Dance Job Idea

This is redesign of my Performer => Dancer/Idol idea, as a single job. I'm making a new thread because I didn't want to necro-thread that thread. :B

Dancer (DNC)
HoT and Utility Healer
Weapon: Fans x2
Attack Type: Slash Close Range
Armor: Robes, Light Armor, Rogue/Ninja Armor
Limit Break: Healer
Limit Break 3: Dance of Rapture
Cross Class: Conjurer and Arcanist
Important Stats: Mind for Healing, Dexterity for DPS, TP for skill cost

Preforms who cleanse both the mind and body of their allies and captivate their enemies with graceful movements.

Mechanics and Skills

Flourish Stacks
During their routines, Dancers can acquire Flourish Stacks to preform special moves. Dancers can receive Flourishes when they heal, completing weapon combos, land critical hits/heals, and/or using limit breaks. When a Dancer lands a critical hit/heal, they gain 1 Flourish, and when they use a Limit Break, they gain 1 Flourish for every bar they use. When starting out, Dancers can only have up to 5 Flourishes stacked.

Healing Skills
- Curing Waltz: Heals a target's HP. Has a 25% chance of gaining a Flourish. Healing Potency of 200. 1 second cast time. 3.5 second recast.
- Rejuvenating Waltz: Heals a target's HP. Has a 30% chance of gaining a Flourish. Healing potency of 315. 1 second cast time. 3.5 second recast.
- Divine Waltz: Heals all party members with in 10 yalms of the user. Has a 10% chance per healed party member to gain a Flourish. Healing Potency of 145. 1 second cast time. 3.5 second recast.
- Captivating Waltz: Can only be used under Trance. Continuously Heals the HP of all party members with in 5 yalms of the user. Drains the user's TP and lowers their Physical Attack Power and the healing potency of other healing skills by 20%. While this effect is activated, the user is stuck in Trace. Use a second time to turn off. Healing Potency of 50. Instant cast time. 5 second recast.
- Last Waltz: Can only be used under Trance. Uses 2 Flourishes. Heals all party members' HP by 10%. Instant cast time. 5 second recast.
- Carnival Cancan: Places a Regen-like effect on a selected target. Has a 25% chance of gaining a Flourish. Healing Potency of 75. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Carnival Flamenco: Can only be used under Trance. Places a Regen-like effect on all party members with in 15 yalms of the user for 20 seconds. Has a 5% chance per party member effected to gain a Flourish. Potency of 25. 2 second cast time. 3.5 second recast.
- Resplendence: Can only be used under Trance. Uses 6 Flourishes. Damages a selected target, then places a Regen-like effect on all party members within 5 yalms of the target, healing HP equal to 50% of the damage spread through out 21 seconds. Potency of 50. 3.5 second cast time. 120 second recast.
- Drain Samba: Can only be used under Trance. Uses 2 Flourishes. Places a "Drain Samba" debuff on a target for 15 seconds. Whenever a party member physically attacks or uses a physical skill on a foe with the Drain Samba debuff, they will recover 3% of their HP per normal hit and 5% per critical hit. When the Drain Samba wears off, the target will not be able to receive another Drain Samba effect for 50 seconds. Effect cannot be stacked with other Drain Samba or Jitterbug Duet. Instant cast time. 120 second recast.
- Jitterbug Duet: Can only be used under Trance. Uses 2 Flourishes. Places a "Jitterbug Duet" debuff on a selected target for 15 seconds. Every 3 seconds, the inflicted target will send out a pulse that will heal 2% of every party member within 5 yalms' HP. Effect cannot be stacked with other Jitterbug Duet or Drain Samba. Instant cast time. 100 second recast.
- Magical Masque: Can only be used under Trance. Uses 2 Flourishes. Restores 4% of the HP of all party members with in 10 yalms of the user every time they take damage for 30 seconds (this does not include damage done by DoTs, debuffs, skill effect/cost, or ground effects). This effect cannot be stacked with other Magical Masque. Instant cast time. 120 second recast.
- Angel's Waltz: Revives a fallen target in a weakened state (Note: can be used in-combat by default, without the need for a trait.). Has a 50% chance of gaining a Flourish. 5 second cast time. 5.5 second recast.
- Healing Waltz: Removes a single detrimental effect from a targeted ally. Has a 15% chance of gaining a Flourish. Instant cast time. 4 second recast.

