Lackluster Mechanics and/or Leveling: Dark Arts, RDM AoE, Aetherpact

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Originally Posted by EllieShadeflare

A 60s cooldown would be wonderful, but YOU WOULD BREAK BLACK MAGE WITH A SHORTER DURATION TO LEYLINES. You will break their openers in half because we need that casting speed to get out our full 8-Fire IV opener, and to properly align our Fouls. Messing with this is a bad idea.

So what if you can't move out of our Ley Lines right? You can STILL DODGE OR USE MANAWARD. If you're targetted by an AoE, and you neither Manaward or dodge, that's on you. Between the Lines and Aetherial Manipulation are your friends in this regard, especially with the removal of slidecasting and the buff to our teleports' animation locks.

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I have to agree. Too many people simplify duration per recast times as just that, when the duration itself matters not at all; the breakpoint the combination of potency/percentile and duration is what matters, and proportionately exchanging either of those for a decrease in recast time is not necessarily a proportionate exchange in power, and far less likely an beneficial change in gameplay.

That said, I'd be perfectly happy with Enochian becoming a trait that automatically activates after generating Astral Fire or Umbral Ice. The strength of that trait is then purposed towards mitigating costs of movement (for functionality) or exaggerating them (for identity/niche), such as by adding a bonus upon element swap to decrease the breakpoint for situational efficiency of shortened burst phases or rushed regen phases or by giving an accumulating bonus to damage over the phase's duration.

And in the meantime, (Enochian, if not traited and) B4 and F4, and LL and BtL can each share a key, no?

I won't pretend I know something I don't, if in fact having a shorter duration would mess up the opener too much and end up being a dps loss then I withdraw what I said.

Regarding the button merge, it'd be nice, maybe next xpac as we'll have new skill

Overheat and MCH rotation in general. I mained MCH in HW. It's honestly been ruined with the SB changes. Especially with the abilities it has now being clunky (Flamethrower) and changes causing ping reliance and annoyance. Like wtf Gauss Barrel.

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Originally Posted by Fytayn

So drop any interesting gameplay and challenge? Rolling the Enoch damage bonus into BlizzIV makes it super boring. If you mean the Enoch damage is a trait and BlizzIV gives that debuff uh, no, super OP.

Agreed that BlizzII and Freeze need to be reworked together; I like the idea of an upgrade like ThunderI->III/II->IV but it needs to work within AoE rather than parallel.

Any Enoch changes are a problem because design wants it available for emergency refresh (mentioned by devs)

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What is interesting and challenging about pressing an off global 1s into a fight and never touching it again?

I actually really enjoy the Third Eye mechanic, it makes me more involved in fight outside just dodging AoE's. Also adds a third(lol) layer of complexity outside of Sen and Kenki. Especially at the highest skill speed cap, when you can only get 1 oGCD between GCD's, you get a split second to factor in whether you can get a Third Eye off by the next AoE and profit from the Seigan generated. Plus the enmity dump on Merciful Eyes is a good "Oh shit!" button when tanks start hitting the floor.

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Originally Posted by CorbinDallas

What is interesting and challenging about pressing an off global 1s into a fight and never touching it again?

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It's possible to drop it depending on the phase/mechanics, so this is kinda wrong.

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Originally Posted by EllieShadeflare

It's possible to drop it depending on the phase/mechanics, so this is kinda wrong.

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Youre telling me that maintaining Enochian, and by proxy AF/UI, is that challenging and interesting on those very rare encounters where you can't help but drop it (Byakko is the only thing that comes to mind), when Transpose exists? Lol

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Originally Posted by CorbinDallas

Youre telling me that maintaining Enochian, and by proxy AF/UI, is that challenging and interesting on those very rare encounters where you can't help but drop it (Byakko is the only thing that comes to mind), when Transpose exists? Lol

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There are mechanics that WILL forcefully drop your Enochian, specifically, phase shifts that have stuns (Coming to mind are Catastrophe (if mistimed) the aforementioned Byakko, Shinryu, and the newest Trial) or mount-based mechanics (A/AS2, O/OS6 are the ones that come to mind at the moment).

They're few and far between, but they exist. Just like how White Mage has a specific utility in God Kefka because it has Cure III.

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Originally Posted by EllieShadeflare

There are mechanics that WILL forcefully drop your Enochian, specifically, phase shifts that have stuns (Coming to mind are Catastrophe (if mistimed) the aforementioned Byakko, Shinryu, and the newest Trial) or mount-based mechanics (A/AS2, O/OS6 are the ones that come to mind at the moment).

They're few and far between, but they exist. Just like how White Mage has a specific utility in God Kefka because it has Cure III.

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All of which mean absolutely nothing because the cooldown on Enochian is ridiculously short. If it was longer I would be agreeing with you, but the fact is that any sort of forced loss doesn't mean anything because Enochian has practically no cooldown.

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Originally Posted by CorbinDallas

All of which mean absolutely nothing because the cooldown on Enochian is ridiculously short. If it was longer I would be agreeing with you, but the fact is that any sort of forced loss doesn't mean anything because Enochian has practically no cooldown.

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Enochian has no cooldown, but you still lose out on a Foul by having to do those mechanics, which is very much a loss.