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This is actually something I actually deeply agree with and didn't figure out until later why Monks were disappearing from raid comps. The only utility monks offer to a group now is a stronger version of Mantra, and removing Dragon Kick and putting it on Dark Knights was a very bad move. It would have to take a lot, like the Dragoon retooling in Heavensward to have them become more accepted in compositions once again.

I mean my group runs triple melee with all three of the melee classes in the group at the moment (I have to run A7S as a SMN only because we cannot cheese the caster cage), and out of all thee of the classes I would want to have replaced for a caster, it would definitely be the Monk.

It might, but even a quick visit to fflogs.com shows a dramatic drop of people who post a clear as an AST past Ratfinx Twinkledinks, if we're taking those clears only into account. It was also admitted by some players in Elysium during a podcast that they wouldn't consider bringing along an AST in any type of world first progression.

I would agree on most cases with this on the current balance of the classes... if Square was able to actually do enough for Astrologians. As much as I love playing Astro and the utility it brings... in the progression environment, Astros are just not possible to bring along still. They do not have the capability to replace Scholars still with Noct stance still being very weak compared to scholar shields, and while they are capable raid healers, they just lack that big AoE heal that White Mages have. They lack anything resembling a Cure III which in the long run hurts quite a bit. Astro so far is the only class to receive the most changes to its kit with every patch, but it just never seems to be enough to sway people to pick it up more often.

@cloudymusic: Frustrated would almost be an understatement, but yeah, it really didn't look bright in 3.0 for either Bard or Machinist, it was almost to the point to where groups almost didn't need the utility from either class mostly due to in part that Square has been slowly giving other classes some sort of group utility. Ninja's have Goad, Dragoons were given Battle Litany and so on. Its a shame that it takes the under-utilization of classes in endgame content for Square to react to these problems though. They really suffer in terms of balancing moreso than WoW or any game that runs a public test environment because Square still thinks they know how to provide content flawlessly, and current players will know exactly what I'm talking about (Diadem, Red Scrips, etc.).

I picked Dark Knight to do next because their story is almost incredible, Dark Knight was actually considered the most useless class in the game at one point, UNTIL Gordias Savage came out. It was the one example of Square actually proving they knew what they were doing from the get-go.

@gkhan: So another Blizzard game does this, which is Heroes of the Storm, but this isn't a very good solution either. Since the game itself cannot differentiate what role you've picked, you'll end up in a game where there's an Illidan and four other assassin characters, or in my case, pick Murky and get teamed up with an Abathur and a Cho'gall, thus rendering any chance of me doing my thing irrelevant. In Overwatch I just imagine it working the same way since hey, since one team hasn't figured it out under their development house, how could another.

Symmetra, because APPARENTLY I'm havering too much issue with the lag compensation on shots and can't even grasp how McCree and Hanzo players manage to hit anything, and Torbjorn since his turret just does it for me, however his turret also upsets me because it's a peashooter in a lot of cases so setting it up is a hassle past the setup point. Whenever I have to shoot something though it's Roadhog

A silent protagonist to me seems like less work for them to put in for more exciting dialog options. Like if they do get Troy Baker to voice the main character, what are the chances they have him record a full set of low intelligence dialog. Then again 3 didn't have any of that.

They need to show that they know what a Fallout game is outside of a trailer to get me excited. We're still on the east coast, there is even more Brotherhood out in the east then there logically should be, so I'm just getting the feeling they're still using this license to create a post-apocalyptic game but are too lazy to come up with their own property.

This will probably still be a good open world game in its own regard, don't get me wrong, but I get the feeling this still ain't the main line fallout game that I want. Less bitter about it this time around though.

This is a picture of Final Fantasy XIV of the duty finder. This game was released on consoles meaning there is a large chunk of the playerbase coming into this game for the first time on this type of platform that has never experienced a raid on this scale. Recently about a couple of weeks ago Square Enix, like it always does puts its previously relevant raid content that was normally only accessible to premade groups going to a meetup spot and entering from there, to putting it into the Duty Finder, a tool used to group up random indivuduals of all premade or solo queues. The part of the raid I have checkmarked happens to be the the last boss of the final raid of vanilla, and what that means is I can if I choose to do so, click the join button, and queue up with possibly seven other random people who have no idea what they're doing and let fate decide what happens to that party. Is this begging for a shitty experience? Totally. Is this hurting the game in any way shape or form? absolutely not. There is the Party Finder route in game where you can do exactly what the Destiny LFG sites do and allows you to gather people from your own server to queue up as a premade 8 man team. Which keep in mind is also totally capable of providing the same outcome as you would just queuing up for the raid in the duty finder in the first place.

The fact that people still argue about a matchmaking option for people if they chose to do so for a Destiny raid, which doesn't even come close to the mechanics of an actual MMO encounter is plain silly. Is Bungie really so convinced that Destiny is the most complicated game that these tools are just not compatible with the experience? Or does the option to look for a premade group in-game have to exist before allowing a random group of six people who've never met before allowed to just go with it.

For the PS4 I recently mustered up enough energy to care and get the Platinum for Final Fantasy XIV.

On the Playstation platforms prior to that I only got two, which would be Heavy Rain and Lightning Returns.

I find it funny two out of three of my platinum trophies came from a franchise I only started recently caring about.