What are your unrealistic expectations for the upcoming Combat Live Letter?

[Valence]

I’m fine with a single melee having no positionals

There are legit things I like about melee that no other role has but I hate positionals. You’d think in 6 classes they could make one not have them considering we have 3 casters and one is a physical range and another is half a melee

I also hate positionals and would sometimes like to play melee. However if they do this, I do hope it's gonna be viper, else it would just be removing positionals on already existing jobs and alienate all their mains in the process... Don't do them like they did mch mains with procs in the past.

[Lyth]

I definitely hope that it doesn't happen to Viper, because that's one of two melee design aesthetics that I've been looking forward to playing for a long time, and new jobs get enough flak as it is in terms of simplification relative to established jobs. People are going to be looking for ways to dismiss it as easy to justify to themselves why they didn't switch from their preferred melee. I hope that the development team take this into account and actually go out of their way to make it more mechanically demanding from the outset.

The entire fun of melee is built around visuospatial thinking and understanding how the boss moves. That's why wall boss design is awful, and why fights with lots of boss repositioning and smaller hitboxes are where the role really becomes exciting. If you just want to pay attention to button sequences and not pay attention to mob positioning, then you have two ranged subtypes to choose from already. There is literally no reason for you to pick up a melee job.

[Valence]

The entire fun of rphys is built around management of procs and priorities and understanding how to triage rng triggers in their rotation. Can I have my MCH ammo back so that I can consider the idea of all melees being positional reliant?

[Supersnow845]

There is a million and one reasons to play a melee that don’t involve positionals

1) there is no other role that has long looping rotations like SAM and DRG that have branching paths that return together later. These rotations are easily the most interesting of any classes “1-2-3” filler
2) MNK shares BLM’s prestige of being very in depth with its optimisation which overall I prefer MNK’s style of optimisation of using its attacks in different orders rather than BLM’s “your movement options are also damage tools”
3) classes like RPR have very punchy GCD animations that the casters struggle to replicate, the tanks are a sort of halfway but the melees are very good in this regard
4) certain instances of the MSQ just work better thematically on a melee (for example the fight with Zenos), they are more dynamic and they fit the WOL better
5) melees just by nature of their role so so much more damage than the other roles, we all like doing big damage so that’s something to consider
6) few other jobs have the level of static rotation CD and potential built in drift that the melees have

there are many other reasons but that is some reasons why I like melees but don’t like positionals. Between 6 melees there is plenty of design space to have one that doesn’t have positionals (you can even trade it for higher mechanical complexity). That’s why we have job variety

[Kleeya]

That the warrior's hypnotizing yellow whirlpool hiding our fashion and looking ugly being cut at the bottom when we are on a mount will be gone forever, or at least when we are not in combat.

[Rithy255]

More in depth "wish" or dream whatever

1. Again PLD gets reverted into the old cute paladin and cover becomes useful and clemency (also less self sustain on magic attacks but better target healing)
2. Healers are made fun
3. Warrior gets removed, a total rebalance/rework.
4. 2 minute meta goes for ever
5. Tank stances return but actually designed good this time.
6. The new jobs are actually cool and fun and not boring.
7. Summoner gets casts times.

[Sunhwapark]

I would like a TS buff or the Bootshine proc to the job UI gauge for MNK(mostly want the bootshine thing), I don't know what I did to my buff icons but it's sometimes difficult to track my proc because it's sliding all over the place with party member buffs during the 2min burst windows.
Another flank positional would be cool too, the RPRs can keep sitting at the rear using their TN cooldown or whatever.

[PolkaPolka]

Positionals would make a lot more sense as a class/job exclusive trait for PUG/MNK.

As a controller player, I would also like some button consolidation for straight forward 1-2-3 combos.

I guess these two are fairly realistic wishes, but perhaps not in time for Dawntrail. So for something that's apparently not going to happen, I would love to see gemstones for Leviathan, Ramuh and Shiva egi.

[VentVanitas]

the only way I'd accept Viper not having any positionals is if it actually has enough engagement in its kit to justify not needing them. how likely that is to happen however remains to be seen, but let's just say that I'm not going to get my hopes up for that.

[Cynric]

I definitely hope that it doesn't happen to Viper, because that's one of two melee design aesthetics that I've been looking forward to playing for a long time, and new jobs get enough flak as it is in terms of simplification relative to established jobs. People are going to be looking for ways to dismiss it as easy to justify to themselves why they didn't switch from their preferred melee. I hope that the development team take this into account and actually go out of their way to make it more mechanically demanding from the outset.

The entire fun of melee is built around visuospatial thinking and understanding how the boss moves. That's why wall boss design is awful, and why fights with lots of boss repositioning and smaller hitboxes are where the role really becomes exciting. If you just want to pay attention to button sequences and not pay attention to mob positioning, then you have two ranged subtypes to choose from already. There is literally no reason for you to pick up a melee job.

I'd love it if Viper was the most mechanically demanding class in the game and had a positional on most attacks.