Thread: What do you think was the worst thing this game experienced from 2.0 until now?

making fantasias single character instead of account wide. Thankfully I bought a bunch before that happened so I haven't need to buy any since then. Also 2.0 war was rough and really tempered my skills with war as we really had to work and bust our asses to even get close to PLD godliness. That was fixed in 2.1 but those 3 months... man. But in reality, this game got worse the moment the mogstation was introduced.

Originally Posted by Marxam

making fantasias single character instead of account wide. Thankfully I bought a bunch before that happened so I haven't need to buy any since then. Also 2.0 war was rough and really tempered my skills with war as we really had to work and bust our asses to even get close to PLD godliness. That was fixed in 2.1 but those 3 months... man.

IMO, PLDs -x% design was a huge mistake, and ruined tanks, and possibilities of what future tanks can do.
Plus who makes a WAR a healing tank, and PLDs a non healing tank?!
Who makes WAR the higher dps tank, AND make it the support tank? (slashing debuff, and eventually -10% dmg dealt debuff)

PLD should have been support, with heals, and WAR the selfish dps tank, though pure defense. (PLD should have had a lower GCD mechanic like MNK/NIN/SAM, and DRK more about weaving attacks in. Leaving WAR with the longer GCD, to feel like its the great axes weight.)

If PLDs rampart was more liek foresight, adding defense, rather than lowering damage done by the boss, this would have opened up so much more possibilities in tanking ideas, w/o having to copy/paste rampart effects. (Of course 20% on foresight was terrible, should have been nearly 50% increase)

As for what the OP asked, the fact Flash was 3.5s GCD trigger at beta, and when all WSs were lowered to 2.5s, all spells had a 3s GCD.
They should have made them 2.5s from the start,rather than waiting till a patch to change them to 2.5s.
Flash on PLD was awful, since you were slowly doing less GCDs than the DPS, and they would still rip hate off you. So everyones best plan was to rotate Rage of Halone, which still wasnt good enough against the best BLMs. (Though for most pug BLMs it was fine)