We cause the nerfs. Stop being c*#ts...all of you.Follow

This is mainly the real issue, and why I've long been an advocate of both stronger mob AI and environmental conditions to take into account. We have 2 examples of "don't stand there" type fights with Diabolos' tiles and the final WotG fight. There are mobs out there with modes, but I wouldn't call them the most intuitive or flagging of what mode is. Omega stands out (literally) as a smart mode design between two and four legs telling you what it is and can do at that moment. I also liked the vampyr mob in Einherjar that split into multiple mobs. Only problem it had was you could literally zerg it before it could.

Stuff like that is just scratching the surface, though. I also want to say that until they actually get true instancing going, if ever, that we're also going to be limited in what we can see of encounters.

Sadly your entire post seems a bit whiny. Personally I never care what other people do, if they do something different or even better.

If people are complaining about what others are doing oh well, congratulations SCH gets a nerf. Its a job I was going to do next and im sure I will still enjoy it. You can't sit there and say no one is crying about the cry babies - the title of this thread says it all. The C word was filtered out which I am surprised Alla allowed it to continue but I guess the mods are not too happy about the nerf either. Maybe you should try seeing things their way and they should see it your way, have they actually tried doing things your way and decided its wrong? or have they simply witnessed it and thought I will complain?

Ack well, another nerf another day as I said you could go on to the official forums and crylike the others did.

But it (Last Resort's haste effect nerf) will only happen, because:

some person who hasn't even joined the game yet;

joins in mid 2013;

takes a year to level some non-top tier DD to 99;

realizes they made the wrong choice (for them);

complains about it incessantly on the Official Forums;

believes they are the first ever to recognize that not all DD jobs have the same exact damage per swing & spike damage;

and then those loyal paying customers who have been around and not cancelled their accounts for 12 years are made to suffer.

I find this entire thread way more annoying than the nerf itself.

I'm glad I didn't read much of it.

I may only post once a month nowadays, but when I do, it's always a +1.

The only thing i dont understand is that why they would do things so late.

If they notice something isnt exactly working as intended, or is currently being abused, they should change or remove it, and we would be happy for it. Heck, i would. Some people who thought they got an easy path to riches perhaps not, but still.

But what doesnt work is that they know something isnt working properly or is being abused, and then ignore it for years until they suddenly strike at it. What use is that?

That does make a lot more sense. Thank you for such a rational explaination.

This has been the problem with FFXI for a long time. They could probably design battles or content that accentuated the strengths of different of jobs but they keep regurgitating the same tactics on bosses and that only serves to keep the job selection relatively the same. When the only thing you have to worry about is surviving and dealing as much damage as possible then there's very little reason not to do that. Hence, why everyone is so concerned with highest damage/e-peening. The devs then respond to this tactic by nerfing or designing content around it and the players figure out how to do it again with this content and the cycle continues. PD, Embrava, Fanatic's drinks, etc are all things that just add to this and makes it harder to bust out of the loop.

I do kind of feel bad for Scholars and Summoners because they lose a super effective skill that is nice but it'd be a lot less painful for them if there were fights that really showed off their stuff. The magical flexibility of SCH should be much more valuable than it is but the content doesn't allow for it which is kind of dumb.