besides RDM, which jobs actually need these fancy gauges to function?

The gauge is super useful as an Astro. It helps me manage my cards better, in a much neater way.

The new hud gauges are a pretty smart design. It may actually get the facerollers to pay attention to their skills affecting the hud.

I like the SAM kenki, the class is fine but one thing I would change is Seigan, why require merciful eye if it already cost 15 kenki and it's not that strong either lol I feel this was a "we can't think of anymore skills so let's just use Seigan from eleven but make is useless"

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Originally Posted by Oxmodial

MCH definitely needs it with heat. Having said that I feel like most people who played MCH pre-stormblood prefer the old MCH and people who didn't like it before find it more fun to play.

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We don't need it as MCH except that it gIves a damage buff. They could easily buff the spells and be gone with it. I do like it but we could easily work without if we got a damage buff.

The bard's song gauge is definitely needed. Especially for Army and wanderer. Helps keep track of how many crit procs we gotten.

Like the above said, Bard definitely needed it since it lets you track the new procs and tells you perfectly how much time left you have.

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Originally Posted by Albinosmurfs

We don't need it as MCH except that it gIves a damage buff. They could easily buff the spells and be gone with it. I do like it but we could easily work without if we got a damage buff.

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That would make MCH the most boring class in the game by far. Currently they took away a lot of extra abilities and our dot which removed depth. If they took away the heat bar too we'd have basically nothing to pay attention to.

I absolutely hate the AST one. Before I could just watch my status effects to see what was going on now I have to watch a gauge on top of everything else which as a healer adding more things to distract me on top of HP bars buffs cooldowns the boss's cast bar and what is under my feet is the exact opposite of what I wanted.

I have a love/hate feeling for AST as I don't need it to tell me what the effects do, and thus just gets in my way, but I'm sure it helps new ones. SCH, however, is an eyesore. I immediately shrank that and moved it to where the Aetherflow buff icon used to be. Waste of space. I don't have the Faerie gauge yet to decide on that one...

I can't really say the job bars are needed but they add a visual element so you don't have to stare tiny buff icons as much.