Your primary job (main) and preferred changes

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Originally Posted by ReynTime

For tank I main PLD.
For DPS I main NIN.
For healer I main WHM.

What I want for PLD is MORE OCD support actions.
What I want for NIN is more utilities other than TA.

Yeah I loved utilities and like having actions that give party direct support. Not just temporary damage debuffs. And without enmity management I want at least to feel like I do more than act like a DPS with large HP pool when playing as a tank.

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Though I agree with PLD but I have to say no to the nin one
If you want to go back to HW nin when he did no dmg or SB nin where people would yell at you to shade so they dont have to have tank stance on. NO THANK YOU!
Nin is actually the best its been since ARR imo, other then shikuchi but even that can be stomach
Though yes it could improve like any other class, I dont think utility is the problem
TA is a debuff that last 30s now before it was like 10 with a 1min CD thats really strong you like Rend from BSF I dont need more
If I was greedy I would like it to be a stronger debuff with that 30s but no dont give me anything else to worry about.

I'd ask him to hire a proper Healer designer. I'm not a class designer, nor are the playerbase and opinions on the best healer changes are definitely the most widely varied of any role. But we can mostly agree 1 button dps isn't engaging, incoming damage is too low and SCH/WHM just feel clunky with clipping, conflicting toolkit, high weave taxes or lack of weave, poor pet AI, misleading pet heal potencies and so on.

From what we know they currently don't have a class designer who mains and is dedicated to healer. Which is what they need, badly. Someone on the team would know the limitations of the battle system, game engine, and what changes are realistic or not and could focus on smooth, flowing and rewarding gameplay. That would be far more useful than me with no qualifications suggesting backseat theory on the best changes for a single healer class.

More APM to WAR thats it. Another OGCD besides upheaval.

This might be a weird thing, but I don't want anything mechanically changed for Ninjas. I just want their ability icons to be more exciting, especially the single-target rotation skills. It all looks somewhat lackluster to me. The icons for the mudras and the more iconic icons should stay as it is, of course.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

I'd ask him to hire a proper Healer designer. I'm not a class designer, nor are the playerbase and opinions on the best healer changes are definitely the most widely varied of any role. But we can mostly agree 1 button dps isn't engaging, incoming damage is too low and SCH/WHM just feel clunky with clipping, conflicting toolkit, high weave taxes or lack of weave, poor pet AI, misleading pet heal potencies and so on.

From what we know they currently don't have a class designer who mains and is dedicated to healer. Which is what they need, badly. Someone on the team would know the limitations of the battle system, game engine, and what changes are realistic or not and could focus on smooth, flowing and rewarding gameplay. That would be far more useful than me with no qualifications suggesting backseat theory on the best changes for a single healer class.

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I have to agree that dps'ing as healer is incredibly lackluster, especially when there's downtime to dps.

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Originally Posted by Dragonblanco

I guess like AST has Diurnal or Nocturnal Sects, letting RDM choose between two stances. The one would prioritize melee damage and cooldowns while getting rid of dualcast, with perhaps augmenting their skills with debuffs or additional damage and triggering instant cast spells after building a gauge. Then spellcasting one would activate dualcast but also increasing spell speed. Perhaps would need to be tweaked, but make it a viable decision between melee caster or ranged caster, not forced kind of having to do both as it is now

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Stances are a bit tricky because you're either modifying existing variables or outright changing everything once the stance is activated. I also get the feeling Yoshida would say something to the effect of "it'd be too much work to balance". That said, I'm not opposed to the idea and am tempted to slap something together based on what you suggested.

Bard: Why does Quick Knock only have a 12 yard range, lol.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

Stances are a bit tricky because you're either modifying existing variables or outright changing everything once the stance is activated. I also get the feeling Yoshida would say something to the effect of "it'd be too much work to balance". That said, I'm not opposed to the idea and am tempted to slap something together based on what you suggested.

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For me it would be less an issue of balance (though it's likely one stance would be considered The Right Stance and to not choose it would just end up being frowned upon) as it would be an issue of muddled design. RDM as it exists right now feels excellent to play, even if it's not everyone's specific taste in iconic Red Mage design. If they were going to do a sort of spell sword or relic/rune knight (and I absolutely think they should) that uses magic to enhance or buff it's attacks and play as in essence a melee range caster, I would rather it be completely separate from RDM. Let it be it's own class so that both RDM and RuneKnight could be the complete classes they ought to be instead of some sort of mish mashed half and half hybrid of each other.

That's a really hard decision.
I didn't like the classes I started off with in this game (rogue/gladiator), but I fell in love with Dark Knight, it became my main until 60, until I realized that Z meant gunbreaker which meant squall, FF8 is one of my favorite games, and I have a gunblade irl, so I just had to try that class and take a break from DRK, so I did.. level GNB all the way to 80 xD and I don't wanna bother getting better end-game gear, I wanna level more classes, there's still so many I'm interested in trying. So I tried Black Mage and I love it lots, plays very uniquely in beginning levels, and gets way better in later levels, that's my current main.

It's hard to say what I'd like to talk about when it comes to changes... I really love them in every way and I think they're almost perfect.
DRK has the bad ass moves, slow for a 2h weapon and their AoE is okay for a tank, good damage and skills.
GNB feels like the closest we'll ever get to a FF8 remake which is my dream come true... incredibly cool flashy skills, lots of damage, very good AoE, I just can't see how they can improve..
BLM has a playstyle I've never played in my life, and I think it's really neat, fun, unique, and I can't judge it enough to say where it needs improvements... Although I can say one thing, I'm not a big fan of dot attacks, thunder is probably my favorite dot attack for any MMO, and that's simply cause I love thunder spells. If there was an actual AoE thunder attack, like Lord of Vermillion in Ragnarok Online, I would absolutely love it, that's exactly what I would probably ask of him, an incredibly high damage lightning spell that does a potential of 800-1000+ damage on all enemies >:3 long cool down or not, I don't care, I just want more lightning attacks, cause a single target/aoe dots just doesn't cut it for me. Their blizzard/fire skills are just fine the way they are.