MrHappy interview with yoshida from tokyo

[Dyvid]

In regards to Races, I know I've seen people asking for something akin to Ronso so it was out. And it does make since in terms of development stand point. It was also refreshing to hear them finally admit their meta on healing (one pure healer) isn't work with what the community is doing. It will be interesting to see how they go about changing WHM and AST considering those are the two jobs at each extreme. Also good to see Yoshi-P admit it might not be a good idea to keep things so secret.

I guess that thing that really worries me with said beast race is from what I can gather from the statements given they were already in development before Viera were on the table.

where they not confident enough in their work to say "let's finish this race (male and female) and give them bunnys (male and female) next expansion?

Well as the interview said, the community really wanted Viera before HW. It was a way for them to try and give the community both sides without hurting the development team in the process.

[Burningskull]

This is the response I posted on the youtube video. Copy and pasting it here.

I think these are really good questions and I really liked some of the answers. Still not happy with their decision to do 2 incomplete races instead of 1 complete race but I think I can understand their reasoning. Hopefully they will considering adding the other gender's in the future.

Still mildly angry that Gunbreaker is a tank and not a DPS but DNC uses chakrams so... woot. What he says about healer jobs seems to make sense but I don't play them so I hope healers get lucky with the reworks.

Not happy with his answers on Eureka or BLU mage but that's because I wasn't happy with either. I'd rather not have anymore limited jobs and I would really like the new relic weapon "not" be locked behind the new Eureka content. I hope they would make Eureka an option to getting the relic, even can be the fastest method to get it if necessary, just not the only option.

I think it would be cool to have the 8 man normal mode raids part of the story, but how do you do it? Do you have to beat the Main Quest each patch before you can do the 8 man raid? Do you do the 8 man raid before the MSQ? Then you also have the High End Raiders. If you make it so you do the MSQ then the raid you would need to make it so Savage raiders can do the raid right out of the gate regardless of completion of the MSQ... I see that being a really difficult decision.

[Anesteria]

Not happy with his answers on Eureka or BLU mage but that's because I wasn't happy with either. I'd rather not have anymore limited jobs and I would really like the new relic weapon "not" be locked behind the new Eureka content. I hope they would make Eureka an option to getting the relic, even can be the fastest method to get it if necessary, just not the only option.

If the excuses weren't of the same nature as the ones they've given for many other things like BLU, then they could have had more of a room to wiggle around.

Reading his response to BLU actually seems like the beginning of backpedaling.

I'm not being hopeful, but a statement like that simply screams that they actually did receive more than enough negative feedback on limited jobs and BLU's situation. Especially when you compare it to something like this:

Naoki Yoshida: The Blue Mage is only able to acquire balance because it is what we now call a “limited job,” and there are no plans to remove the limited aspect from the job.

So they finally dropped the "balance" and "enjoyment" excuses and changed the entire point to "Let's see how it works in 5.x".

It means there has been a change, which means that those who want to main BLU like a normal job simply have to show interest.
But even then, it seems silly that they have to take such steps when people have already shown them how they could make everyone happy, without having horrendous time constraints.
As well as how the initial excuses were just that, poor excuses.

[Deceptus]

Glad Mr. Happy actually asked tough relevant questions.

[Tsalmaveth]

Healers aren't happy (well, some are not at least... it is never wise to speak for a whole or even a portion... I will say I speak for myself and have noticed several in the thread echoing similar sentiments), for the most part, but we're discussing it more in-depth in another thread...

Healers have been in a tough spot for awhile. We've been told for two expansions now that we are 'being balanced' and have NOT been. And now the past several interviews I have seen the comments have been 'make WHM easier' and 'nerf SCH' and now this... it leads me, at the very least, to be VERY worried about where the Healing class is going to be headed. I'm NOT feeling all that comfortable, really. It doesn't feel like the dev team knows what they want OR how the PLAYERS are playing things. While HE might have a 'vision' of things, that doesn't always translate into how the players are actually playing the game. And sometimes that doesn't always turn out for the best. But we'll have to just wait and see.

[YISUG]

he is damn right
how did people expect a new healer let alone knowing its going to be the dancer
same goes with the other races

[Tsalmaveth]

Well, YISUG, probably because we've been told twice now that they were 'balancing' our role and have failed to do so(or butchered it so badly it required entire expansions to correct it...). And we're a little fatigued to get told it AGAIN. It's a little stale now. And now we're looking at basically being told 'welp, tear it all down!' so it's a little... 'concerning'

[Tsukino]

Very disappointed in his statement about tanks, for exactly the reason Mr. Happy said - people who play Paladin want to be the stalwart defender that protects their party from damage. They need to take a big step back from the loud raid groups that give more feedback but don't actually comprise most of the players in the game.

And the statement about wanting a third ranged attacker still sounds incredibly stupid to me considering how many people do things using the duty finder. The rest about wanting to balance healers and fix the problem of only having two kinds - HP healing or damage shields - all makes perfect sense though, and it's good to know they recognize the issues that maybe prevented them from working on a new healer.

I still don't care about new races and don't understand why anyone else does, but it's good for those people to get such detailed answers I guess.

[Dyvid]

My take away from the Mr.Happy interview was the devs are finally admitting their stead fast design of healing as a whole isn't working; They always stood by in the decision that WHM is only going to heal with nothing else. I guess they are also disappointed that each job isn't really defined other than heals and shields. I said in 3.0 that AST being able to heal or shield wasn't a good design choice, it need it's own unique healing method that would be different from heal and shields.

What that means in actually changes? Hopefully it's not to the far extreme of removing shields. Rather I would hope they give utility to WHM. Maybe they fixed ACN buggy pet AI and SCH will have more use for fairies. AST will just be a regen healer that using gambling. Rather than having a main healer and off healer, both will be balanced enough to share the load equally among them.