This is my objective opinion sorry if people don't agree. After playing the game for a couple years these just are the things me and others have wanted to see.
general
-fix early level experience for all jobs even new ones
-no more 2 minute rotation revert back to SHB
-more development focus on FF14 as a whole at least since FF16 is now out
tanks
-make heart of light and dark missionary better some comps are objectively worse for prog and certain mechanics (make them similar to addle or feint with 5% phys reduction added to the 10% magic reduction)
DRK
-blackest night should be 500mp or combined with oblation as a trait or both (oblation is bloat)
-shadowbringer should be condensed into flood/edge of darkness maybe like after X uses of edge/flood you get a proc for shadowbringer
-dark mind is bad make it better, magic mit has no use at all for a tank besides specific scenarios most tanks with actual damage reduction get way more out of it than DRK with dark mind
healers
-bring back cleric stance
SCH
-bring back shadowflare
AST
-bring back unique card buffs
SGE
-make it an actual dps healer more damage buttons that heal but main focus of damage (i feel like they are too scared to go all in making it actually function like a dps I'd like to see it have interesting things to it's rotation like GNB)
melee
SAM
-bring back kaiten(please)
-condense some of the buttons (tsubame giaeshi should be on the same button as iajitsu)
-hagakure should be removed
DRG
-everything (getting reworked anyway)
NIN
-ten-chi-jin needs to let you move if not everywhere then in a small area where cast like black mage ley lines
-kassatsu shouldn't make you rabbit when you use it and then use a weaponskill
-forked and fleeting raiju shouldn't be different buttons they literally have the same function and damage either make it a combo or don't have it at all (having forked change into fleeting with more damage)
-not losing raiju stacks when you use a weapon skill it is so dumb
MNK
-bring back all positionals
phys ranged
MCH
-make it better it is in a weird spot when compared to other phys ranged or even other dps
BRD
-bring back old procs they added charges to bloodletter but people only asked for it because of procs used to go off your 2 dots
caster
RDM
-too simple not a bad thing still want more depth and not another finisher for your combo
SMN
-legacy SMN players depressed the only other job that has dots in the game now is BRD but not as interesting as old SMN (new SMN is a good redesign but legacy players have nowhere to go)
new jobs
-machine gun caster similar to specter from GW2 with stacking dots to manage (MNK but as a caster fast gcd and hectic but fun)
-dot caster
-hopefully get 1 tank, 1 healer, 1 caster (asking for a lot but in a perfect world this would be a nice surprise)
7.0 wishlist
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07-04-2023, 10:35 AMCicero6347.0 wishlist
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07-04-2023, 11:00 AMKes13a
you are aware that if they add new jobs, they'll take even more from the old ones.
nothing wrong with asking, but be careful what you wish for. historically, new jobs take from the old ones, I would rather they fix the old ones before adding anything new. would work out better for all -
07-04-2023, 11:02 AMDiaDeemhttps://media.tenor.com/DCycRQnBpOYAAAAC/math-hmm.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Cicero634
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07-04-2023, 11:06 AMKes13aAs was pointed out, as soon as you included "me and others have wanted to see" it ceased to be "objective" in any way shape or form.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cicero634
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07-04-2023, 11:55 AMBoblawblah
Be nice, they obviously meant subjective.
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07-04-2023, 01:12 PMVentVanitashttps://media.tenor.com/-kHJ5bxUwisAAAAC/smile-nod.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Cicero634
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07-04-2023, 05:40 PMReinhardt_Azureheim
Your changes overall are nice.
Your DRK changes have me bawling in shame and I played almost every iteration of DRK safe for HW. Terrible suggestions trying to adress issues some may have from the wrong angle - you're bent on treating the symptom not the cause, calling Oblation boring is one thing, but calling it bloat and wanting it to merge with TBN so it is homogenized with Holy Sheltron, Bloodwhetting and Heart of Corundum? Nah mate.