Weapon Skills
- Blade Dance: Damages a single foe. Potency of 130. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Mincing Minuet: Damages a single foe. Potency of 100. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.
Combo: Blade Dance => Mincing Minuet : Potency of 190. Gain 1 Flourish.
- Pyrrhic Kleos: Damages a single foe. Potency of 100. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.
Combo: Mincing Minuet => Pyrrhic Kleos: Potency of 290. Gain 2 Flourishes.
- Witch Hunt: Damages a single foe. Potency of 100. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.
Combo: Mincing Minuet => Witch Hunt: Potency of 250. Places a "Witch Hunt" debuff on the target for 20 seconds. When a party member hits a target with Witch Hunt, they gain a 15% increase to their Critical Rate for 5 seconds (this buff does NOT stack). Effect cannot be stacked.
- Dance Macabre: Damages a selected target. Can only be used when the target is at 30% HP or less. Gain 1 Flourish if this finishes the target off. Potency of 180. Instant cast time. 25 second recast.
- Love Tap: Places a DoT on a target for 18 seconds. Potency of 40. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Sonic Fan: Damages a selected target and places a DoT on them for 21 seconds. Potency of 25. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.

Other Skills
- Dance of Veils: Can only be used under Trance. Uses 1 Flourish. Places a barrier on all party members with in 10 yalms of the user that will absorb the next cleansable-debuff placed on them. Instant cast time. 30 second recast.
- Heathen Frolic: Uses 2 Flourishes. Decreases Damage of all foes within 5 yalms of the user by 5% for 15 seconds. This debuff cannot stack with other Heathen Frolic. Instant cast time. 30 second recast.
- Chocobo Jig: Uses 3 Flourishes. Increases the attack Speed of all party members with in 10 yalms of the caster by 10% for 30 seconds. This buff cannot be stacked with other Chocobo Jig. Instant cast time. 60 second recast.
- Trance: A stance. Swaps current DEX and Mind, while doubling the potency of healing skills (minus Drain Samba and Magical Masque) and and reducing Attack Power by 20%. Effect ends upon reuse. Instant cast time. 5 second recast.
- Grand Pas: Increases the user's MND by 15% for 15 seconds. This is not effected by Trance. Instant cast time. 60 second recast.
- Presto: Grants the user the maximum amount of Flourishes Stacks. Instant cast time. 120 second recast.
- Reverse Jive: Uses all the user's Flourishes. Restores 50 of the user's TP per Flourishes used. The user cannot gain Flourishes for 30 seconds. Instant cast time. 120 second recast.

Skill Levels and Traits

Skill Level
1. Blade Dance
2. Curing Waltz
4. Love Tap
6. Heathen Frolic
8. Mincing Minuet
10. Divine Waltz
12. Angel's Waltz
15. Trance
18. Healing Waltz
22. Sonic Fan
26. Pyrrhic Kleos
30. Rejuvenating Waltz
*Quest* 30. Carnival Cancan
34. Grand Pas
*Quest* 35. Drain Samba
38. Witch Hunt
*Quest* 40. Chocobo Jig
42. Captivating Waltz
*Quest* 45. Dance Macabre
46. Jitterbug Duet
50. Reverse Jive
*Quest* 50. Carnival Flamenco
*Quest* 52. Last Waltz
*Quest* 54. Magical Masque
*Quest* 56. Dance of Veils
*Quest* 58. Presto
*Quest* 60. Resplendence

Traits
8. Enhanced Dexterity : Increases Dexterity by 2.
14. Enhanced Divine Waltz: Grantz a 20% chance that Divine Waltz will cost half the amount of TP.
16. Enhanced Dexterity II: Increases Dexterity by 4.
20. Maim and Mend: Increases base action damage and healing done by 10%.
24. Enhanced Dexterity III: Increases Dexterity by 6.
28. Climatic Flourish: Allow the stacking of 7 Flourishes.
32. Enhanced Curing Waltz: Grants a 15% chance that after casting Curing Waltz, the TP cost of your next Rejuvenating Waltz will be 0. Buff Duration: 15 seconds.
36. Cross-Step: Whenever two healing skills are used in succession, increase the second skill's chance of gaining a Flourish by 10%. This does not include skills that use Flourishes.
40. Maim and Mend II: Increases base action damage and healing done by 30%.
44. Enhanced Heathen Frolic: Heathen Frolic now decreases enemy Damage by 10%.
48. Grandiose Flourish: Increases the amount of Flourish stacks the user can have to 10.

