Gamespot interview with Mr. Ozma... Very disappointing

[FenyxRising]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ho.../1100-6517559/

It looks like they do not see any issue with the two minute meta and they think having giant bosses that give you uptime for free is the way to go. It's very disappointing to see them not at all recognizing how stale Savage and job design is.

I have the impression that more players enjoyed resolving mechanics while attacking the boss, and I feel the same way when I play the raids myself, so a lot of bosses are designed for maintaining uptime nowadays.

No thank you Mr. Ozma. You design bosses so that anyone can maintain uptime without even trying. What players want is for maximum uptime to be possible but require a lot of skill to pull off, like O8S, you know, back when uptime was actually something players fought to achieve, and required players to pull off difficult solutions to mechanics to get their uptime. Sadly... in today's Savage raids anyone can get 100% uptime by just breathing oxygen.

[Raikai]

It looks like they do not see any issue with the two minute meta

About that in specific, he just mentions that the 2min meta is something they need to keep in mind when designing fights. It doesn't indicate whether or not they have plans with the 2min meta in the future.

[vetch]

About that in specific, he just mentions that the 2min meta is something they need to keep in mind when designing fights. It doesn't indicate whether or not they have plans with the 2min meta in the future.

But if they were getting rid of it, would they need to keep it in mind?

[Lyth]

I wouldn't have picked O8S as an example of a 'challenging' uptime fight. Most of the modern simplifications to raid design have their origins in the Omega raid series, including self-positioning bosses. Players don't need to be able to achieve the 'theoretical maximum' uptime for a fight - if nobody can pull it off perfectly, you have a skill differential. They should just keep the boss targetable and see what players are capable of achieving.

It would be nice to see more of the 'reaction-driven' mechanics that Nakagawa was discussing. P12S had some interesting mechanics, but it felt like they deliberately slowed the second part down a bit too much.

[Bonoki]

I can't really say I'm surprised that Dawntrail is looking to be a carbon copy of Endwalker. They said before that the job designs were essentially perfect in their opinion aside some tweaks. It only makes sense they felt the same way about the combat as well since they go hand and hand with each other.

[ZephyrMenodora]

I can't really say I'm surprised that Dawntrail is looking to be a carbon copy of Endwalker. They said before that the job designs were essentially perfect in their opinion aside some tweaks. It only makes sense they felt the same way about the combat as well since they go hand and hand with each other.

Yes a few have said this. I think it’s time some admit at last that they just have subs for the hours and hours a day they get on the forums. Lol

[DamianFatale]

I can't really say I'm surprised that Dawntrail is looking to be a carbon copy of Endwalker. They said before that the job designs were essentially perfect in their opinion aside some tweaks. It only makes sense they felt the same way about the combat as well since they go hand and hand with each other.

Sometimes I feel like Japanese game companies have this mentality where they are right, and everyone else is 100% wrong. You are playing the game they design, and you're basically just children that have to accept it even if you don't like it.

It's fine SOMETIMES, because I do feel like devs should make the games they want to make, but I feel like XIV its getting a bit out of hand of late with this mentality. It's no longer balanced, and it needs to change.

[ElysiumDragon]

The 2 minute meta likely exists because it makes for much easier job balancing as a whole, as you have a fixed scenario you can test jobs inside of.

[Supersnow845]

The 2 minute meta likely exists because it makes for much easier job balancing as a whole, as you have a fixed scenario you can test jobs inside of.

It also exasperates issues and makes variance harder to balance against

In the current two minute meta a crit during the burst window of a DPS 1300 potency skill (so enkindle or hyosho ranryu) completely covers a healer never touching their dot in the entire fight. This level of variance would also cover approx 9 broken combos or 2 completely missed stardiver potency oGCD’s

When you can do a 75th per tier rotation and get a 90 because of crit luck in the burst window then something is wrong with the balance design