Please do not take away BLM's timers.

[Bakubread]

As someone who I think is almost excessively positive about this game, even I really don't get why they keep doing this to every job. Why take away positionals from low level dragoon? Why turn Summoner into a little tikes baby's first colors toy? And why remove Black Mage's entire identity? Unless they're about to pull out some crazy specialization system in 8.0 that breathes new life into everything, I cannot understand why every job seems to only get more and more dull & homogenized with every patch. It's sad, and makes leveling jobs other than your main feel pointless since they all play just about the same anyway at this point.

Jobs are becoming more of an aesthetic choice than anything and that sucks.

[OliviaLugria]

I havent found mutch players going blm since endwalker.

Yea, they’re making it easier so more people will be drawn to it like the summoner rework, and ai hope it doesn’t happen.

[Rithy255]

As someone who I think is almost excessively positive about this game, even I really don't get why they keep doing this to every job. Why take away positionals from low level dragoon? Why turn Summoner into a little tikes baby's first colors toy? And why remove Black Mage's entire identity? Unless they're about to pull out some crazy specialization system in 8.0 that breathes new life into everything, I cannot understand why every job seems to only get more and more dull & homogenized with every patch. It's sad, and makes leveling jobs other than your main feel pointless since they all play just about the same anyway at this point.

Jobs are becoming more of an aesthetic choice than anything and that sucks.

They do it so they can keep certain raiders happy. Mind you not all or even most raiders even ask for this in the first place.

But because having jobs be unique/interesting means theirs more room for the job to be less viable in raids hence why every job is fundamentally the same job with barely any noticeable upsides and downsides, its just easier to balance and people complain less. They also want all jobs to trend to "easy to pick up and easy to use" so that people don't feel "left out" if they like a jobs aesthetic's but don't play its gameplay.

This is why we don't have other interesting things like selectable role actions, because people have argued "illusion of choice" so any sort of "build" Varity between the same job has been slowly took out.

We are left with this bland game with no real role fantasy or identity, jobs like dark knight are basically "Tank" BLM "Magic DPS" Ect. Theirs no longer a reason to even level up a job that shares the same generic category because they play the exact same and offer nothing unique.

Funny thing is when everything's super balanced, nothing is balanced, because now job choice has no meaning outside of which job has the tiny damage advantage, theirs no reason to pick a slightly worse dps.

[Hallarem]

As someone who I think is almost excessively positive about this game, even I really don't get why they keep doing this to every job. Why take away positionals from low level dragoon? Why turn Summoner into a little tikes baby's first colors toy? And why remove Black Mage's entire identity? Unless they're about to pull out some crazy specialization system in 8.0 that breathes new life into everything, I cannot understand why every job seems to only get more and more dull & homogenized with every patch. It's sad, and makes leveling jobs other than your main feel pointless since they all play just about the same anyway at this point.

Jobs are becoming more of an aesthetic choice than anything and that sucks.

Hard to say because they don't COMMUNICATE about the future.

[MuraBoy]

It's so sad seeing what has become of FFXIV battle jobs...

[Kaliesto]

Do not question

CONSUME BAD DESIGN DECISIONS

[Misutoraru]

Jobs are becoming more of an aesthetic choice than anything and that sucks.

My guess, so at the end every job would be pick in high end raid day one.

It use to be a lot of threads about dmg out put and balancing when a new tier of raid drop. Not anymore

Not that I agree with this approach but this is the easiest way to keep their job easy and the raid community happy

[Kemiko]

Once upon a time, a lot of jobs had timers similar to Black Mage. At first it was Monk and Warrior, and then Dragoon joined in the mix in Heavensward.

In ARR, Black Mage wasn't know for its "long cast times". It was reliant on procs for mobility and swiftly casting spells. Those "long cast times" didn't come until Heavensward and were in periodic bursts as you literally couldn't maintain enochian indefinitely. Outside of those bursts, you were just an ARR Black Mage.

Because the job continued to change, albeit in small bits, was it possible to always be in "long cast time" phase. Some BLM mains in ARR didn't like HW changes to BLM. And of those that did, didn't like the changes BLM got in Shadowbringers. Black Mage is literally the last of the timer jobs in ARR (or DRG with HW) to still have it despite so many changes and updates making maintaining that timer easier and easier. At this point you have to end up in an incredibly specific situation to potentially lose it. It really doesn't serve a purpose anymore. Just a relic of what it used to be from 11 years ago.