#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Azurarok]

Where did you see that? Serious question because I never saw anyone asking for Astro's RNG to be removed. Wonder which platforms it was such a popular opinion on since I don't frequent all of them by any means.

Seen some posts hating the RNG on the JP threads during EW, but I don't think anyone there really was asking for it to be removed as opposed to getting better tools to control it.

There were a number of comments happy about it when it was announced in the DT job adjustments PLL though, in both English and Japanese.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Like, who the heck asked for AST, the healer based on fortune telling, an act based on interpreting the randomness of drawing cards from a deck, to be made non-RNG? If I were to decide to go to a fortune teller at a carnival, I don't expect me AND the 5 people in front of me in the line to all get the Chariot, the Star and Temperance as our card draws, because it's meant to be random

The thing is, in an MMORPG you kinda need some consistency... A class can't really be built on a % chance to be good.

But the fix for that on AST would've been to make every card good instead of drawing a guaranteed set of cards.
The old system where every card was a DPS buff, it was boring, but at least the cards were useful... On the current cards, The Arrow, The Ever and Lady of Crowns are basically useless. And on a Duty Finder group, you're not guaranteed to have both a melee and ranged, so you can only get half of the use out of Balance and Spear.

[Shurrikhan]

The thing is, in an MMORPG you kinda need some consistency... A class can't really be built on a % chance to be good.

Then I guess we better make everything an auto direct crit? Because short of that, every class is built that way.

[Connor]

While I agree on the general idea of all healers being diversified and contributing differently so that more people have a playstyle they can enjoy, I absolutely disagree with SCH becoming a buff management job.

I'm someone who played and enjoyed SCH because of their old jack-of-all-trades playstyle where they juggle multiple resources and timers and doing well requires you to keep up with everything going on at once. I'd be very unhappy if SCH was dumped into just a job that upkeep buffs and barely anything else, that sounds more like AST's niche and not what a battle tactician would do at all.

I wasn’t being sarcastic when I said ‘feedback* literally nobody agrees with’ lol, I am very much aware.

That said, I obviously don’t mean ‘literally remove everything including dps from Scholar to make it a buffer’. That would require an entire job rework which is never happening. I just meant something like making Adloquium give a damage buff to incentivise uptime or something in addition to the other things (i.e dots debuffs Aetherflow heals energy drain)

* (The feedback was supposed to mean my post)

[CaptainLagbeard]

Well it's either guaranteed crits or extremely high potency for big attacks... Because classes need to guaranteed to at least perform to a certain level... They don't want people failing because of bad crit RNG of all things.


If you can make the devs stop making crits as important, then maybe things could be different.

[Naychan]

If your really unhappy with what SQE has been doing then hop over to Metacritic & leave a review there. Maybe they will see that.

[Isala]

If your really unhappy with what SQE has been doing then hop over to Metacritic & leave a review there. Maybe they will see that.

Provided your review doesn't get removed for being negative, considering how many well deserved reviews for DT got purged.

[Rolder50]

If your really unhappy with what SQE has been doing then hop over to Metacritic & leave a review there. Maybe they will see that.

People are. There’s a reason DT has a user rating of 6.3

[PercibelTheren]

People are. There’s a reason DT has a user rating of 6.3

It's actually gone down again and is now sitting at 6.2. I left a review a while ago but I have no idea why people think SE will care about Metacritic in particular.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Unironically, most publishers kind of just look at the scores given by journalists and pay no attention to user scores... Even when the journalists don't actually represent the consumers at all.

If they look at Metacritic, they'll see that they gave the game a 79 / 100 average... And completely ignore the 6.2 user score.