Letter from the Producer LIVE LXXXI - Discussion

[GrizzlyTank]

I'm not sure I understand the MNK update. It does say it's gonna remain largely the same without focusing too much on maintaining the dot, so I assume only dot will be removed?

From the sound of it the rotations becomes 1-2-3-a-b-c-1... instead of what we have now where it's either 1/a-2/b-3/c depending on the buff/dot dropping or not.

Though too early to tell.

Edit: From
https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._monk_main_im/

The rotation might actually be swap 1/a every 1-2-3 chain. b once then 2 twice every chain and c once then 3 thrice every chain. So
a-b-c
1-2-3
a-2-3
1-b-3
a-2-c
1-2-3
a-b-3
1-2-3
a-2-c
1-b-3
a-2-3
1-2-3
a-b-c repeat

[Aco505]

It’s not button bloat that was the reason for the change, it was the idea that the job was “complete” in terms of it didn’t have rotational space and they couldn’t just slap a 4th gauge on top

DRG has two gauges so that'd been 3 and it's not like other jobs haven't gotten more in that sense.

[Supersnow845]

DRG has two gauges so that'd been 3 and it's not like other jobs haven't gotten more in that sense.

No job has 3 gauges, the only ones that have 3 “on screen visual indicators” are BLM, DNC and SGE and neither of them are actual “gauges” in the traditional sense

I mixed up blood life and eyes as 3 gauge already, that’s my bad

[Erinellza]

Viper looks like a snoozefest with the lack of buttons, it's just melee Summoner.

[MisterNublet]

From the sound of it the rotations becomes 1-2-3-a-b-c-1... instead of what we have now where it's either 1/a-2/b-3/c depending on the buff/dot dropping or not.

These devs have completely lost it.

I'm losing all faith in the job dev team listening to this live letter.

[TheDustyOne]

I'll wait until I can actually have Viper in my hands before judging it, but I don't mind what I see; lots of gauge elements to watch, swapping between the 2 forms sounds fun, and a buff to maintain. Just because it has fewer buttons doesn't automatically make it melee SMN, current MNK is only a couple of buttons more than current SMN and it's decently complex.

Button quality > button quantity, but I'll wait before judging, it could just as easily turn out to be a snoozefest.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

BLM changes look interesting, MNK I am very curious how it will play and overall I am excited to play. I am just dying to see more info on my AST since I quit being a heal main after the job died for me.

Also removing dmg from gap closers I am glad of, people brainlessly use them for dmg and cry about not having it free when the boss moves.

[Supersnow845]

Why do the phys ranged need a buff to their mitigation, what is all this mitigation and healing buffing meant to achieve other than just pushing healers further and further to the edges

[Mikey_R]

Why do the phys ranged need a buff to their mitigation, what is all this mitigation and healing buffing meant to achieve other than just pushing healers further and further to the edges

Hopefully, it means things are going to hit harder. In practice though.....

[Eastwall]

Man, these forums are just the "I hate everything" group. I can't wait for the updated benchmark to release - you all will still hate everything and complain.

From time to time, you will see ridiculous reason for hating something. Such as "picto is a lgbt job"." It is just too comical to miss out