Quote Originally Posted by tearagion View Post
"(figuratively) Not connected, coherent, or continuous." Nothing in newSMN is "connected", it's an incoherent ("united as or forming a whole.") design as every individual design element exists separated mechanically from the others. The closest you get it that Demi summons give you gems, wow truly fantastic.
I'm happy some people see this as well since it's literally what jumped right at my face as soon as I saw new MCH in ShB media tour. Nothing is connected in the kit besides some arbitrary gauge generation from the basic filler. Everything is just a bunch of actions that all do a certain potency and have a certain cooldown. It's really, really not mechanically engaging, it's literally bottom floor of intricacy. Yet the job proved popular because the new visual identity had some flair and cool looking things added for the expansion, much like people lost their s*** when they saw the job trailers for SB SMN and bahamut was there, and same for ShB with phoenix, although now it seems to have really dialed down in popularity (the less people like it the happier i'll be, heh, i'm spiteful like that).

The only thing I like about new SMN is the possibility to swap the colored legos around. Too bad there is very little significance around that too (especially when BRD would love to be able to do this with songs, where it's a lot more meaningful).

I'm legit starting to wonder if the crux of the problem since SHB hasn't been all about this tbh: loss of intricacies in every kit across the board bar a few exceptions. The irony about it is that all the new pvp kits have an insane degree of intricacy with thrice less buttons.