Please Bring Back DoTs and Debuffs

[Keichi]

I never understand the usefullness of dots. Having skills, who are doing dmg without your input is nice. But, wouldnt it be better, when the skill simply is doing the full dmg at once?

Dots are looking so slow. And is anti climaxing, when the enemy is falling down.

[ReiMakoto]

I never understand the usefullness of dots. Having skills, who are doing dmg without your input is nice. But, wouldnt it be better, when the skill simply is doing the full dmg at once?

Dots are looking so slow. And is anti climaxing, when the enemy is falling down.

You can make bursty damage that involves dots and satisfying loops.

Example: A class has 2 dots, one which 15s and one that lasts 30s, casting these dots again extends the duration of these dots up to a maximum of 45s.

This class could then have their "filler" ability deal more damage for each dot being on the enemy, but casting it removes 10s of duration from both dots.

Burst windows could then be created around off global refreshes, off global dot duration spenders, dot freeze windows etc.

[Tulzscha]

I never understand the usefullness of dots. Having skills, who are doing dmg without your input is nice. But, wouldnt it be better, when the skill simply is doing the full dmg at once?

Dots are looking so slow. And is anti climaxing, when the enemy is falling down.

This is true, dots are inherently flawed in most games without additional mechanics to support them, and with additional mechs like making dots pop immediately you just have a burst job with extra steps.

The primary upside is having constant outgoing damage without having to do anything giving you more time to do things like deal with boss mechs or use utility. The best case scenario is having 2-4 enemies on which to maintain dots for a long period of time, that's where dot jobs truly shine, especially if the enemies are not stacked. Unfortunately none of these things are very relevant in FFXIV.

Regardless I still prefer my enemies to slowly rot or bleed to death. Dot jobs can offer a higher skill cap to keep jobs interesting, depending how they're designed. Dots can be interacted with in a lot of ways which technically burst jobs could emulate but it doesn't feel the same, for example having dot ticks proc other abilities or resources means you're kind of gaining things for free and with multiple targets it can get nutty which is super fun imo.