Quote Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia View Post
Don't forget when they did have a good healer testing with them, they were replaced for being "too good", which is the testing equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and going la la la la la la la la la
Yeeeeeahhh… this is also a problem.

I think I get what they were trying to do—like test around an “average” skill level. But their definition of “average healer” is basically the lowest common denominator healer that struggles to perform the role. I don’t think that’s a valid testing method either. Balance should at the very least be around average play when it comes to dungeons; and higher level play when it comes to higher-end content (Extremes, Savages, Ultimate). Not the worst play you could possibly have. I get that they don’t want players to struggle and feel discouraged for “failing”, but I think they respond to that with what is basically coddling. And that isn’t healthy either… But maybe I’m old-fashioned in the sense that accomplishment feels that much better after I struggle and overcome said struggle versus things just being easy…

I don’t know. I have a lot of thoughts about these things and not enough time to really lay them all out properly lol.

Quote Originally Posted by SargeTheSeagull View Post
Ehhh sorta. I’d rather see the devs invite content creators like Xenosys, Woops, Drak, Momo, Zepla and Happy to have an honest, no holds barred, complain-athon talking about how much everyone hates all these new changes and how making the game more single player friendly is stupid. The average player sucks and these content creators, regardless of what you think of them, are all fairly decent at the game and have solid understanding of how jobs work. Whether or not the devs would listen is another matter. I remember during the media tour Woops and Drak talked really in depth about job changes. Drak (a former monk main) and Woops (a DRG main) told Yoshi P that losing the greased lightning aura and blood of the dragon auras sucked and asked him to give it to those jobs. He just kinda shrugged it off and went “yeah I’ll ask the combat team about that”. Like, that’s not a big ask and it couldn’t be difficult to put in.
They definitely need to use the Media Tour for feedback on jobs. And they need healer representation there. It is my understanding that that has been sorely lacking the last several media tours. I don’t think there were any healer content creators/mains present at the EW Media Tour.