Role Breaking Abilities?

[randysquirrel]

More utility would be nice, but we already have some, and the majority of the playerbase never use any of it at all. Can honestly count on one hand the amount of DF BLMs I've seen ever apoc someone.

Melee stun could've been better if they hadn't attached damage to it, as it currently stands, any time you might actually need to stun something, it has long gone resistant to it from people just using these in their dps rotation

so while more utility might make things more interesting, can we really expect them to go down this route when we still have brds that never play any songs at all

[Connor]

More utility would be nice, but we already have some, and the majority of the playerbase never use any of it at all. Can honestly count on one hand the amount of DF BLMs I've seen ever apoc someone.

so while more utility might make things more interesting, can we really expect them to go down this route when we still have brds that never play any songs at all

I think the lack of the utility might be something that exasperates this problem. In all but the hardest content most utility is so limited that it's hard to feel like it makes a difference, especially for the majority of jobs (Bard and Machinist excluded of course).

I mean, nobody's going to ask a BLM why they haven't been using Apocatasis, or why a Summoner hasn't been using Eye for an Eye because they don't feel like it really makes a difference ("why should I buff the tank's magic defense when I could just dps and kill the enemy faster?"). Obviously there's always going to be players who ignore many of their abilities, but this is going to happen regardless.

I think having more varied utility options that aren't as limited as they are now would really encourage people to use them. Unless I'm missing something Clemency is currently the only utility option in the game that's easily available and on the GCD, and even then it costs close to 50% of the Paladin's limited MP pool.