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Shadowbringer change is also binary as shit, at least use the job gauge elements already present - Darkside gauge exists and they could pull one like how Geirskogul drained Blood of the Dragon in HW; we overcap Darkside like crazy.
Dark Mind and Missionary aren't useless just because some attacks like Harrowing Hell exist, hell you'd think how dominant DRK is defensively that having a section of the fight.not suiting him for once would be ok. -
07-04-2023, 05:54 PMShurrikhan
'Sure, why not?':
Sure, but... this doesn't actually say... anything... / 'What do you actually want from this?':Quote:
-fix early level experience for all jobs even new ones
-make heart of light and dark missionary better
-bring back unique card buffs
-bring back all [MNK] positionals
-ten-chi-jin needs to let you move if not everywhere then in a small area where cast like black mage ley lines
-kassatsu shouldn't make you rabbit when you use it and then use a weaponskill
-bring back kaiten
Overly vague / 'Like how though?':Quote:
-more development focus on FF14 as a whole at least since FF16 is now out
-legacy SMN players depressed the only other job that has dots in the game now is BRD but not as interesting as old SMN (new SMN is a good redesign but legacy players have nowhere to go)
...Why? / 'Of all things, why this?':Quote:
-no more 2 minute rotation revert back to SHB
-[RDM is] too simple not a bad thing still want more depth and not another finisher for your combo
-make [SGE] an actual dps healer more damage buttons that heal but main focus of damage
'Hard Pass':Quote:
-bring back cleric stance
-bring back shadowflare
-condense some of the buttons (tsubame giaeshi should be on the same button as iajitsu)
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-hagakure should be removed
-blackest night should be 500mp or combined with oblation as a trait or both (oblation is bloat)
-shadowbringer should be condensed into flood/edge of darkness maybe like after X uses of edge/flood you get a proc for shadowbringer
-dark mind is bad make it better, magic mit has no use at all for a tank besides specific scenarios most tanks with actual damage reduction get way more out of it than DRK with dark mind
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-make [MCH] better it is in a weird spot when compared to other phys ranged or even other dps
-bring back old procs they added charges to bloodletter but people only asked for it because of procs used to go off your 2 dots
-[DRG] everything (getting reworked anyway)
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new jobs
-machine gun caster similar to specter from GW2 with stacking dots to manage (MNK but as a caster fast gcd and hectic but fun)
-dot caster
-hopefully get 1 tank, 1 healer, 1 caster (asking for a lot but in a perfect world this would be a nice surprise)
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07-04-2023, 06:03 PMDiaDeemhttps://imgur.com/XNnis6v.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Cicero634
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07-04-2023, 06:09 PMDiaDeemYeah, was poking a bit of fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boblawblah
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07-04-2023, 07:24 PMOM3GA-Z3RO
All I want is Raids to feel like actual raids again and not glorified Trials.
They have the skills to do it because of Baledesion Arsenal, Castrum Lacus Litore, Delubrum Reginae and the Dalriada
They have side objectives in them as well which makes things a little more interesting. Yes, they have Alliance Raid but I would like it to be of a slightly smaller scale (8-man) just like in Coils and Alexander.
This is never going to be a thing because making a single room and a single boss in it is much easier and quicker to make and majority of uber Hardcore raiders prefer to be put right in front of the boss rooms. -
07-04-2023, 08:35 PMRanaku
I wish desperately for the Scions to finally be put to rest, we ship off catmommy to the first and maybe thancred too and the twins can go back to school and we can finally FINALLY meet some new people that aren't a walking pile of exposition and anime tropes.
