Making Jobs Rotationally Easier in 4.0

[Shurrikhan]

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Just makes you wonder: why they didn't include Wrath stacks as a Warrior level 30 trait in the first place if they ultimately wanted shared stacks with or without Defiance and without any added identity in the form of a second stance, and why they think it'd simplify anything to call the two stack forms by the same name; if anything it just reduces one indicator of which stack you're in.

Still not sure what influence stance switching would have on additional skills, at least as they are now. What would it matter if you Featherfoot, Awareness, etc., in Deliverance instead of Defiance, directly speaking?

[Ultimatecalibur]

Still not sure what influence stance switching would have on additional skills, at least as they are now. What would it matter if you Featherfoot, Awareness, etc., in Deliverance instead of Defiance, directly speaking?

Something that was left out of shao32's quote of the interview is that they are going to add UI elements that make it easier to track various "core" abilities.

The one example was the Monk having 3 orbs somewhere on the screen to represent Greased Lightning. Another was a UI element that would show when Darkside was active.

It is full likely that each tank will have a UI element that tell the player which stance (if any) they are currently in and other UI element actions to help track things like "Origin" (Wrath/Abandon) stacks without having to look at a small buff marker.

[Shurrikhan]

Something that was left out of shao32's quote of the interview is that they are going to add UI elements that make it easier to track various "core" abilities.

The one example was the Monk having 3 orbs somewhere on the screen to represent Greased Lightning. Another was a UI element that would show when Darkside was active.

It is full likely that each tank will have a UI element that tell the player which stance (if any) they are currently in and other UI element actions to help track things like "Origin" (Wrath/Abandon) stacks without having to look at a small buff marker.

That much sounds pretty good, though I'm faintly wary of poor art assets and screen clutter. (No more so than with any added skill and its associated effects, though, of course.)

Off-topic: "Origin"? Really? I mean, at least it's not bastardized German or English this time, but... what is the lore to that? (Yes I saw Shao's post.)

[Ultimatecalibur]

Off-topic: "Origin"? Really? I mean, at least it's not bastardized German or English this time, but... what is the lore to that?

Taken from the reddit post:

Note: the name of this new stack will be totally different in the En version because most of the names of the warrior moves in the japanese client share the word "origin". For example, inner beast is Soul of the origin(原初の魂）, Raw intuiition is Instinct of the origin (原初の直感) and the LB3 for warrior is Land of the origin(原初の大地) and that's why Yoshida called the new stack for both stances "origin(原初) stacks "