Thread: 8.0 massive class balience reworking

Originally Posted by Daralii

He has a very good reason to lie, and it's called stringing people along to get their money. It's like how part of he said 7.0 was the start of the new arc, it was widely disliked, and part of his response was "Uh, actually, the new arc starts in 8.0".

please cite where he said the new arc starts in 8.0, because i do not ever remember him saying that.

It taking that long has nothing to do with the reworks. It's just their formula to take that long now. And we all know that once SE has a formula, they stick with it.

They talked about "Skill Trees, Talents and Ability Points" as ideas they were discussing for 8.0 in an interview prior to 7.0 release. They clarified these were just ideas being floated, and not what they would definitely do. But given just about every other game, especially in this genre, does this successfully to avoid the problems SE currently has with jobs being "samey", it's the most likely scenario.

Blue Mage has a successful implementation of this although it's not got the sort of User Interface that would accompany it in most games, so we already know it can work.

Originally Posted by Saraide

...apart from not wanting to touch combat design...

Oh boy, more 2 minute meta shenanigans and mechanics that blow up the entire pt rather than punishing the individual... ;A;

Originally Posted by HanakoTheGoth

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

Rebalancing and changing can have a lot of different levels. We may see huge changes just like we may see really superficial ones, simply because Yoshida doesn't disclose what is the design philosophy coming into this rework. We just don't know what to expect.

People like myself thought encounter design would be drastically changed based on what they hyped through Dawntrail's Fanfests - and it happens is more of the same, just faster. Still better than what we had in Endwalker, but still in their safe formula.