Thread: They're thinking about job identities for 8.0

So apparently we'll have to wait for 3 more years until we get a single consideration for actual job flavor?

Is this for real? You couldn't do that for this expansion?

Meanwhile everything is simplified in order to remove any failure state (notably gauge costs for bursts among other things).

Please looks foward to it XD

As a rdm main i'm not looking foward to post picto game, specially since it seems EW summoner version is staying from the looks of it

I don't know why they're not going towards 8.0 direction Now, not asking for the full switch but why are they doubling down on a worse Endwalker design?? tjey're going in the opposite direction of what 8.0 is "meant" to be

Wouldn't it make sense to Revert some endwalker changes to prepare people more for 8.0?

I'm personally doubting 8.0 will do that much to make job design different or interesting again

Originally Posted by kuroashi_sanji

I'm done with this game honestly, more 2-3 years with the same shit gameplay, no thanks.

The funny part is yoshida saying the changes is based on player's feedback, what a joke xD

We knew that already from the last time he spoke about it. Apparently they're thinking about making the encounters more interesting rather than job gameplay, which is a shame to me.

Job gameplay has a much bigger shelf life than encounters who get trivial as soon as you complete the 'puzzle'.

Originally Posted by Raikai

We knew that already from the last time he spoke about it. Apparently they're thinking about making the encounters more interesting rather than job gameplay, which is a shame to me.

Job gameplay has a much bigger shelf life than encounters who get trivial as soon as you complete the 'puzzle'.

Funny thing is good job gameplay ENHANCES fight design, redoing a fight on a different job should be fun and make the fight somewhat fresh, but now once you've done the fight, it becomes stale more quickly even if you try to play something else.

Also fun/good job design led to normal content being more bearable and fun.

Combo actions being removed into one button, Mnk/drg/nin changes, a lot of tanking changes everything just why? Do we really need a easier Endwalker job design wise?

Originally Posted by Rithy255

Funny thing is good job gameplay ENHANCES fight design, redoing a fight on a different job should be fun and make the fight somewhat fresh, but now once you've done the fight, it becomes stale more quickly even if you try to play something else.

Also fun/good job design led to normal content being more bearable and fun.

Combo actions being removed into one button, Mnk/drg/nin changes, a lot of tanking changes everything just why? Do we really need a easier Endwalker job design wise?

The combo merging in specific, I'm okay with, because how it is - that's a shallow way to complexify something - it's a test of your hand's dexterity rather than your capacity to think on the run (which makes sense for MNK's decision making currently). I'm still neutral about everything else because I need to see what exactly are those 'new encounters' they're planning, assuming is something more distinct than we got in Endwalker.

Originally Posted by Raikai

Apparently they're thinking about making the encounters more interesting rather than job gameplay

And you know that's BS because 90% of the game will be braindead easy or people won't play it/trusts can't do it, leaving only Savage and Ultimate to have interesting mechanics. So now we have boring jobs on top of boring mechanics.