Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
Cone enjoyer here, simple question - we had three solid tanks with circle AOEs as their combo, with PLD having target-circle AOEs on Confiteor + Blade of Valor combo, DRK having line AOEs (functionally similar to cones) on Flood + Shadowbringer and Gunbreaker being a true circle AOE job on all AOE skills.

If you didn't like the cone and it bothered you this much, why didn't you play another job? Should we make DRK's Flood of Shadow + Shadowbringer into circle AOEs as well? We need to move back and forth between GCDs, so more than WAR with cones?

I thought homogenisation between the jobs is something we were originally against, were we not?
I've always been against it but apparently with the rise of newer players and casuals in the game, the devs need to cater to them. Good or bad that's up to you to decide. I've always been of the mindset where if you don't struggle, you don't learn. If everything is just given to you, you become complacent. I also expect a rise of "jobs lack identity" threads to increase in the future if they continue on this path. Jobs in FFXIV are like T-shirts, they all have a different logos on them but they are all the same T-shirt.

Imo they should have just made both overpower and mythril tempest into a half circle aoe. Decimate and chaotic cyclone are already circle aoes. At least the one bright side is that now I can just sit in the centre of mobs and not move to hit everything and make the healers deal with it. Before I would move out to reposition overpower but now I don't need to. Healers get to heal and tanks get to use their mitigation so it's a win-win.