What change do you want to see on your main class for Endwalker ?

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Originally Posted by CKNovel

More than that, it's button bloating with buttons you won't use. It's okay to have an action or two that will be rarely used such as AoE combos. It's better than spamming the same button again and again when there's multiple targets.
For the past weeks, I've been doing nothing but farming Diamond EX, how much did I used Auto-crossbow? Not a single time. The buttons just takes space.

Skills should not be designed for which content, but for all battle content. Dungeon, Bozja, Savage, Extreme, Ultimates, Unreal, they should be usable in every content. And if it's based on a choice (ST/AoE for exemple) it shouldn't be unbalanced, not the same choice 95% of the time. I think there was a single time when Bio Blaster was worth the use in savage.

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Yeah I agree! And again is encounter design... Despite a couple of Castrum Lacus Litore fights, we don't have a single raid boss encounter in this expansion where you'd have to actively use AoE (unless there's mechanics in Savages that I'm not aware of). Honestly that 2nd boss in Pag'than (sp?) is kinda of refreshing because it's basically an AoE fight for the most part of it.

Likewise, why ranged dps even have an interrupt? The only time I remember having to pay attention is in Puppet's Bunker 1st trash segment. Or healers with Repose?

I wish XIV's encounters had more variety in what is asked from the players, because right now (esp. on the Savage fights I could take part of) the only challenge is towards who can memorize which way to go better to avoid telegraphs. The only thing I miss from WoW is how uniquely designed their encounters are, and how they ask to explore all aspects of a player's kit there. In the same boss fights you have interrupt windows, burst windows, aoe windows, etc.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Likewise, why ranged dps even have an interrupt? The only time I remember having to pay attention is in Puppet's Bunker 1st trash segment. Or healers with Repose?

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Interrupt is used in E1S, E7S and E8S as far as I can remember. Most of the time it's "Silence it or you wipe".
It's especially needed in E8S as 2 silences needs to be used within 30 seconds.

Back in HW it had damages and it was part of the rotation.

Bind was used in Coil and this is why this action still exist. It's useful in Bozja nowadays but nowhere else.
However those are role action, they're abilities outside of the job rotation, utilities that are rarely exploited.

10 things I would like to see for Monk

1. Smoother transition out of Perfect Balance. Maybe after it expires it puts you into Formless or something.
2. Cull the Fist stances
3. Maybe a more interesting AOE option for Perfect Balance.
4. A projectile at least in PvP, or an escape.
5. Somenkind of Chakra overflow.
6. Anatman is a thematically cool action. Make it more useful.

Partially gameplay, mostly for flair:
7. Trait to give us big dummy HP like other Final Fantasy games.
8. Trait that reduces our Sprint CD in combat. Monk fantasy should better sell their fitness and energy.

Purely flair:
9. Either replace Tornado Kick or give it an appropriate animation.
10. True Strike and Snap Punch have boring animations. Give them replacements or have them upgraded with levels to have better animations.

Bonus item that will never happen:
11. Make Mantra an AOE heal with an Esuna effect. It is one of my favourite things from mainline games, though I understand why it might not be a good fit for the very rigid design of FFXIV.

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Originally Posted by Esmoire

10 things I would like to see for Monk

1. Smoother transition out of Perfect Balance. Maybe after it expires it puts you into Formless or something.
2. Cull the Fist stances
3. Maybe a more interesting AOE option for Perfect Balance.
4. A projectile at least in PvP, or an escape.
5. Somenkind of Chakra overflow.
6. Anatman is a thematically cool action. Make it more useful.

Partially gameplay, mostly for flair:
7. Trait to give us big dummy HP like other Final Fantasy games.
8. Trait that reduces our Sprint CD in combat. Monk fantasy should better sell their fitness and energy.

Purely flair:
9. Either replace Tornado Kick or give it an appropriate animation.
10. True Strike and Snap Punch have boring animations. Give them replacements or have them upgraded with levels to have better animations.