That is my wish for 7.0 -
07-04-2023, 09:02 PMDeo14https://cdn.7tv.app/emote/63219b8cbb...e4411e/4x.webpQuote:
Originally Posted by Cicero634
Hagakure is what allows SAM to realign himself, and it allows you to pick 3 GCD speeds - 2.15/2.07/2.00, for which you need to do 2/3/4 GCD fillers respectively. Without Hagakure, you will need to do fillers using 2/3/4 instances of Yaten->Enhanced Enpi. This would mean that you will need to find multiple opportunities every minute to safely do Yaten. Considering that RDM no longer has dps-positive backflip as part of rotation, then I hope SE learned their lesson and will not force SAMs to do same thing, but even worse. -
07-04-2023, 09:17 PMShinkunoYour whole argument is worthless cause if everything OP wants got implemented, the 2 minute meta would not exist so there is no "re-aligning"Quote:
Originally Posted by Deo14
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07-04-2023, 09:20 PMthevanguard
None of these things will happen and they'll probably delete criterion/variant, not release another exploratory content, give machinist another drill and summoner another fester, give tanks another upgraded short-duration mit that heals even more, give healers a lv100 super heal, and we will have eureka orthos reskin for 7.35 and that will be it :)
actually no, that's probably too optimistic, they'll probably literally just give additional charges to random skills in 7.0 and upgrade some random hard-hitting ability to a new skin for lv100 without changing any gameplay and this will probably apply to like 70% of the jobs
anyone ready to get reskinned afflatus misery for lv100, get ready for afflatus misery II with 10 more potency -
07-04-2023, 09:24 PMDeo14Removing 2 min meta doesn't mean there won't be burst.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinkuno
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07-04-2023, 09:52 PMRaikai
I have a wishlist of some topics that are less unrealistic than others, but a wishlist regardless:
- Put the 2 min meta down. Reason: It is the biggest symptom of job homogenization, and I hope they acknowledge this.
- Lift the armor glamour restrictions salvo Artifact sets. Reason: The restriction makes no sense, not just because the tons of cosmetic items allowing you to achieve any silhouette, but also the art direction of armor collections is not cohese. A good chunk of the fending items doesn't look like tanking armor at all and who gets assigned to what model seems completely arbitrary.
- Better apartments. Reason: If they can't (or won't) provide a fix for the housing situation, at the very least make the more accessible apartments more attractive with extra item allocation, option to make it larger and maybe a balcony?
- Another caster dpser. Reason: The role needs a fourth option, hopefully something that stands closer to BLM regarding performance.
- Merge aiming and scouting into a new DEX category. Reason: I just think that it would be more sustainable than just creating a new Scouting job just for the sake of Ninja having to share its gear. Plus, they already share the right side.
- Meracydia. Reason: That's about the perfect setting. We don't know how civilization evolved there after the Allagan torn the continent apart, they can literally go anywhere with the worldbuilding, and the Final Days could have changed something there, making a good trigger for a storyline.
- Summoner getting the rest of the elements with additional gemstones triggered by Phoenix. Reason: Despite what people think, I still have hopium left in me that they'll be able to expand the job a little bit through that obvious path.
- A more fleshed out world. Reason: Etheirys is dead. There's very little reason to spend time exploring. That's something they could take note from how World of Warcraft do. Despite the problems the game have (had?), the way they make the world alive is really good.
- Blue Mage being able to complete BLU Log objectives solo. Reason: I am actually happy with how the job works. I am not happy, though, that since the job is not everyone's cup of tea, it's a pain to form groups to run content, and we can't solo the Blue Mage log entries because it requires a full party. -
07-04-2023, 10:43 PMHanayumi
As much as id wish 7.0 would make some big changes im not expecting much, at least with the base expansion. In all likelihood most of progress took place during the the development hell of getting FFXVI out the door, wouldnt be surprised if 7.0 is more or less done though, last push is usually just mop up, translations, VA/sound effects, cs animations, etc. Hopefully we'll see the much needed improvements to FFXIV come with the major patchwork and beyond, if the players cries haven't fallen on deaf ears...
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07-05-2023, 03:24 AMShurrikhanYou don't realign just for the "2-minute meta". Hell, it was more important prior, when we still had per-60 and per-90 buffs. Moreover, it's what allows you to open onto a long-lived add with Higan, for instance, or onto many adds with Tenka, instead of being forced merely to use whatever your GCD has determined you get at that many seconds into the fight.Quote:
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And why remove Hagakure, of all things, before merging Shoha and Shoha II, etc.?
