Dear Square Enix (dancer request)

Please allow Closed Position to alternate between two people. Currently, re-activating closed position removes the buff on your previous dance partner. Allowing dancers to manage a buff on two different party members would make the class feel a lot more involved and supporty, similar to how astrologian feels when throwing out sleeve draw. Ultimately I feel like this would be a really positive change to the classes playability, along with allowing it to eek out a little bit more damage.

I don't really want to have to switch dance partners mid battle. However I do think having to hit the button twice to change partners if your partner dies or you partner the wrong person is bad. I also think Saber Dance should have a chance to give you a feather proc.

When i play my dancer im bored. So yea id love easier closed position switching, cause it would allow party specific and burst management to optimize.

To do this they'd likely have to nerf DNC a bit in other areas, because atm its designed that way for balance.

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Originally Posted by Burningskull

I don't really want to have to switch dance partners mid battle. However I do think having to hit the button twice to change partners if your partner dies or you partner the wrong person is bad. I also think Saber Dance should have a chance to give you a feather proc.

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Recently came back to the game and exlusively playing Dancer (lvl68) now. While I've been enjoying the job a lot, I feel some kind of a twist is missing from the rotation and/or supporting tools. Switching the dancing partner quickly mid-fight sounds like an interesting idea, which could give more room to higher skilled players and better coordinated groups in regards to synchronizing the support + bigger cooldowns. I think that would be fairly easy to balance, too.

Kind of an off topic question, but do any other Dancers find the step gauge kind of pointless? It doesn't provide any kind of unique information which could not be found from somewhere else.

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Originally Posted by jaylicate

Recently came back to the game and exlusively playing Dancer (lvl68) now. While I've been enjoying the job a lot, I feel some kind of a twist is missing from the rotation and/or supporting tools. Switching the dancing partner quickly mid-fight sounds like an interesting idea, which could give more room to higher skilled players and better coordinated groups in regards to synchronizing the support + bigger cooldowns. I think that would be fairly easy to balance, too.

Kind of an off topic question, but do any other Dancers find the step gauge kind of pointless? It doesn't provide any kind of unique information which could not be found from somewhere else.

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The Step Gauge lets you look ahead to know what order to press the buttons in instead of waiting till after you have pressed the button to know which button is going to come next.

hmm lately I came a cross another discussion idk what I should thinking of... the ls discussion was about different buffs for different dancer partner roles like haste/cd reduce on range partner, dmg & Crit bonus on melee partner, cast & mp reduce on caster. they startet talking about blu mimes ending up discussing buffs for dance partner...

personally I think its pretty hard to handle different buffs in balance but it could be interesting no?

To me think they need just get rid of it all together. Most time use it partner is to far away to receive the affects to it.

Perhaps it's just me and the way I play DNC, but in EX fights, that's the hardest content I do, trying to juggle 2 buffs between 2 different players would seem overly busy with everything use I'm doing. Thus even if they let you bounce between 2 players I don't think I would.

Coming from a person who has done Savage, DNC definitely does not need an extra layer of complexity for no reason. Doing that would instead increase the gap where they reduced it; see Heavensward for example, where a good amount of jobs got complex because of buff bars and openers. Same can be said of Stormblood in some cases(Samurai, Ninja, MCH)

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Originally Posted by HyperiusUltima

Coming from a person who has done Savage, DNC definitely does not need an extra layer of complexity for no reason. Doing that would instead increase the gap where they reduced it; see Heavensward for example, where a good amount of jobs got complex because of buff bars and openers. Same can be said of Stormblood in some cases(Samurai, Ninja, MCH)

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Coming from a person who has done TEA, DNC in my opinion really does need an extra layer of complexity, Only time I switched DNC partners the entire fight was going into perfect alex and even then it ended up being a minimal gain. Job was super comfy to prog on because outside of a few windows the jobs so basic easy to play that you can really just ignore your rotation and focus on the mechanics playing out. Kinda a shame honestly because the jobs core rotation plays really nice and fluid in my opinion but its definetly missing something still.

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Originally Posted by Ayanumi

Coming from a person who has done TEA, DNC in my opinion really does need an extra layer of complexity, Only time I switched DNC partners the entire fight was going into perfect alex and even then it ended up being a minimal gain. Job was super comfy to prog on because outside of a few windows the jobs so basic easy to play that you can really just ignore your rotation and focus on the mechanics playing out. Kinda a shame honestly because the jobs core rotation plays really nice and fluid in my opinion but its definetly missing something still.

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Hard agree. Dancer to me is the easiest class in the game to play by far. And the optimzations with holding for buff windows are also really not that tough. It needs both more difficulty and variation in its mechanics. Gotta be honest the simon says dance game is pretty boring.

I'm good without this idea. The point of a dance partner is not to drop them every time they hit the floor, but to work with them. Nor do they need multiple dance partners (it's not a broadway musical production) to juggle their buff around. I really don't think they should change closed position. I think it's fine as is.