FFXIV Job Design Feedback

[Deo14]

The total silence in regard to job changes started some time back in Stormblood (maybe early Shadowbringers). I think it was because the devs were annoyed by people giving feedback/complaints immediately after seeing the patch notes, so they opted for total silence from then on.

I started playing just in late ShB, but I keep hearing that job design was at its peak in StB and then it got worse and worse. What a coincidence.

Funnily enough, their changes lately have been so questionable, that patch notes are often enough to tell how bad they are. You really don't need to give 6.1+ SAM a try to realize that Kenki has no other use than just a Shinten spam. Their explanation for job changes didn't help them either, since they revealed that they unironically thought that PLD should have lower damage because he has range in magic phase.

[Aravell]

I started playing just in late ShB, but I keep hearing that job design was at its peak in StB and then it got worse and worse. What a coincidence.

Funnily enough, their changes lately have been so questionable, that patch notes are often enough to tell how bad they are. You really don't need to give 6.1+ SAM a try to realize that Kenki has no other use than just a Shinten spam. Their explanation for job changes didn't help them either, since they revealed that they unironically thought that PLD should have lower damage because he has range in magic phase.

So, the "try it out and give us feedback" act that the dev team has been using for Kaiten has been done before during early Shadowbringers, SAM wasn't the first victim. The dev team changed GNB sound effects in patch 5.01, this spawned a large forum thread asking why they changed the sound effects, the dev team, of course, asked us to try it out and give feedback, then they never mentioned it ever again. Exactly what's happening to SAM and Kaiten right now. It's a method they've used before, and they'll keep on using it because complaints always eventually die down.