Thread: Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

Originally Posted by wildvenonat

It isn't 1% of BLM players who use nonstandard rotations. There are dozens of reasonably solid nonstandard rotations available and every BLM player uses at least one of them some of the time. The finicky ones extremely tight on timing are not commonly used; however, any time you have to spend a lot of gameplay moving, or the boss goes untargetable, all solutions that involve continuing to attack the boss will be a nonstandard rotation.

Nonstandard is a catch-all for basically all forms of "black mage, adjust".

I've been reading this entire thread start to finish, and this is my favorite post of the entire thread. As a BLM who meme's "Healers Adjust" Ironically with GREAT frequency (until my hubris precedes me and I enforce the BLM stereotype LOL)

I have some pretext notes here that I think are important to understand.

I am a Game Designer, I design games for a living. I have a formal education in Game Design. The private academy i attended was staffed by instructors and mentors that were actively employed in the industry. Only the directors were not, bu the directors were usually Corporate Dev BigWigs that retired to teaching. I haven't seen anyone specifically mention that this is the case for themselves so I think I may be able to provide some insight into some more technical server stuff that I haven't seen addressed, and if I missed it I apologize in advance. I also have an intimate understand of what roles most job descriptions play within the industry and I think that will be useful too.

The third is that I am over a year into the process of making an RPG, and most of my most recent research into the industry is related to the legal, and business/corporate side of things as my current knowledge base for actual development processes design philosophies hasn't resulted in a massive roadblock that I've been required to research much else. Not yet at least. This is context is to lend credence to the quality of designer that I am. If you want to flatout ignore it or disregard it, that's fine. I've worked at multiple studios and I'm formally credited on games that are on the market. Take it or leave it I'm not concerned too much. I just dont want this to become a distracting troll-point.

The last pretext I want to give you. Because I am a developer I use incredibly comprehensive communication which is a fundamental requirement for all types of game design philosophies. This is commonly interpreted as explaining in autistic details. This is completely normal in a game development context. If you do not explain every single step of something in an incredibly detailed and comprehensive way, it can result in development issues that can cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Simply due to a miscommunication. I want to get ahead of the stupid trolls that I know won't care enough to read the subject in its entirety. If you do not care about the subject enough to read this in full, then just stop talking why are you even here?


One trend that I'm observing is there are a few camps here.