Please nerf overpowered Jobs before Chaotic Raid

[VeyaAkemi]

This is a theme park mmo. Most people are here for vibes.

This is a very important point, a similar point: literally yesterday, I was talking to someone on a Discord server, and they were complaining about how every Job has a 1000+ potency skill nowdays, and how much that adds a lot of variance to damage because of crits and dire hits and such, my response to that was, you will have to rip my beautiful 1300 pot Technical Finish from my cold, dead hands, like yeah it sucks when it doesn't crit, but then it does get the perfect damage roll, and you just see over 200k damage fly by in one shot and that just makes me smile, I would be doing a lot less damage if it didn't crit, but that's not as important as how good it feels when it does crit, and that feeling is the reason 1000+ pot finishers are so commonplace now.

[Lyth]

You can run whatever job you like in old content.

It's fair to make the point that job balance shouldn't make any difference to the casual playerbase. But it still does, in this game, like every other one. Progression means looking up to what better players are doing and emulating their gameplay. Behaviors and attitudes at higher levels of play invariably filter down to lower levels. And that in turn impacts player satisfaction.

That's also the reason, presumably, why they hired a job balance team. Otherwise, just move them off into designing mogstation glamours so that they can generate more profits off those PCT 'vibes'. We'll see how long that strategy lasts.

[AmiableApkallu]

You can run whatever job you like in old content.

It's fair to make the point that job balance shouldn't make any difference to the casual playerbase. But it still does, in this game, like every other one. Progression means looking up to what better players are doing and emulating their gameplay. Behaviors and attitudes at higher levels of play invariably filter down to lower levels. And that in turn impacts player satisfaction.

Except, here's the thing. What filters down from the Elite Raiders is not typically choice of job. It is: "What is my opener? What is my burst? What is my BiS?" Or sometimes, it is: "Why does my damage suck?" To which the answer is almost always: "Because your uptime sucks."

One singular Ultimate fight is utterly and completely irrelevant.

Even in Party Finder for current savages (M1S-M4S), at this moment, I see none of this alleged locking of slot(s) to PCT. Or locking out of physical ranged. (To say nothing of Duty Finder, but I guess that's "old content.")

[grinkdaboy]

You can run whatever job you like in old content.

It's fair to make the point that job balance shouldn't make any difference to the casual playerbase. But it still does, in this game, like every other one. Progression means looking up to what better players are doing and emulating their gameplay. Behaviors and attitudes at higher levels of play invariably filter down to lower levels. And that in turn impacts player satisfaction.

That's also the reason, presumably, why they hired a job balance team. Otherwise, just move them off into designing mogstation glamours so that they can generate more profits off those PCT 'vibes'. We'll see how long that strategy lasts.

this is only a negative when it results in degenerate gameplay behaviors/strategies disseminating through the game's community

[Collin_Sky]

unhinged reply lmao

[Bellsong]

Hot take; it's okay for some jobs to be strong under certain conditions.

[hynaku]

Only jobs that really need nerfed is all the tank jobs. Make there dps the same as healers.

[mallleable]

It's worth repeating, but even if PCT gets nerfed -- which yeah it should, other jobs will still need substantial changes, and buffs. Nerfing PCT will cause a pretty substantial power vacuum.

[Supersnow845]

The fact that the two most overpowered jobs relative to their counterparts in terms of contribution to the raid as a complete set are AST and SCH yet all attention is being given to PCT shows that people are being excessively vibes based with their feelings of how overpowered PCT is

You lose basically the same damage to swapping an AST for a WHM and you lose basically an entire raids worth of utility swapping SCH for SGE. The fact the healer situation doesn’t have excessive party locks when it arguably has even more reason than PCT shows while PCT needs nerfs people are being way too vibey about how strong PCT is

[CVXIV]

you can just say pictomancer, you don't have to frame it as though you mean anything else