My BIG FEAR for 7.0

[PaulH]

I used to like bloat, still do, cleric stance, protect, stoneskin, managing Eos/Selene and all several dots bane , awww thunder and aero. Anyway it is fine if they reduce but give more. I want wall to wall elites and mobs to come at me to and make the dungeon feel impactful a bit like diablo. I dont mind more skill simplicity but please compensate elsewhere. I have found a balance of story in this game and grind in other games, i just wish it was in this. My style is mine and not everyone else and times have changed.

Haha a 14 ARPG would be quite good fun and learning a dance for another savage just doesn't scratch that itch, they simplified healing and 2 minute meta and I adapted to it but who not sure how i would feel if things are even more simplified. We won't know till 7.0 comes and knowing me I wont quit till the servers get turned off forever.

[Semirhage]

What do you give Red Mage at this point? A fourth "finisher"?

If Endwalker's "balance" is any indication, an oGCD that lets you swap to a real job like BLM for the rest of the fight.

[Dzian]

They'll remove stuff, they always do. The game still has to be playable on controller so there's a limit to what they can add.

honestly it has less to do with controller and more to do with how many skills you actually need..

PVP demonstrates this well where jobs have more fluid gameplay and job identitiy in PVP with 1/4 of the buttons they have in PVE.

buttons for the sake of buttons isnt fun. especially when 90% of them lack any weight or impact.

[Nebelheim]

Button Bloat is why I refuse to play certain jobs. If I'm switching jobs on the fly then I need to know the job immediately without having to scratch my head trying to remember how to play said Job.

Button Bloat is why a lot of players tend to gravitate towards the "easier" jobs as they typically have less buttons to worry about. Like Summoner, Dancer, Warrior, and such.

The only time i would consider ff14 having button bloat was during the arr and heavansward period. With the amount of skills they removed since stormblood every job has become easy to play.

[VentVanitas]

to all the people asking for combos to be condensed, keep your hands away from Monk and we won't have a problem because it's literally the only job in the game that actually takes advantage of combos being different buttons.

[DixieBellOCE]

to all the people asking for combos to be condensed, keep your hands away from Monk and we won't have a problem because it's literally the only job in the game that actually takes advantage of combos being different buttons.

9 years and i still cant play it properly
Honestly monk is the skillgap in XIV, if you can master monk, your a great player.

[Syln]

Don't fear the button bloat, fear how they're gonna "fix" it.

[Payadopa]

What do you think you'll get? Please don't tell me you're that naive and think that autocombo will "give devs more space for creativity" or similar buzzphrases, because that ain't happening. They'll remove positionals and give nothing in return. They'll implement autocombo and give us nothing back. We've got massive hitboxes and half the bosses don't have positionals in EW (and difference between hitting no positionals and all of them is few %), yet they don't use it to do something creative, it's all the same, and autocombo will be same, except now jobs will be somehow even more boring.

Look no further than SMN to see autocombo in practice. Boring job, all flashy effects with no depth, difference between someone who played SMN for 2 hours or 2 months is minimal. Just mashing same handful of buttons over and over and over again. Is that what you want?

Oh I agree. Yet this is a feedback forum so I give feedback.

[Payadopa]

Button Bloat is why I refuse to play certain jobs. If I'm switching jobs on the fly then I need to know the job immediately without having to scratch my head trying to remember how to play said Job.

That is such a strange take. What's the point of having different jobs then if you ask for them to play all the same? Just play that one job then.

[RitsukoSonoda]

That is such a strange take. What's the point of having different jobs then if you ask for them to play all the same? Just play that one job then.

Yeah. IMO jobs within the same role have gotten too similar in play. It's most noticeable with healers and tanks but you can see it happening to DPS jobs within their gear divisions to a degree already as well. Variety is the spice of life. Which means SE needs to add spice to FFXIV to make it more lively.