Bonus item that will never happen:
11. Make Mantra an AOE heal with an Esuna effect. It is one of my favourite things from mainline games, though I understand why it might not be a good fit for the very rigid design of FFXIV.

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I would prefer PB to be reworked entirely to be something different and interesting. As it is now it's comparable to Inner Release with it just being another lame "spam your strong attack" burst that SE is obsessed with nowadays. It's an old GL tool turned into a clunky burst phase and that's exactly why it sucks.

They should integrate it with whatever new central mechanic MNK is (HOPEFULLY) going to get in 6.0.

Egi glamour.

That's all. I'd rather live with the class in its current state than deal with another change. Don't want a WoW warlock type situation where SE keeps reinventing the class each expansion.

ANYTHING for rdm at this point. It used to be my favourite class in SB but just bored me to tears in SHB because it really got NOTHING new. Just situtional stuff and another kaboom ontop of your melee combo.

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Originally Posted by Damona

ANYTHING for rdm at this point. It used to be my favourite class in SB but just bored me to tears in SHB because it really got NOTHING new. Just situtional stuff and another kaboom ontop of your melee combo.

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Hoping some a secondary ressource to spend on oGCD close range skills. Maybe something that builds up whenever we use Enchanted skills and Scorch. Something like an off-hand stab or slash with an aether side-sword formed from the crystal focus.

Flare is a terrible example, despair doesn't replace flare, you would never use flare in the same place you use despair, also I personally think this is a great way for them to add some filler ablities

Summoner is too busy, they really can't not rework it

BLM changes I'd appreciate:

1: Kill/transform Fire/Blizzard 2 into Flare and Freeze respectively - and subsequently have Fire 2 consume all mana to teach new THMs/BLMs how Flare will work later.

2: Upgrades to Fire and Blizzard 1 to make them more impactful. Fire is still used - Blizzard is not (except in the super niche case of not wanting to lose damage with Soul, but you don't have enough time to cast any other spell/the situation is wrong to swap into fire), but axing them is... Eh, because they're nonetheless important for 3/5ths the BLM's levels at the moment.
-->2.5: Mayhap a buff you get after casting Despair that would empower one Blizzard into some super spell? Idk, but it'd make the UI phase a bit less filler.

--Edit--: In hindsight it'd make the filler worse, or at least would be less rewarding to do the full AF rotation as my brain first thought since you can cast Despair anywhere in it.

3: Flare 2 - aka, the animation both Y'shtola and a rando shade get at some point with the big dropped explosion. Goddammit I want that animation.

4: I enjoy Foul and Xenoglossy - who doesn't love the big damage - but I'd rather see their additions aimed toward the base spells more. I don't think they'll improve F/B4... So maybe F/B3 improvements? Maybe on the same trait and level as the F/B1, if that's a thing.

5: Aetherial Manipulation and Between the Lines made a bit snappier, with less animation lock? They're short, yes, but the time before you can cast again is not insignificant when BLM can come down to the wire as is.

6: Mainly, no real rework yet. BLM is in possibly the best position out of every single DPS, but there's still room for improvement before a rework is truly, if ever, needed. Don't need to fix what isn't remotely broken, after all.



Not BLM:

1: I want Geomancer eventually :(

There's more than enough room for a primarily ground-placed-action caster - and nature themed, since WHM left it's druidic roots.

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Originally Posted by Reksanden

Aetherial Manipulation and Between the Lines made a bit snappier, with less animation lock? They're short, yes, but the time before you can cast again is not insignificant when BLM can come down to the wire as is.

6: Mainly, no real rework yet. BLM is in possibly the best position out of every single DPS, but there's still room for improvement before a rework is truly, if ever, needed. Don't need to fix what isn't remotely broken, after all.

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I wonder if they made it like an actual teleport instead of a "beeline pull" would help with this, I have the same impression of those spells. But something tells me that the battle coding hold this kind of ability back... If you see NIN's Sukuchi is a slightly faster Between the lines, but the character still beelines the way. The animation doesn't make look like, but the camera movement indicates otherwise.

