I'm bored when I heal because I need more complex DPS rotations

[Supersnow845]

And that's why I'd make any 'haste' buff be an Autoattack speed buff rather than a GCD speed buff. More 'boring', possibly, but it captures the essence of 'going faster' without mangling people's rotation alignment. Plus, Riddle of Wind already exists and shows that it's a thing that the engine can do

Not sure how you'd make 'haste' viable to a caster, without it messing their alignment up too. BLM is fine cos it's BLM, but SMN's summons are 'spells' so they'd get sped up too, and RDM would overcap on gauge too soon for it's burst window

That’s also why in my SCH proposal I made fey wind an auto attack buff to evoke the feeling of old fey wind, it’s about the closest you can get without anyone being annoyed by anything

Reduce cast time without reducing recast time. It adds more safety and mobility without affecting rotations. Summoner gets screwed over because they have neither good auto attack damage or cast times, but getting screwed over is pretty on brand for summoner.

That could still mess up classes that sit on the edge of speed tiers that give specific weave windows, imagine clipping because the SCH sped up your casts

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

And that's why I'd make any 'haste' buff be an Autoattack speed buff rather than a GCD speed buff. More 'boring', possibly, but it captures the essence of 'going faster' without mangling people's rotation alignment. Plus, Riddle of Wind already exists and shows that it's a thing that the engine can do

Not sure how you'd make 'haste' viable to a caster, without it messing their alignment up too. BLM is fine cos it's BLM, but SMN's summons are 'spells' so they'd get sped up too, and RDM would overcap on gauge too soon for it's burst window

My hot take about RDM part is they could've been fine potentially with Haste if SE kept the niche from the old Enchanted Reprise that is a "situational DPS gain"-use of a button as opposed to today's "100% loss to use".

But lmao who am I to kid. Variety? Not in my small indie game!

[Aravell]

My hot take about RDM part is they could've been fine potentially with Haste if SE kept the niche from the old Enchanted Reprise that is a "situational DPS gain"-use of a button as opposed to today's "100% loss to use".

But lmao who am I to kid. Variety? Not in my small indie game!

If they wanted to bring haste effects back, they could fix this RDM issue with a little bit of creativity. Like creating a 3rd finisher to go with Verholy and Verflare, maybe call it Vergravity or something, make it consume white and black mana instead of restoring it. That would fix any overcapping issues from haste effects on RDM.

As for SMN, nothing can fix that abomination, just spam more Ruin III I guess?

[Jade_Tyrant]

That could still mess up classes that sit on the edge of speed tiers that give specific weave windows, imagine clipping because the SCH sped up your casts

Wouldn't not reducing recast times mean that it could only make weave windows bigger, not smaller?

[Mithron]

Even if they abolish the 2 minute meta, that still wouldn't make haste desirable on all jobs. Despite being a strict damage gain in all cases, some jobs would still hate getting haste because of the rigid design of their job. Jobs like NIN, DRG and GNB would still not want haste due to internal drift within their kit.

Right, that's why I also said redesign every job so that Haste is a strict DPS gain in all cases. This "rigid design" needs be redesigned and "drifting" no longer be a thing.

[ty_taurus]

Healer fix when?

[mallleable]

On the topic of haste, there are a couple of things that I've been wondering like what if haste affected abilities, or if the base GCD were reduced to 2 seconds.

[Mithron]

Healer fix when?

When you make your own MMO and make healers not be boring to play, sadly. Doesn't seem like it's ever going to happen in XIV now

[Hyperia]

Healer fix when?

That would start by reducing or removing other jobs self sustain, and in some cases totally out of control self sustain.

I would also transfer all dps boosting utilities to healers so we have more to do.

[Aravell]

On the topic of haste, there are a couple of things that I've been wondering like what if haste affected abilities, or if the base GCD were reduced to 2 seconds.

We actually did have something that was basically haste for abilities before, original Spear from HW AST, I think it reduced ability recast by 10%? All it really did was cause internal drift on jobs though, but since the combat system wasn't as rigid back then, it wasn't that much of an issue.