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07-05-2023, 09:07 AMPercibelTheren
In addition to making glamours work for any job (save Arfitact gear), I would also love for them to make secondary colors dyeable. So many gear pieces go unused because their secondary color is either ugly or clashes with everything. I would also love to be able to store dye in the glamour dresser.
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07-05-2023, 11:13 AMPip_Chick
Wish list for 7.0:
-Give us female Hrothgar
-More customisation for older races, the new graphics are nice, but I would like more face options and face paints
-Would like to get a tattoo as the 1.0 legacy players have. This is the start of a new saga, so having the option for current players to celebrate that by having access to a tattoo for it would be nice. It could also open up the possibility for more customisation options by adding a tattoo option to the CC and in-game aesthetician.
- I would like a more engaging single-target rotation for healers (a 3 buttons +DOT). You can keep the 1 AOE attack, but having more than 1 button + the occasional DOT for Bosses and raids would be nice, it would give more engagement for healers when there is nothing to heal.
- I would like more old-fashioned medieval glamour.
- A bee mount.
- Would like a job like RPR but as a caster. I enjoy RPR but being melee, which is a job fantasy that is not appealing to me, throws me off every time, but I love its theme and would like a caster that presents the same theme, but at range.
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07-16-2023, 10:23 AMHeavenchild
New dances please. We did not get any new looped dance since with EW yet.
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07-16-2023, 01:51 PMASkellington
I just want the AST rework to be good and to actually give AST mains what WE want instead of what the devs THINK we want.
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07-16-2023, 04:47 PMRitsukoSonoda
A cute, furry, bestial, non-potato, tiny race option. I don't even care if it ends up in the same boat as Viera and Hrothgar in terms of hats.
Heavy improvement to core game content making the majority of the game actually feel like a game and not a visual novel directed at lazy non-gamers that would have settled for an anime (that was actually well done though I'm sure most of them loved all the film/anime made so far including spirits within and FF unlimited)
Since it's been established no one is apparently allowed to have job skills or abilities that are different than someone else's. How about at least giving us better gear options rather than the current "grab highest ilvl then slot materia for whatever sub stat isn't capped by default then apply glamour" system via things like set items, and specific gear with skill augments, passives, added effects. This would also allow periods of horizontal progression where new content could be added without creeping the ilvl upward making acquired gear pieces viable in upper end content longer.
After all these years and adventures we should be allowed to drink Gerolt under the table if we want to... >.> (afterall... it would be fun to see how many adventurers end up in massive debt to Rowena to pay bar tabs)
Add a vendor in Wolves Den that sells the season pass rewards from past seasons for large amounts of trophy crystals. This eliminates FOMO with them by changing it to the choice of either grinding the pass for them, or grinding the crystals for them later after the pass expires and the new season pass starts. It also gives new players that missed previous passes a way to get the items. (stuff is all various cosmetics anyway)
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07-16-2023, 09:35 PMDeo14Let's be real, not even they believe that this is what players want. "Do you know what players will love? If we made another 3 WHMs, but with slightly different flavour! People will love that!"Quote:
Originally Posted by ASkellington
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07-16-2023, 11:58 PMsharknado
- less brain-dead time sinks for gathering/crafting professions, at least for people that want to have them but do not go all in with crafting gear on patch day
- expanded options to farm relic weapons and gear that actually looks good and you can choose upfront
- graphics/lighting updates should also affect character models and the weapons they use. Some fuzzy glow around a weapon right now looks tragic and is "invisible" when in combat. Simple "whole weapon glows very bright" looks way better in such cases.
- remove freecure
- rename cure 1,2,3 to names matching their role and function
- WHM doesn't need yet another white bland dress and a stick...Check High Inquisitor Whitemane if you need inspiration.