As per your point 6... I also think BLM is the most perfect caster right now, but I keep thinking about a few points...

1) Would the players being happy going into Endwalker just with spell upgrades that don't bring anything new to the BLM game? Currently the only mechanic that BLM has that is considered "annoying" is Enochian, and it has received numerous QoL improvements ever since its inception. More improvements would mean trivializing the mechanic?

2) If BLM would eventually hit a "Soft wall" (design reached perfection and has nowhere else to grow w/o damaging the structure it has) in 7.0, would players be okay with a job rework, if it's meant to add new "toys"?

3) Layering new mechanics without changing what BLM has right now could potentially ruin the gameplay?


I end finding myself really torn. While I'm really happy with how BLM is now, not having interesting features added with the expansion tastes a little bitter. As a RDM I kinda felt a bit of that entering ShB, they didn't really get anything meaningful mechanically or visually.

I'd love to see BRD's getting their song's effects. Do we got earplugs in? I don't think they make earplugs for Viera, that'd prob be considered a hat.

Dark knight- changed back to HW branching combos and dark arts, livind dead no longer shit, sustain upgraded
Dragoon: disembowel extended on aoe combo, stardiver now an upgrade to dragonfire dive and less lag. Phelebotmize and pole dance returned, piecering talon no longer breaks combo, lifesurge now critical direct hit and hp restore increased a little, fang/wheel timers and raiden changed to 15 seconds, jump and mirage combined, life of the dragon now transforms the character for new attacks- poledance, phelebotomise and nael's tankbuster as 4 fold attack
healers: see the healer forums, I could be here all day
rdm: aoe finishers, water and blizzard magic, recovery tool for misaligned colours since no other job gets punished, embolden affects everything, new sword attack to restore mp
dnc: a dot and charges for curing waltz

While I don't particularly main these classes, I would like to see Scholar and Summoner have their pets removed as a system, but still keep them in terms of their character models and actions.

For Scholar, make it so that Eos or Selene are hovering over your shoulder and attached to our character model when you draw your book. Physick can be upgraded to Embrace, where it's both you and your fairy casting a heal. Any old fairy actions can instead come from you, rather than your fairy, but the fairy does the animations when you activate the action.

For Summoner, make it so that Carbuncle is at our heel like a well-trained dog, attached to our character model like Eos. Instead of Ruin/Ruin3, Ruin2/Ruin4 and Outburst, we have Carbuncle themed attacks that fulfill the same effects. Instead of Egis replacing Carbuncle, they instead appear for a brief attack, similar to how the Reaper's Void Avatar does. Demi-Bahamut and Demi-Phoenix instead appear from Carbuncle and follow us in a similar manner, and also just make it so that Bahamut is summoned with Dreadwyrm Trance, to make it consistent with Firebird Trance.

Outside of those two, I'd like for Dark Knight to be made into something other than "Warrior, but edgy". I wanted them to roll all the Dark Arts effects into Darkside and make it so that Darkside was something you toggled on for burst phases. Make it consume Black Blood to use and, because these used Black Blood, make Bloodspiller a new combo finisher only available while using Darkside, while Quietus can either be a powerful oGCD on a moderate cooldown, or just an AoE you can spam while in Darkside. Delirium can either give you 50 Black Blood or double your current Black Blood amount. My reason would be that, by succumbing to your Darkside, you are able to make use of these more vicious attacks, while your unwilling to use such savage abilities when clear headed.

For DNC:
-I would like a way to get procs more likely.
-Upgrades for the proc weaponskills. Maybe they can have a higher chance of earning feathers.
-Make Improvisation less situational.
-Change Devilment's name so it has "Tango" in it like the French, German, and Japanese versions do. (I know it's a petty change but I want it).

MCH: Add something we need to be a bit more reactive with; maybe an interplay between battery and heat?. Right now MCH is very straight forward. Boring between bursts like ninja, spammy bursts like WAR/DRK and painless mobility mean the job just feels shallow. Battery in particular barely feels like a mechanic. Wildfire also feels like a relic. AoE is even more simplistic, making dungeons a bore. Aesthetically, I am hoping for more gadgets.

