SE: My biggest love about your design

My biggest love, so far, is the lack of jobs feeling the same.


Ok, sure, they all have a rotation. They all have skills that you press in a 1-2-3 order at some point or another or some kind of rotation. They all have stats that are "Best" for them due to number-crunchers.

But that's not what I'm talking about right now.

What I love the most about this game, is just how every class feels different. How every class can bring synergy to the party, and is defined as its own outside of the rotation that it provides.

A DRG now provides Battle Litany (+CRIT) and Disembowel (+Piercing)
A DRK brings Reduced INT
a MNK brings Reduced INT, Mantra, Reduced Blunt
A PLD brings reduced STR
A WAR brings Slashing Resistance and Damage Reduction, as well as superior DPS
a NIN brings slashing resistance, TP, and threat.

Some of these classes have overlap. But none of the skills feel exactly the same. They benefit from one another, but they don't feel like they're heavily homoginized. They all have their own unique benefits to the party as a whole.

I love this current meta. I love feeling like my job is defined from the other jobs. I love that I'm not bored when I go from WAR to DRG because DRG just feels like WAR 2.0, and I'm glad that when I go from DRG to NIN the dynamic of it changes yet again.

So, SE, please - I hope you never change this philosophy. I hope you keep bringing us awesome class identity, while keeping us as balanced as possible. I'm not under any delusion that WAR and DRG are potentially OP as a melee, and I look forward to seeing how you buff the other classes to help compensate for it.

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For the reference: I think the reason I love this so much, is because Wrath of the Lich King (Gasp WoW!) upset me so much when my Shadow Priest felt no different from a Hunter. We all basically brought overlapped skills that didn't feel very defining to the job. I really hope that FFXIV never goes down that path, because I -LOVE- how jobs feel right now.

There is overlap with DRKs int debuff and MNKs atm. Where one overwrites the other. Don't know for 100% certainty but I think MNKs Dragon Kick takes precedence over DRKS INT debuff. Otherwise that would be even worse if DRKs overwrites MNKs due to the blunt resist debuff on DK, which would result in a net DPS loss for any MNKs in the party with a DRK.

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Originally Posted by Sapphic

There is overlap with DRKs int debuff and MNKs atm. Where one overwrites the other. Don't know for 100% certainty but I think MNKs Dragon Kick takes precedence over DRKS INT debuff. Otherwise that would be even worse if DRKs overwrites MNKs due to the blunt resist debuff on DK, which would result in a net DPS loss for any MNKs in the party with a DRK.

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...And WAR's slashing resistance overlaps with Ninja's slashing resistance. These aren't necessarily bad things in my mind's eye. I don't mind -some- overlap that allows us to work together. But we don't have skills that are... literally, outright the same. Each class has its own flavor, dynamic, and contribution to a party.

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

...And WAR's slashing resistance overlaps with Ninja's slashing resistance. These aren't necessarily bad things in my mind's eye. I don't mind -some- overlap that allows us to work together. But we don't have skills that are... literally, outright the same. Each class has its own flavor, dynamic, and contribution to a party.

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My concern was if DRK applies their int debuff after DK and it overwrites then it is going to cause issues. If NIN overwrites WAR or vice versa there is no loss, as the same debuff is maintained. But DRK overwriting MNK means loss of the blunt debuff too.