Why do people care about potency so much?

[Supersnow845]

When people say “but the job guide says the changes are because of higher movement” okay…….so what? I’m not going to forgive terrible job design because it’s in service to flawed encounter design

We don’t all way to be melees’s. Casting is integral to many people’s love of the casters. If you can’t design a raid encounter where different jobs have different mobility levels you need to re-evaluate your entire encounter design

[Asari5]

uhm seriously? i've never said anything about how ranged tools may be useful or not. the point is they are still limited, no matter how good you are at implementing them in your rotation. limited in number and/or limited when youre able to use them

[xbahax92]

I'm not focused on potency buffs, but I also want to contribute something when playing MCH. It shouldn't be considered selfish when picking a job, that contributes less DMG than a melee - and also provides no buffs for the raidgroup.
The raid mentality I've known for years wants as much DPS as possible. The more DPS or buffs you provide, the higher your DMG output will be. In conclusion that means, less mechanics to do = less healing needed = less stress overall.
I'll be raiding this tier again via PF and I'll make my own opinion wether I'll be excluded or asked to swap to BRD or DNC.

I also don't see any reason why both issues cannot coexist and be questioned. Job rotations are important as well as job/role identity.

[keichirou]

-man/woman see big potency

-man/woman see big numbers

-man/woman happy

[Titania40]

Back when City of Heroes was still Live, Cryptic released a revamp of defensive abilities known as the "Global Defense Nerf" among players. This was done as part of a re-balancing known as Enhancement Diversification in preparation for a new system. And there was a great outcry over how the changes were going to ruin the game via gutting defenses and damage across the board, and make everything unplayable. I'll admit, I was part of that mass outcry. then when the re-balance actually came out, it turned out things were actually no where near as dire as we all assumed. Damage output for any given attack was lower, sure. But overall damage output was better because we could diversify where we were putting enhancement slots. Defensive abilities were reduced in effectiveness, but that merely meant we no longer had soft/hard capped defense and/or resistance. In sort, the net result was the game was exactly as playable as before. It was just more balanced. And some character types actually gained damage capability, due to being able to now slot in damage enhancements instead of only having crowd control boosting enhancements in those abilities.

This experience taught me that game balance is a lot more complicated then I, or any other player are likely to realize. And that crying DOOM before you experience a change for yourself is stupid.

[Basteala]

If they're going to make all the classes mindless and samey the least they can do is balance them right.

[RyoXander]

Maybe it's just me but I very much prefer the look and feel of using a job rather than being at the top of the enmity list. If I'm having fun blowing up monsters as BLM and we still win, it doesn't matter.