A plea for RNG and proc based gameplay

[Turtledeluxe]

There are 18 other jobs currently that fo not have procs/rng

That's because over time its been removed. I was wondering if you were submitting feedback when BLM was getting bulldozed. Or are you just submitting feedback for jobs you play exclusively? Not trying to be snarky but I genuinely do not remember you submitting this type of feedback for BLM. And no I have not checked what jobs you play.

In any case, removing procs and RNG (and while we're at it, I'd like my timers back thank you) can only really be based on two player based motivations unless I'm not thinking of something: how the job feels to play and DPS. The former is something anyone can comment on but DPS is, on the whole, only something I would expect someone who has done high end content to care about. In the presentation you keep referencing they mentioned modifying actions to offset a DPS loss. Is that something Jimmy who plays once a week is going to even be aware of? Odds are if you care about DPS, you're using and understand how to interpret FFLogs. If you're doing that, odds are you know openers, standard and maybe nonstandard rotations. You play or played high end content.

That said, I think we're in a post "is it the casuals or is it the raiders" era. Evolved is just what the team (or technically one person) wanted. They told us, this is a great time to jump into healing if you haven't before (I'm sure it was also easier back when WHM actually was lvl 50 and had less buttons). We could interpret this as a push to get more people healing, and maybe it is, but it's also just about attracting people to the game in a prime time, heavily viewed event. And it's not like only jobs got reworked, they introduced 9 million other things that seem to simply be in their financial interest, bringing people back to the game. While it would be nice to blame whoever for the accessibility push, I don't think its useful or interesting to blame Evolved on anyone really except people who mass unsubbed from DT and forced their hand in doing a massive update. But if we did have to pin it down it's all of the above. It's players who care about DPS loss, its players who are scared to heal or find it too difficult, etc.