- Require job stones to ARR-based jobs past some level
- more value from zone mob farming and FATEs (wherever it's alt job exp, some resources/currency).
- more value from side quests and zone completion.
- FIFO marketboard, at least for resources, craft/gather job orders, "help" board. Countermeasure the need too constant undercutting/automated undercutting.
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07-17-2023, 01:47 AMRaikaiAs much as I'd appreciate different silhouettes for the Artifact sets, they seem to be fixated on the idea that every iteration should kind of match the same vibe.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharknado
Unless they decide to go somewhere else with 7.0 (which would make sense, since new beginnings and all), I'd think we'll still get the very same variation of white dress for WHM, the same Baroque garb for RDM, Thavnairian themed outfit for DNC etc.
If it depended on me, I'd keep the iconic color scheme and just design based on a specific context like for example: "Hm, how a White Mage would dress in the Burn wastelands?" or something like that. -
07-19-2023, 01:00 AMDarko
-Aymeric: he's spent enough time languishing in Ishgard.
-move glamour change notifications out of System Messages
-a separate sound notification for duty finder
-separate background music and cutscene music options -
07-19-2023, 01:09 AMAsako
Take everything they done with Endwalker and do the complete opposite. Easily the worst expansion they have released to date. Shame too because the initial story 6.0 to 6.1 was handled well. Everything else has been absolutely shocking bad.
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07-21-2023, 07:34 AMShurrikhanI doubt this would be very productive. Nearly all potential outcomes, decisions, balance states, etc., are bad; what would be 'good' is a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what's possible. Shooting into the dark any which way so long as it's not the same trajectory as Endwalker would most likely do worse than Endwalker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asako
And that's coming from someone who thinks that overall the game went to crap with 5.0 and has only gotten worse since.
Now, I do absolutely think that 7.0 needs to make sweeping fundamental changes before the opportunity (with this new arc) passes them by, but I do think those need to be deliberate per whatever new vision they take for the game, rather than merely reactionary (solely trying to undo recent gameplay degradation).
Are there some changes that should be reverted, especially with improvements to "solve" the "issues" those changes were meant to address? Absolutely.
Let's take melee movement consequent to differing AoEs, for instance.
One of the main pain points previous to changing nearly all conal AoEs into radial AoEs was that those who could not rapidly change targets would have to always move with the tank and out of melee-occluding AoEs respective to their target. As such, despite that conal AoEs had 60% more reach than circular AoEs, many a controller-based player found them annoying to leverage. The cost was that melee lost any sense of repositioning during AoEs, something that used to be at least as vital as positionals during single-target attacks. That greatly reduced a form of APM and engagement that didn't even require buttons. But there was a much, much less intrusive alternative fix possible for that: simply no longer require conal AoEs to have a target; that way they could be aimed according to player facing rather than solely according to player-to-target angle, removing the disproportionate penalty faced by those who couldn't simply click on a new target.
Or take positionals themselves.
One of the largest pain-points for positionals is that what the player sees isn't that close to what the server sees at the time our skills are actuated. This is hellish in PvP, too, of course, but at least in PvP there exists some reason not to let a lagging player melee and enemy from what would appear to the victim to be from 10+ yalms away. In PvE, though, there's no victim of that exchange if we were to, say, move the positional check to a quarter-second earlier and then repeat it twice more each quarter-second after and count success among any of the three as a positional success. In that way, whether we successfully reacted to our visuals OR predicted what the server would read, we still get our success.
