Future Battle Balance Adjustments

[Sapphires]

As long as we have a minimum ~5% chance of missing a step/violent flourish due to the current accuracy check mechanics, we aren't a reliable source of stunning so people won't bring dancers for their stunning skills or place them in a stun rotation with a stun mage. This is a good example of where our job utility isn't a selling point to someone making a party/alliance for hard battle content.

We already sacrifice significant dps due to JA delay and although longer step duration initially seems nice to have, it doesn't address the dps loss from JA delay when we want to aggressively build steps and use finishing moves.
As it stands, we are only a fair DD option if you have near perfect gear and compete with less hardcore players playing mnk that gets KO'd during the fight allowing us to catch up on total damage dealt.

I'm fortunate enough to have friends and a LS that lets me bring dancer to these events and avoids the current meta-bandwagon of throw monks and rangers at everything, but for most of the playerbase i'd say the Dnc job still has an uphill battle for acceptance.

We might have better luck getting more dancers into endgame/hardcore content if you do indeed make box step from DNC main much stronger while still making it stack with all other defense down effects.

For parties that want accuracy, our current quickstep (+24 after spending time stacking to level 5 and incurring a ton of JA delay) isn't competitive enough with Corsair's hunter roll (up to +65 acc) or 1 bard song (blade madrigal +34acc or more)

[Selindrile]

"Step Accuracy" is a stupid statistic, 99% of the time people are better off with just normal accuracy+ gear, but with the natural 95% acc cap along with the magic accuracy component, it's just another thing that can go wrong when trying to stun. So your missed stun rate is already much worse than a Blm's (Blu suffers from the same issue.).

Step potency could be increased, the amount of time it lasts on a monster (without being reapplied) could be increased, but you know what would make steps more viable in the long run? Making it so you didn't have to lose 50% of your attack rounds to use them. (Job ability attack delay) beats out the positive debuff aspects of steps thoroughly in short battles, and often in long battles as well, but, people don't bring dancers to anything with long battles, generally.