Trailer - FINAL FANTASY XIV: ENDWALKER - Job Actions

[Nighthawky2010]

Glad they added Geomancer to the game, just a shame they had to kill SMN to do it.

I'm not impressed by shiny things and SMN's changes only upset me.
*Removing DoTs is the first slap in the face.
*Now SMN is a stance dancing job like Bard instead of it's own unique job.
*Not even sure if Egis are even useful anymore or just a place holder for Bahamut and Phoenix.
*Still doesn't fix the key issues like Demi ghosting abilities.
*Couldn't even be bother to add Leviathan, Shiva, or Ramuh stances.
*Remove all the shiny Primal animation, you basically switch stances to cast different elemental spells i.e. Geomancer.

I agree with some of your points.
*i dont think SE should have removed all the DOTS. Atleast should have kept TRI-DISASTER. I miss Shadowflare.
*I totally agree they should have added LEVIATHAN, SHIVA, & RAMUH to the rotation. To me, those 3 along with Titan, Ifrit, & Garuda, are the fundamental primals in FF games.

[Nighthawky2010]

I enjoy the job actions trailer. Some job changes were MEH while other were cool. My main is RDM, then SMN, & then MCH. Looking to try out BLM. Been awhile since I played it. Some personal thoughts & just my opinion:

RDM - I am happy with some of the changes. I always thot that verFlare, verHoly, & Scorch should have been AOEs from the start but I will enjoy using them for single & AOEs rotations. What I'm kind of disappointed about is that I wish SE could have added abilities like verWater, verBlizzard, verQuake, just to name a few.

SMN - Definitely enjoyed the animation & will have to "re-learn" the job. But I'm not to thrill with SE removing all the DOTS. Should kept Tri-disaster and/or brought back Shadowflare.

MCH - Will enjoy playing it with the new abilities but basically from the video, it was kind of meh, at least to me.

[Shurrikhan]

This Sage nonsense is different. Both locality and causality are broken because you attack *one thing* and then *a completely different thing* is healed. You aren't doing laser surgery. You are shooting pewpews at an enemy and then an ally is healed "because Cardia."

All I am saying is that Cardia is a poor way of theming it, because it communicates nothing flavorfully or mechanically about how/why this should work. What Cardia *actually* functions as is something that feels more vampiric than medical. If the writers would at least make a nod to Cardia being a sort of aetheric transfusion, or the nouliths being magical fangs, then it all comes together. But absent some lore explanation, there is a total disconnect as to why a *surgeon* would need to *hurt other people* in order to heal the patient.

You know what, I agree. It doesn't bug me, because if I let myself think about such things to that degree other areas of this game would have already long since cost me my hair, but I would likewise prefer to see at least a gesture towards a better explanation.

That said, in the meantime, I'm just going to just file it under "I steal life-essence-stuff; then, I give life-essence-stuff," because even that is more intuitive than, say, SCH's use of an "Aetherpool" or WHM's turning Conjury into White Magic (in the sense of Glare/Dia).

[RobynDaBank]

Why could SCH not be given Miasma/Fester/Tri-disaster now that SMN lost those?

[Raikai]

SMN - Definitely enjoyed the animation & will have to "re-learn" the job. But I'm not to thrill with SE removing all the DOTS. Should kept Tri-disaster and/or brought back Shadowflare.

Honestly I feel like it's good riddance of SMN's dots... Only because the job had a ton of different things going on: dots, egis, trances, demis, aetherflow - it really looked like all over the place regading its design. The idea of dot management works better for BRD because they don't have as many different directions of design going on... But then, perhaps now that there's only 1 job with dot managing (that's not even that focused on), they can design a future full fledged one.