Please stop removing Damage Over Time effects from every job, add more complexity

[ForteNightshade]

They hid those notes because back in the day there was a lot of criticism being thrown at SE over WHM and Lilies, which were a piss poor implementation during that time in Stormblood. What this did was put a lot of pressure on the team and reduced morale to an extent, so to keep that from happening they started hiding the notes until patch day so that the team wouldn't feel like their work was for naught because it didn't satisfy the player.

When you present a meal, and a person is dissatisfied with it even though you did your absolute best to make it enjoyable, it really hurts a person. This can then drive the person to not perform as well throughout a shift if it was a major change. If anything, I think most people were whining about SCH not having Energy Drain, WHM Lilies being horrible, and other jobs like MCH having ping issues that haven't been addressed. If we let them release them like they did back then, it's bound to come back because there are people who will read deep into the patch notes and then cry on the forums about X or Y because their job wasn't touched or their job was done wrong(which I bet a lot of PLD is going to cry about the next patch coming on the 10th).

It wasn't White Mage that caused that shift but Samurai back in 5.1. Yoshida specifically said they were lowering the potencies of some abilities because of adjustments made to others. Naturally, some people jumped to conclusions and screamed how Samurai was nerfed when it did exactly 0.1% less damage. The next LL prompted Yoshida to say they weren't be releasing potencies until the official patch notes.

Now I do think your assessment was a factor in their decision. Although, that is purely conjecture. Either way, it was a huge overcorrection because a small handful of fools couldn't read.

[RyuDragnier]

Now I do think your assessment was a factor in their decision. Although, that is purely conjecture. Either way, it was a huge overcorrection because a small handful of fools couldn't read.

It was more than that, as (if I remember right) the dev team were getting actual death threats by players in Japan from the potency changes released. You think NA players can be bad, JP players are worse about things like this.