STAT SQUISH, LOW HP, DPS...for me...SUCKS!!

[Nighthawky2010]

Even though I know Yoshi said they had to do the stat squish, all I can say its sucks. I remember coming into EW & seeing my HP go from 120K to 29k, it was like a punch in the stomach. Seeing my RDM, which is main, at 90 doing DPS as it did in SB is kind of disheartening.

I'm like could our HP be at least be 75 - 80k at level 90.

IMO, sometimes I do feel my RDM is weaker. Level 80 dungeons when playing ShB seem like a breeze & can get through 15 mins. Now, it seems to take longer. Seeing some of these bosses especially in Pandemonium hit you with 24k damage & u hitting back with 8-12k damage...just SUCKS...lol. Again this is just my opinion & how I feel.

[Shurrikhan]

Now, it seems to take longer. Seeing some of these bosses especially in Pandemonium hit you with 24k damage & u hitting back with 8-12k damage...just SUCKS...lol. Again this is just my opinion & how I feel.

So, an 8-man raid boss may hit for 2 to 3 times the typical per-attack damage of one in 8-players? Ahh, yes, the horror.

Level 80 dungeons take almost exactly as long now as they did then; slightly less time, as far as I've seen, since a greater portion of people doing them will have maxed out those dungeons' ilvl caps. That and one's ability to survive 1-2 consecutive hits are about the only thing of relevance. You'll get used to the new values in time. Or, if it really upsets you, level a new job and it'll push out your old expectations as your HP again slowly climbs, making level 80 feel like it has the same relative strength. That relative strength, the %, and whatever impact that may have on clear times (little to none, it would seem), is all that really matters.

[Shialan]

Nothing changed except the numbers. Everything still feels and plays the same. Also, the only damage numbers you are even seeing are your own, and you probably also only care about the big CH and DH ones. Or were you really thinking "Oh no, that tank buster hit me for 60k HP" instead of "Oh no, that tank buster hit me for 1/2 of my HP"?


But please, don't get mad because of my response. Just how I feel and my opinion. LOL.

[Krotoan]

And this is why you shouldn't focus on the size of the # but the %.

[Shibi]

Size really isn't what's important.

[Arrius]

I do, however, have the feeling that the squish actually empowered the jobs even more.
I have never cleared dungeon runs as fast as I did before EW. Healers keep tanks up easier, Tanks live longer, and/or DPS burning faster through the trash.

It's wild.

[Kes13a]

havent noticed it to be fair. I know that some deeps that rely on huge numbers for a sense of pride and ego stroking seem hard hit mentally, but overall... I main healer so watch bars, not numbers. the bars move about teh same so.. no "suckage" from my perspective.

sorry you feel that way though. just be happy you arent in some other game where not only have they done squishing, but put you back to the same level you were when the game was released. thats gotta be fun eh?

[elioaiko]

It's only a matter of time before we reach ShB's level of damage again since the squish is more SB-level. But then they would have to do another reset. I think it's easier for them to do that now since they finally did a squish.

[Hezzlocks]

sorry you feel that way though. just be happy you arent in some other game where not only have they done squishing, but put you back to the same level you were when the game was released. thats gotta be fun eh?

Also be happy that Square did the stat squish properly ensuring a smooth transition. The stat squish could have very easily had some massive inconsistencies that suddenly made certain parts of old content that used to be really easy to do suddenly entirely impossible due to poor scaling.

You know, like some other game.

[Shurrikhan]

Also be happy that Square did the stat squish properly ensuring a smooth transition. The stat squish could have very easily had some massive inconsistencies that suddenly made certain parts of old content that used to be really easy to do suddenly entirely impossible due to poor scaling.

You know, like some other game.

This. I expected at least a few older pieces of content to become randomly unbeatable and other bosses to be randomly two-shot.

Granted, WoW's had, what, 3 stat squishes? It wasn't until their level squish (from 120, and what would have gone to 130, down to 60) that things got real buggy. So, hopefully XIV won't see the need to level-squish us after level 99 or 100, if that would likewise cause issues. (Though, there's no solid reason to believe it would. Just none, either, to believe it wouldn't.)