Patch 7.35 is highlighting how inadequate the quality and frequency of PvP updates has always been.
Quality
The PvP changes shown in 7.35 look like they were done with AI. Someone punched in winrate numbers from solo queue and decided that was that. It's an unfortunate mix of meaningless changes vs. the harrowing list of things they left untouched.
The warrior change is ultimately meaningless. If you get pulled, then the extra second of heavy is kind of irrelevant. You either pre-purify, purify, or just die with no MP anyway. Gunbreaker dash is cool, but kind of hilarious when you think that competitive teams who run GNB use them as point pusher. White mage just partially got back what it lost. Ninja and Summoners aren't exactly celebrating right now, and what they got doesn't even begin to address the issue DPS face right now.
They failed to address SCH, and guard shatters, and double heal down, and how quite literally the competitive meta is stacking supports with occasionally the support-adjacent ranged. The design philosophy of Dawntrail is completely crashing, making people like me sorely miss Endwalker.
Frequency
The frequency of these updates is not acceptable. Our next "hope" for change is going to be 7.4, which I can only assume is in another month and a half to two months. We're going to be playing ranked and scrimming in the slop we've been dealing with for the last two months. It's difficult when you look forward to each update finally being the one to address something and being met with a ChatGPT feed.
The abysmal quality and frequency of these updates gives me very little hope for CCRC in FanFest, because if things aren't truly looked at with a critical eye, then all you're going to see on stage is 4-5 support comps. Really riveting gameplay on the horizon for anyone who was even remotely interested in seeing what it's all about. I almost feel like it's too late for NA CCRC, but maybe the other regions will get to play in a better gamestate.
I realize I may be speaking into a void, but I needed to write it all out and hope that the communities that continue to support CC actually show their faces here over this.
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Quality
The PvP changes shown in 7.35 look like they were done with AI. Someone punched in winrate numbers from solo queue and decided that was that. It's an unfortunate mix of meaningless changes vs. the harrowing list of things they left untouched.
The warrior change is ultimately meaningless. If you get pulled, then the extra second of heavy is kind of irrelevant. You either pre-purify, purify, or just die with no MP anyway. Gunbreaker dash is cool, but kind of hilarious when you think that competitive teams who run GNB use them as point pusher. White mage just partially got back what it lost. Ninja and Summoners aren't exactly celebrating right now, and what they got doesn't even begin to address the issue DPS face right now.
They failed to address SCH, and guard shatters, and double heal down, and how quite literally the competitive meta is stacking supports with occasionally the support-adjacent ranged. The design philosophy of Dawntrail is completely crashing, making people like me sorely miss Endwalker.
Frequency
The frequency of these updates is not acceptable. Our next "hope" for change is going to be 7.4, which I can only assume is in another month and a half to two months. We're going to be playing ranked and scrimming in the slop we've been dealing with for the last two months. It's difficult when you look forward to each update finally being the one to address something and being met with a ChatGPT feed.
The abysmal quality and frequency of these updates gives me very little hope for CCRC in FanFest, because if things aren't truly looked at with a critical eye, then all you're going to see on stage is 4-5 support comps. Really riveting gameplay on the horizon for anyone who was even remotely interested in seeing what it's all about. I almost feel like it's too late for NA CCRC, but maybe the other regions will get to play in a better gamestate.
I realize I may be speaking into a void, but I needed to write it all out and hope that the communities that continue to support CC actually show their faces here over this.
Continue reading...