Quote Originally Posted by Rolder50 View Post
I find it rather understandable that people are concerned. Pretty much every single recent rework has ended up dramatically changing the job in question and alienated former players of that job.
Yeah that's my concern as well. With a lot of these reworks/changes the devs seem to pander towards 2 groups of people: people who actually enjoy and play the class... or people who don't like the class. A good example for this is summoner. Whether you love or hate the job is irrelevant, but it certainly is a far cry from what is was in Shadowbringers and lost all of its previous complexity and gameplay nuances (both good and bad) thus alienating the people who actually liked the class and just wanted to see the yank gone. I feel the same is true with samurai, the kaiten removal was simply an attempt at making the job easier and less punishing, but unlike summoner, it hasn't gotten any popularity with this change. I am not entirely sure if any dragoon main at all even asked for any change to the class aside from the obvious, when other classes seem to be needing that much more. I just don't wish to see dragoon dumbed down for the sole purpose of appealing to people who otherwise don't even touch the job, when there are 18 other classes to choose from. I hope this is not the route the devs want to take, especially since a big part of the community enjoys more challenging jobs such as black mage, however the devs do not seem to realize that.