Thread: Complete 7.0 patchnotes

Originally Posted by Daralii

They have a point when you look at the bigger picture of resource allocation, but it's been obvious for years that the PvE battle system devs and everyone that evaluates their work just don't care, so even infinite time and money wouldn't result in anything more than some more Bahamut reskins.

It's not a matter of not enough resources, it's a matter of the game's design philosophy that is fundamentally broken. They could add as many bells and whistles they want to combat design and it'll never be fun as long as the fights are scripted and predictable.
Like many mediocre game designers nowadays their only tools are making things follow a script, or making things follow a RNG.

Originally Posted by Calysto

Yep, all that is art and no development was involved

Oh, you're right. I'm sure the graphics engine programmers who worked on the graphics update would also have helped with class/jobs related gameplay programming if only they weren't so busy being specialized in a different domain.

For most job they did nothing but add 1 mechanically inconsequential skill.
dawntrail doesn't feel much like an expansion, it's more like a patch.

And this is with 4 years worth of development as opposed to 2.5 years in the early model of ARR->HW->SB. They used to develop more content in less time.

Maintenance mode continues.

Originally Posted by Rekh

For most job they did nothing but add 1 mechanically inconsequential skill.
dawntrail doesn't feel much like an expansion, it's more like a patch.

And this is with 4 years worth of development as opposed to 2.5 years in the early model of ARR->HW->SB. They used to develop more content in less time.

Maintenance mode continues.

All credibility is lost when someone uses a phrase like "maintenance mode" to describe the polar opposite of it. Maintenance mode is when nothing new is being added to a product. We're about to get an entire new MSQ with side quests, raid storyline, alliance raid storyline, etc. that will easily be 60+ hours of new content. That's more than most "expansion packs" for games add to it. What expansions generally don't do, however, is utterly and completely change how a game works.

Three easy steps to failure

I'm confused with the person who linked this as a response to the graphics update. We're on the 5th expansion (counting ARR as the new "base" game), and this is the first significant graphics update they've done. That's the complete opposite of an "unhealthy obsession" with graphics...

Originally Posted by Striker44

All credibility is lost when someone uses a phrase like "maintenance mode" to describe the polar opposite of it. Maintenance mode is when nothing new is being added to a product. We're about to get an entire new MSQ with side quests, raid storyline, alliance raid storyline, etc. that will easily be 60+ hours of new content. That's more than most "expansion packs" for games add to it. What expansions generally don't do, however, is utterly and completely change how a game works.



I'm confused with the person who linked this as a response to the graphics update. We're on the 5th expansion (counting ARR as the new "base" game), and this is the first significant graphics update they've done. That's the complete opposite of an "unhealthy obsession" with graphics...

I can't believe this needs to be explained to you. He didn't mean that they're obsessed about it, but that they're putting graphics as a bigger priority instead of the gameplay.

AST 7.1 rework confirm.
Astro Lost Lords 1 per minute, 2 cads (1 in burst window) in 2 min and Macrocosmos now are lost DPS. In general Astro its around 20% weaker than in 6.5 and will have struggle in old ultimates, also AST dps its HALF what whm can offer... and we have CARD DRIFT - because cards have 15 sec buff and Divination is 20, so you need hold your cards 5 seconds to optimize your rotation with raid buff.

ASTRO need FIX:
Macrocosmos make it neutral dps
Cards: make it 20s
Potency buff to Malefic skills in all lvl range.

I'm tired and I dont know how to do math, someone just tell me if they fixed Pictomancers cursed AOE rotation

Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Do people struggle to read intentional hyperbole that much

Not hyperbole, this dude just doesn't know what words mean.