Quote Originally Posted by Deo14 View Post
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.
I get that. Sadly, the only solutions the devs have historically seemed willing to take up are those that let them reduce their work:

2.0 WAR utterly lacks parity? Homogenize it.
4.0 DRK is painfully underpowered? Homogenize it.
5.0 NIN is made hectic because of the inability to queue mudras correctly? Don't fix queuing, but instead just turn all mudras into GCDs and remove yet another NIN combo so they don't get uppity again (they did say it was "too hectic" after all).
6.0 MCH is still complaining about the game's doubly punishing ping for no discernible reason? Don't deal with that; just change Hypercharge into stacks to further degrade SkS.
6.0 PLD falls fall short in overall capacity, especially aDPS? Don't actually buff them or do anything with Sword Oath to accelerate their opener as is; just replace their DoT combo with a 60s GCD-CD and merge their CDs.


But at the same time, if we limit even our suggestions to that kind of jadedness... what possible hope does the game have?