Were attack ‘charges’ a mistake?

I have mixed feelings about them. In the case of tank gap-closers, I find the circumstances in which I save one are pretty niche. Most of the time it's just optimal to dump them into party buff windows, particularly with PLD and GNBs lining up with their primary buff windows. The charge system doesn't really feel like it adds the sense of flexibility they intended.

There are also some abilities that I think would be beneficial to be on the charge system that aren't.
Sharpcast on BLM is a good example, as it's imo one of the clunkiest part of their current kit with its constant drift. If it stacked to 2 on its current 30 second CD I think it would feel a lot better.

I love them to be honest~

It makes the gameplay a bit more faster too.
Try playing MCH. You almost ALWAYS have a button going off.

I think you should play around with it on a Dummy for abit, I think you'll see that this was actually a Great Idea.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

Some of them are great, others feel like "well.... we gotta give them to this job too somehow..." and lastly some jobs didn't get any charges on skills that really could have used them.

Charges on Shoulder Tackle are great since it lets you keep a charge for movement purposes without a DPS loss from holding it (you can hold two charges) Kassatsu holding two extra charges, though, feels tacked on and makes the ninja rotation feel too busy. And red mages should have gotten a charge for fleche or contre sixte but have zero skills that hold charges.

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Would you rather have new muddra combinations for the new spells, people already use macros for them because they can't use them manually.

On my machinist, I love the charge skills. It works for them and the whole set up but for summoner, I am leaning more towards not liking it as much. The egi assaults just seem like a missed opportunity to turn our ruin skills into the pet based skills. It made me think back to someone in the party making a joke about wanting to feel like a persona user from Persona 5. The character has its own auto-attack but the persona is where all the damage is. That's how I want summoner to feel. I personally think my pet should be the one dealing the most damage and not my character. Right now, it feels like they are moving towards that direction but not quite there yet.

Not really. In the situations where my jobs have had them they seemed to be there just to be there.

Charged En Avant makes me zoom around the battlefield. +1 for charges.