Thread: Please Share Updates on 8.0 Job Design

No update.. not enough funds like YoshyP stated

Unfortunately, it'll be the same situation as Forked Tower, 7.0 Pictomancer, or the new blacklist. Disastrous, easily avoidable. But the disconnection and lack of communication with XIV's community will ensure it happens.

The good news is that they'll likely play super safe and lobotomize the jobs even more, which is not going to require spending XIV's "limited" resources to fix everything and delay other content, like in 7.3. We've reached such a low point in Dawntrail that there is an upside to it.

I'm hoping they deliver and make jobs fun again in 8.0 but every patch of Dawntrail doubling down on making them all even more mindless doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence.

Since I no longer care about ff14 as much as I did years ago, ngl I am half amused by the whole situation. Regardless if they're able to deliver the job rework like they've promised us or not, I'll just have fun watching it from the side. It's like a train wreck in slow motion.

Originally Posted by YovelaLindswood

I remember back before shb released yoshi p said healers were in an unbalanced state and they were going to homogenize them as a baseline and expand them out in the expansion after that. I don't believe anything that man says anymore. Too many lies to believe. I also only resubbed recently for occult crescent and was sorely disappointed. Back before ARR was released yoshi p said in an interview that one of the biggest problems was 1.0 prioritized graphics over gameplay. Which is exactly where we are now where everything looks gorgeous but the content itself is hollow as can be. I honestly have 0 faith in SE. I just hope they don't fail so blizzard still has a reason to improve and be competitive.

What’s really sad about this was the “unbalanced” part about healers was that White Mage was underpowered because they took a very stubborn stance that White Mage’s identity was pure healing and anything else would clash with that identity, leaving White Mage with nothing to compete with the offensive support and utility found on the other healers. Rather than doing the obvious thing and actually giving White Mage more than just raw heals and damage, they decided gutting the entire role was the only solution.

Originally Posted by ty_taurus

What’s really sad about this was the “unbalanced” part about healers was that White Mage was underpowered because they took a very stubborn stance that White Mage’s identity was pure healing and anything else would clash with that identity, leaving White Mage with nothing to compete with the offensive support and utility found on the other healers. Rather than doing the obvious thing and actually giving White Mage more than just raw heals and damage, they decided gutting the entire role was the only solution.

Honestly I also feel that like other jobs or roles they do consider WhM the "baby's first healer" especially since they simplified it further with the 1.5s casts and whatnot. And judging how the devs consider certain roles to be "baby mode" and balance them accordingly...

Originally Posted by Valence

Honestly I also feel that like other jobs or roles they do consider WhM the "baby's first healer" especially since they simplified it further with the 1.5s casts and whatnot. And judging how the devs consider certain roles to be "baby mode" and balance them accordingly...

It's funny that WHM is considered by them to be the training wheels healer, but Freecure remains a useless noob trap.

Originally Posted by Derio

If all SMN gets is another version of Bahamut that will tell you all you need to know.

I seriously don't understand their reasoning as to why they gave us solar bahamut. Tthey already know people are asking for more egi/summon. Leviathan, shiva, and ramuh are right there. 3 elements to replace garuda, ifrit, titan. Surely adding reference of hydaelyn isn't more important as adding other egis? Not like they can blatantly show us hydaelyn anyway, hence why we get reskinned bahamut.