MNK: MNK is in an incomplete state right now. The removal of GL made a lot of skills borderline useless. Stances are also redundant. Monk needs some kind of mechanic to tie the class together. Something with room to be expanded upon. Not sure what that is, but I hope we get a cohesive vision. I feel more positive about MNK right now than I have in a long time.

DRG: I like the idea Recon gave for life of the dragon to transform our rotation. DRG feels good to me right now, but I am not sure how much they can add before it becomes an unwieldy mess.

ALL HEALERS: I have few hopes for my old favorite role. Our healing kits are bloated while the massive amounts of downtime we have are spent spamming one button DPS. Their solutions so far seem to be to try and reduce downtime... but that just doesn't work. As people learn fights and we get better gear, downtime increases. In easier content and when trying to play the MSQ healers are mindnumbing to play. In an ideal world, I'd say you give WHM and perhaps Sage more interesting DPS rotations and then give AST and SCH more intensive/taxing mechanics with better rewards. (AST buff focused with time magic, SCH debuff focused?) But I honestly don't expect to ever main a healer again.

MCH: Add something we need to be a bit more reactive with; maybe an interplay between battery and heat?. Right now MCH is very straight forward. Boring between bursts like ninja, spammy bursts like WAR/DRK and painless mobility mean the job just feels shallow. Battery in particular barely feels like a mechanic. Wildfire also feels like a relic. AoE is even more simplistic, making dungeons a bore. Aesthetically, I am hoping for more gadgets.

MNK: MNK is in an incomplete state right now. The removal of GL made a lot of skills borderline useless. Stances are also redundant. Monk needs some kind of mechanic to tie the class together. Something with room to be expanded upon. Not sure what that is, but I hope we get a cohesive vision. I feel more positive about MNK right now than I have in a long time.

DRG: I like the idea Recon gave for life of the dragon to transform our rotation. DRG feels good to me right now, but I am not sure how much they can add before it becomes an unwieldy mess.

ALL HEALERS: I have few hopes for my old favorite role. Our healing kits are bloated while the massive amounts of downtime we have are spent spamming one button DPS. Their solutions so far seem to be to try and reduce downtime... but that just doesn't work. As people learn fights and we get better gear, downtime increases. In easier content and when trying to play the MSQ healers are mindnumbing to play. In an ideal world, I'd say you give WHM and perhaps Sage more interesting DPS rotations and then give AST and SCH more intensive/taxing mechanics with better rewards. (AST buff focused with time magic, SCH debuff focused?) But I honestly don't expect to ever main a healer again.

Mained SMN from 2.0 all the way to 5.0, and personally I'd like to see all of our summons work closer to how Summon Phoenix works, getting rid of the DoTs and Egis entirely. It's pretty divisive but they need to do *something* about it. Lot's of people might disagree but barring the weird lockouts I think Stormblood Summoner was the best the job has ever been.

For Dragoon, I'd like to see Ala Morn, and I'd like to see us get something similar to Hissatsu: Gyoten, since it's never really made sense to me that despite being a job that's supposed to be super mobile, all our mobility is damage cooldowns.

Gunbreaker is pretty much perfect the way it is, only two things I'd really like would be Fated Circle and Continuation at a lower level than 70 and maybe an AoE continuation combo, but even that's not super necessary.

That's my 2c on it at any rate.

for BLM I hope we get more polyglots and more explosions like rank 2 of Xenoglossy or a new nasty Boom.

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for BLM I hope we get more polyglots and more explosions like rank 2 of Xenoglossy or a new nasty Boom.

