Quote Originally Posted by wildvenonat View Post
The Umbral Soul changes are nice and so is the return of ice Paradox.

The Thunder changes are odd. I suspect the intent is to push people more towards letting it drop rather than refreshing it early, but it's still just in a weird spot all around.
I suspect the Thunder changes are because of how Thunderhead works. There's a small chance that, with old thunder, a rotation of Paradox>Transpose>Thunderhead>Paradox>(Xenos)>Thunderhead>Transpose+Firestarter might be too strong and give you perfect mobility. Stripping Thunder from its upfront damage kills this, even if it brings a slew of other problems.

But hey, Ice Paradox being back is a good thing. Not enough, but a sliver of hope. That said, with the buffed Fire IV and Despair, Flare Star is starting to look really puny...


Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
@Taranok

Ok, happy for you that you enjoy a more rigid version of BLM like HW/StB, thanks for the history lesson that I didn't ask for and still knew of (I started end of HW).

Job options shift over the course of development, that's why Transpose went down and Firestarter went up in timers, as you said. Just because certain unintended things are discovered by players does not mean they are bad or should have been gutted.

While not the same genre, unintended mechanics in FPS games like rocketjumping were unintended bugs that were made into features.

Now please kindly understand that many people actually love the change into EW and hate the change from EW to DT. You liking this iteration at best makes you an outlier and Im happy if you are OK with it, but I'd love of you'd stop actively shitting on non-standard like it's been the devil's spawn that should never have existed. Unintended or not, many agreed Endwalker BLM was one of the most fun designs the game ever had.
A better dev team would embrace that depth and lean into it, curbing only things that are blatantly out of line. But this is SE. Their way or the highway- the old goat can do no wrong...
But hey, it's a step in the right direction. I'm taking any small victory I can get.