Thread: Making Jobs Rotationally Easier in 4.0

I'm not convinced they'll make things a whole lot easier in terms of encounter design (or a whole lot harder). Yoshida seems to have a pretty level head about understanding that the people who complain about content being too hard are not the same as the people who complain about content being too easy, and how you need to build a system that can accommodate both of those without breaking anything.

My impression from the discussion about making things rotationally simpler is for things like Enochian, Blood of the Dragon, or the MCH opener (which is responsible for their entire damage output, and where a single mistake makes them unviable). Many of these buffs and rotational items seem to be built with a Patchwerk-style boss in mind, and tend to be crippling in situations where players need to move around a lot (I know BLM really suffers for any kind of movement). When struggling to maintain these in the face of most encounters these days, it makes sense to revisit them, to make them work better with mechanics that take you away from the boss or that require you to move.

As this applies to tanks, the only thing I can think it would apply to would be DRK, where some of the cooldowns literally work against each other (increasing evasion when you need to take damage to regain MP is not a good thing). If not for Infuriate, I'd say WAR could use it, but Infuriate works very well to make WAR rotationally fun. For the most part, PLD seems okay (outside of Tempered Will); they're a little dull, but they make sense rotationally.