What Visual Effects Would You Change?

[Edweena]

Bards core rotation's character animations (refulgent arrow, burst shot, the dots all use the same animation on the player model), not the visual effects / particles, it's just your character standing straight and narrow gently pulling back a bow while all these outlandish effects go off in front of them. It's like they tacked on some great particle effects to the most boring animation ever.

Even the casters chant spells with more force, throwing their backs into it, arms flailing and extending, while their robes flow from the force of the spell. Nevermind the machinist excessively jumping around pulling a trigger on a gun.

[butchersblock]

Monk's base combo GCDs are abysmal. Almost none of them actually make you feel like you're hitting something, they're lacking in both visual and auditory feedback. So many games get fist weapons right but FFXIV completely failed in that regard.

[AnotherPerson]

White Mage's Dia.

For a level 46 DoT to suddenly downgrade at level 72 and cost 200 more MP for the same amount of damage, the animation better be worth that extra 200 MP cost.

[Mikey_R]

I'll add in another vote for Monk, I was hoping for new animations for the basic GCD combo since they were reworking it anyway, but all we got was an update to AotD.

White Mage's Dia.

For a level 46 DoT to suddenly downgrade at level 72 and cost 200 more MP for the same amount of damage, the animation better be worth that extra 200 MP cost.

This has been fixed as of 6.1, Aero 2 was reduced to 50 potency for damage and DoT.

[SpeckledBurd]

Monk definitely needs a visual overhaul at this point.

Leaden Bootshine is our strongest core GCD loop skill, but it has all of the impact of a level 1 skill because that's what it is. By all rights this not getting the Raiden Thrust treatment is absurd.

True Strike/Snap Punch are both actual martial arts moves, but they look out of place and lack impact in Monk's rotation by being so completely mundane.

Rockbreaker has looked like garbage since they turned it into a circular AOE.

Elixir Field lacks oomph as a Blitz because I still can't mentally disconnect it from being an oGCD, and shooting a Kamehameha at the ground is just a strange visual overall.

[Soge01]

Ninja's "Dream for a Dream" being reworked into an ability where you have two clones of yourself appear around your targeted enemy and you and your clones perform the same "Dream for a Dream" attack animation. Would the skill feel more mystical and fit better as an upgraded skill to Assassinate.

[Marxel]

Love the replies so far! I forgot to add Fall Malefic for AST. Idk I feel like it was a downgrade from Malefic IV. Malefic IV was like hurling a whole mini solar system at the enemy and was vibrant and cool. Fall Malefic is just... a lot of purple.

[Raikai]

Oh I forgot about this:

Summoner - change the base carbuncle making it just an optional cosmetic companion.

It doesn't even face the target I'm attacking lol. Now that they changed Searing Light to not depend on the pet, basically the only thing the base carbuncle does is being a nuisance keeping you from using Radiant Aegis during a lot of moments where something else has been summoned.

Don't get me wrong, I love carbys BUT I'd rather not have it just standing idle... through the entire fight. Actually, I'd love to see the option to glam the lv 90 primals into the carbuncles.

[AnotherPerson]

I'll add in another vote for Monk, I was hoping for new animations for the basic GCD combo since they were reworking it anyway, but all we got was an update to AotD.



This has been fixed as of 6.1, Aero 2 was reduced to 50 potency for damage and DoT.

Actually, the problem was created in patch 6.1 when they turned all the DoTs to 30 seconds without changing Aero II's potency. Glad to know it was stealth fixed in 6.11 even if it wasn't mentioned in the patch notes though.

[Lieri]

WAR beast gauge aura should be red than orange.