As a FFXIV fan, I took my day off for SB, even went through all the troubles to avoid all spoilers to "enjoy" all the changes.

I started as a brd for 1.0, then with ARR, I actually enjoyed playing a bit of everything, especially healing. With HW, I decided to focus on War/Drk and Mnk main (drg for the storyline too).


After enough years of gaming, it's my first time seeing that amount of butchering to a game. I'll stick to dps jobs, but Gods they got creative in f*ing everything.

Glad to see they reduced the number of abilities... sure some were useless, but to that extent, I wonder if they hired Jason to do the job. The disapearance of all the DoT, abilities no dps ever used, was a jerk move...

As a monk I was also pleased to see the devs got ride of my buff bar icons to tell me how many stacks of greased or Chakra I had, and thought it would be better to put a huge visual cue on the screen in case I'd be too blind to take a quick glance up my screen to check a number.