Desired changes for every dps job on 7.0

General
- Just completely remove positionals at this point, please.

Dragoon
- Idk, it's getting reworked.

Monk
- Disciplined Fist increased from 15s to 18s
- Form Shift before lvl 50
- Elixir Field upgraded to an action that looks visually pleasing
- Anatman changed to grant one solar or lunar nadi (60 second recast still)

Samurai
- Kaiten back
- Ikishoten changes to Ogi Namikiri during Ogi Namikiri Ready

Ninja
- Remove Huraijin and make Armor Crush grant Huton

Reaper
- Rearrange actions to fit 10 or 20 levels lower so the job doesn't suck at lower levels

Bard
- Songs don't need a target
- Sidewinder grants 2 stacks of Repertoire
- Barrage works on AoE and grants Shadowbite Ready
- Warden's Paeon grants Straight Shot Ready and Shadowbite Ready
- Downtime action that fills the Soul Gauge and/or regenerates the party's MP
- Weaponskill that costs 20 Soul Gauge (but doesn't consume all the Soul Gauge) and - deals fixed damage that is higher than Refulgen Arrow (340 potency or something)

Machinist
- Automaton Queen changes to Queen Overdrive during the effect
- Noise Blaster and Flash added in some way as actions

Dancer
- Standard Step, Technical Step and Tillana have 25y range (or give us a single target 15y action so we can measure the distance)

Black Mage
- Paradox is instant cast during fire phase
- 2 charges on Leylines
- Thundercloud procs stack, increasing the damage of the DoT applied

Summoner
- 3 Aetherflow charges
- 30s or 45s second DoT and AoE DoT using Aetherflow
- Ramuh, Shiva and Leviathan during Phoenix Phase

Red Mage
- 4th Finisher
- Verraise increases the MP cost of the next Verraise by 2400 for 60s
- AoE proc for Verthunder II or Veraero II
- Enchanted Reprise costs 20 White and Black Mana and grants a Mana Stack

As a Summoner, I want complete freedom for Radiant Aegis. How it is now it animation locks and you can't use it with your big summons out. I'd rather eat the raid wide because I misused my charges of my shield, then it being blocked because of the aforementioned issues with it.

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Originally Posted by Vandso

Red Mage
- 4th Finisher

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you're meme-ing.

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Originally Posted by Vandso

Red Mage
- Verraise increases the MP cost of the next Verraise by 2400 for 60s
- Enchanted Reprise costs 20 White and Black Mana and grants a Mana Stack

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Ah yes, let's punish the red mage for assisting healers when most of the party is dead. Enchanted Reprise still ain't gonna be worth it considering melee combo will still do more damage (1,120 potency vs 1,020), is faster (combined 5.2 seconds of GCD vs. 7.5 with three Reprises), and costs less mana (50 mana vs 60 mana). The only thing it will have is range, but like the loss of almost a whole GCD for less damage when red mage really doesn't have mobility issues, despite being the least mobile caster, is it worth it? Reprise needs something else to actually be useful.

As much as I’d love to have a party MP regen on Bard, Stormblood kinda put the devs off ever having something like that in the game. It just breaks the balance completely (apparently).

I feel like the Soul Gauge action wouldn’t be used very often. Apex lines up pretty perfectly with raid buffs when used properly, and a gauge spender would just interfere with having the gauge aligned properly. I do wish they’d do something to change that though; it feels pointless to me having an entire job gauge dedicated to a single ability (Scholar’s fairy gauge also comes to mind). The Soul Gauge currently feels like an afterthought.

I don’t see any reason why not to have Warden’s Paean grant a proc, but at the same I worry that it’s then just a dps tool which, completely kinda defeats the purpose of the ability. ‘Sorry you got doomed and the healer’s dead but I need my procs man’ would feel kinda bad. If it was still an actual gcd spell I could see the proc making more sense though as a kind of ‘compensation’ for the lost gcd from cleansing.

