal language, but i feel i have more hope to have a better impact here.

[UBERHAXED]

My goodness, comma splices... and would a little capitalization kill you? But I digress.

The game is internally tested but what was likely the case (as exactly what happened with ninja), the player base plays better than the development team and the other 9 or so jobs had players perform DPS and such a lot higher than expected. It was likely the case that when they tested that all of the jobs had the same mediocre dps of maybe 900 and the player base was able to push 300-400 more in many johs (due to familiarity) as what happened with ninja. Likely the problem with they see with the balance is that the jobs are performing higher than tested, which is why they say bard DPS is fine and they haven't been doing any buffs. That being said, I doubt the difficulty of the raids accounted for this extra DPs, just as the internal testers for the development team could not clear savage second coil, but the player base can.

[Ransu]

This is what happens when a game doesn't have a test server.

[silentwindfr]

the point is not to say it's what happend because, but ask SE to add this, for avoid futur trouble, it will help them to develop the game without be forced to rework feature because not adapted or needing change.

more important, it will help them to have a better press to be know as a dev team that talk to them community and allows them to help them.

in anyway, they need to have a serious look at how they will continue.