Quote Originally Posted by Elleia View Post
You never tried the older system then, I take it? PvP used to have all the same skills as PvE (certain ones worked a bit differently/some effects were changed), along with some additional PvP only skills you could choose from. There was quite a large skill gap in players who could use their kits to the fullest extent and those who would press a few buttons, perhaps not understanding the class to its fullest. It was good fun to figure out your PvP rotation and burst to improve yourself each match. Then with SB they pruned PvP greatly - a handful of skills for each class, with "auto combos" so that it's really difficult to screw up. Many people prefer to old system and feel that the new PvP has been dumbed down to the point of being unfun.
Old PVP was awful though. You know how a common complaint/observation about healers in FFXIV is that their healing is extremely strong relative to healing in other games, to the point where a capable healer can rapidly heal someone to full health in 1/2 GCDs? Under the old system, it wasn't uncommon for me to watch an entire full party focus on a single enemy healer, who not only survived the burst window, but was then easily able to sustain themselves once stun immunity and the burst phase was done. AGAINST A WHOLE ENEMY PARTY.\

If you switched targets? Now it was even easier for the healer to keep them alive. God help you if there was a second healer to flat-out make it impossible to progress.