Yes this could be stirring up a hornets nest, but that can't be an excuse not to discuss something. and it shouldn't have to degenerate into initiating attacks against individuals.
I'm thinking about maybe re-subbing but its got nothing to do with the game if that makes any sense. But not sure exactly what I'm waiting for as I just did the 4 day free play, and I don't want to resub much at all yet. So maybe I just want to keep my mind open.
The reason I mention this is that is that if I don't then for players like me, it then all hangs on how attractive (or the opposite) that 8.x turns out to be. I now haven't subbed since Occult Crescent, and free plays have mostly just reassured me I made the right choice RE my wallet. There is no chance of me investing a months sub to try OC-II, when I just associate that with OC-I. Its been written off, its spoilt now, we are done with that.
The biggest promise for me in 8.x is the fixing of cross DC duty finder (not interested in party finder any more), but I'm not willing to hold my breath while subbed from 8.0 until it finally drops, maybe (even probably?) in 8.55 (Beastmaster has been just ridiculous, although I'm not interested in solo content anyway.)
So that now leaves just the job changes. Asking around I can't really get a guess that I have reason to have confidence in.
- My third favourite job is dancer.
- My second favourite job... is Bard...
I ask, because frankly all I have seen, about 8.x is that, and what I'm understanding or misunderstanding is so far the biggest turn off I could imagine. As I say the only positive so far is cross DC duty finder, and I'm not holding my breath.
I also ask because I only came by these impressions from other people, and they are not universally received well.
The complaints about jobs as far as I saw it was not "we hate the two minute meta just because!" it was "we don't like job homogenisation, which (I'd argue *pandering* to strict DPS checks) has manifested as jobs being funnelled into the 'same' 2 minute rotation (meta)"
But these changes 'if' they eliminate raid buffs, eliminate and entire sub-class genre of support jobs, which would for me be a far worse kind of homogenisation.
Happy to be wrong, and this ought to be the best place to find out?
So, as far as we can tell so far, what do experienced games theorists think is happening?
And since we don't yet have the full details, a quick one sentence answer with no reasoning unless it links to a yoshi article is probably not going to be very reassuring.
...and my favourite job PLD, so I hope this interrupt thing isn't going to vulnerable to invisible snapshots, variable server tick, and needing a great ping.
(P.S. that these job changes haven't been 'significantly' 'constrained' by also making them working for the switch, Yoshi is either fooling himself, or someone in his team is misleading him.)
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I'm thinking about maybe re-subbing but its got nothing to do with the game if that makes any sense. But not sure exactly what I'm waiting for as I just did the 4 day free play, and I don't want to resub much at all yet. So maybe I just want to keep my mind open.
The reason I mention this is that is that if I don't then for players like me, it then all hangs on how attractive (or the opposite) that 8.x turns out to be. I now haven't subbed since Occult Crescent, and free plays have mostly just reassured me I made the right choice RE my wallet. There is no chance of me investing a months sub to try OC-II, when I just associate that with OC-I. Its been written off, its spoilt now, we are done with that.
The biggest promise for me in 8.x is the fixing of cross DC duty finder (not interested in party finder any more), but I'm not willing to hold my breath while subbed from 8.0 until it finally drops, maybe (even probably?) in 8.55 (Beastmaster has been just ridiculous, although I'm not interested in solo content anyway.)
So that now leaves just the job changes. Asking around I can't really get a guess that I have reason to have confidence in.
- My third favourite job is dancer.
- My second favourite job... is Bard...
- What is happening to party buffs? (Is it true that those are expected to be just gone?)
I ask, because frankly all I have seen, about 8.x is that, and what I'm understanding or misunderstanding is so far the biggest turn off I could imagine. As I say the only positive so far is cross DC duty finder, and I'm not holding my breath.
I also ask because I only came by these impressions from other people, and they are not universally received well.
The complaints about jobs as far as I saw it was not "we hate the two minute meta just because!" it was "we don't like job homogenisation, which (I'd argue *pandering* to strict DPS checks) has manifested as jobs being funnelled into the 'same' 2 minute rotation (meta)"
But these changes 'if' they eliminate raid buffs, eliminate and entire sub-class genre of support jobs, which would for me be a far worse kind of homogenisation.
Happy to be wrong, and this ought to be the best place to find out?
So, as far as we can tell so far, what do experienced games theorists think is happening?
And since we don't yet have the full details, a quick one sentence answer with no reasoning unless it links to a yoshi article is probably not going to be very reassuring.
...and my favourite job PLD, so I hope this interrupt thing isn't going to vulnerable to invisible snapshots, variable server tick, and needing a great ping.
(P.S. that these job changes haven't been 'significantly' 'constrained' by also making them working for the switch, Yoshi is either fooling himself, or someone in his team is misleading him.)
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