Please stop simplifying and homogenizing the game. Please.

[Faafetai]

If they are going to homogenize the game further, at least they should stop being indecisive and figure out what they want to give everyone and then actually make the rest more unique.

Like movement skills for all healers would be nice maybe sometime not at level 90. And make it so all of the tanks have there two part of their aoe at the same time and engage abilities at the same time. It drives me nuts. Also everyone having an interrupt would be nice. Some things I do wish they would homogenize for the better cause it would go a long way.

All I can say is just expect a lot more of this. They're happy with these changes and unless the JP forums starts kicking back, they're not going to care at all what the EN forums say.

Seriously I joked earlier about this game becoming Guild Wars 2 and all I'd have to do is press the 1 button and the Job will play itself....but that joke is looking more like a reality with every expansion.

I think they very well may be backlash from the jp players about this change on sam, and unsure how people feel about warrior, but if they are changing warriors aoe I think that might be the I quit moment for me. I will not give money to people who are going to ruin things further because they can not just stop touching things. I was upset about summoner because with all of the changes the pet still wiffs its spells and now I can't order it around. I don't mind new summoner, but the reasoning for the change is what worried me.

Sure I can see why tp was removed because it was kind of annoying. positionals, I can see why because I have to hit true north half of the time when a boss decides its mechanics time every five second and spins none stop I think it was solm al Tioman. Because the bosses leave for nine hours holding on to duel casts, procs on classes such as blm would fall off because the devs do not want to change the spectacle of how the bosses leave or transform, so some things were made a passive. Though I am still waiting on someone to address the issue with dragoon jumps not changing in potency and the passive is literally the same as it is before you level and after you level. Also upset drg didn't get the holmgang treatment because it would have been hilarious with the range increase. I could go on with changes that are kind of okay and could understand why, but now it is just getting worse. Summoner had some pet issue, gee lets just remove the pet entirely but not really. And dots those were just tooooooo hard to maintain. It was totally because people would call it a dot class sure, not because people couldn't figure out how dots work.

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I wish to say something as well about all of this. I do not want to play cookie clicker. I want to play an mmo. I am far from hardcore, but would like to raid someday. I feel I have a decent grasp of the game and enjoy learning new things, new jobs, new mechanics. I was extremely happy being able to duo Ruby Weapon, Emerald Weapon, and Diamond Weapon at level 80 with cryptlurker sure and unsynced so no minimum ilvl, but it was very fun and enjoyable. My worry is the fact that I could duo these without issue just a tank and healer. It was pretty hard, timings had to be perfect, little bits of tricks needed to be used such as cover invuln. It took a bit of time I think we ended with 15 to 20 minutes to spare, but we needed to be perfect in execution because if we failed something once we would have to restart the whole thing because we wouldn't have enough time to complete it. I think we wiped once our final run but it was at the beginning. I do not see myself as a hardcore gamer, I mess up many times during many things, and understand not everyone is perfect. There is however a limit to how easy something really should be. If I am entering a duty to enjoy the story and people talk up how tough someone is like say Thoridan, and everyone is standing in every mechanic and nothing does literally any damage to anyone, it really kind of ruins the story for me.

I want to be able to learn new things within the game and I honestly have learned more from observing things by duo or trio ing content. I think there are alot of people who just are not great at the game, but could be better and the game itself has two modes plowing you into the floor and snooze fest. Many things do not teach job mechanics and I sure as heck never learned tanking from the story. I learned how to kill oppo oppos 9 times and light a tiki torch. I noticed today while playing just through post heavensward on ps4 I couldn't even dance partner yugiri or lyse during the fight before the big battle with omega and shinryu.

Instead of focusing on small things to help people they would rather just remove skills and dumb the game down like the few mmos I have actually played. I see where this is going, and as the other person in the thread said I will enjoy my time I have left here and move on. Things have gotten dumbed down in the past, but right now the game is somewhat stable and needs a few changes to bring it back to normal levels of okay. They can either actually fix things or make them worse. I will try to fight for this game, but if it wants to slam its head into a window on the short bus and burn all of its money its just made, I honestly can't fix insanity.

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