New jog and mount while moving sound neat. Can’t wait to yeet people off a cliff as PLD in PvP.
RIP Black mage
I mean, BLM is getting, again, vip treatment. Sure, a couple of small potency nerfs, but have you seen the rest? Not a main blm myself but overall, looks to me like a huge buff rather than a nerf.
Meanwhile, healers… yeah, we still suck bad.
A large chunk of the handful of remaining Black Mage mains are moving to Pictomancer over these changes.
That should say enough, it’s not really a great change.
It’s not about balance, but destroying the playstyle. Juggling the timer while trying to find space to cast long spells was the core of the job. Overall it will probably be a buff considering it will be a lot easier to play.
Healers getting nothing is par for the course at this point.
That’s my point. Basically they aim to give blm (once again) dps dominance. I’m pretty tired of this, tbf. To the point that I haven’t played at all since before 7.1 and I don’t feel the urge to come back yet.
It’s pretty clear that yoshi mains the blm, and it’s also clear that, at this point, ffxiv could do perfectly if healers got reduced to a single class, after all, the uniqueness of each healer have been in question for a while now.
Oh the two healers we have are kind of different.
I agree. One has shields on demand and regen every 30 secs while the other one has regen on demand and shields every 30 secs.
I guess it’s different…?
I think what bothers me the most is just how similar WHM/AST and SCH/SGE is to one another. Sage is just a scholar with a manual fairy, and AST is WHM but with cards. I’m also not really sold on the card changes they did for 7.0, I preferred the system in Endwalker.
Honestly, I was a main AST up to SB. I loved the cards, then they started dumbing down the system until they made it what it is now.
Now healers are just simplified caster dps. In most situations, your passive healing is more than enough; unless you face a raid wide aoe, a clumsy dps or a huge wall2wall pull in some dungeons, you won’t need to use a healing spell ever. I wanted to heal, if I wanted to be a caster dps, I’d have picked a caster dps.
