FFXIV Dancer 5.0 (In-depth Job Concept)

[Brightshadow]

I applaud this concept. It is clear that you have thought things through. Not everything may be as fine tuned as it may look, but this is what a Job speculation should look like, simple, to the point, and easy to follow. Personally I can't say if the aspect would work on the game as is, but with some tweaking I don't see why it couldn't. I definitely get the concept you are going for. I do have a few things that stuck out to me.

The first is your Raise skill, Encore. Personally, I'd say it should fall more in line with the other Raise skills. If Dancer was going to be like Bard and have a myriad of support skills i'd say leave it as is, but they are meant to be the healer and their Raise should work the same.

The second is your stances. They seem fine as is, and truthfully I'd have to look more in depth to see a bigger issue, but your use of Sambas and Jigs seems off. You get 3 of each, which is fine, I guess, but the timing of when you get each set feels a bit unbalanced, not bad, just slightly lopsided' think WAR from HW onward, they lose balance pre 54. Remember that each Job gets their main gimmick at 30 if not sooner; Machinist being the exception at 40. I would just suggest moving the stances up a little.

With your Traits. The one called Closed Position, while good in theory might cause issue, since the system determining what is considered an "encounter" might get muddled. Maybe make it reduce the damage you'd take by 25% or if you kill them you absorb their HP, something akin to that. Also the Trait Enhanced Mind? I thought their main stat was Dex? Shouldn't it be Enhanced Dexterity?

I appreciate all your support and ideas for this job concept and I have taken most of these ideas and fixed them; here is some feedback of the changes, or why I didn't change a certain aspect.

1.) I had trouble thinking of a raise skill for a TP job so I decided to make them use their flourish resource since the MP cost of raise is pretty high for the other healers; however, after thinking it over I decided to make it more steamline and instead I made it similar to the other raise skills I just made them use TP instead of MP.

2.) The stances are a high level; because I want DNC's weaving between sambas and jigs at higher levels. you will have to stance dance between the two stances depending on whether the party needs AOE healing (saber dance) or main tank healing (fan dance). At lower levels I don't want to hinder them with the stances, thus I want them to get accustomed to swapping between jigs and sambas without the stances first, then at higher levels with the stances.

3.) The main gimmick of DNC isn't the stances, it's the DOTH (Damage Overtime Healing) and regen healing stacks, think of the stances somewhat similar to enochian.

4.) Changed up closed position, thanks for the suggestion I had a hard time coming up with a idea for it, but I think a defensive bonus is just what they need in the frontlines. And I added a degradation upon hitreceived to prevent abuse.

5.) Sorry about the Enhanced Mind lol, that was an oversight of my original submission on reddit. I had them using MND gear originally, but I really don't feel like it fits them.

Sticking them in Scouting gear with traits to 'fix' their set up and convert Dex to Mind seems very disjointed and I don't see SE ever doing this.
I like the concept, but we're much more likely to see Dancer as a utility DPS.

Besides, we could do with more feminine DPS and more masculine healers. Perhaps a Calculator as a healer?

Why not? SE added NIN to DEX gear when it was primarily a Range Gear, there is no reason why it couldn't work that I see.

If we are going by promo art, Monk, Bard, Red Mage, and Black Mage are all females. But also every healer is female too... and every tank male... dammit SE, at least the DPS are diverse.

Lol there is a male & woman in the concept art I added, and that was a DNC concept from FFXI a game also made from SE.

[Eloah]

Lol there is a male & woman in the concept art I added, and that was a DNC concept from FFXI a game also made from SE.

Lol, I just meant the concept art for the XIV Jobs. Admittedly, Dancer does seem like they'd make the concept art depict a female.

Also on the topic, why does only WHM depict a lala, its not even a lala job. Both lala jobs don't even depict a lala... well the thaumaturge art is one so half win, lol. But no SCH, T.T