Thread: 8.0 massive class balience reworking

Originally Posted by Saraide

I'll believe it when I see it. Yoship cant even say any specific ideas or direction they want to take the job rework into apart from not wanting to touch combat design but that is exactly what constrains job design so much nowadays. As of now there is 0 reason to believe SE is actually going to shake things up in terms of job design. They didnt even get creative with phantom jobs.

Yoshi-P specificly said about 20 so interviews now that 8.0 is about job -re-balancing and changing there whole thought job design. countless times. if think other wise your on copium. how daft one must be think that there not gonna do anything saying it 20 or so times in last year or so even before dawn trail was released

Originally Posted by Saraide

I'll believe it when I see it. Yoship cant even say any specific ideas or direction they want to take the job rework into apart from not wanting to touch combat design but that is exactly what constrains job design so much nowadays. As of now there is 0 reason to believe SE is actually going to shake things up in terms of job design. They didnt even get creative with phantom jobs.

the biggest thing they could do is a level squish down so that every job has their full kit up to 100 in all the ultimate fights (so it needs to be squished to a minimum of level 70, ideally more). this also has the benefit of fixing the issue a lot of jobs have where they lose a significant portion of their damage when they sync down. (viper, reaper, black mage, etc.)

Originally Posted by Jason_Ashford

the biggest thing they could do is a level squish down so that every job has their full kit up to 100 in all the ultimate fights (so it needs to be squished to a minimum of level 70, ideally more). this also has the benefit of fixing the issue a lot of jobs have where they lose a significant portion of their damage when they sync down. (viper, reaper, black mage, etc.)

if they that that then they need remove all base jobs from the game and job crystals are no longer a equitable item and probably start any class you wanted to at level 1 watch also also be very good for the game if level cap 70. be able to play any job want from level 1 not mention reworking all class quests cause there is f-ton of them

First and foremost, 8.0 is taking longer to come out than previous expansions because we went from 3.5 months patch schedule to 4.5 months patch schedule over the years. When it's taking longer for major patches to come out, logically, that means that the future expansion release date will shift accordingly. That will keep being the case for expansions coming after 8.0 as well, as I don't think that they'll ever shift back to 3.5 months schedule.

As for what's planned for the content to come, we'll see first bits of it during first FanFest in April. We have job re-balance happen every two years in one form or another, and while it looks like they're planning general QoL and balance updates to be the central point of 8.0, I don't think there's much point in broad speculations about what it's going to be until it actually comes. Yoshi-P can't say anything concrete until the release anyway.

Also I'm sorry, but what is it with badly written, nearly unreadable posts over the last couple of days...

Originally Posted by HanakoTheGoth

if they that that then they need remove all base jobs from the game and job crystals are no longer a equitable item and probably start any class you wanted to at level 1 watch also also be very good for the game if level cap 70. be able to play any job want from level 1 not mention reworking all class quests cause there is f-ton of them

that would require reworking all of the original jobs, as well as reworking all of the original job quests. it might be too big of an ask

Actions trump words but he does mention it often and I see no reason why he would lie. If anything they will try and it will be disappointing before not happening at all.