Wishlist for the expansion

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Originally Posted by Rithy255

Its insane that PLD 1, 2, 3 doesn't have a gap closer, doesn't have any sustain until a insanely high level, just feels awful to play.

It's like that for a lot of jobs, even EW combat is already bland enough but synching down feels awful for pretty much any job, you don't play as the "ARR, HW ECT." version of a job you're playing a watered down End walker job at that point because of how many things get removed for new abilities and space

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That has been a problem with this game ever since Stormblood.

When CBU3 decided to keep the amount of buttons roughly consistent they started scrapping low level skills in exchange for new shiny ones for the expansion, but then they never bothered to rework at which level you acquire your skills.
So every 2 (now more like 3) years the lower level experience gets increasingly worse since they remove skills from those level brackets but all the actually good skills get stapled to your job close to level cap.

This makes it especially funny whenever someone tells new players to take their time and not rush to endgame. I'm sorry but endgame is the only time the class kits are actually coherrent and the gameplay isn't absolute dogwater.

A complete re-evaluation of what level skills are unlocked, and even inventing new skills that act was lower-power versions of existing skills is long overdue.

Dark Knight is a Heavensward Job that you unlock at lv 50, but it starts at lv 30, but doesn't get its central skill until lv 70. I do not think they playtest jobs with level sync in mind.

They can’t even get it right with the modern jobs

At 50 RPR is literally 123 with an oGCD every time you get 50 gauge and that’s it, the job gets basically nothing in the 60-80 range then all comes together at 80+

SGE doesn’t even have a skill it can use while running below 30 (technically 22 but phlegma is hard as hell to use while running) because it doesn’t get eukrasia till 30 and suffers from the SCH problem where shield healer passive regen is overpowered pre stone vigil and like all healers it’s level 2 rotation is it’s level 90 rotation

If they can’t even get the level sync right with jobs they made last year what chance do we have of a full on 19(21) job rework of the levelling experience

All jobs need to be re-evaluated which level they gain skills. There is no reason that by the first dungeon all jobs do not have their basic AOE skill. By level 30 all tanks should have their key defensive skill even if its the most crappiest version of it. PLD feels terrible to play until you get sustain from your spell abilities. I think the devs really just play test content on WAR only.

At least this past expansion they finally made it to where all the tanks have both AOE combos before level 50. I seriously hope they are considering or if not already looking at overhauling the leveling experience.

I can think of serval ways to make Jobs feel better in general at lower levels really for tanks I'd
1. Make sure all tanks get gap closers around 50-60 at *least*
2. Sustain/Short CDs, Give PLD's shelltron a small regen (such as 100 potency), Give tanks their defensive tools eariler, TBN And Heart of stone are super late, give intervention/flash eariler aswell so all tanks have some sort of OT support. (Although I want warriors aoe sustain heavily nerfed even more so at earlier levels)
3. Rotations feel similar, I don't mind Jobs having different rotations but at the same time, PLD as a prime example is 1, 2, 3 snooze. Jobs need to feel fun at 50.
4. Focus more on "upgrades" later down the line instead of wild new abilities outside things that are flashy and exciting to get, such as PLD's Wings or holy blade spells or Gunbreakers double down can be saved for later, while having most of your important stuff there.


While I this is mainly about tanks, it just takes a few changes to make each one feel a lot better at lower levels, ARR shouldn't feel awful... but at this point i even dont enjoy stormblood content with how much im missing from my kit.