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#UltimaForBLMLevel90

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#UltimaForBLMLevel90

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no ultima is for the end times where 14 is about to close and they give us the toys to go nuts with

id like to see a non limit comets to rain aoe hell on our enemies

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Originally Posted by DarkZeroUnit

no ultima is for the end times where 14 is about to close and they give us the toys to go nuts with
id like to see a non limit comets to rain aoe hell on our enemies

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BLM is perfect so far, imagine a X charges GCD on a cooldown, Comet, that would allow the BLM to use a no-cast GCD while moving.
It would fit the ABC identity of mages while giving them a new QoL tool. It worked with Dashes and jumps.

Problem I see with this solution is that it would go against the idea of BLM always doing big cast to favor the mobility.

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Originally Posted by MrAptronym

MCH: Add something we need to be a bit more reactive with; maybe an interplay between battery and heat?. Right now MCH is very straight forward. Boring between bursts like ninja, spammy bursts like WAR/DRK and painless mobility mean the job just feels shallow. Battery in particular barely feels like a mechanic. Wildfire also feels like a relic. AoE is even more simplistic, making dungeons a bore. Aesthetically, I am hoping for more gadgets.

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Completely agree with that, been talking about MCH for 2 years so I won't elaborate.

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Originally Posted by CKNovel

BLM is perfect so far, imagine a X charges GCD on a cooldown, Comet, that would allow the BLM to use a no-cast GCD while moving.
It would fit the ABC identity of mages while giving them a new QoL tool. It worked with Dashes and jumps.

Problem I see with this solution is that it would go against the idea of BLM always doing big cast to favor the mobility.

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Technically it wouldn't be all that different from Scathe currently, except it'd likely be actually useable and have a satisfying animation to go with it

My main job isn’t a dps, but when I do get to dps, I usually do either MCH or DRG. My main gripe with MCH is that I just find it very straight forward and a bit boring. Doesn’t have that itch of complexity that I like.

MNK suggestion for 6.0:

-Every two rear-positional leaden bootshines will proc a "super bootshine" with a flashy animation and higher potency. They can implement this into the job gauge and will reward Monks for hitting their most important positional. This addresses the complaint that MNK doesn't "build up to anything" and is less flashy than other classes.
-Each PB phase will end with one of these super bootshines to replace the usual final bootshine. In order to prevent drifting and a snowball effect if you miss a bootshine, I propose that activating PB should reset your "bootshine stacks". Correct me if I'm wrong, but in your downtime between PB you should be able to do two of these super bootshines (six bootshines in total) and this PB will prevent you from having an excess stack going into your burst phase. This way PB always ends with your most flashy and satisfying move if done correctly.

Would any MNK players like a mechanic like this? I would love something along these lines for Endwalker to add to the satisfaction of the job and reward players for hitting positionals.

Dragoon

• Disembowel applied to Sonic Thrust
• Fang & Claw, Wheeling Thrust and Raiden Thrust "procs" increased to 15 seconds
• Removal of Dragon Sight (not a huge fan of macros)
• No longer lose Eyes should BoTD drop
• Piercing Talon potency buffed and no longer breaks combos
• Upgrades to Spineshatter Dive and Dragonfire Dive
• Reduced animation delay on Stardiver

a Summoner that doesnt have an identity crisis;

dots,
egis from ages past (2.0)
demi summons with different conditions
Aetherflow/drain to proc Fester (that feels stitched into the job)
2x2 egi spells detached from the pet, only spammed to get further ruin.
Rotation that is all over the place with a job/class that feels like 3 different people having their own idea of what a summoner is, baked into this...job.

yeah I know we cant get my beloved FF11 summoner post-2012, but I'm hoping of more summons, and that they scrap the abilities/spells that doesnt is related to summoning. It seems more like Summoner was last in line when it came to picking spells from the magic hat, and we just got a mix of the leftovers.

