New job abilities summary

WAR
- New stance call "Deliverance", increased damage and have its own stacks. Deliverance and Defiance can be switched and the remaining stacks will change to those of the according stance.
- A new AOE that looks like an Earthquake.
- The new buff shown on the HW trailer, along with a crystal "taunting" move.

BRD
- New song "Wanderer's Minuet", affects self only. While singing this song BRD can't move while attacking, can't Auto-attack but can fire charged shot and increase damage deal.

NIN
- Doesn't get a new stance. Huton will be longer. Will have more positionals.
- New Enmity Manipulation skill.

SMN
- Tri-disaster renamed to Tri-bind. SMN will have a brand new Tri-disater spell which is expected to apply Bio II, Miasma, and Bio all at once.
- No new pets, but existing pets will have more actions.
- Will be able to kind of "infuse" Bahamut power to self. (Akh Mornnnnnnnnnnnn).

WHM
- A new AOE Regen.
- Stone 3, Aero 3.
- Some new instant less-powerful-than-Benediction heals.

MNK
- A new stack called Meditation that can be stacked up to 5, and can be consumed to deliver a high potency attack and restore TP.
- Ablility to switch stances freely.

AST
- 2 stances: Moon Reading and Star Reading. One is WHM-like and one is SCH-like.
- Cards drawn are random. You can use a drawn card immediately, or put that on hold and draw a second card and add the effect of the first card on top.
- You can shuffle your deck.

MCN
- Manually reload.

DRG
- A new stance.
- New procs to certain skills.
- Jump animations will be adjusted.

DRK
- Will use MRD and GLA cross-class skills.
- Has a gap closer and a ranged attack (shooting black laser from the sword)
- A Grit Stance for tanking and a Dark Stance for DPS. Dark Stance consumes MP and unaffected by Ballad. Grit Stance will buff Accuracy. They might have recommended that DRK should stance-dancing more often by building hate on Grit and switch to Dark and so on.

SCH
- New attack that consumes Fairy to heal or to attack.
- Adlo can be used to shield or to direct heal.

BLM
- Fire 4 and Blizzard 4.
- Enochian: 30 sec buff that allows caster to cast Fire 4 and Blizzard 4.
- Ley Lines: Ground AoE spell speed buff . Only works on the caster.
- Sharp Cast: Forces the next spell to proc.

PLD
- A finisher combo from Riot Blade.
- A finisher combo that inflicts DOT.
- A new blocking skill.

They did very good summaries of all in the Digest Thread.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Digest-Thread

Hilarious that I felt Divine Veil would make a comeback. Still waiting for War to get Rampage though.

I really fail to see how Astro can be balanced with the current design. Seems like it's either going to suck big time or be super overpowered replacing WHM and Scholar.

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Originally Posted by Imoye

I really fail to see how Astro can be balanced with the current design. Seems like it's either going to suck big time or be super overpowered replacing WHM and Scholar.

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Any skill based around RNG will likely be a bad thing.

I hope Wanderer's Minuet isn't the only new Song. Job still needs a way to recover MP as well, honestly Bard is more deserving of Riot Blade than Paladin, given how little MP Paladin uses.

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Originally Posted by GhibliTheSW

SCH
- New attack that consumes Fairy to heal or to attack.

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So I can bite Eos' head off heal myself?