Quote Originally Posted by Dewslam View Post
Maybe the game shouldn't be so easy I can auto-attack through most of it with the only mildly challenging content being extreme and savage, which demands you jump through considerably more hoops than anything else just to do. But also Savage demands a different playstyle than the rest of the game, so balancing for it means balancing for the players who optimize and play as close to perfect as they can.

I think current monk is probably the best example of this; once you get the hang of blitz, its timers and the gist of what you're supposed to do, it's not hard to use at all and performs above how it feels like it is. But a lot of people struggle with keeping monk's blitz cycles going and fall out of synch which makes the class feel sloppy and awkward. So rather than rewarding you for performing well, it feels like you have to perform well for the class to not feel like a mess.

Basically, I guess, I'm saying that by tuning specifically for end game content it makes the rest of the game feel like it doesn't matter at all which, in turn, has made it all feel pretty dull and rote in comparison.
I'm not arguing the case to make the game easier.

I'm attempting to explain to people that have the viewpoint that "balancing a job's performance around their performance in savage" is somehow making the jobs "harder".

Believing that fact is a logical fallacy, because if a job is tiered to be balanced and perform well in savage, then it is going to perform well in more casual content with sub-optimal play.