Extremely nitpicky job "changes" I want

Most of these aren't really changes at all, but instead consist of changing the names/animations of existing abilities or swapping the names, and functions of existing abilities so that they feel a little more thematically coherent.

WAR
Swap the names of Storm's Eye, and Storm's Path. The eye of a storm is supposedly relatively calm so Storm's Eye should be the GCD you get the heal from whereas Strom's Path is where you should get the damage up buff from because that is where the destruction happens during a storm.

MNK
Just swap the functionality of Form Shift, and Perfect Balance. This doesn't change MNK's rotation at all, but just swaps the functionality of existing abilities where you just press Form Shift to start your Blitz combos, and use Perfect Balance to kickstart you form combos.

MCH
Change the name, and animation of Hypercharge to something heat related like Ventilate or something. I feel like Hypercharge's name, animation, and sound design implies it has some interaction with the battery gauge. I also feel like Flamethrower could be reworked to be the AOE heat spender, and Auto Crossbow could maybe be added to the multitool rotation, but I'm not sure because Auto Crossbow is kinda just satisfying to spam in dungeons.

Also Barrel Stabilizer seems like it should be a Resemble upgrade, and should be called Analysis considering how it's used in PVP which means MCH needs another heat related button that grants free heat gauge.

These "inconsistencies" kinda bug me a little more than they probably should, but details do matter. Are there any other job actions that kinda feel 'thematically janky' to anyone else?

Along these lines, it bothers me that on GNB the animation that looks like Draw is named Bloodfest, and the animation that looks like Bloodfest is named Double Down (Bloodfest being Seifer's Limit Break from FFVIII). Too bad they didn't think of naming it Draw and Junction until the PvP rework.

MCH: please stop doing 30 flips every time i push 1-2-3...
its a gun... you ain't gotta do that.. in fact you sacrifice footing and put everyone down range in danger..
put the flip animation of one of the ability's with a 30 sec CD..

SMN SCH: a book? really? you disgust me, get out of my sight.. NEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRDDD.

Turn WAR's aura off when out of combat. It's obnoxious.

Flamethrower - used to generate heat, now doesn't.
Shotgun - seemingly generates more heat than a flamethrower and a rapid fire machine gun.

Wildfire PvP - bomb that explodes on everyone near target
Wildfire PvE - bomb that only blows up the target

Machinist logic is sound.

Ideally for Samurai?... Combine the following skills in some way shape or form to solve bloat and making room for new/better skills in the future

• Guren / Senei
• Shoha I / Shoha II
• Ikishoten / Ogi Namikiri
• Shinten / Kyuten

- Quality of Life changes
Meditate refreshes ( not generates ) Fuka / Fugetsu buffs. Guren reach/width increased slightly due to the gigantic mobs we have. Remove Cooldown off of Shoha, makes weaving it into Raid-buffs slightly more user-friendly.

- Personal Nitpicking?
Turn Tenka Goken back into a Cone, keep it non-targetable and increase its radius/reach compared to its original. I hate... everything becoming a darn Circle...

I believe this would improve Samurai. Though I'm pretty sure I left one big thing out that I wished to see returned, though I can't tell what... hmm.......

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Originally Posted by CelestiCer

Ideally for Samurai?... Combine the following skills in some way shape or form to solve bloat and making room for new/better skills in the future

• Guren / Senei
• Shoha I / Shoha II
• Ikishoten / Ogi Namikiri
• Shinten / Kyuten

- Quality of Life changes
Meditate refreshes ( not generates ) Fuka / Fugetsu buffs. Guren reach/width increased slightly due to the gigantic mobs we have. Remove Cooldown off of Shoha, makes weaving it into Raid-buffs slightly more user-friendly.

- Personal Nitpicking?
Turn Tenka Goken back into a Cone, keep it non-targetable and increase its radius/reach compared to its original. I hate... everything becoming a darn Circle...

I believe this would improve Samurai. Though I'm pretty sure I left one big thing out that I wished to see returned, though I can't tell what... hmm.......

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Agree with all of them minus Shinten Kyuten merge. It makes sense for Guren-Senei and the Shohas given the long cooldown and resource requirement, but Shinten Kyuten would be nice for on-the-fly decisionmaking - well, at least if Kyuten becomes two-target neutral, at least.

Rest you said is spot on.

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Originally Posted by CelestiCer

• Guren / Senei
• Shoha I / Shoha II
• Ikishoten / Ogi Namikiri
• Shinten / Kyuten

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The thing is, a lot these are basically Single Target and AoE versions of each other... I think the only way they could realistically combine them would be to raise the AoE ones potency to match the single target skills.



Anyways, for other nitpicks...

Rename the Disciple of Magic base classes

Conjurer should be the base class for Summoner/Scholar
Arcanist should be the base class for Black Mage
Thaumaturge should be the base class for White Mage

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Originally Posted by mallleable

WAR
Swap the names of Storm's Eye, and Storm's Path. The eye of a storm is supposedly relatively calm so Storm's Eye should be the GCD you get the heal from whereas Strom’s Path is where you should get the damage up buff from because that is where the destruction happens during a storm

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I'd rather they revert the surging tempest name to storm’s eye. Warrior’s offence and defence seesaw is really encapsulated by maintaining a buff called storm’s eye - ie the equilibrium or balance point and tying nicely into warrior’s walking natural disaster imagery.

