Poki_XIV: Brother, As a phys ranged main, They can't even balance 3 jobs let alone 40 !

Xcrossinx: "bald man yelling at clouds" moment

ishe_p: My copium is that they are hiding certain buttons for players to discover. Oversharing DawnTrail did them no favors so I could see where they're coming from if it was inspired by that. Maybe it will be a Nascent Flash situation where it looked really bad on paper but turned out to be pretty cool.

Valfarr: When Stormblood came out, I kept saying that they should give DRK a dps stone and SAM a tank stone (the way that Arcanist has a SCH and SMN stone). Would be fun, and I think I am one of the few that enjoyed tank stancing with WAR.

sephi7ac: My man just sat there like “What if FF14 did what WoW does with their classes?” With the specs suggestion, and describing his idea.

rodimus580: EVERBALD : EBALD MODE.

rob_iza196: I honestly think their are too many buttons, its been a problem for a while not, reaper is a prime example for this because the majority of things they have is verry redundant.

AradynVersilia: Treat evolved mode as a way to change things up, by altering the fundamental role of each job? Naaaaah

Making every rotation a mindless, brain dead single button press to cater to brainlets that don't know how to follow a basic rotation? Yeah, let's do that

nise512: I always liked the idea of taking job crystals off and doing something with classes being viable to level separately, marauder could branch off into a super man mode dps, gladiator could branch off into a glass cannon dps or as xeems said a healer role, pugilist can develop into a dps while mnk can becomes a meele party sustain tank or healer using damage taken/delt to heal everyone, conjurer can stick to learning elemental spells and become a caster dps with or maybe even a tank using earth and water to protect itself like stoneskin. thaumaturge can focus on using wands and shields to cast fast rapid powerful dark magic while having mits, while blackmage remains the slower harder hitter counterpart, Arcanist could be a hybrid of both scholar and summoner fill a similar role to RDM or tank but with focus on carbuncles specifically, like hw alphinaud or hw summoner where you had a pet that could tank if nessesary. Archer could be more oriented toward damage could be bowmage from hw with better animations with floor targeted aoes and poison spreading. but anyway thats enough geeking out

Jezhy22: Lol when they presented the cover, I was at fanfest and seeing everyone happy and excited I felt I was in a different world than fhe people around me. "Thats just gonna be awful.." same with bard my baby... Dead

AwayukiTV: Give it a few weeks and people will go back to reborn mode because it will be more engaging and complex

korygraves6739: I believe the game you were thinking of that changed its combat and the community hated it is Runescape, at least that's the most prominent example

NioNerd: @12:53 In my opinion, this idea is worse than having a reborn mode and an evolved mode for every job. Giving every job 1 spec outside its normal role would make it harder for SE to balance the game. Which you've already stated is going to be hard as is, and you think they aren't capable of it. At least with every job having a reborn mode and an evolved mode, they stay within their roles, so it isn't as challenging for them to balance. And yes, having a MCH be able to switch between ranged DPS and melee DPS is, in a way, changing their role. Because melee DPS are designed to do more damage than ranged DPS.

shiro12okami69: Losing atonement is definitely a loss. Especially since atonement had optimization, so they removed optimization by removing that… I’m pretty confident that I stick with reborn, and idc if it’s like 10% less dmg. I play stuff based on how much I enjoy it, and i probably won’t like evolved

Nightx159: I love the idea of being able to switch spec, I've thought about it quite a bit myself but one critical thing that makes me doubt they will is that, a system like that is much more necessary in a game like WoW, given that you can't change jobs. the ability to level every job on one character in this game sorta removes the need for multispec, as much as I'd love to see it

rexcyjones9416: As much as i would love that concept, at the end of the day, party synergy will still matter for whatever reason. Depends on what or who brings the juice for the raid becomes the meta. So we'll see. Tho tbh i wpuld reaaally love to have the job classes sub role to switch with instead of new jobs.

joeterrasi2202: I bet money that by the end of the expansion a real reborn mode and evolved mode will be mashed together.

tft_heart: How are you making a 5th rant video off the one single half year old demo?

Reliuxx: Wait till the media tour.

AwayukiTV: Evolved mode is nothing but simplification. 16 buttons, so controller players don't need to switch hotbars constantly, removal of raidbuffs removes the last bit of interplay, now you truly play all alone but at least your damage cant get griefed by others anymore. Then all jobs of a role will function very similarly. If you look at evolved bard it is the exact same as summoner now. 3 songs and each unlocks a combo, just like smn summons.

All kinds of optimization gets removed. Atonement optimzation, blm transpose lines, tank stances. Think about monk's forms system, that wont work with just 1 button.

Evolved is only meant as easier access to jobs. The Pax interview Sarah Jane posted a few days ago conforms this.

feniu10: Eeeh, Gw2 can balance 36 Specs, all with traits and a variaty of skills and builds. Surely Square Enix can balance the most static class system ever

darthspoompls: 13:15 this would be awesome, much like Red Mage being a caster as well as having a melee 1-2-3

tonyruiz5414: Spec for jobs would be way fucking better than just button reduction

ToxyBlack: As Paladin main I think the current rotation is already very easy. Removing actions especially Confiteor for aoe is really bad. Hopefully they will keep the AOE by implementing it in Holy Spirit somehow. I do think on other older dps jobs could be a good improvement or might screw up the whole class completely especially on ninja I am very worried.

PianoMatn: Dont forget that the build they showed us is prob around 3 month old

Prometheus.Sentinel: Xeno, you aren't playing Resonance?

dougfax: I never really liked 2 plus minutes cooldowns

Unless they are party buffs like Bard and Dancer, they are bloating

Oct 28 2026

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