Thread: 5.08 Patch Notes up

Originally Posted by ChaoticCrimson

Thing is, you had to weave a lot as a SMN in StB too. It's not really any busier now than it was then. The "busy-ness" is not really the issue with SMN, at least not in and of itself.

If that were true, people wouldn't be complaining about the job's busy-ness now, would they? Yes, it's not the *big* issue, but it definitely contributes to how terrible SMN is to play right now.

Originally Posted by dinnertime

If that were true, people wouldn't be complaining about the job's busy-ness now, would they? Yes, it's not the *big* issue, but it definitely contributes to how terrible SMN is to play right now.

Chalk me up in the minority, then, because I like how SMN plays right now, and I've been doing the Carbuncle Shuffle since the first October of ARR.

I also enjoy driving fast cars with manual transmissions. I like the enjoyment of cranking out perfectly-timed gear shifts... and I enjoy the satisfaction of a run of perfect keypress / mouseclick sequences. Elegant weapons... for a more civilized age.



My only real gripe about SMN is losing Titan-Egi as a genuine Tank type. That's making me work too much in open-world hunting

Originally Posted by ChaoticCrimson

Thing is, you had to weave a lot as a SMN in StB too. It's not really any busier now than it was then. The "busy-ness" is not really the issue with SMN, at least not in and of itself.

There's a lot more weaving now. in SB we weaved Fester, Bane, Pain Flare, Enkindle, Trance, and that's basically all. Now we get have pet skills that we have to manually weave into as well, 2 per minute. we also pretty much HAVE to weave Lucid Dreaming in now as well. Rarely had MP issues before. in SB we spammed Ruin 3 like 90% of the time and pet was mostly on auto after the opener.

How busy the job is IS an issue because it's pushed a lot of people away from the job. It's not the main issue though. The main point when people mention how busy it is, is just that we work a lot harder than other jobs and don't get rewarded for it. Some people argue difficulty of a job shouldn't matter, but it really should. People should be rewarded for how hard their job is to play, with DPS scaled with the difficulty of said job. Difficulty should be balanced against utility and such. Right now it seems they only look at "utility" and w/e job the devs like at the moment (always BLM lol)