Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[Lyth]

Yeah, I can understand why the dev team isn't interested in officially publishing numbers, even if it would provide an avenue for interested players to critique their own performance and grow stronger with it.

If you think that burst windows are a 'restriction' now, they still were back then. There is always an optimum time to place that burst window. What has changed is:

• It's more obvious when that burst window is supposed to occur (what's the LCM of our recasts again?)
• It tends to get set up without any real coordination or pre-planning
• It's longer, allowing you to be less precise with your button inputs
• It's less powerful than it used to be

In short, they took something that occurred typically at slightly higher levels of play in coordinated groups and made it accessible and forgiving so that anyone can do it on the fly. Just because the average PF player who used to freestyle burst is actually conscious about it doesn't mean that anything has changed.

If they wanted to really throw a wrench into it, we'd just have an assortment of different prime number recasts to deliberately mess with the alignment. But then you might as well stick with personal buffs and make this feel more like a single-player game. That will be next, the way the complaints are going.

[Shurrikhan]

One day, FFlogs should just hide the percentile and median stats on everyone's page as an april fools joke. Leave it that way for a week or two, so it doesn't just get dismissed right away as 'eh its just april fools' and people start thinking it'll stick.

I'd actually really like to see that. Given the high chance people just go back to business as normal thereafter, though, I guess I'd just like to see context made a bit more visible? For instance, it would be interesting if we could see how many attempts have gone into a given fight that haven't yet cleared (noting also that most people don't log non-clears), or how the number of clears compare to previous tiers or luckybancho estimates on the number of active level-capped players. It'd be cool to see what the enrage time is for the given fight, and to be able to quickly check how a party fell far above or below making that mark, or even to do "what if" substitutions.

If they wanted to really throw a wrench into it, we'd just have an assortment of different prime number recasts to deliberately mess with the alignment. But then you might as well stick with personal buffs and make this feel more like a single-player game. That will be next, the way the complaints are going.

I hope it doesn't come to that, but that does sadly seem the fairest bet, given the history of adjustments thus far.