Your Opinion on the Current State of Job Identity/Balance in 6.4?

[Ivtrix]

Unfortunately, just dont see SE changing jobs back at this point. Think at best they could balance things so much that they can slap some entirely new system to jobs, tree, new job tier, skill augmentation, who knows, but yeah... this is likely not going change...

I mean a lot of the criticism has essentially been “feedback for 7.0” since maybe 6.1? 6.2?

[Absurdity]

I mean a lot of the criticism has essentially been “feedback for 7.0” since maybe 6.1? 6.2?

It's been feedback for 7.0 since Endwalker launched, because we all know we're screaming into the void for at least 2 years (more like 2.5 at this point) and once 7.0 rolls around and nothing has changed we're screaming into the void for another 2 years or simply quit. Some people have been screaming into the void for almost 4 years already so it's probably going to be the latter for them.

[Raikai]

Yes, I meant faerie gauge, gauge that is used only for 1 skill might as well be removed and replaced with some CD instead.

In the timeline where healers get more dps complexity, would be cool to see the Faerie Gauge used to fuel fairy offensive actions or damage support actions.

But in the current reality, the best I expect from a faerie gauge revamp is to have it be what fuels the Seraph uptime, like battery does to the Automaton queen.

[Shurrikhan]

2 patch notes later...
<ability name> recast time was changed from 40s to 30s to properly align with the 2 min marks.

3x40 still meets the same 120s marks as 4x30... Similarly, 6x20 = 2x60.

No, there is no need to remove 20|40s timers to "align with 2 min marks".

[Raikai]

3x40 still meets the same 120s marks as 4x30... Similarly, 6x20 = 2x60.

No, there is no need to remove 20|40s timers to "align with 2 min marks".

Lol please disregard my math, but you're right.

[Dzian]

But in the current reality, the best I expect from a faerie gauge revamp is to have it be what fuels the Seraph uptime, like battery does to the Automaton queen.

I wouldn't mind that honestly think I even suggested something similar in the past. At least then it would have some interaction to it. And allow players to make clever use of aether stacks to extend seraphs duration. Could in theory pop seraph with 160 faerie guage if you had 3 stacks and aetehrflow off cooldown.

Would add some thought and decision making back to the job.

Then you'd just need to fix dissipation and stuff and could really open up some fairy strategy choices.

[LughC]

I wish healers would become interesting again.

[EderTheBro]

That's not what slidecasting is, slidecasting is just exploiting latency to move before the cast is finished without cancelling it. BLM can slidecast every spell just like every other caster. If you're not casting (i.e. the 1s before your GCD cools down on a healer post-glare), you're just moving not slidecasting lol. I don't need any of your information, man who said BLM can't slidecast.

please stop attacking him

[Renathras]

In the timeline where healers get more dps complexity, would be cool to see the Faerie Gauge used to fuel fairy offensive actions or damage support actions.

But in the current reality, the best I expect from a faerie gauge revamp is to have it be what fuels the Seraph uptime, like battery does to the Automaton queen.

I'm not a pro-DPS minded Healer, but there's a thread about this in the Healer forum which proposed putting Energy Drain on Faerie Gauge instead of Aetherflow. That way, the gauge would have kind of a point in existing, would still retain the "damage or healing" tradeoff (under this design, Aetherpact is reworked to just be a half-potency Lustrate that is cast by Eos instead of the SCH), but wouldn't lock out the use of AF abilities. One of the most requested changes to SCH is to decouple Energy Drain from Aetherflow since people feel bad for using anything that isn't Energy Drain as "being suboptimal", they just want to have an AF dump if they still have stacks left as AF is coming off CD. The solution to that in this idea is Excog not having a CD so it can be used as a dump, since there's almost always someone putting an Excog on would be useful for.

It's not perfect, but it kind of does that and makes Faerie Gauge not ENTIRELY meaningless: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...e-Proposal-SCH

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EDIT:

For whoever needs to hear it:

A Sylphie is someone who does no damage, not a person who doesn't enjoy complex damage rotations but uses the existing ones to deal damage. (It's also a rude insult to begin with, so shouldn't even be used, but if you're going to use it, at least use it correctly - Cure/Medica spamming mages, for example, would qualify, not people who have the majority of their casts as Glares/Dias)

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[EderTheBro]

I'm not a pro-DPS minded Healer

Yes Sylphie