Please nerf RDM!

[Oscura]

I give examples, and devs own words, but hey you can have your opinion without any examples at all. Have a nice day.

Q5. It was explained that in Patch 4.0 the focus was to reduce the large DPS disparity, but certain jobs feel more reliant on player skill than others. Are certain jobs intended to maintain that difference?

A5. One of the main concepts of FFXIV is that “when playing a job, you experience the uniqueness of that job.”
Due to this, there is a difference in difficulty between the jobs, and it used to be that higher difficulty meant more DPS. We will be scaling down this factor.


That is pretty much the normal now. Many MMOs are doing this, it is not about difficulty it is about the class flavor. I mean what more do you want?

I guess you weren't around for the huge debate around hunts giving gear away for free in 2.x that was the same ilvl as Second Coil gear. Raiders constantly complaining their gear was "invalidated," and that their accomplishments meant nothing. Most people do not play this game for the sake of getting their butts kicked, period.

I did give an example as to why it's ridiculous to imply difficulty should have no reward. It is not my fault you are daft. The community has actually spoken out about this before. It's why hunts have never given gear or upgrade materials that equal raid gear ever again. I also find it very convenient that you just keep sidestepping my comparison to EX primals and raids, yet think it's totally ok to do for jobs.

SE needs to realize that "uniqueness," is a poor excuse. In a collection of silverware, the broken fork is unique. The broken fork goes into the trash. You cannot balance on uniqueness and feeling alone. No game does this. Even in your WoW example, it does not follow that philosophy at all.

While you may say it is "normal," for it to be that way, I've yet to see any MMO have this aside from FFXIV. Even in your example for WoW, you never specifically stated what it actually meant, you just stated one class was easier than another, therefore it is true. That is an incredibly vague and quite frankly meaningless statement. It's not an example at all. I don't play WoW, if you want to convince me or even support your argument stating something so obvious, that two classes have varying difficulty, is not enough. I have no way to determine whether or not the two classes perform equally, or that neither is rewarded more than the other as you so desire.

You seem to be misunderstanding my opinion. I am not saying that there should be no difficult jobs. I'm just saying that SE is going to find it impossible to convince the grand majority of people it's worth playing a job if it's difficult just for the sake of it.

As for playing a job just because you find it fun, that's all well and good, but when people start to underperform because of job difficulty, unluckiness with mechanics, or feel like they could contribute more to their group with a different class, then that no longer applies. There are plenty of people bent out of shape about DRG especially for this. Lots of "Why play DRG when SAM exists?" posts going around. Some people love DRG and find it to be a blast, but also have more fun actually contributing and doing something.

Now, since you talked about wow, I will do the same: Shadow priest has a talent called Surrender to Madness, in short this talent is a ridiculously strong buff that you can maintain for quite some time(but not forever), once this buff falls off you literally die(horribly) and can not receive a ress even if avaible. This is a perfect high risk = high reward situation, if mechanics and latency allows it this talent will turn you into the ultimate dps and you would feel like the guy bringing down the boss hp. But if mechanics would force you to stop attacking the boss, or run to the other side of the room where you would not be able to attack or some stuns/silences would be inevitable, in other words factors that you can not control, so the talent would end up backfiring and often you would prefer other talents over this so strong surrender to madness.

And I believe this was a good design, there is the difficulty that you can work around, and there is the inevitable punishment, for the first, I believe that classes that suffer heavily from the second should outperform in fights where the second is not a thing, as for the second, said classes should be outperformed by more flexible ones.

This is exactly what I want. In two different situations each type of job has more effectiveness and/or is stronger than the other. In situations classes with low risk can dominate during mechanic-heavy or movement heavy fights. In certain situations classes heavily influenced by mechanics and/or movement can dominate since the boss is sitting still or they're not required to move much. I thought that would just be common sense.

[Nezia]

Now... what IF this mana glitch was actually intended OR if not intended the devs decide to embrace it and make some modifications here and there. Would you guys enjoy playing around it?

It is a very unlikely scenario, ofc, but I though it would be fun to ask.

