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    CaptainLagbeard's Avatar
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    Rhaya Jakkya
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    The problem with the randomness is that it bad RNG can render the Job much worse off... It's not like the difference between a crit or a normal hit... But the difference between drawing Lord of Crowns instead of Lady of Crowns, or drawing The Arrow instead of The Balance...
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    Andreas Cestelle
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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainLagbeard View Post
    The problem with the randomness is that it bad RNG can render the Job much worse off... It's not like the difference between a crit or a normal hit... But the difference between drawing Lord of Crowns instead of Lady of Crowns, or drawing The Arrow instead of The Balance...
    That’s why you have RNG protection in the form of in game mechanics

    Take late SB AST, if you drew a bad card then you had a series of options

    If you drew balance->great
    If you drew spear->pretty good
    If you drew ewer/spire->royal road it
    If you drew ewer/spire and already have a royal road stocked->redraw it
    If you drew a bole/arrow->redraw it
    If you run out of redraws and still don’t have a good card->minor arcana it

    With the amount of inbuilt protection you had you almost never had a final bad result and self correcting bad RNG with thematic in game elements is better than the devs just shaving off the ability to get bad RNG
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    As a healer main in this game for nigh on 14 years all I can say is that I’m tired. My role has been eroded of complexity and expression for 3 expansions. I’ve watched the tanks do my role for me for 2 expansions and my feedback and critiques continue to fall on deaf ears.

    I have no idea who modern healers are designed for but I know now it’s not me. This is the first expansion I’m truly considering dropping the healer role and not returning, so if that was the goal- congratulations I guess