Please stop inserting unbranching combos in new jobs

[Deo14]

If left to just the devs in a sort of "spacemaking" attempt instead of an explicitly "depth-increasing" one... I'd agree.

I feel like for that reason we should probably be asking to make every combo have complexity worthy of its button-count, rather than a button-count befitting its (lack of) complexity. I'll admit, though, that those two things sound a lot alike, especially to anyone who's only ever played with an XIV idea of "combos" in an MMO or MMO-adjacent setting.

Our GCD rotations really are currently the most wasteful, lackluster (especially, relative to what more they could easily support) part of job design at the moment, though.

We absolutely should be looking to improve upon (not merely simplify) them, but that does require not putting on a pedestal what they are now on the basis of what they could be and instead actually trying to reach those more lucrative prospects.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you, but it just feels hopeless to ask them to do anything that isn't dumbing down jobs even more. Hell, you don't even need to ask them, they'll do it anyways. But yeah, I just don't have much faith left in job design in this game. They can't even bring back one fucking skill that we've been asking for nearly 1.5 year. If all the Kaiten uproar with 100s of threads just on EN OF didn't work, nothing else will. Last solution is manufacturing some drama, since they started doing some QoL stuff after all the plugin drama last year.