[GAME] Make your move!

So I'm a bit bored and the debate threads are loud and serious as ever. Thought we could all use a fun diversion. So MAKE YOUR MOVE!

Its easy, make up a skill for your favorite class, something you would like to see in SB, be it a brand new skill or a tweek to a current one. Post as many as you like.


PALADIN
Skill - MARCHE (both a nod to the FFTA hero and as a medieval term meaning "boundary")
Effect
Creates a aetheric boundary (similar to Salted Earth or Doton), ticking aggro every 3s (similar in potency to the current Flash skill), and reducing all damage to the caster and party within the circle by 10%, skill's duration is 24s.
Explanation
Paladins already have a harder time then most DD. What I suggest is a buffer similar to what the WHM got to help them heal while DPSing. A good white mage while out of CS will cast Asylum and Regen (maybe under Divine Seal) and then with that up swap on CS and get to beating down while the aoe and regen handles all but the most terrible of damage. Same idea here, the PLD in Shield Oath can pop this skill, then swap to Sword Oath and let this buff aid its tanking in the added defense and aggro generation. I know some PLDs wouldn't need this, but some feel more comfortable DPSing with a bit of a net to help them out. With a 10% damage reduction, Shield Oath is still better at 20%, but the ten is better then nothing and helps a PLD in offensive mode feel a bit more tanky and therefore more comfortable to really open up more. And the added defense to front line Melee is just the type of support PLDs should give, lessening the Healers load a little to get more DPS out of them also.

MONK
Skill - Concussive Roundhouse
Effect
A spinning kick that staggers and disorients the target
Potency: 120 - 130
Lowers the monks' enmity to one point below that of the party member with the lowest enmity
Cooldown - 60s
Explanation: I noticed that playing monk as a main can be tricky at times when paired with a low iLvl tank, due to their primary mechanic allowing them to attack use skills faster than other classes (I once had my recast timers at 1.8 seconds with full GL)
Unlike Ninja and Black Mage, Monk doesn't have anything to manage their aggro, so I feel that maybe a reverse provoke would be useful for them

Monk

Skill - Chakra Bomb
Effect
Gather chakra in your fists, then send a ball of pure energy hurtling towards your enemy.
Potency: 300
Consumes your Chakra stacks.
15 yalm range.

During the lvl 60 MNK quest the antagonist shoots an orb of energy at the NPCs/your character, after seeing it, I wondered why MNK doesn't have a ranged skill. I know that Howling Blast has some decent range to it and Shoulder Tackle is a gap closer, but there are times when a boss will drop an AoE under itself that is just large enough that Howling Blast cant reach. Every Job but MNK has a ranged skill, so in those situations the MNK is kinda just standing around lol, so MNK would benefit greatly from a ranged skill.

Haha, so far it seems that monk is in the greatest need of more utility, I want an enmity management skill, and you want a ranged skill

There is one I always wanted as PLD.

Skill: Sacred Punishment

Effect: Deal Damage with a potency of 50 (120 in Savage blade combo) in a cone in front of you. TP cost 120.

It is sefl explanatory. And AoE damage for PLD, as they only have Circle of Scorn. Also, it doesn't generate Agro, so you still need use Flash and Cricle to get aggro, then use the combo Fast Blade -> Savage Blade -> Sacred Punishment.

Two skills I'd like for WHM:

Afflatus Solace: Potency increase for the entire party. % increase varies based on amount healed since the skill was last used (overheals do not count, counter reset on changing areas as well)

Afflatus Misery: Vulnerability Down for entire party. % varies based on damage dealt since the skill was last used (counter resets on changing areas)

At the moment, WHM lacks any ways to increase the speed with which content is done outside of dealing damage themselves (Unlike SCH's minor speed increase and AST's cards). In addition, being the class that learns Cleric's Stance and the theme of the CNJ questlines does give the impression of WHM striking a balance between offense and defense.

The names were taken from a pair of similar skills in FFXI (in that they built up a counter to power up moves), though of course modified to better fit FFXIV's playstyle.

PLD Trait: Wall Of Thorns

Shield Oath: Block's deal 1% of the damage back to the attacker, increase to 2% while under the effect of Bulwark
Sword Oath: allows the use of Shield Swipe without blocking, Shield swipe also recovers 20TP

(if better as a skill its a Def CD with 100sec cooldown & 25sec duration that only gives the "20TP" apon activation in Sword Oath)
edit: only idea I had to give PLD a small TP regen skill & slight additonal AoE like options

NIN

Bunton
Every time you fail a Ninjutsu you get a stack. At three stacks you have a chance to summon the bunny. It'll either heal or do damage. At five stacks it could do hurt and every Ninjutsu adds to the stack. At seven stacks it's a guaranteed summon. Full heal, LB damage, or a wipe.

Astrologian
Skill - Stacked Deck (CD: 90s)
Effect
Executes the draw action with the exception of being guaranteed to draw either Arrow or Balance.
-Draw must not be on cooldown
-Triggers the normal cooldown on draw upon use or storage of the card drawn.
Explanation
This would help greatly in setting up for a pull, I try to always have an expanded balance in my pocket but with the amount of time between kill attempts, I usually don't have the luck or time to do so. Plus being able to control when you pull a damage amplifying card to some extent may be of great benefit for some DPS checks.

no idea how i should name such skills... so just a placeholder >.>

White Mage

Increased Range

The range of all spells is increased by 10 yalm and the radius of all spells is increased by 5 yalm.

