Leveling Kit tweaks for Tank Jobs

[Quor]

Dropping a small follow up on my thoughts due to the Live Letter.

The lack of announcements for Tank (and healer) adjustments is concerning. I hope that Square is just saving this stuff to surprise us with? or else I can definitely foresee a large uproar. having gone almost an entire year since SHB dropped with almost no changes to tank jobs could definitely make people feel worse about SQ and might lose faith in them. I just hope they make even some small changes to make each of the tank jobs feel just a little better beyond being balanced at lv 80.

Truth be told tanks and healers are pretty bottom of the list right now, minus the ever-whining SCH's anyway, who are still having trouble adjusting to not being OP after three straight versions of it.

That might sound harsh but it's the truth. SCH was way overtuned prior to ShB and was due to be brought into line.

I wouldn't worry too much about the lack of info right now; what we're seeing with the LL is both stuff that's been delayed largely due to the coronavirus as well as been in the pipeline since prior to 5.2. Any recent ideas or criticisms from prior to that won't have had a chance to be addressed due to the backlog. Although to be fair, we probably won't see any kind level shifting for job actions until 6.0 comes out, because SE has shown that they are very unlikely to make that kind of change mid-xpac.

[bundythenoob]

Truth be told tanks and healers are pretty bottom of the list right now, minus the ever-whining SCH's anyway, who are still having trouble adjusting to not being OP after three straight versions of it.

That might sound harsh but it's the truth. SCH was way overtuned prior to ShB and was due to be brought into line.

I wouldn't worry too much about the lack of info right now; what we're seeing with the LL is both stuff that's been delayed largely due to the coronavirus as well as been in the pipeline since prior to 5.2. Any recent ideas or criticisms from prior to that won't have had a chance to be addressed due to the backlog. Although to be fair, we probably won't see any kind level shifting for job actions until 6.0 comes out, because SE has shown that they are very unlikely to make that kind of change mid-xpac.

I wouldn't say that SCH deserved to remain at the top, but their criticisms are much valid in my opinion. DPS neutering aside, they broke the fairies, selene is outright deleted, and the jobs older healing potencies were not buffed to compensate for their loss of mitigation via dps just to name a few problems. it has glaring mana issues from lv 30 to 45 because of the removal of aetherflow, but adloquium still costs 1k mana, and without lustrate till lv 45 (or energy drain for that matter) you go through your resources way too fast.

My bigger worry however, is that in their chase for "balance and accessibility", square will be too busy catering to the wrong crowd to realise that their core audience no longer wants to play said jobs, and with the core audience gone, the overall skill level of the playerbase will be reduced to cure1 bots and tanks who dont use mitigation