Ive already deleted MCH off my hotbar and have reached my final stage of grief, acceptance. But id take it back with open arms if they fix the dam thing the queen feels very barren and toothless, wildfire is token, aoeing is the least satisfying compared to its cousins DNC and BRD and even its distant cousins MNK, DRG, SAM, and NIN. The only good thing I can say is its easy to pick up and you can master it as early as 50 due to how little the job changes for 30 levels with all its filler sparsely paced. takes you 10 levels to get your full heated rotation fro 54-64 and it doesnt feel like it does much. Due to the unjust reception it got I dont think itll change at all which will kill the job for me

Yes its a good thing to let go when a job dies for you but my alternatives for a fun ranged are also dying, I dont expect DNC to be more fun in EW and BRD has a massive outcry to be easier and more toothless than the 2 easiest jobs in the game rather than being intuitive or fun, and i do fear the devs will go all out to make things dummer for everyone to enjoy...by dum I mean accessible for the difference it makes tbh. I dont just worry about MCH or ranged but all jobs. When will it happen to your main when it only has 4 buttons and everyone loves it

I want to see a return to healer dps rotations. I absolutely hate running through quest content on a healer spamming 1 dps spell a million times a week. It's the worst experience ever.

After thinking about it for quite a while I finally, precisely know what I would want the most for MCH.

I.Current problems
The MCH is too straight forward due to no RNG or lack of buttons. The rotation follows a few rules in order to use Drill and Air Anchor as much as possible without wasting any heat. Beyond that, it's sadly braindead.
The most of the rotation is just 1 2 3, Drill, Air Anchor and Hypercharge combo. Wildfire and the Automaton Queen are way too automated to actually consider them like part of the rotation. Reassemble is a good tool, not game changer but it impacts the DPS and is a good landmark to know when the next trick attack is. Barrel Stabilizer only exist for the opener, if there is not a single downtime during the first 2 minutes, the BS will be desynchronized with Wildfire when it's supposed to be paired with.

I honestly feels like old MCH iterations are praised because of Nostalgia.
HW MCH was interesting but had annoying flaws like stacking 3 damage buffs one after another or blank being important to the rotation.
SB MCH had the nearly useless heatgauge, lacked an overheat button and there was too much RNG, no gameplay beyond the wildfire combo.

II.Reworked abilities
There should be reworked, not fixed by a trait, their core function don't fit in the game or are simply boring.

Wildfire, it's not impactful, it's not fun to use, the combo will remain a "Boosted hypercharge". Maybe SQEX intended more Weaponskill actions that would work with it like Lost Assassination.
IMO, the best solution would be to rework it into an ability that consume heat to inflict damage. Keep the delayed damage if you want but reduce it, add AoE if you want, but making it instant rather than pairing it up with Hypercharge would make it far more interesting. Its lack of presence is also a problem.

EX1: 120s CD consume 50 heat to inflict 1200 damage + 500 to near targets.
EX2: 60s CD consume 30 heat to inflict 600 damage + 250 to near targets.

Lowering its cooldown should also come with a Barrel Stabilizer rework/lowered cooldown.

Flamethrower is the worst ability in the game, only outperformed by Anatman. It's a relic of the past and I hope SQEX will never make an ability that requires you to not move for more than 5 seconds ever again.
I already shared my idea and still think it's a great idea.

To not got into details too much once again, Flamethrower should put the MCH in a stance where the Aetherolyzer is used instead of the gun for a short period of time, 10-15 seconds for example.
1 2 3 combo would be replaced by brand new GCDs that would make you follow a different path to be optimized, for example 2 would inflict a dot in a cone, 3 increases your damage, 1 would be damages in front of the MCH.
To optimize the combo, it could be something like 3 2 1 1 2 3.
The ability could cost 50 heat to add more heat based tools.

Both of these ideas would reduce the 1 2 3 spam, the Hypercharge combo spam and bring something new to Wildfire. It would also strengthen the gameplay of MCH, switching from tools to tools.

III.New abilities
I've seen that some people would like more AoEs while I believe adding "button choice" is a bad idea. If we need an Air Anchor AoE version, why not simply make Air Anchor deal AoE damage? Both solution into one button like how Hissatsu:Guren used to work. No one asked for a single target version as far as I can remember.

