Quote Originally Posted by Deo14 View Post
They rebalanced SAM to deal more damage with basic GCDs and less with the big attacks, which is contradictory to the class fantasy. If they simply wanted to remove Kaiten, they would need to do just handful of potency changes, but they did about 21 of those changes in single patch. Midare deals just like 2.5x as much as regular GCD. Most importantly, now on average every 5th skill you use is Shinten. Imagine that RDM has a bland, uninteresting oGCD, and each spell builds gauge that is pretty much used only for this skill, and the gauge generation is so high that you spend 20% of all actions on using this boring spell. This is the state of SAM.

I understand that casters, and especially RDM really feels like devs' unwanted child, but that doesn't mean that we as players should point fingers and antagonize each other. I really don't think that any sensible players asked for SMN to become pranged, for RDM to be taxed to oblivion for a verraise, which is barely any better than single use ress, or any of the questionable changes EW brought.
I didn't point fingers, just pointed out a comparison, but most of the dumb changes are due to Square listening to player complaints so I think its warranted nonetheless.
"It just doesn't feel the same anymore"
vs
"I literally can not play my class like everyone else because encounters are actively hostile to my class design"