[Shug]

I think if they fix the mana glitch, which I'm positive they will, the outcry for nerfs needs to stop.

[Deedsie]

When I first started ARR, I chose Dragoon as my main job because of all available jobs, it was because Red Mage and Dark Knight were not available and Dragoon was my favorite traditional FF job that was available at the time. When Heavensward came out, I changed my main to Dark Knight because it was second on my personal most wanted job list, and did not care that it had a primary tank role because it was still Dark Knight. Now we have Stormblood and Red Mage being my personal #1 most wanted job since the beginning, I change my main to it. Simplicity or complexity of it mattered not to me. The only thing that would possibly have me off the job is if they would have made it into a primary healer role.

[Zetic]

I think if they fix the mana glitch, which I'm positive they will, the outcry for nerfs needs to stop.

Saying RDM dont need nerfs at all though is really unrealistic. I don't think necessarily their dmg needs to be nerfed i dont really care if they are best or not but the fact that they bring battle res to the group along with other utility makes them to strong. Honestly a simple nerf like not being able to dual cast raise would suffice make them at least use swiftcast for it like all other casters do. Being able to heal them self or someone for a decent amount doesnt really bother me at all since they would lose a lot of dps if they continued to try to do this in a fight.

The fact is they dominate other caster roles to the point of why bring a blm or smn when you can just take a rdm or two is a problem.

[Nezia]

If they nerfed RDM so your sentence would change from this

why bring a blm or smn when you can just take a rdm or two.

to this

why bring a caster when you can just take 4 physical damage dealers.

Nerfing RDM would not magically make BLM and SMN shine, it would just throw the only currently viable caster in the trash with the other 2.

[Kling-Klang]

Now... what IF this mana glitch was actually intended OR if not intended the devs decide to embrace it and make some modifications here and there. Would you guys enjoy playing around it?

It is a very unlikely scenario, ofc, but I though it would be fun to ask.

I think it is interessting, I would not mind learning it then and trying to make the best use of it.
It would be cool if it became part of rdm gameplay maybe in 5.0 somehow in a way.

[Vexander]

Saying RDM needs a nerf because its supposed to be a Jack of All Trades, Master of None, doesn't take into account that FFXIV has a strict role system and RDM fell into the DPS slot. It needs to do competitive damage with other DPS. These threads keep making me think if it had been a Healer would healer's be demanding its healing be nerfed because it had DPS.

[HoLoFoNo]

Saying RDM needs a nerf because its supposed to be a Jack of All Trades, Master of None, doesn't take into account that FFXIV has a strict role system and RDM fell into the DPS slot. It needs to do competitive damage with other DPS. These threads keep making me think if it had been a Healer would healer's be demanding its healing be nerfed because it had DPS.

DPS without heals don't do competitive damage..... DRG/SMN/MCH etc. Yes these classes do need a buff but you are glossing over the arguments people are presenting. RDM is 2nd strongest DPS which is more than competitive, and is probably the easiest to play next to BRD while also not being punished by mechanics much effectively living within their own bubble (similar to BRD). The cure and raise are just the icing on the cake, and part of it's identity so it should remain. Embolden should effect everyone, not just physical but its personal damage IS too high.

[Fortune_Cookie]

That is pretty much the normal now. Many MMOs are doing this, it is not about difficulty it is about the class flavor. I mean what more do you want?

Many MMOs aren't doing this and it remains to be seen whether FFXIV is doing it. All Yoshida said was "We will be scaling down this factor". That's not equivalent to relegating job difficulty to a complete irrelevance.

What is true is that other games (WoW basically) have found it convenient to shift the skill gap from class complexity to encounter complexity (conveniently hidden behind multiple difficulty modes). I find that lamentable, but it is what it is.

However, the core concept of higher difficulty carrying a greater reward is obviously alive and well. Talent choices in wow are clearly balanced around the idea that the more complex talents (adding skills to the rotation/high-risk high reward type options) have slightly higher throughput if used correctly.

I admit my immediate reaction to this live letter statement was disappointment. On reflection, I hope that SE recognise that caster balance needs addressing and will make changes in 4.1 or 4.2.