The other is the "bloat" of True North. While it ultimately offers far more room for optimization than, say, the likes of Surecast or Arm's Length as knockback-negation, its impact obviously isn't going to be as noticeable to most players, and most seem to feel that rather than the skill offering some new featural capacity, it exists just to apologize its way out of a core mechanic (those positionals). But, we could as easily just replace it with the passive that allows us to bank, say, 4 charges of guaranteed positionals, where those charges are infrequently generated per X successful positionals, Y GCDs' time, or some combination of the two (success and time). Whatever -- so long as it costs no buttons, wastes virtually no successes, and just generally feels plenty smooth. That would also make it so that, unlike the remaining actions you could correctly position during True North, no successful positionals wholly go to waste unless capped (with only one such free positional per 15 seconds or so, overall). Therein you'd have a less button-costly and slightly more intuitive solution that'd also smoothly allow for, say, Monk to gain back its positionals on most skills instead of having only two of them. -
07-21-2023, 07:35 AMShurrikhan
WIP. (Still editing my list... and may replace it with a Google Doc link for prettier/more readable formatting. The actual thing is... really quite long.)
Some highlights for now:
Inventory un-bloating and greater customization.- Materia replaced with the Junction system.
Gear now carries only 3 Secondary Stats: Will, Speed, and Break.
However, each is versatile; the Junction system allows players to determine exactly how they want to make use of each stat.
(These are spitball examples, not exhaustive.)Will can increase %Throughput, %Mitigation, or %MP restoration.
Speed can increase Periodic Damage, GCD Speed, or Movement Speed (atop reducing the cooldown of Sprint and offering it additional partial charges).
Break can increase Critical Hit Chance, Critical Hit Bonus, or Evasion (chance to reduce an incoming attack's damage by 25%, occurring after and stacking with parry and block, but also able to affect magic damage).
Players can set up Junction Plates to determine what effects to prioritize to what thresholds and into what effect(s) to (equally) dump whatever of each Secondary Stat remain. Yes, in this example, Direct Hit has been removed, since it is an utter bloat stat. - Raid currencies consolidated, with purchasing permissions being moved from the arrangement of pages instead to achievements.
Rather than having 5 separate item drops from Savage Raids to differentiate what players can buy as they progress, there is now just one item drop per raid tier, stored within Currency, and one's clear progress instead determines what you can buy. Once you clear Floor 2, you can buy anything Floor 2's Pages would be able to purchase. Etc., etc.
Further alt-friendliness changes (+ continued inventory un-bloating)- Dungeon gear sets are now all dyable and those that are mere redyes of another set have been renamed and now carry the stats and affinities of both Gear Classes.
For instance, an otherwise identical Casting and Healing set would be renamed, be usable by both Casters and Healers, and carry both Mind and Intelligence, and an otherwise identical Striking and Scouting or Striking and Maiming or Scouting and Aiming set, etc., etc., would be usable by the jobs of both gear classes and would carry both the relevant primary Power stats.
- All EXP rates increased by 30%, with MSQ experience reduced in compensation, but the %EXP bonus from pre-order earrings has been removed; they're now just nice in that you don't have to replace them and can use them across all Armor Sets up until the latest expansion's starting level. (Maybe a ring will also be offered to retain that pre-order incentive, but likewise purely at the level of convenience rather than grind-reduction.)
- Buying any item with weekly tomes now unlocks that same piece across all other jobs to be purchasable with uncapped tomes.
Many general QoL improvements added.- Enemy AoE actuation times are now more consistent. All AoEs led by a cast will now actuate their snapshot precisely upon end of cast.
- In PvE, the actual queuing 'moment' has been moved up by 0.2 seconds, and all actions which check for a position will triple-check, repeating every 0.2 seconds twice after that initial moment, and taking the best of the two. For instance, if a Rear positional skill were actuated just as a boss were to be forcibly spun in starting a new mechanic but 0.2 seconds prior the attacker would have been correctly positioned (and therefore appear, on their screen, to have done correctly), that will count as a successful positional.
- Enemies may now temporarily expand or flip their hit zones, including by becoming omnipositional, during certain mechanics. Bosses that jump to the edge of the arena, for instance, may expand their Flanks to encompass most of their Front and flip the remainder of that Front to count as Rear, or may just temporarily guarantee positionals regardless of attack angle.