Lastly Barrage proc’ing Shadowbite feels like something they should’ve done ages ago lol. There’s nothing worse than popping buffs in a dungeon, start AoE’ing, no Shadowbite…still no Shadowbite…buffs have fallen off…cries lol. That said, I don’t know if making Barrage work on AoE itself (Ladonsbite) might make it too strong whenever there’s more than one enemy, so I’m not sure how that would work out

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Ninja
- Remove Huraijin and make Armor Crush grant Huton

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The main problem with this is that if you let huton drop most likely you're gonna have to break combo to get Huton back up if you're not on that part of the combo already with less dps as Hurajin is 200p while AC is 140 by itself

I personally would like Hyosho Ranryu to auto crit , the disparity between a non and a direct crit is massive and can be up to 100k

Drg: please don't rework us

A lot of these suggestions are adding unnecessary complexity to jobs without actually addressing any of the current issues wrong with them right now.

Personally I'd like:
Casters
New?: Actually Casts like BLM/RDM, personally I'd want it to be slightly more mobile then blm but not very mobile.
BLM: Stay the same! most fun job rn.
RDM: Add a shield utility that can target self or other player (helps them survive more, can also help team mates), barrier like 15%? stacks on a cooldown "ver-stoneskin"? lmao. Also wouldn't mind it getting a small ogcd aoe heal, Just don't punish red mage DPS wise, summoner is already are more mobile and useful just from that alone.
SMN: Idk Idc let it be the caster that's easy to use, I dont really like this job but it's fine for people who like it

Melee (Don't remove more positionals!)
Viper: Hopefully it feels diverse from other melee jobs, I kinda hope it has procs or just plays differently lol.
Samurai: Kaiten + Cone.
Ninja: Bring back old trick attack lol.
DRG: Hopefully the rework is good... no clue
MNK: Riddle of earth should be a quick CD on stacks again, weaken it if it's too strong.
Reaper: Don't really know don't really play the job.

Ranged
-In general buff utility and make it more important to have utility, these jobs will always have to deal less DPS then others... but at least make the jobs have stronger support and bring more to the table then the "1%" buff... Personally I think ranged are diverse and play fine dps wise.

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Originally Posted by VentVanitas

you're meme-ing.

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No I'm not. A 4th finisher would fit perfectly in his 20s buff window.

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Originally Posted by Ascended_Demon

Ah yes, let's punish the red mage for assisting healers when most of the party is dead.

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Res Mage is already punished by not doing damage for having a broken ability such as verraise. The idea would be to make it less broken and add more damage to their spells. Btw Enchanted Reprise is already useless, this is me trying to fix the problem.

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Originally Posted by Connor

I feel like the Soul Gauge action wouldn’t be used very often. Apex lines up pretty perfectly with raid buffs when used properly, and a gauge spender would just interfere with having the gauge aligned properly.

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That's the reason why I added the weaponskill I mentioned later, with that you would never have to use Apex Arrow outsite burst windows.

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Summoner
- Ramuh, Shiva and Leviathan during Phoenix Phase

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If nothing else, please give me this! :D

MCH:
-Either buff damage or give some utility back. It's the utility role, but outside of role actions (and Tactician, which might as well be a role action), it has none.
-Give back Blank Shot.
-Make Flamethrower worth using as a combat action rather than an emote.

dragoon: make the positionals having a stronger impact on gameplay and dmg

other than that: make one melee without any positionals for the people who want to play melee but cry about positionals all the time.

overall: make box hitboxes smaller we dont need 100% uptime. unmake bosses positioning themselves all the time its annoying

SCH: If it doesn't just get dumpstered outright, rework the Faerie Gauge. Have it accessible at earlier levels, give new abilities that use it, and have it grant additional effects to existing abilities.

MNK: Give prominent visual indicators on the job gauge for Disciplined Fist timer, and if you have the Leaden Fist buff active. NIN got it's Huton timer on it's gauge, so there's no reason why MNK should be left in the dust in this regard. Also, if they're going to commit to forgivability by allowing many jobs to keep their resources/combos upon death, then allow MNK to keep nadis on death. I also like the idea of changing Anatman to give an instant nadi on top of refreshing DF on a 60s cd.

MCH: Give me my ammunition back. Also a way to change split/slug/clean shots back to their non-heated animations. I prefer those to the silly looking flipping trick shots.

RDM: Anything that ties into their existing kit in new ways, rather than just another finisher.

SGE: Please don't take any of my kit away okay thanks.

DNC: Please don't take any of my kit away okay thanks. (Except change Improvisation to be an instant cast and gives the full shield on use, on top of it's other effects.)