Was BLM not enough?

[ovIm]

Gunbreaker got ruined too. This game is so miserable. And every time this happens you get these people talking down to you about how the game being made less fun for you is actually a good thing.

i'm personally a bit more on the fence looking at the GNB changes, to be honest. They do make high level play more simple from what I can see, but they also seem to decouple GNB from its rigid structure a bit, which could be fun in content with a non-static timeline (if we ever get one of those again...).
could also be that my perception is skewed, i haven't played PvE GNB in a hot minute.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

It’s okay guys. It’s not the 1000th cut yet! We’re still alive!

/s

[Arrius]

I am curious what exactly this stems from, giving such a change to the Red Mage.

For a Moulinet combo, it would have made sense since their attacks are a cone and sometimes it's a bit tough to find a good spot to perform it, but even having it on the Riposte as well...

Edit - Job guide explanation:

"Red mage's firepower often suffered when distancing themselves from a target due to battle mechanics. For this reason, we adjusted Enchanted Riposte, Enchanted Zwerchhau, and Enchanted Redoublement so they may be executed at a distance while under the effects of Manafication. Furthermore, we have removed Manafication's magical damage increase effect to prevent potential stress resulting from entering burst phases with Manafication still on cooldown. To ensure red mage's offensive contribution is not negatively impacted by this change, we have increased the potency of Vice of Thorns and enhanced the effects of Embolden."

[Shistar]

I'll have to test them in-game to see how good or bad this is. It's easy to doom and gloom when reading patch notes...
At least I am glad they didn't do any major changes to the jobs I play every day. Sometimes I don't understand what the logic behind some changes are.
I hope that everyone's jobs who have been changed are not as bad and you can continue to enjoy playing them.

[OdrN]

These changes to RDM or PSB are terrible. Why are they treating players like brain dead people?

[hydralus]

These changes to RDM or PSB are terrible. Why are they treating players like brain dead people?

There have been complaints dungeons are too hard so they need to dumb things down a bit more.

[Valence]

There have been complaints dungeons are too hard so they need to dumb things down a bit more.

People complain about dungeons too hard, the devs dumb down jobs. Makes perfect sense to me.

The reality is that this is designed expressly with savage fights in mind, that get absolute priority over anything else.

[hydralus]

People complain about dungeons too hard, the devs dumb down jobs. Makes perfect sense to me.

The reality is that this is designed expressly with savage fights in mind, that get absolute priority over anything else.

Naturally, just making a joke towards the person I replied to.

[Cidel]

I don't have a dog in this race due to not playing either GNB or RDM, but I'm reading in reddit's FFXIV discussion that this RDM change may have originated from actual JP complaints about having to get into melee range at all on RDM?

If that's the case, that would certainly explain a lot.

[Arrius]

I don't have a dog in this race due to not playing either GNB or RDM, but I'm reading in reddit's FFXIV discussion that this RDM change may have originated from actual JP complaints about having to get into melee range at all on RDM?

If that's the case, that would certainly explain a lot.

Certain Raid fights were problematic for Red Mages due to the punishment of being in melee in the burst phase.
However, its still a bit of a shaky argument to tune it all for only a few fights.