Duration: 10 Seconds
Cooldown: 120 Seconds

Increased Range II

The range and radius of the next spell is increased by 100%

Duration: 10 Seconds
Cooldown: 300 Seconds


just 2 ideas how a range increasing cooldown could work, they don't hav to implement both^^

WHM, AST, SCH

Reraise

Put a Raise status effect on you. (Cannot be use in combat)

Duration 30mins
Cast time 6sec
Cooldown 2.5sec

Dark Knight
Skill - Meatshield
Effect
Increase damage dealt by 10% and damage taken by 30%. Cannot be used while {Grit} is active.
Duration: 15 seconds.
Cooldown: 90 seconds.
Explanation
More salt on the wounds :D

PALADIN
Trait - Radiance
Effect
Flash is now a target spell that applies Radiance to the target tank, monsters near a radiant target will receive blinding trial as well as still receiving Flash's normal effects (towards the targeted tank). Whenever a party member strikes an afflicted monster they deal an extra 5-10 potency with reduced enmity (10%), the radiant target weapon skills will deal 15-30 extra potency with increased enmity (10%). Half potency on bosses. Duration 10 seconds.
Explanation
Boosts AoE damage by a bit, while also helping hold hate in a less boring way (many flash casts /snooze). So if someone is doing AoE attacks, each one would apply the extra potency. The reduced/increased enmity shouldn't be by a massive amount but enough that you're not casting flash in rapid succession but rather going around and pegging each one (if your team is gungho about AoE's, I've never had to flash many times if they're not). Potency calculated separately, so 30 potency is 30 potency so it doesn't make high damaging tanks a better target then not - equal target. If you're targeting a monster it's very easy to cast it on self like you'd be used to with a regular flash.


Would like to see an interaction with Circle Of Scorn, like it causes all the blinding trial marks to explode in a small radius dealing 20 potency and increase the radiant duration by 10 seconds, 20 second duration boost on bosses.

Haven't done the math but the end result hopefully would be Paladin get's figurative AoE damage he sorely lacks, but through a means that isn't specifically only himself (Paladin keeping that team player feeling), flash is used less often but feels better, hopefully slightly less damage aoe than the other tanks but his also included a much more reliable aggro control and however will also increase his boss damage since he can apply it in boss fights as well. So flash can be used in all scenarios to do something more than just disco the screen and draw enmity.

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Originally Posted by Myrhn

WHM, AST, SCH

Reraise

Put a Raise status effect on you. (Cannot be use in combat)

Duration 30mins
Cast time 6sec
Cooldown 2.5sec

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I'd be for this, would make the death of a healer less damning in content, something as simple as you stated before combat, meaning that you get 1 free life to "mess up" without causing a wipe because both healers got hit by a bad AOE.

Here's a few I have for Machinist, some of these were originally part of a suggestions thread I made for MCH way back in 3.1/3.2 or something.

Machinist

High Intensity Scan
(Rook Autoturret): increases party critical hit rate on a single target by 10% for 10 seconds.
(Bishop Autoturret): Increases party critical hit rate to targets within in a 10 yalm radius of the turret by 5% for 10 seconds.
Cooldown: 90s

Siphon Rounds
Loads firearm with five rounds of siphon ammunition. One round of ammunition is used each time a weaponskill is executed. Siphon rounds absorb 25% of damage as HP (up to a maximum of 8% HP per-round) No more than 5 rounds can be loaded at a time. This effect can be used with regular rounds.
Duration: Infinite like normal ammo is now \o/
Cooldown: 120s

Added Pitch
Adds more pitch to the wildfire reaction, extending an active wildfires duration by 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 180s

Elevation
(Both Turrets): The turret emits a healing field with a potency of 100 (scales with attack power) to all nearby party members
Range: 15 Yalms
Duration: 12 seconds
Cooldown: 180s

Unity
Both Rook and Bishop Autoturrets combine to create a sovereign autoturret at the designated location, which deals both a single target auto attack of 150 and an area of effect auto attack to nearby targets with a potency of 80. When Hypercharged the single target auto attack has its potency increased to 200. Elevation and Promotion are unavailable while active. High intensity scan has the single target effect only.
Duration: 30s
Cooldown: 420s

That would take MCH's abilities all the way to 70 :P Of course these are just cool ideas, not things I would expect or even necessarily think would be a good idea or balanced to implement :P

FloorDragoonTank

Skill-Highwind Lancet

Effect-Changes the next Jump, Spineshatter Dive or Hellfire Dive into a skill with a cast bar. The character jumps and vanishes out of view as the cast bar starts. This also makes them immune to damage during the cast timer (consider the character has jumped so high that they are out of combat and out of harms way) Shares the same cast timer as Power Surge. Damage x% is based on monster current HP and Maximum HP value (The greater the difference, the higher the % is increased)

Explanation-
While Dragoons are great by their own right, they feel less like Scourge of Dragons and Death from Above and more like fighters who excel at using pole-arms. The cut scenes show them with superior jumping and diving prowess which has not translated well in combat.

White Mage
Skill Name: Don't Waste My Benediction
Knock a friendly player in melee range back 15-yalms from your position. Use to knock party members out of AoEs that you would otherwise have to waste a heal on or to knock that one guy you really dislike off the arena in your favorite EX primal.