Job Tweak Suggestions Tank Roles

Hello there, I made a post giving my idea of future DPS tweaks so I also wanted to give my opinion on Tanks & Healers as well. Tell me what you think please.

Warrior:
Heavy Swing - TP cost been reduced to 60 TP.
Overpower - Has increased Enmity.

Paladin:
Cover - Now has it's cooldown decreased to 90 seconds.
Flash - Has increased Enmity.

Dark Knight:
Living Dead - During the Walking Dead effect, HP only needs to be 50% restored before the effect ends. Also have an icon above the Tank or certain animation to let healers be more aware of the walking dead debuff phase.
Unleash - Has increased Enmity.

Why increase AOE enmity? Also, Warrior already has infinite TP. If anything, they should increase some of their costs (they shouldn't though TP is stupid). I guess Cover at 90 second duration would mean that the one time per raid tier you get to use it, it comes off cooldown slightly faster.

PLD:

Rush to Judgement - Paladin rushes forward with shield raised blocking and redirecting a % of melee, ranged, or magic attacks for 6 secs. Increased enmity while in ShO stance.

Enmity upgrades aren't needed.

PLD:
Flash is now replaced with an actual AoE attack that does 100 potency damage per cast.

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Originally Posted by Kitfox

Flash is now replaced with an actual AoE attack that does 100 potency damage per cast.

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One major problem with this is that MP isn't actually a resource that you are required to manage on PLD. At the moment, the limiting factor on Flash's use is the fact that it costs you dps to use. If you take that away, it becomes free to spam wantonly, as there's no punishment for bottoming out like there is for WAR or DRK. It's also intrinsically cheaper than Unleash, the spell that you are copying.

PLD does need a better AoE toolkit, but the skills should probably be TP based if you want them to be resource limited. If you wanted to introduce in an MP based AoE move like say Banish III, there would need to be some other limiting cost (i.e. cast time) to offset its use. You could then perhaps tie that in to block procs to shorten cast times.

DRK/WAR don't need increased enmity. WAR doesn't have issue with TP, PLD/DRK do. Cover needs to block all types of damage, not a CD decrease (as of now, it's a really niche usage). Living Dead is a QoL but not needed. If you are discussing about LD, might as well drag Holmgang in too since they are under the same category.

Holmgang doesn't kill you when the effect ends. We've learned to work around LD, but that doesn't mean that 3.2's stat re-balancing didn't have a significant adverse effect on the skill.

I'd like to see Runic from FF6 implemented as the magical counterpart to Cover (i.e. redirect next spell to yourself, gain MP based on its cost).

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Originally Posted by Lyth

One major problem with this is that MP isn't actually a resource that you are required to manage on PLD. At the moment, the limiting factor on Flash's use is the fact that it costs you dps to use. If you take that away, it becomes free to spam wantonly, as there's no punishment for bottoming out like there is for WAR or DRK. It's also intrinsically cheaper than Unleash, the spell that you are copying.

PLD does need a better AoE toolkit, but the skills should probably be TP based if you want them to be resource limited. If you wanted to introduce in an MP based AoE move like say Banish III, there would need to be some other limiting cost (i.e. cast time) to offset its use. You could then perhaps tie that in to block procs to shorten cast times.

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Just increase the MP cost a little bit if it's a problem. You still don't want to constantly bottom out to be able to switch Oaths and what not.

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Originally Posted by Kitfox

Just increase the MP cost a little bit if it's a problem. You still don't want to constantly bottom out to be able to switch Oaths and what not.

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iirc flash uses more mp than unleash

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Originally Posted by ADVSS

iirc flash uses more mp than unleash

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Unleash costs 795 mp or 11,5% of the mp pool.
Flash costs 707 mp or 13,6% of the mp pool.
(no party bonuses)