I've seen some talk about trying to set up on Mateus as sort of an RP refugee situation; Gilgamesh seems like it'd have been trouble since it already had a strong server identity, but a smaller server with tons of available housing doesn't sound terrible.
Maybe they're giving more of a range of movement to the ranged classes in general to compensate? I mean here we are at the end of HW and BRD/MCH still top the dps charts in many fights, so maybe they don't really care about that balance of them having to be lower than melees/casters. It's hard to tell, but it kind of feels at first glance that's the thought process.
Interesting stuff, thanks.
And part of why I'm curious in a full list of potencies is that I'm not sure how player feedback reaches them. There's a decent contingent who have been expecting massive ranged nerfs to put them 'back where they belong' and the decision to tell us nothing aside from 'lol everything is different now' on the stream didn't help. The weird power death spiral they hit mid-Heavenward of buffs and counter buffs seemed borderline unintentional, and things like the weird difficulty disparity in the BRD and MCH 12S Stone, Sky, Sea dummies gives me no idea how they think the jobs should work. The potency bumps you listed are hopefully a good sign, but there's also the loss of buffs via the inability to cross-class and the current belief that Hawk's Eye is be gone. Songs may make that up for bard, but MCH is just a giant black hole until the embargo is up at a minimum. MCH without cross-class has literally no buffs at all, unless they add one, and the mystery of the turret is worrying because +autos - turret = little if any gain single-target and a nerf in AOE, plus without the constant 30%. The DoT changes are potentially encouraging, but at the same time there's the mystery of the missing Flaming Arrow (which is... 400 potency single-target? I think? every minute), the apparent reduced Bloodletter if it only resets in the one song, etc. I've also got general AOE confusion for both jobs--fewer resets on RoD, no FA, maybe no passive Bishop damage is a huge nerf for just dungeon spam on first blush. Also no Quelling is incredibly weird unless they're taking two of the burstiest jobs and making them non-burst, or just building some kind of aggro modifier into a trait.
I get the bard rework--it needed to happen and they're addressing some issues dating back to HW launch there, but it baffles me that they spent so little time addressing essentially a full class rework. Totally no idea what they think they're doing with MCH or what they're actually fixing there, which probably should not be surprising.
I feel like we should be betting on whether ranged is massively over- or under-tuned at SB launch, because these changes are so huge I kind of can't believe they're going to get it right the first try.