Upgrade to the Queen - Shock/Flash/Noise Blaster/Debilitator
I've seen people asking for AoE use of Battery, I completely disagree with summoning an AoE automaton.
But! Can't we fix two problem at once? Current problem with the queen is that she's a glorified dot but we would add a command that would make the queen burst a shockwave or an electric around it.
However this shouldn't be an actual command but an actual action realized by the MCH based on where the Queen stand to avoid pet problems we all know.

On top of that, I would change the Queen to make it work based on charges rather than a duration but I'd understand if they would do that.

EX: 25s CD, can hold 2/3 charges. Deals XXX potency in AoE to where the Automaton Queen stand.
*Can only be used when the Queen is summoned.

Chainsaw
That's just a big wish here I've also mentioned in the past. The chainsaw has been a famous MCH tool in FF VI and XV.
Basically, the same way Flamethrower functions but as a Melee stance. Yoshida mentioned that melee gameplay would be simplified, following E8S-E12S, DRS and Diamond EX, I don't think making a ranged go melee for a short period of time be a crazy idea.
Chainsaw would be the "battery version" of Flamethrower but... Would it consume battery? If there is not more tools to generate battery I don't think it should consume the resource.
Would it generate battery? Not impossible.
Would it grant a charge after using battery? Not impossible but that would require tweaking considering the Battery gauge is meant to be flexible.

For now, I think that's all the big wish I have.
Honestly, if they simply rework Wildfire, Flamethrower and add more interaction with the Queen, I'd be happy.

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Originally Posted by CKNovel

BLM is perfect so far, imagine a X charges GCD on a cooldown, Comet, that would allow the BLM to use a no-cast GCD while moving.
It would fit the ABC identity of mages while giving them a new QoL tool. It worked with Dashes and jumps.

Problem I see with this solution is that it would go against the idea of BLM always doing big cast to favor the mobility.

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You just described Xenoglossy. A GCD with no cast time, technically a 30 second cooldown and two charges... o.ô

All Healers:
- Less healing spells, replaced with more dps spells. They'll never make unavoidable damage frequent enough to warrant this many healing spells. Also it might make it easier for them to make each healer feel more different from each other this way.
- Make all healer buffs stack, shields, AST cards etc. Nerf them if you have to, just don't make having two healers be pointless. Healers are punished the most by buffs not stacking in this game, it negates half our purpose and gameplay, simply for wanting to play our favourite role.

Astrologian (my main):
- Make all the cards we have access to (however many they feel we should) do different things. If that means we only have 2-3 cards in the future, then fine. But having 8 cards that do the exact same thing is not fun.
- Not necessary, but more time magic themed spells would be cool.

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Originally Posted by Tint

You just described Xenoglossy. A GCD with no cast time, technically a 30 second cooldown and two charges... o.ô

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That's right, Xenoglossy evolved into taking this aspect. I don't play BLM so it was a worthless opinion.
Let's call this additional GCD "comet".

Comet could extend the fire phase at no cost, it could be the reverse of "Umbral Soul" but designed to help with mobile mechanics.

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Originally Posted by CKNovel

That's right, Xenoglossy evolved into taking this aspect. I don't play BLM so it was a worthless opinion.
Let's call this additional GCD "comet".

Comet could extend the fire phase at no cost, it could be the reverse of "Umbral Soul" but designed to help with mobile mechanics.

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If that "help" amounts to completely eclipsing a role already held by another skill (e.g. Fire I), and thus amounts merely to less nuance/complexity along a more rigid pacing (the 30s CD), I'd rather pass.

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Originally Posted by Truen

I want to see a return to healer dps rotations. I absolutely hate running through quest content on a healer spamming 1 dps spell a million times a week. It's the worst experience ever.

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I'd especially love to see some sort of interplay between the two.

Imagine, for instance, if White Mages could build, say, Blessing of Earth/Wind/Water through their spells (a CD-ed transformation CD turning that all into a more generally potent but less specifically versatile Blessing of Light as it coverts Stone to Glare and Aero spells to Dia), which could then grant utility effects, Stoneskin, Windwalk, or perhaps even summon environmental shields that would reduce damage to allies hiding behind it from raid damage by up to its total HP, etc., or would accelerate the next ally or allies (split) to walk through the mote of wind, etc.?

