Thread: 7.0 SMN First Impressions

What exactly did people expect?

The class was entirely redone for Endwalker. Did you really think it was going to get a bunch of changes for Dawntrail after all the work they put into it? Same with Paladin to a lesser degree and the people complaining about how similar it is. Yeah. And? It was almost as big of a redo in Endwalker. We don't fundamentally change the classes every expansion unless our name is Astrologian. <.<

Originally Posted by Tsurayu

Did you really think it was going to get a bunch of changes for Dawntrail

Yes, actually.

A new Expansion is supposed to be the time when we get evolutions for the jobs and when feedback gets addressed.
What constitutes as 'A bunch' is always up to interpretation and personal definitions, but i think most people expected more than this.

Originally Posted by Tsurayu

What exactly did people expect?

The class was entirely redone for Endwalker. Did you really think it was going to get a bunch of changes for Dawntrail after all the work they put into it? Same with Paladin to a lesser degree and the people complaining about how similar it is. Yeah. And? It was almost as big of a redo in Endwalker. We don't fundamentally change the classes every expansion unless our name is Astrologian. <.<

I was kind of hoping they would finish the job since they stopped at like level 50 in Endwalker.

People weren't hoping for changes they at least were hoping for new additions to this bland job after they gutted it. But all were getting is a new ogcd every 2 minutes

Still struggling to make peace with playing Bahamut Mage for ~2.5 years. Def feels like they skimped out hard on doing anything for summoner. It feels like the only healthy option one has is finding a different job to play.

Ahhh, I remember back on EW launch when people were coping with how simple new SMN was by saying it was just a base for them to build on. Well here we are, they slapped on a single new bahamut shaped brick and called it a day.

The SMN update being something an intern probably came up with in 30 minutes is hilarious to me
Perhaps adding more than 1 reskinned primal would take too much dev time? I don't even know, man

I've played every iteration of SMN since ARR, and this is still by far my favorite in terms of job fantasy fulfillment and gameplay. I don't think simple/easy is inherently bad. Solar Bahamut is also just a very welcome addition in my book, because he shows an evolution of what the FFXIV SMN does. Where before we just channel the powers of past primals we've been exposed to, now we're taking what we've learned and mixing it together to create something new, and I think that's neat. That opens up a lot of possibilities, and I look forward to this whole "focus on job identity" they keep mentioning coming later on and seeing where they take this job.

tl;dr, no complaints here.