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Topic	FFXIV Topic 10 - Forge Ahead
HeroDelTiempo17 12/02/21 4:42:25 PM #59:	Dels posted... Honestly I get why people are upset, but in practice, I don't think it changes much - if you're playing properly you will have the DoTs up all the time anyway. Lowers skill floor by a lot though because it doesn't punish you for dropping the DoTs ever. And it does lower the thematic flavour of the job. Hmm...this is both true and not. The biggest point here I agree with that it loses flavor and uniqueness. Dots used to tie the kit together, now they're just there. And it is also lowering the skill floor. Personally, I think they WAY overshot the mark on simplification with these changes. I've argued all through Shadowbringers that because ranged doesn't have to deal with positionals or melee mechanics, they should have MORE complex rotations, but the devs seem to want phys ranged to be the simplest and most straightforward job designs. This is just a disagreement with design philosophy that affects my personal enjoyment, but I'll try to set that aside. I would maybe be okay with a flat 80%/tick rate in a vacuum as it works out to roughly the same rate. I don't think this affects the gameplay TOO much in single target besides making it a little more consistent and boring. Except for Mage's Ballad. I don't know what the fuck is going on here. Bloodletter charges were the change I was most looking forward to, because it solved the problem of wasting double procs and late procs. Except...they removed the ability to double proc. And they nerfed Mage's Ballad to only give you HALF a bloodletter per proc? They fixed one problem three different ways! Complete nonsense design choices. And as far as AOE goes, multidotting was an extremely fun part of the job and it sucks to see it go. It was a bit unintuitive and awkward but very rewarding to pull off. I agree with tcaz about the devs's anti-dot crusade. I don't know if an intentional design choice, or a technical limitation, or if they just don't want to balance around it but I'm not a fan. --- I definitely did not forget to put the 2020 GOTD Guru winner, azuarc in my sig! <cite>HeroDelTiempo17 posted [p:960561319] in FFXIV Topi... [t:79789996]...</cite> <quote>Dels posted... </cite> <quote> Honestly I get why people are upset, but in practice, I don't think it changes much - if you're playing properly you will have the DoTs up all the time anyway. Lowers skill floor by a lot though because it doesn't punish you for dropping the DoTs ever. And it does lower the thematic flavour of the job.</quote> Hmm...this is both true and not. The biggest point here I agree with that it loses flavor and uniqueness. Dots used to tie the kit together, now they're just there. And it is also lowering the skill floor. Personally, I think they WAY overshot the mark on simplification with these changes. I've argued all through Shadowbringers that because ranged doesn't have to deal with positionals or melee mechanics, they should have MORE complex rotations, but the devs seem to want phys ranged to be the simplest and most straightforward job designs. This is just a disagreement with design philosophy that affects my personal enjoyment, but I'll try to set that aside. I would maybe be okay with a flat 80%/tick rate in a vacuum as it works out to roughly the same rate. I don't think this affects the gameplay TOO much in single target besides making it a little more consistent and boring. Except for Mage's Ballad. I don't know what the fuck is going on here. Bloodletter charges were the change I was most looking forward to, because it solved the problem of wasting double procs and late procs. Except...they removed the ability to double proc. And they nerfed Mage's Ballad to only give you HALF a bloodletter per proc? They fixed one problem three different ways! Complete nonsense design choices. And as far as AOE goes, multidotting was an extremely fun part of the job and it sucks to see it go. It was a bit unintuitive and awkward but very rewarding to pull off. I agree with tcaz about the devs's anti-dot crusade. I don't know if an intentional design choice, or a technical limitation, or if they just don't want to balance around it but I'm not a fan. --- I definitely did not forget to put the 2020 GOTD Guru winner, azuarc in my sig!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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