This bothered me when I noticed on Red Mage.
Embolden doesn't allow for two full melee combos at level 90, but does at level 80.
They should just either axe Resolution, or change it heavily. we don't need two red finishers.
I think Resolution should be a hard cast meant to be used first in a two melee burst. Impact could change into it, while Scorch can still be on Jolt.
Or just increase the Red Mage's personal buff timer a bit.

It still annoys me that Wildfire's tooltip description and effect have no matching animation. "Covers target's body in a slow-burning pitch." No part of the ability actually feels like that's what is happening. And then Detonator is just not satisfying. It feels like a little steam pod with underwhelming hisses and pops.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Turn WAR's aura off when out of combat. It's obnoxious.

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This, for the love of hydaelyn

More about gear than the job, but the reaper 90 artifact hat? Let the /visor command remove the mask and just leave the hat. It's a nice hat, I'd love to wear it on my alt, but I hate the mask.

I want old, weird Cover/s back. I want to share HG by it. Or I want it to give some mitigation to the poor sap I am covering.

Paradox has been a great addition to BLM..... except in the niche cases where you fucked up your rotation/timing and you try casting it as your timers fall off. Without AF/UI up, Paradox does not give a stack of anything, so you just sit there wondering why your F4 isn't casting.

Paradox needs to be able to apply something.

Change the Souleater animation, because I never liked the jumping/spinning animation.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Paradox has been a great addition to BLM..... except in the niche cases where you fucked up your rotation/timing and you try casting it as your timers fall off. Without AF/UI up, Paradox does not give a stack of anything, so you just sit there wondering why your F4 isn't casting.

Paradox needs to be able to apply something.

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If you mess up and essentially become unaspected as the cast finishes, what exactly is it supposed to give you as a spell that can be used in either element? It's not Fire I anymore.

I want Dia to add a def down effect to undead and demons.

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Originally Posted by Limecat

I want Dia to add a def down effect to undead and demons.

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[Monkey's Paw] Granted, but all bosses no longer count as undead/demon type.

1. Reaper
Would like an option to remove the transformation; just keep the aura/glow instead. Make it an option in character settings, not something shared between players so it doesn't increase the game's data traffic over the network.

2. Transparency for Battle effects
Add a transparency slider for OWN, PARTY, and ALL Battle effects. This way I can still see them all but not be blinded during hunts/alliance raids

I wish FSH had a separate "idle mode" where the fish don't actually bite, so I can just sit on my box with my line out in the water actually chilling/relaxing instead of catching and releasing every 7-10 seconds.
Hell, it wouldn't even have to be part of the FSH kit. It could just be a separating sitting pose near the water for all I care. I just really like the fishing pose but don't want to deal with how often the fish spawn.

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Originally Posted by mallleable

I also feel like Flamethrower could be reworked to be the AOE heat spender

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I feel like Flamethrower should be a heat generator and I'm forever confused about why it's not.

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Originally Posted by typeaxiom

I feel like Flamethrower should be a heat generator and I'm forever confused about why it's not.

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The funny part is that it was, back in Stormblood.

If it's nitpicky, I'm certainly bothered by the actions that are copy paste a single target action, but with aoe (e.g. Shoha II). Just either:

a) Make the AoE action mechanics different, so it warrants being a separate action.
b) Merge with the single target action and add the AoE falloff (e.g. Saber Dance). Doing this doesn't change the job depth at all (not even that the AoE rotation is really meaningful anyway) and has the benefit of freeing keybinds.

Also conditional actions not being a button sequence with their original (e.g. Devilment > Starfall Dance). Which is really weird because they actually did this to some actions like Seraph/Consolation, but apparently forgot a whole another bunch.

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

If you mess up and essentially become unaspected as the cast finishes, what exactly is it supposed to give you as a spell that can be used in either element? It's not Fire I anymore.

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That's my whole point. It can just be designed to give something. There's no reason it couldn't be coded to give 1 AF stack if unaspected. At least gets timers rolling again, and you can Transpose in a pinch.

Just remembered another nitpick, but swap the names of Asylum, and Sacred Soil. Asylum sounds way more technical, and more suited for SCH, and Sacred Soil sounds more naturey, and more appropriate for WHM.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

[…]b) Merge with the single target action and add the AoE falloff (e.g. Saber Dance). Doing this doesn't change the job depth at all (not even that the AoE rotation is really meaningful anyway) and has the benefit of freeing keybinds[…]

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The only concern that I could think of when doing this is, it should be done in moderation. We wouldn’t want to merge everything because the ST variants can still be useful in places where there are multiple targets but warrants single targeting i.e. PotD/HoH/EO higher floors.

my nitpicking changes:

BRD: bring back flaming arrow & wide volley
DRG: bring back ring of thorns.
SMN: bring back SHADOWFLARE. I miss when SMN was "DoT mage"...lol