Or, what if your healing casts generated a further Fluid Aura, allowing you to oGCD duplicate your last spell as if cast by a watery after-image of yourself, usable for both refunding damage and for further intensive/burst healing? Etc., etc.

As a Conjurer, I want to feel like an actual Conjurer, and for the light or White Magic aspects to feel like a powerful culmination or extension of that.

And, of course, the same could be applied to the other healer jobs. I started with White Mage as example only because it's the most generic among them.

for mch i would love to see more "electric" gadgets ....this FFXIV lacks "thunder" , only rdm gets to see some "thunder" , blm thunder is meh...

for aoe calling an airship attack (like LB) would be cool something similar to a garuda eggi attack 1 , a drone can come and toss some missiles on target dmg everyone

CHANGE HEAT BLAST ANIMATION it looks lame on loop

Monk: "More Damage Please."

Might get some lv of flak for this , but RED MAGE

I would like for SE to not only make damage types such as lightning and holy distinct from eachother and with their own uses, but i would like to see red mage with less of a "rotation" based play style. Red mage is supposed to be a perfect mix of white magic, black magic and sword play, but to me it feels a bit lacking on the sword play department, sword play of which is kinda only used as a combo sub-finisher, before throwing out 1 of 2 more elemental magic (elemental magic of which is Verflare and Verholy, 2 seperate spells that are basically exact pallet swaps of eachother)

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Easier said than done, I fear, but I too would like to see RDM go in that direction.

Posting in this thread again about MNK because while theorycrafting is not at all my strong suit, my last post was a very standard "haha cynical post because MNK is the worst job" kind of message. Not very helpful or constructive, so let's fix that.

The fallout of the dev team's paranoia to make Greased Lightning as hard to drop as possible has given MNK enough skills to adjust for quite literally any kind of disconnect possible. So suffice it to say, I want SE to avoid anymore vertical progression for the job. While this usually includes skills like Anatman, old Riddle of Earth or Form Shift, this also counts for useless traits like Deep Meditation or Enhanced Shoulder Tackle. Changes like that should be QoL, they shouldn't waste a level slot just to make a skill function better. I am aware that vertical progression isn't always a bad thing, especially for an MMORPG, but it's not what MNK needs right now. It should focus on actually mixing up the core of the job now that it has 3 expansions worth of tools under its belt.

A Chakra rework has been the most heavily requested thing for the job for multiple expansions now. It doesn't necessarily have to be a complex gauge, just something that compliments MNK gameplay well and synergises with whatever new central mechanic that the job is hopefully going to get. Whether it be by landing positionals, passively filling over time, or hitting a specific skill - as long as it takes Chakra's biggest critiques into consideration, (RNG, no overhang, only one way to spend Chakra, no relationship with form skills or GL, etc.) I will welcome any form it takes.

Which leads me to my final topic, a new central job mechanic. Looking at most MNK threads will usually lead one to the conclusion that Sabin's Blitz from FFVI should be introduced in some way to MNK. It's easy to see why - form skills and Perfect Balance by sheer coincidence are the perfect catalyst for how Blitz could function. The concept is simple, a combination of form skills (or one full combo) gives you a Blitz, essentially adding a 4th step to your combo with PB allowing you to freely input the Blitz of your choice.

Adding this new mechanic to the job can do a whole lot more than only giving you a 4th weaponskill to now press, it's how the individual Blitz skills themselves that could influence how you play on MNK. As an example, there may be a Blitz which requires you to land double True Strike as part of its input, but rewards you with a stronger Demolish. (ala BLM's Thundercloud) It gives newer players a buffer or a break from positionals without having to remove any existing ones at all as well as returning the power to the rest of your combo skills (not just Bootshine) and a reason to make them freeform in the first place.

There. Hopefully this post is a lot more constructive than my previous MNK wailing.