A QoL/Balance Shortlist for DPS (Tanks/Healers only as additional context)

[Shurrikhan]

IMO it's a great spot to reintroduce the timer reduction Goggleskoggle used to have via some sort of ramp up ability. One that either gains power the longer Life of the Dragon is active, or per Nastrond use in the window.

Gains potency via one for conditions above, then converts the remaining timer in Nastrond into additional bonus damage upon use.

To be clear, I didn't mean that the use itself would be an output gain, just that getting back to an effective Life of the Dragon (or, better put, your next three uses of Nostrond) sooner, or just the added QoL there, might be a faint output increase?

Your idea there would work nicely too, though I'd have to tune the duration->potency conversion for the final hit. Not looking for any noticeable buffs; just polishing what needs it.

I mean, if I had my druthers, I'd turn the whole phase into the like of WoW's Insanity mechanic, whereby you get increasingly stronger but it drains increasingly quickly, with Nostrond and Life Surge both at their normal CDs, but able to be accelerated at cost of Life of the Dragon duration (Life Surge now Crit-Direct Hits to be comparable to Nostrond in single-target). You know, one of those gambit-and-gambit white-knuckle phases? I like those. But I doubt many a DRG player would, and DRG's among my less played jobs, so... I'm trying to restrain myself. In a 5.x ideas thread, sure. Here? Trying not to...

[Grimoire-M]

I mean, if I had my druthers, I'd turn the whole phase into the like of WoW's Insanity mechanic, whereby you get increasingly stronger but it drains increasingly quickly, with Nostrond and Life Surge both at their normal CDs, but able to be accelerated at cost of Life of the Dragon duration (Life Surge now Crit-Direct Hits to be comparable to Nostrond in single-target). You know, one of those gambit-and-gambit white-knuckle phases? I like those. But I doubt many a DRG player would, and DRG's among my less played jobs, so... I'm trying to restrain myself. In a 5.x ideas thread, sure. Here? Trying not to...

If any class in this game should be getting anything close to the insanity mechanic in this game it should be SMN with chain Akh Morn bahamut windows.

[Shurrikhan]

If any class in this game should be getting anything close to the insanity mechanic in this game it should be SMN with chain Akh Morn bahamut windows.

The skill-gap and inflexibility once you can chain windows together, while disgustingly beautiful, tends only to allow balance at the top end of play while screwing those below, though. But you're right, those are prime candidates for an actual accumulating haste mechanic or the like. Though... then again... if you just let Black Mages basically turn themselves into Niffin or Revenants or whatnot with overuse of a revised Enochian mechanic... Idk, a fire mage burning themselves alive yet feeding off fire damage dealt seems pretty fitting, too. But, again, I digress.