Yoshi's Comment on Future Job Design - Are Jobs

[Shurrikhan]

Look in the job forums. You will find many threads like: the b-barses show that if boss X spawns some adds and there is a bard in the group and my ping is at 34 ms and outside of my flat the sun shines and the Venus, Mars and Jupiter form a line then MY job makes 0,24% less DPS than job Y. And this proves that MY job is unplayable since patch 5732.4. Yoshi-P please fix it now!

Is this supposed to a hyperbolic example... of hyperbole?

The smallest imbalance I tend to see complaint specifically about is when a utility-less job gives multiple percent less rDPS than a more utility-heavy one, even at the 95th percentile or so.

More common issues brought up:

• Why is my 'on-demand' mitigation uniquely bypassed by any and all critical hits or negated by hard CC, given that they otherwise fill the exact same purpose and only TBN is remotely unique among them?
• Why is my job designed in such a way that boss jump downtime penalizes it twice as much as any other?
• Why was my job's gameplay drastically worsened and its performance cut by almost 2% for changes no one asked for?
• Why does my healer uniquely have MP issues not faced by the other healers (atop having the least rDPS and utility?)
• Why does my kit uniquely have almost so little to do, even compared to others in the same role?
• Why is my kit largely a skin-swapped Warrior just with more oGCD casts and a fifteenth its sustain? (Slightly exaggerative.)

[dapperfaffer]

Not to say that parsers are bad...but, if there wasn't a parser you wouldn't know any of that information. And all of those complaints would be reduced to 3 specific ones that only stand out because of design inequality, which is oddly enough an argument for homogonization.

[AngelCheese77]

I would hope they work on the jobs that are in the game now by fleshing them out and adding more quests that are engaging and tell us more about the class/job.

[Silverbane]

There is a crying need for at least one more job in FFXIV: a job that addresses one of the most active and competitive activities in the game. One only need visit the Aetheryte Plaza at Limsa Lominsa to see how popular this activity is, and how competitive, but for some reason there is no job particularly well suited for it.

The activity is, of course, Glamour, and the new job we need is Glamour Model.
I leave it to others to flesh out all the actions and traits that Glamour Model would have, but being able to use any other class's items as a glamour could be one of them.

[RitsukoSonoda]

There is a crying need for at least one more job in FFXIV: a job that addresses one of the most active and competitive activities in the game. One only need visit the Aetheryte Plaza at Limsa Lominsa to see how popular this activity is, and how competitive, but for some reason there is no job particularly well suited for it.

The activity is, of course, Glamour, and the new job we need is Glamour Model.
I leave it to others to flesh out all the actions and traits that Glamour Model would have, but being able to use any other class's items as a glamour could be one of them.

Just have them make the limited job "Onion Knight" can equip any piece of gear or weapon and use any skill you learned from other jobs... >.> lol

[SeverianLyonesse]

There is a crying need for at least one more job in FFXIV: a job that addresses one of the most active and competitive activities in the game. One only need visit the Aetheryte Plaza at Limsa Lominsa to see how popular this activity is, and how competitive, but for some reason there is no job particularly well suited for it.

The activity is, of course, Glamour, and the new job we need is Glamour Model.
I leave it to others to flesh out all the actions and traits that Glamour Model would have, but being able to use any other class's items as a glamour could be one of them.

Sounds like it should be a Disciple of the Land. And by that I mean a Student of the Streets. And by that I mean a catgirl in 2B leggings with a LFP icon.

[Hyperia]

There is a crying need for at least one more job in FFXIV: a job that addresses one of the most active and competitive activities in the game. One only need visit the Aetheryte Plaza at Limsa Lominsa to see how popular this activity is, and how competitive, but for some reason there is no job particularly well suited for it.

The activity is, of course, Glamour, and the new job we need is Glamour Model.
I leave it to others to flesh out all the actions and traits that Glamour Model would have, but being able to use any other class's items as a glamour could be one of them.

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