If you could change one thing about your class, what would it be?

[Linadae]

Wander's Minuet Wander's Minuet Wander's Minuet Wander's Minuet

I can't say it enough times but that skill just doesn't belong on Bard. It doesn't fit. It doesn't work with the class traits or skills. I have enough trouble fighting the boss and latency I don't need to fight my job mechanics as well.

[basketofseals]

I'd remove Luminiferous Aether and make Royal Road give you 5% of your max mana. It'd make getting bad cards feel better, and it'd separate WHM and AST a bit more.

[rjspencer4]

I would remove the parry requirement from reprisal.

[Warkupo]

Just... Elemental Damage in general. In most Final Fantasy titles you'd expect the Fire enemy to have a weakness to water while tanking fire damage like... it was made of fire or something. Dragoons are supposed to be expert dragon-slayers, but their lances and spears aren't actually any better suited against winged beasts. I get that this makes balancing classes a lot simpler and you're never going to be stuck in a situation where you're shunned from the undead dungeon because you're a dark knight, but I also feel like it takes a strategic element out of the series.

Beyond that, I hate how absolutely reliant we are in this game in having a healer. It's kind of hard to feel very powerful when any dungeon monster can lay you flat because you simply can't take them down fast enough. I'd prefer the dps to be a bit tankier and the tanks to be a bit dps-er.

[Shurrikhan]

I was fully expectimg Dia to return in some form with HW, verses even bigger rocks.

If I were to change something, I would allow AST to change stances in combat. I was locked into Noct with a SCH co-healer in a Levi trial the other day, and muscle memory fought me in trying not to break the Scholar's superior shielding. It's frustrating for both parties as I can't pull my own weight as I'm missing two healing skills because our tanks were too eager.

To be honest, Arcanist still seems as good a choice for Dia as White Mage. In XIV 1.0 it was classified as Astral damage, rather than Holy. Umbral spells and light/dark neutral magics like Ruin have since been absorbed into the Unaspected category, so I'd have assumed the same would be done with Dia.

There are honestly quite a few changes I'd like to see to shielding systems in general, but I'm not sure what changes short of something universal would really aid with Noct shielding. You can't replace a larger shield anyways, I thought? Or does Nocturnal Field automatically override Galvanized regardless of the remaining barrier? I haven't had a chance/reason to test it yet, seeing as I always go Diurnal unless greater max eHP is needed. It's usually card overrides that annoy me.

On topic:
Skill and Spell Speed changed to Haste, which increases Attack Speed, DoT damage, mana regained from MP-regenerating abilities.
Several abilities now scale with the GCD, including Cleric Stance, Defiance, Deliverance, Transpose, Wanderer's Minuet, Gauss Barrel, Geirskogul, Grit, and Darkside.
The TP refresh now ticks at 50 TP per GCD. TP bonus effects reduced by 20% and increase the TP refreshed by each affected player's TP tick.

Monk:
- Meditation recast now scales with GCD.

Bard:
- Wanderer's Minuet locked-in duration reduced from 15 seconds to 10 or 7.5 seconds, scaling with Haste (always 4 or 3 GCDs). [A few more modifications I'd like to make to it, but this would help immensely.]

Machinist:
- Same, for starters. Would like to differentiate them a lot more eventually.

Astrologian:
- Can no longer replace a card of greater weight (remaining seconds * <% potency>). Weight is determined at 1 point per remaining second at base strength, modified by potency modifiers (1.5 per second for Enhanced, .5 per second for Expanded).
- OR: Each player may carry up to two card buffs at a time.

[Khalithar]

Main class is drk, the one thing I would change is the stance with the great sword. I can't stand it.

[Shurrikhan]

Change Mnk's Meditation from weaponskill to Ogcd.

That would mean we're putting out a Forbidden Chakra every 5 GCDs... Apart from when unable to weave it in atop other oGCDs due to clipping, that's about an extra 60 potency per second. Overpowered much?

You'd be hitting the same button literally every GCD to play optimally. I don't envy that key's lifespan, nor the gameplay style that would create.

[Teraluna]

ASTRO - (after my post on the rng card mechanism, you know what's coming )

Get rid of the card rng gimmick. Selection of a class's abilities should in no way be reliant on rng. This is extremely poor.
Then they introduce rng mitigation - to mitigate the rng they introduced......Just what?
Abandon this ill-thought through gimmick, replace with intentional ability selections

Oh, and refrain in future from just copy/pasting a list of skills from the whm and calling it a new class.

[Tint]

I would remove Cleric Stance. Yes, i am THAT kind of healer xP

[Dzian]

Bard. I agree with wanderers minuet. Hate the bow mage feel which is why I do play it anymore.

Ninja. Nothing terribly huge here all I'd do is make shukuchi a teleport style move kinda like aethereal manipulation would then avoid dots when you move through them like blm does.

Paladin. Simply make mitigation more important and impactfull on fights. But that's more of a content change than a class change. Content needs to move away from dps checks and more towards mitigation / healer checks.