- Glamour Collection. Unlimited glamour count, and any gear you spiritbind is added to that collection automatically and for free, account-wide. You can also find any search for any glamour you have or do not yet have and see concise information on from where to get it.
- Appearance data is no longer attached to gear, but instead to purely appearance slots (for head, chest, hands, ring 1, ring 2, etc.) stored job-by-job. Upgrading an item therefore no longer requires that one replace its glamour; because gear and glamour are now separate, the latter persists regardless.
- All actions may now be queued, including ground-targeting actions, even if casted.
- Server confirmation no longer resets the ~0.6s timer after actuating any action before another action can be used (which previously caused each action to have its "animation lock" or "truly global cooldown" to be increased by one's roundtrip ping).
- A new class of actions, called Techniques, now ignores even the above "animation lock" and can thereby be used even in the middle of another action's animation. These include Sprint, all pet actions, and certain other basically null-animation actions.
- Monk regains positionals on all ST skills (minus SSS) and regains traditional ramp-up, but in a revised form that does away with the need for Form Shift and slightly revitalizes Chakra.
Rather than increasing potency, Monk's positionals now causes the affected skill to have a 10% greater critical hit chance. Moreover, Monk may now start directly in any form, but is now balanced around a new Trait, Flowing Fists, which increases the critical hit chance bonus of a successful positional by a further 20% per different form used in the past 2 GCDs. E.g., if rotating all three forms, you'd have a 50% crit bonus at all times, but rotating just Dragon Kick and Bootshine together would drop that by 20% per GCD until left with just the base 10%. Skills used while in Perfect Balance always count as 'different' forms. As such, MNK would again take a couple GCDs to ramp up, much like in late Stormblood, but also would have full reason to have all its single-target action buttons even outside of Perfect Balance, and could do away with the bloat of Form Shift.
While we're at it, we'll revise MNK's Chakra expenditure to consume 1-7 Chakra for varying effects, where 5 is usually the optimal point, but all have use, and we'll have Monk regenerate one Chakra per half-GCD automatically while the GCD is not cooling, forgoing the need for Meditation now that one could use their Chakra attack earlier.
Near-reversions and similar changes to certain fundamentals that focus on maximizing enjoyable engagement rather than merely minimizing annoyance.
- Anything which previously offered nuance or engagement and was removed solely because it could be annoying (rather than to make room for nuances it previously precluded) has been returned, but generally with its pain-points fixed in ways that do not sacrifice engagement.
Some examples:
- The repositioning required during melee AoEs through rotation of conal and radial AoEs has been returned. However, conal and linear AoEs no longer require a target; instead, they check the number of viable (not CCed, reflecting, or invulnerable) targets within both character facing and facing towards the current target and use the greater of the two, removing the need to frequently retarget in order to optimize line of attack while dodging AoEs that'd block parts of melee movement and/or dealing with not-great tank movement.
- Shadowfang returned as a rotational element of NIN; Goring Blade returned as a rotational element of PLD. However, Fight or Flight now allows for you next unprepared combo action within 5 seconds to grant its full effect without requiring its prior combo action. Blade of Valor will now consume existing Goring Blade duration to extend its duration to up to 30 seconds.
- 60s and 90s raid buffs have been returned, but certain skills have been made slightly more bankable in order to better leverage them.
- Where singular filler actions are especially prevalent, such as on healers or Bard, DoT durations have been reduced nearer to their original durations (e.g., 21 and 30s for Bard DoTs, with Iron Jaws removed for the bloat it is, and healer DoTs reduced to 18-24s).
- Some charges removed where they otherwise pigeon-holed an excessive portion of consequential play to just 15s per 2 minutes, with alternate means of providing the given flexibility.
- Jobs' early experience simplification rolled back through a return of traits that allow initial durations to start at lower values better fit to the kits and gameplay at that time, and through a shifting of abilities' acquisition levels into earlier levels (e.g., a current level 60 kit by 40).
- Materia replaced with the Junction system.