Quote Originally Posted by ASkellington View Post
There is 0 way you're going to sell me over to the idea of GCD cards when 1 - we had them back in SB, 2, we have them currently in PvP, both of them work if a bit flawed in some respects and 3 - the whole reason why I picked up AST when I started the game was the idea of weaving my cards on the fly.
Sorry to butt in, but cards were as OGCD in SB as they are now

Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
Then let's just not do anything. No job needs to change, or even get new actions. Let's just not have anything added ever.
If the devs actually did that, maybe they'd actually get the jobs remotely balanced for once. Infinite typewriters and all that. But 'new stuff!' is a big selling point, so they have to flip the boardgame every 2 years and make a new mess of balance. And 'nothing changes ever' would lead to the same issue as what we saw with Classic WOW: the meta was solved, everyone knew exactly what was best at what point, and which classes were best to play for certain roles. You want to tank, be a warrior or you're a meme. You want to heal? Don't be a druid or you are a meme. You want to DPS, probably be a warrior because for some reason warrior gets to be the hybrid that doesn't suffer the 'hybrid tax'.

Here, if nothing changed ever re: balance, I guess we'd see 'the meta' get solved and then everyone would parrot 'you have to play this comp or you're griefing' even if a player doesn't know the jobs in that comp well. An off-meta RPR that knows their stuff will likely outdps a FOTM rerolling NIN who can't tell their Trick Attack from their TenChiJin. Actually, I guess we did see this kind of thing at the end of HW with the dreaded NIN DRG BRD MCH meta. Didn't matter if you were a godlike SMN or BLM, you were perceived as griefing for not playing the 'best comp'. Bloody annoying