Quote Originally Posted by Transient_Shadow View Post
Protect. It just takes up cross role space. I'm certain they could have done some math and edited damage taken so protect would no longer be necessary.
It's still a thing because it's the only thing healers offer to a group that otherwise may as well be a bunch of DPS. See PotD. SE took half of WMH's kit and gave it to all the healers to simplify things and that had the opposite effect of giving the impression that all role actions were optional (including Esuna), even though it makes them available at all levels the Role action slot is available at.

I'd rather all three healers have had their own Esuna skill, and Protect being unique to WHM's skillset. Maybe AST could have got a version of Protect that was Dirunal/Nocturnal aspected, so Dirunal AST-protect acted like WHM's protect, but Nocturnal AST-protect acts like SCH's version, and SCH's version would be like the original cross-class version (eg without proshell.) Whoever has the more powerful version overwrites the weaker one.


Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post
Why can't we send mail to our alts? From a consumer POV this is a pretty basic thing we should be able to do.
Because RMT. Also because it makes stripping an account possible by players who share the same account. Not that it doesn't stop people from doing either of these with some free-trial account, it just requires effort.


You know what is still a thing, that's been around since 2.0 and still happens? "Cast canceled", why not simply do what all the stand-alone FF games do and send DPS casts to the next NPC on the enmity list if the previous one dies, and the same with healing. This is infuriating with casters as you will start casting, but the melee or tank will take down the last bit of the mob before your cast completes, so you then start the cast again on another target and the same thing happens.

Another thing, that is still a thing. Locking people out of the boss room. Like either just teleport everyone, or don't spawn the boss until everyone is in it. Early pulls should never be a thing.