Random Ideas: What Abilities, Traits, and/or Rework you want?

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Originally Posted by E4EO

One things that immediately come to mind (apart from DRK being WAR but let’s be real that deserves its own thread) is PLD’s Shield Bash

You are never, N E V E R going to use this as PLD, period. There’s no need to stun 2 enemies in any piece of content that I can think of, and if you really need to stop two moves in a dungeon pull or similar, there’s a good chance you could use the oGCD stun and interject on two different mobs, not sacrificing uptime too much and keeping your rotation flowing. But the real question is what to do with it, and honestly I’m stumped! I can’t think of any reasonable way to weave it in with PLD’s rotation, it’s just such a niche skill, maybe SE has got something in the works for 6.0.

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I'd argue that the problem with Shield Bash is that it was so good during 2.0 (look up how it was used to break Ifrit HM) that pretty much everything that came afterwards was made immune to stuns. The ability to stun lock targets for 10s is pretty bonkers for a gcd without a cooldown.

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

I'd argue that the problem with Shield Bash is that it was so good during 2.0 (look up how it was used to break Ifrit HM) that pretty much everything that came afterwards was made immune to stuns. The ability to stun lock targets for 10s is pretty bonkers for a gcd without a cooldown.

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If it works on bosses sure, but that hasn't been the case for a while now, and it's rather pointless to use it on 1 out of the 10 trash mobs in a dungeon pull.

WAR-> steel cyclone animation looks kind of cooler, I'd like it back
DRK-> maybe change delirium to give free stacks instead of a "burst window" like WAR, it would be more like PLD sword oath but also make openers a lot better to manage, right now trying to put everything on cooldown clips a bit as it is
PLD-> passage of arms, maybe add a knock back immunity for party members
GNB-> bring back the original combo sounds

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

I'd argue that the problem with Shield Bash is that it was so good during 2.0 (look up how it was used to break Ifrit HM) that pretty much everything that came afterwards was made immune to stuns. The ability to stun lock targets for 10s is pretty bonkers for a gcd without a cooldown.

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Shield Bash's tradeoff at the time though was it was very slow to execute, meaning lag would render it pretty useless (if you were too slow off the mark), plus it had an enormous cost in TP to use, and add in the problem of diminishing returns meant I rarely used it, except in certain situations.

I admit I preferred Shield Swipe to Shield Bash as it inflicted the enemy with Pacification rather than Stun, and which often was just as effective at shutting down a mob's upcoming telegraphed attack - of course Shield Swipe required a Block to be done before that would become available, but it was suprising just how more reliable than Shield Bash it really was. I actually miss not having it as part of my PLD skillkit now. :(

Wishful thinking since we DRK get nothing and we will like it , but yes more mp management like in HW , a dot would be nice and maybe an absorb shield based on healing done by soul eater could be interesting

Warrior stuff:

Give me a trait that is like +20% max HP or something. I just like having a big HP bar.

Make Onslaught free to use out of combat.

In general I wish Tomahawk and all melee/tank ranged weaponskills were as cool in PvE as they are in PvP. Make it so Tomahawk doesn't break our combo and maybe gives 10 gauge.

In Endwalker what I want more than anything is updated animations for fast blade and riot blade. After 80+ levels I'd really like some new stronger looking sword attacks.

Mainly a dot for redmage and dancer !! Both are hybrid classes that picks from classes that have dots so i dont think it will be that difficult to explain lorewise.

Warrior - make berserk (or it's upgrade - Inner Release) lower gcd for it's duration.
He's literally going berserk - that means his actions should be faster than normal asides them being just stronger.
It would remedy the issue of "just 4 skills before it goes down" and make the player feel that berserk by having them act faster than usual.

Making blue mage viable. The class is fun as it was in ff11 but its just a glorified mini game. Remove the one shot skills and or rework it so it just does damage and it would be fine. If DPS is an issue then lower the potency of some skills or increase the CD. If anything the class was a mistake to add in the firs place because of its limited status.