Yesterday, July 30, Closing Fantasy XIV obtained its first huge patch because the launch of the Dawntrail growth. Whereas the introduction of the brand new Savage raids is a supply of pleasure for the group, the most important level of competition is the lengthy checklist of adjustments the Viper job has obtained in patch 7.05. As considered one of two new jobs launched only a month in the past alongside Dawntrail, the group is just not thrilled with how shortly Sq. Enix has simplified the function. Some are going so far as to say Viper as we knew it as useless, the newest sufferer of a worrying development for the MMO.
The most important level of competition is the removing of Noxious Gnash from the Viper job. This was a debuff that triggered when utilizing Dread Fangs and required sure actions to increase the debuff timer. The purpose of Noxious Gnash is that it offers you one thing to maintain monitor of and reapply now and again. It’s supposed so as to add a layer of complexity to the job by requiring you take note of a timer on high of doing all of your regular motion rotation and avoiding space of impact (AoE) assaults throughout fight.
In a July 4 publish on the Lodestone (the official FF14 weblog) the builders talked about they’d “obtained suggestions pertaining to the busyness of [Viper’s] talent rotation,” and could be trying into tweaking the job in patch 7.05. That got here solely two days after Dawntrail’s launch. Some puzzled if the adjustments would take away positionals (the necessity to assault enemies from a selected course). As a substitute the removing of Noxious Gnash looks like a meaningless change, with the group declaring that the timer wasn’t all that troublesome to maintain monitor of, so it was an odd adjustment for Sq. Enix to make. Who’s this modification for? Gamers aren’t positive, however they’re positively pissed off.
Extra upsetting than the adjustments to Viper is the worrying development it represents when it comes to Closing Fantasy 14’s job designs. The Viper adjustments over-simplify a job that many had been extremely pleased with, and these adjustments occurred only a month after its debut. It’s the quickest a job has obtained such a change however not the primary time jobs have been oversimplified—the healer jobs, particularly the Astrologian, have suffered comparable fates. With each job changing into less complicated to execute it leaves these on the lookout for a problem no viable choice, and with these recentViper adjustments, the difficulty is coming to a breaking level.
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