Making Jobs Rotationally Easier in 4.0

[Brannigan]

Cover and Tempered Will need fixing way before Awareness. Both are incredibly situational, and useless in most fights.

Cover and Tempered Will are worth tweaking and keeping imo. Both of them have the potential to be interesting/fun utility skills and at Cover at least is an iconic skill. Awareness doesn't have that stuff going for it, and if they're trying to cut out some questionable abilities I can think it's the best place to start (for paladin, anyway. One Ilm Punch is the actual best place to start).

After that they should combine Unleash and Abyssal Drain kekekekeke. It also occurs to me that DA Power Slash could use some tuning up so they could stick something on that sucker. Power Slash in general just feels like garbage to use since you have to skip a Syphon Strike. Maybe drop Spinning Edge and just buff up the enmity on PS to compensate or make HS->PS a 2 hit combo or something.


Also about the whole paladin on alexander prime thing: do Sentinel->HG->add phase (you can rampart and stuff on the general) -> Sentinel -> Rampart -> Rampart (judgment crystal phase)-> Sentinel (teleport 1) -> Rampart (teleport 2) -> HG (Scourge/Chastening). That should work. You should probably bring a mnk though. Paladin can do it but it's way more convenient to just use dark knight. That way you get to bring a ninja and just not worry about anything.

[DaulBan]

After that they should combine Unleash and Abyssal Drain kekekekeke. It also occurs to me that DA Power Slash could use some tuning up so they could stick something on that sucker. Power Slash in general just feels like garbage to use since you have to skip a Syphon Strike. Maybe drop Spinning Edge and just buff up the enmity on PS to compensate or make HS->PS a 2 hit combo or something.

PS is supposed to be something you don't want to use as a DRK. The loss of the Syphon Strike is supposed to sting, it's not an unfortunately accident that your main MP draw outside of BW is on your DPS combos. They don't need to buff PS combos, you just need to use fewer of them one way or another if MP is such an issue that a PS is a crisis moment.

[Instrumentality]

One Ilm Punch is the actual best place to start).

I am legit the saddest person alive every time I read this (I'm just mildly sad and prone to hyperbole at midnight). This skill is incredible for pvp and we're going to probably lose it because they can't figure out what they want out of it in PvE.

Awareness can head right on out the door, though.