I love literally everything about this.

I like the idea too!

#lovethissss

Drain Samba sounds OP tbh. Not sure about making some DPS skills require flourishes, proc or combo be better imo. maybe different "stances" waltz stance for healing, reduced DPS, buffed healing. Samba DPS stance, reduced healing increased DPS.

Also Dancers raise should be:

Lap Dance: Raises a fallen member :P

Awesome! Good job with the detailed skills!

Oooooh this is nice. It sounds like a Melee heal (In other words, like XI's DNC)
But I have always wondered about how a DNC can be a ranged healer/attacker ^^

Can we hire this person for Class/Job's designs PLEASE SE!?
PLEASE!

I love it!

Part nostalgia, part fun-sounding.

My only suggestion is to include the "Dazzling dance diva" title from ffxi :3

For me I prefer a more dps based DNC instead of a healer type. So though this sounds good I'd rather it not be like this. I want my dps DNC back.

I want melee healer so badly. If its Red Mage or DNC I don't mind - I just want it lol.

Thank you all for the support. ;w;

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Originally Posted by Sapphic

Drain Samba sounds OP tbh. Not sure about making some DPS skills require flourishes, proc or combo be better imo. maybe different "stances" waltz stance for healing, reduced DPS, buffed healing. Samba DPS stance, reduced healing increased DPS.

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I'll remove Witch Hunt's Flourish cost.
I can see how Drain Samba could be broken, it lasts 15 seconds and melee can use their usual physical attacks about every 2.5 seconds, so that would be 5-6 hits, which would be 25-30% of their HP healed. What if I increased Drain Samba's cooldown to 120 or 180 seconds and/or changed it to healing 3% per hit?
As for the stances, I think Trance is the only stance needed. While being able to DPS was a selling point of the job, I didn't want them to outshine the actual DPS jobs or for people to get so caught up on DPSing that they would forget to heal.

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Originally Posted by Niqote

Oooooh this is nice. It sounds like a Melee heal (In other words, like XI's DNC)
But I have always wondered about how a DNC can be a ranged healer/attacker ^^

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I had originally thought of making it a short-range AoE healer but thought it wouldn't be practical for healing ranged characters or healing when the party had to split up to take care of adds or other mechanics.

Update
- Increased Drain Samba's recast time to 120 seconds and it heals 3% of the targets HP per normal hit, 5% per critical hit.
- Magical Masque now heals only 4% of the targets HP per hit.
- Witch Hunt no longer has a Flourish cost.

I just want my Dance Dance Revolution kind of gameplay for such a class, make them "immortal" for as long as there is one team member alive and show them you moves ^^.

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Originally Posted by Kogasan

For me I prefer a more dps based DNC instead of a healer type. So though this sounds good I'd rather it not be like this. I want my dps DNC back.

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I used to tank, heal and DPS, usually all at once on my FFXI DNC :D

Delve was fun on DNC, Drain 2 samba up, crazy dbl/triple attack gear plus PDT/MDT to swap between. Self healing tank, and kept party alive. who needed a tank and a healer :P sub /WAR.

Melee healer would be awesome. It is also not likely to ever happen, as they've stated that they don't ever factor healer DPS into encounter balance, and having one healer out of four that is built to DPS would throw that balance all out of whack.

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Originally Posted by JarinArenos

Melee healer would be awesome. It is also not likely to ever happen, as they've stated that they don't ever factor healer DPS into encounter balance, and having one healer out of four that is built to DPS would throw that balance all out of whack.

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As a DPS I can see it working out assuming the healing is not 100% reliable, let it be an assistance to the healers but to completely replace one I don't see that being a good idea. Able to raise I can stand behind cus summoners get that option as well though.

I encourage everyone to make job threads. That way, SE sees what kind of jobs we want. ;D

this is someting right up my ally a dps with some half decent heals ( or the other way around ) sounds very nice