Feedback for maintenance buffs.

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Originally Posted by RaionKansen

Most jobs get punished on death. It is what it is unless you want jobs to keep all of their mana or job gauge on death. They could do that, but I personally wouldnt want that.

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Don't older Final Fantasy games let you keep what MP you have upon KO and revival...? Why I don't get why they can't do that in Final Fantasy XIV or even Final Fantasy XI(if that game ALSO suffers from a similar issue to Final Fantasy XIV with MP). Job Gauges KINDA make sense they ARE supposed to be the TP replacement... though might as well have TP at that point to make it easier for balancing purposes...

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Originally Posted by RaionKansen

This post should really be "remove darkside from the game"

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If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't be talking about general maintenance buffs... I just wanted to make sure that EVERYONE KNEW that Dark Knight was the WORST offender of the "get maintenance buff ONLY IN COMBAT" mechanic, and the only time this would be even REMOTELY OKAY is in a SINGLE PLAYER OFFLINE ONLY RPG that just so happens to have a SIMILAR combat system that MOST MMOs HAVE(which Final Fantasy 14 is NOT), and I'm pretty sure NO OTHER MMORPG DOES THIS, outside of MAYBE Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis, and I don't like it there either...

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Originally Posted by Heroman3003

Only the 'group' damage buffs and debuffs (chain stratagem is example of a group damage debuff) are being axed. Idk what the other person is on about, but the idea is to allow every job to have its own rotation timings without 'ruining' the alignment of group DPS with party buffs. Regular self-buffs are not going anywhere, and group buffs that don't affect your DPS will still be there. In fact, it's reasonable to expect most of group buffs to be converted into just-for-yourself buff skills.

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I'm not so sure about that. Paladin, Dragoon, and Bard didn't have self-buffs in evolved demo. They might all be gone.

For jobs that can res, it's basically, if you die you can only raise one other person because of the mp cost. But it's kinda irrelevant since it's pretty impossible to res anyone by hardcasting without swiftcast anyway. And mana is pretty irrelevant since people who didnt understand black mage complained about it being "mana hungry" to the point of mana being practically removed as a game mechanic altogether. One of many design failures they've stuck with ever since the hardcore raider crowd of heavensward wanted their perfect parses.

One of many oversights and neglects on dark knight's design though it seems. Squex/cbu3 seem to hate anything we love because it competes with what they want you to love. Or theyre clamoring over each other trying to make a name for themselves with their own new thing, which means putting down things accredited to other devs.
That is also one reason why they arent making new jobs based on classic jobs like Geomancer or Cleric, but making new garbage like viper people only play because its easy (it was also just the prototype for evolved mode)