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I don't think it was fine before though? You had to play with buffs on to be able to level up otherwise you'd just die & it'd take forever. So you had to level up a cleric at the same time, or have a friend playing cleric, or ask for buffs in Junon before going xp. You couldn't realistically play without a cleric. Our idea with the change was to make clerics less preponderant in the game. They're still required at high level in raids & dungeons, but you don't need to have one to level up as a casual player anymore. Maybe it's not a good idea and we'll run a survey after EA starts to see how the community feels about the change, but we do want to change this buff-centric meta that's been running since forever in the game. As a casual player, you shouldn't have to dual account with a cleric.

Alright I'm locking this topic, I think everyone was able to express what they wanted to say and most (if not all) the arguments have been presented. Now I encourage everyone to wait and test the changes when early access goes live, the decision about the cleric buffs will NOT be changed before early access (even if we wanted we wouldn't have the time to revert the changes), so no amount of arguing will move things right now. Hopefully we can have another constructive discussion after early access on this change, and we will listen to the community. Thank you.