After reading the patch notes, I guess I won't play SAM anymore

[HisShadowX]

I get what you're saying, kind of? If you want complexity, go to another game? It sort of does feel that way at times; That playing another game entirely is your only recourse.

I just wonder what the end result of all the simplification is going to look like. This current system is already sort of unrecognizable, if, like you mentioned, have been playing during the cross class era & before.

I have been playing MMORPG's since AOL created the first GUI MMORPG Neverwinter Nights. I saw the advent of Everquest and then World of Warcraft. Pretty much after World of Warcraft any MMORPG that catered to a crowd for hardcore players went free2play or failed.

The only old MMORPG made for hardcore players that's still running mainly due to rich and powerful players fund it with real life money is Eve with one battle costing players over $300,000.00 USD of lost money. It would be nice for hardcore players to have games made for them, but again the problem is they often fail or the games are full of dead servers with barely anyone playing. So they come to games like this that are more populated and then demand features that would cause millions of paying customers to quit. Most people might not remember the mass firings at BioWare Austin when EA & BioWare advertised the game as casual friendly and they launched the game to appease Star War Galaxies refugees. Then they held a 'Guild Summit' in which they paid for Hardcore guilds to go to Austin and listened to their feedback only and promised never to make a Dungeon/Duty Finder system.

Two million people left in that month once the game was made even harder and all the heads of BioWare Austin either were fired or resigned. FFXIV 1.0 was based on appeasing this minority of consumers and they had to close down the game and completely rebuilt it.

"DPS healers barely healing"

Ah, we have another DPS main who doesn't know how support classes work. Opinion discarded.

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I mainly main tanks and from there as I choose Healers over DPS. I am currently however, leveling a Red Mage.

[Semirhage]

I mainly main tanks and from there as I choose Healers over DPS. I am currently however, leveling a Red Mage.

Cool. You do know that mindlessly mashing the nuke button is what skilled healers do, yes?

[IdowhatIwant]

ISNIP.

Who cares about FFXIV 1.0 we are at 6.1 now, not sure if you have realized this yet.
I need what ever you are smoking my god.