What is your 6.0 dream spell or ability at 90?

[wereotter]

I think there was plenty of room for them to work with 2.0 Monk, it had some extreme problems with buttons that are overly niche/worthless (Which has frankly persisted in the 50+ kit). The problem at the moment is that the devs seem to perceive Greased Lightning as somehow more engaging or different to other buffs, so it just gets unnecessary upkeep skills instead of some reward for using it.

That's kind of what I mean too.... they took what worked on monk in 2.0 and tagged in onto black mage in the form of enochian and dragoon in the form of blood of the dragon in 3.0, but made their buffs function better, all the buff potency at just the push of a button, and short enough cooldown on that buff to make phases where you had to disengage or the boss goes untargetable manageable. You see things like this where they take a skill, apply it to other jobs, and then the job that had it first feels lacking, think Divine Veil compared to Dark Missionary, Shake it off, and Heart of Light. Divine Veil can't just be popped off the global cooldown to give everyone that needed shield, you also have to get healed after thats up making it clunkier to use than the other three similar tank skills.

Thing is also that monk also was the trailblazer for job resources like ninki, black/white mana, esprit, kenki, tank gauges, etc with the chakra system. And while the chakra system is fine, it was also capped at the max stacks because in Heavensward that's all you needed. But now it suffers when compared to every other similar system on every other job considering they can bank more resource than needed to use the skill, but monk can not, it must use that resource immediately or risk losing chakra stacks.

So to that end, I feel like for the developers to actually evolve monk, they have to take greased lightning, and change it to function just like the buffs from other jobs. They can have it function like dragoon where you just hit perfect balance to get greased lightning, and then keep doing your rotation to keep it up, or they can split up its two effects and put something like the power up buff on twin snakes and the speed up buff on dragon kick (or whatever other move you want) so that it works like samurai. Once they do that, then I think we'll see the kit evolve more.

Regardless of how they handle things, though, I do think that most of us can agree, the job needs an overhaul.

[Gemina]

Party-wide Rescue. For salty tears

This, along with aetherial spikes that generate from my body.

Kinda like this:

[MartaDemireux]

Kind of want the removal of role skills and for each skill to be represented in a job with its own visual flavor. It made no sense at all to remove Leeches and Exalted Detriment just to put Esuna in as a role ability. Well, I guess it made a little sense when we had to select which abilities we would use. But, that isn't the case anymore. The argument for button bloat is no longer consistent with practice. Having unique abilities like Leeches really does add to the feel of a job, even if it is functionally no different from Esuna.

Imagine DRK's getting a purple and black miasma looking Reprisal ability while PLD gets a magical holy looking flash of light. Second Wind on BRD being a song they play for themselves, MNK a quick meditation, SAM drinking a potion from a flask.

It can breathe some identity into jobs within a role instead of watering them down.

[QooEr]

i used to daydream over the idea of ast getting to stack royal road effects to give other cards more and more interesting uses (enhanced aoe royal road for instance)


now i just want to have royal road back at all....

[Hyperia]

i used to daydream over the idea of ast getting to stack royal road effects to give other cards more and more interesting uses (enhanced aoe royal road for instance)


now i just want to have royal road back at all....

I expect AST is going to get another rebuild while WHM remains mostly untouched (its in a good spot) and SCH probably getting many of its DPS spells back. The new healer (My money is on Chemist) will probably help sort out the issues that AST suffers from being stuck between WHM and SCH.

For AST, I'd like to see an option that you could convert any and all cards into an instant heal, back to back, including the cards you have held. So use the cards for DPS as it is currently setup now or (my dream 80 for AST), a different ability to consume every card as an instant heal instead. It would really make the AST much more versatile, could even have the sects effect the heal use. Di sect would give heal, Noc would give a shield.

[Tint]

Party-wide Rescue. For salty tears

My BLM needs an anti-rescue, a knockback skill wich removes all people around me so they don't bait AoEs into my Ley Lines.

[Eric_Riot]

Interesting topic.

Maybe skill’s that interact with other classes. For example, the Mage “AOE” healing bubble, if a BLM use’s fire IV on an enemy while they are in the “Healing bubble” it changes the nature of fire IV to an aoe burn dot + its normal damage. Stuff like that.

[Seraphor]

My BLM needs an anti-rescue, a knockback skill wich removes all people around me so they don't bait AoEs into my Ley Lines.

Even better...
Singe Effect: Whenever you cast a Fire spell under Astral Fire, all players within 5 yalms of you are damaged as well.

[Sated]

Ideally they will add nothing to DNC and it will play exactly as it does now. A big part of why I enjoy it is because it doesn't have excessive bar clutter, so getting something new would be counter to that unless it's a passive or an additional charge of an existing ability.

So if they absolutely have to add something, add a 4th charge of En Avant or something, but in short my dream spell in 6.0 is the absence of one.

[Rufalus]

tornado, flood, quake woulda been good things for the conjurer elements. maybe if there's a geomancer dps those fit there.