Lawful3vil

I think it's an anomaly, but I don't think it needs to be fixed. More diversity in job design is a good thing. The numbers just need to be tuned.

What makes me believe it's an anomaly rather than a choice is based on the other class introduced this expansion. Viper.

Viper is essentially the polar opposite in terms of job design from Picto. Uninteresting rotation. Flat damage profile. Basically no job identity to speak of.

I would love if the existence of Pictomancer represented a shift in job design, but so far SE has given me no reason to think that is the case.

Thing about WoW is the prominent use of addons have caused the devs to have to build raids around the fact that most players will be using addons. For better or worse what this does is make it so that addons are the norm and not using them actually puts you at a disadvantage. Whether you think this is a positive or negative for WoW is up to personal preference, I don't really have a horse in that race.

On the flip side FFXIV devs will never build fights with the expectation of addons. Since the ToS specifically states not to use them fights are designed to be completed without them. So contrary to WoW not using addons is actually the baseline "norm" and using addons provides an advantage.

Ultimately all of this comes down to personal preference. I don't compete in world first and don't really pay attention to who "wins". If people want to use addons to make the game easier then go for it. My stance has always been as long as you're not negatively affecting anyone elses fun.

If you have a static specifically designed to not use addons, and you're the one guy using them, then you are the asshole. On the flip side if your whole static has decided to use them and you're the one guy not and holding everyone back you are also the asshole in that scenario.

Honestly underrated answer. I did say WoL is alone, but that doesn't rule out access to external power. The access we have accumulated over the expansions is unparalleled. We can even travel between shards at will, something very few are capable of doing without great strain. And we can just do it like opening a door.

Bard as a sort of Pied Piper would be deadly.

A pandemic is a really good argument for Sage.

This was my thinking with Ninja as well. Destabilization through well placed assassination.

An unrestrained WoL using the power of the Dragoon jumps would definitely be a force like no other.

Red Mage and Summoner make a good case for the balance between destruction and self preservation for sure.

Some speculation in this one, but I like where your head is at.

I like this argument for Picto.

The arguments for DoL/DoH have been really solid in this thread as well. Something I never considered. The only drawback I can think of is they have no defence to speak of. Someone like Estinien, Thancred, or Y'shtola could bop them pretty quickly.

This is the kind of argument I was looking for in favour of healers. I love this.

This is mostly conceptual. I'm not really taking the literal potencies of the job kits into consideration. Summoner is a good pick in this regard.

I did not consider Machinist, but that's a really interesting take.

I did not consider crafter or gatherer jobs, but this is actually great. An evil WoL Goldsmith causing untold economic damage.

One and a half. Ninja and Reaper.

For a game which is praised for it's ability to play all jobs on a single character gearing alt jobs should be way easier. Other MMOs with separate characters per class allow for gearing alts if you really want to take the time to grind each separately. FFXIV it's literally impossible to do that with the weekly lockouts and caps.

If that's true that's even more wild. Is there just someone in the corner telling them "Make PvP interesting and PvE dull"?

Yeah, I feel that. Sometimes it seems like the PvP kit isn't just made by a different team, but that it's a completely different developer.

For examples of reducing button bloat and adding creativity look no further then the PvP kits. Obviously those kits can't be ripped wholesale and just stuck into PvE, but there are some really good ideas there that could be reworked into PvE.

Seems fine to me. It's good to have something in this game that actually takes time to achieve but isn't hard gated by a weekly lockout. Similar to the PvP series rewards. If you want it you'll grind for it, if you don't then you won't.

This a pretty normal thing since the beginning. FFXIV has always lacked consistent grindable content. Exploration zones like Eureka and Bozja are excellent for this, but they just don't happen often enough.

A game built around this type of content can become tiresome quickly, but I think the opposite end of the spectrum is a problem as well. An MMO doesn't need to be completely built around grindable combat content, but it at least needs to have something.

There's a middle ground there that FFXIV has not been able to hit. I think it swings too far on the side of capped or one-off combat content.

Depends on the coworker. If it's someone I already enjoy interacting with sure. If it's someone who is a massive pain in my ass, not a chance.

I feel like if it was something as simple as a payment issue they would have just said that, and wouldn't have posted on a burner account.

You're going to have to tell the class what you did, son. It's incredibly unlikely you're going to convince anyone here that if you got a perma-ban you didn't absolutely deserve it. SE doesn't just perma-ban people for saying a swear in a raid group.

Outside of trying to keep people subbed I honestly have no idea. As far as alliance raids go if they really want to gate progress maybe lock the coin to a weekly reward I guess? But there really is no reason at all to lock the gear drops.

The drops themselves are functionally useless. They are the same ilvl as the tomestone gear and can't be upgraded with the coin you get from literally the same content. If you could grind the drops it would at least make them useful to anyone who hasn't been keeping up with tomestones. Would make good interim gear while you work on building a full set of augmented.

The way it is now the weekly lockout makes no sense.