The State of Homogenization: A New (Healer) Player's Perspective

[Packetdancer]

Agreed. And while I do think there's a bit of a middle ground they could make to add a tiny bit of skill expression, I also appreciate what we have and want it to keep going so... lol

Yeah. As a player, I tend to feel like there's got to be a middle ground.

On the other hand, as a former professional game dev, I also know that balancing things is a freakin' nightmare at the best of times; even if it all works out on paper, people will always try to find creative ways to eke just that little bit more DPS out... and you have to just pray those ways are ones you already foresaw and took into account when balancing.

And it takes less of those unexpected ways to use the system to destabilize it than you might think. Because—at least in my own personal experience—game balance is often a house of cards built on top of a table made out of dominos. And the playerbase are half a dozen cats laying on the floor with one paw out towards the first domino of that chain, staring thoughtfully as though wondering, "I wonder what happens if I bat at this domino here..."

(...I'm tired, my ability to analogy may be breaking down.)

[Banriikku]

Interestingly enough SGE is a better SCH and AST a better WHM but at end all hit their attack skill more often then a tank autattacks in full savage fight >.< It is pattern but a weird one. So atleast we have only boredom and can clear all content, it is a very low bar but hey ^^