3.0's Coming... What are the Craziest Game Changes you can Think of?

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Originally Posted by Arcsol93

Seriously just trash the carbuncles and egi's and put in actual summons. Having a class centered around just carbuncles wouldn't even be a summoner class anymore, there would be no diversity besides different colors which would be a let down. No, put in the actual summons, and completely redo the system from scratch. Separate the SCH and SMN classes, and let the SCH keep the original system. Make the Machinist the actual DoT dealer and have the SMN focus on something else entirely.

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No. SCH needs to be separated from Arcanist so they can get more healz. SMN just needs full-sized Summons so big they block everyone's view of the battle. >_> Heck, you could still take away all of the dots from ACN/SMN and just have them do attacks through their pet alone (and give pets other abilities on and off the GCD to make up for it).

Addition and Adjustments to Stats:

Universal Stats:
Critical Hit Rate - Values remain the same, but Character menu will now reflect a % Value.
Critical hit Damage - New stat. Increased damage of Critical hits. Works Similar to Critical hit rate values. Character menu will show a % increase.
Misc. Improvements to various Job abilities and Job traits.

Melee Stats:
Double Attack - Occasionally adds an additional melee attack to your normal attacks.
Triple Attack - Occasionally adds two additional melee attacks to your normal attacks.

Magic Stats:
Refresh - increases potency of MP returned each cycle.

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Originally Posted by Grey_Cain

No. SCH needs to be separated from Arcanist so they can get more healz. SMN just needs full-sized Summons so big they block everyone's view of the battle. >_> Heck, you could still take away all of the dots from ACN/SMN and just have them do attacks through their pet alone (and give pets other abilities on and off the GCD to make up for it).

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This I can agree with. As long as neither have DoTs and are put onto a separate class entirely, the Summons are completely obnoxious and badass like they should be, and the carbuncles wiped from existence. Sadly we know that won't happen, the SMN is in need of a major fix, and I just don't see how they could do it without changing the entire job altogether.

Honestly I think it would be pretty cool to actually change to the perspective of the pet after summoning and fight through it as an alternate method for using the SMN class.

Queueing DF with chocobo out. .....nah never gonna happen is it xc

- Retool Summoner to not be boring

- Allow me to do stuff during DF queue that I only EVER think to do during DF queue (Chocobo race, quit cards, summon companion, ect)

- Change zodiac quest to not be boring and stupid

- Hopefully some 2.0 tweaks to dungeons to make them more fun, and less draggy tank-n-spank-for-30-minutes sleep inducing

- Inclusion of elemental/physical resistances into heavensward gameplay...? (...nah.)

- Allow players to switch classes during dungeons (plleeassseee)

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Originally Posted by desufin

Craziest? They abolish Arcanist as a base class and rework SMN and SCH to be proper, competitive standalone jobs. SCH obviously still a healer and SMN a dps but without being gimped clones held back by the bad design that is Arcanist.

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Or rework Arcanist to be the RDM we all know we want and take enfeebling duties away from SMN.

Instead of saying summoners have to hit with a spell book between casts give summoners whips and a attack animation that uses mana!!! Want Rydia whip so badly and restricting job swapping. Should be like old FF 11 days only able to swap in your inn room or private room.

I want to see the actual fishing line on my rod when I go fishing.

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Originally Posted by myahele

SMN will no longer have battle rez. They'll get rid of egis and replace them with different colored carbuncles

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I would settle for having the option to use "differently colored carbuncles".

It's not such a crazy idea, just that it is in the context of FFXIV since getting SE to make any kind of change - no matter how trivial - is like trying to squeeze blood from stone.