Quote Originally Posted by remiff View Post
Snip.
Honestly I would not be surprised if the whole Aetherflow system was kept purely because the devs realized ‘oh crap, there’s no oGcds, every dps job needs those’ and then kept it in without bay other thought to it.

SMN as a whole really felt like the devs just cobbled it together for what little budget and time was left without giving it much thought beyond, ‘just fix people’s grievances with old SMN’.
People didn’t like DoTs? No more dots.
People didn’t like pets? No more pet system
People want it to be big flashy summons like before? Just reuse the old Pet attacks and actions and you’re all set.
People want to use all there summons instead of just Ifrit for bosses and Garuda for dungeons? Cycle through them all.
People want big summons instead of the Egis? Level 90 upgrade, hits the quota for big flashy attack.
Oops. Budget ran out for the job, ship it out anyway.

I hope for 8.0 they step back, take ShB egi assault system, and the Gemshine system and make something that makes more people happy. Instead of the objectivelyc most boring job in the entire game.