end of 24pl frontline

[Nalien]

Congratulations SE, by removing 8 player premades you've only made the issue worse. Limit players to 4 player premades? Nope, you've driven people into the same Grand Company for a potential 24 player premade. At least 8 player premades could be balanced into other Grand Companies, now they're all just in the same one, completely destroying any attempt at balance. Nice job, SE. Nice job. If only someone saw this coming...

Bring on the "Everyone is now locked to Freelancer" change, I guess. Not that I care, Frontlines is dead soon enough with 24 player mode removed. Congratulations on trying to fix something that wasn't broken, breaking it in the process, and all for the sake of a bunch of Garo boys who don't even play the mode anymore.

I say this as a solo player, Frontlines is far less fun now. Somehow you've managed to increase individual survivability yet completely countered it by just shooting damage output of melee through the roof. So this whole remove premades to placate soloists? It's achieved nothing because of that other balance changes.

Unless the combat changes (thanks for sharing any of those details with us btw, SE) are absolutely phenomenal

I'd say this was a bust, too. The changes feel mostly pointless and crappy. Melee probably all feel extremely happy, but every other role? Feels nerfed at best, worthless at worst. Don't get me started on the addition of AoEs. Who's bright idea was it to give ranged Jobs completely worthless AoEs? Melee ranged AoEs on a role that gets melted by a single melee? Are you f*cking joking? Just replace the AoE skills with a suicide button instead, because that's effectively what they are currently anyway.

Are PvP changes playtested with Squadron AI bots or something? That's the only possible way I can imagine anyone on the dev team could have thought Quick Nock/Spread Shot/Enchanted Moulinet were remotely worthwhile additions... Only way to 1v1 on ranged is to keep your distance, and even then you'll probably lose, and you're telling us to close distance for AoEs in 1v2+ scenarios? Seriously, why do I even need to explain how dumb this is? Wide Volley and Grenade Shot should still be kicking around the game files prior to their deletion in Stormblood, use those instead. Replace Enchanted Moulinet with an adjusted Contre Sixte. Oh look, ranged Jobs can now stay at range like the bleedin' role name suggests... Why does this even need to be suggested...

Nice to have definitive confirmation that Ninja is Mr. PvP Dev guys favorite Job, at least.