Viper Changes are good, actually

[W00by]

1) There is a distinct lack of communication between the playerbase and the development team behind job changes. Players voices are very rarely heard and it creates a sense of frustration. People take it to the right places (these forums, the leave a suggestion feature) but rarely if ever is action taken, even when the consensus feels pretty overhelming like VPR right now. They also don't give job change details beforehand and just push it to live test every other patch and pray it goes over well. Changes being made to jobs are far too sparsed out, so if they mess up their maths (which is very common for them, see PLD 6.3 on how it was weaker than before it was changed) and it needs further adjustments youre just out of luck for a few weeks to months.

THANK YOU for taking the time to emphasize this part. Even if these changes were less controversial -- hell, they could be the bomb dot com -- it's STILL stupid to have pushed them with no prior communication with the playerbase, on SAVAGE LAUNCH DAY no less. Even though they seem well received, I think the BLM and SAM reworks ALSO should have come either later or earlier, this was such a dumb time to change anything. Whether you love or hate the changes, they were objectively handled awfully.

(and for what it's worth i hate the changes)

[Reinha]

THANK YOU for taking the time to emphasize this part. Even if these changes were less controversial -- hell, they could be the bomb dot com -- it's STILL stupid to have pushed them with no prior communication with the playerbase, on SAVAGE LAUNCH DAY no less. Even though they seem well received, I think the BLM and SAM reworks ALSO should have come either later or earlier, this was such a dumb time to change anything. Whether you love or hate the changes, they were objectively handled awfully.

(and for what it's worth i hate the changes)

You're right, the timing is horrendous too. I had practiced Viper for a month to the point I felt comfortable taking it to savage, gotten consumables and used the two weeks of normal raid gear drops on this job, just to find out about the change on the release day of savage. Now I don't want to play it anymore. Why couldn't they let us enjoy Viper even for one major patch and one tier of savage before making it boring?

My former main job RPR is currently level 92 and PCT has been level 100 for only a few days and I have not practiced it enough to do hard content with it. I guess I'll just focus on leveling alts because I'm very unmotivated to do anything else now that my main job is no longer fun to play.