Feedback: Aetheric Mimicry

The spell that lets you become a dedicated DPS, Heal, or Tank.

Sounds great in theory right? Well, like every well intentioned idea Square Enix does, it comes with a catch. You have to find a Tank, Heal, or DPS to mimic.

The problem with that is this game doesn't give you any easy indication on what jobs players are currently on. Especially with Glamours in place. So you're constantly Examining people.

This is made worse if you're looking for a healer. As we all know, healers are in short supply.

Solution: Allow EM to rotate through the stances or have a Tank dummy, Heal dummy, and DPS dummy near the Blue Mage NPC.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

The problem with that is this game doesn't give you any easy indication on what jobs players are currently on. Especially with Glamours in place.

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The weapons are usually dead giveaways.

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Originally Posted by Pepsi_Plunge

The weapons are usually dead giveaways.

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The weapon isn't always visible, especially out of combat, hence why they mentioned examining players.

Finding a Tank or Healer is more difficult since an all BLU party would have the DPS version easily available.

But yeah, that's definitely a shortcoming I see with the ability.

I don't get why they don't just have two 'stance' buttons like tanks used to have pre SHB.

By default you're a dps.

Put on tank stance for tank effects.

Put on healer stance for healer effects.

No stance, you're dps.

No need to track down other players.

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Originally Posted by Bright-Flower

I don't get why they don't just have two 'stance' buttons like tanks used to have pre SHB.

By default you're a dps.

Put on tank stance for tank effects.

Put on healer stance for healer effects.

No stance, you're dps.

No need to track down other players.

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Also a good solution.

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Originally Posted by Bright-Flower

I don't get why they don't just have two 'stance' buttons like tanks used to have pre SHB.

By default you're a dps.

Put on tank stance for tank effects.

Put on healer stance for healer effects.

No stance, you're dps.

No need to track down other players.

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Probably because it could be "abused" then.
You pretty much want 2 tanks, 2 healers and 4 DPS in your team.
If you can change stance whenever you want, it means that one guy tanks, and everybody else is in DPS stance until heals or tank swaps are needed.
Not saying it is impossible for them to balance it, but they would definitely have to do some tweaks compared to how a traditional "stance change" works.
They could make it unusable in combat, that would work too honestly.

I think they should make it gear based though.
For example by having three different wands with the same stats, each of them applying a different Aetheric Mimicry buff.
Blue Bomb wand -> Tank.
Red bomb wand -> DPS.
Yellow bomb wand -> heal (because I don't think there are green bombos)
This way :
- you cannot change stance in combat
- you are not wasting one spot on your hotbar for a skill you just use once, and never again within a fight
- you cannot "forget" to buff yourself before entering a duty

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Originally Posted by Bright-Flower

I don't get why they don't just have two 'stance' buttons like tanks used to have pre SHB.

By default you're a dps.

Put on tank stance for tank effects.

Put on healer stance for healer effects.

No stance, you're dps.

No need to track down other players.

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Being that it's a "limited" job, it's going to have "limited" effort put into fixing the endless list of issues it has. Simple things like this being overlooked is a large reason I dislike BLU so much and wish it had never been added if they weren't going to make it an actual job.

They should just make it where you can use the ability to freely change between the three stances, when not in a duty/combat.