Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Maltothoris]

Isn’t damage already high to begin with? I don’t think damage is the biggest problem, but rather how infrequent the incoming damage is. Before I quit back in 6.2, some of the bosses in the game just stood there doing nothing for a long time.

There’s other issues too such as high item level negating incoming damage, too many one shot mechanics and no actual heal checks.

I could be wrong here since I just started playing again, so my bad for my lack of understanding.

Well it depends on the content. It really isn't that high at all in say the msq dungeons, normal trials, allaince raids, normal raids etc. Heck there were times where in DSR I sometimes missed putting exaltation on a tank for busters sometimes and they would be fine without it(Different case for TOP) and even then it's a small selection of fights.

That being said, bosses also do not auto too much either. In P9S for example when you go to the forbidden site and see how much that boss autoed, over the course of 9 and a half minutes, the boss did a total of 32 or about 4 autos per minute.

[ASkellington]

Figured all this would drop while I was at work.

Initial impressions of the Job Action Trailer had me mostly confused and slightly excited. With more information...

Congratulations Healers we finally get a new attack. If it wasn't tied to our 2min window out of spite, I'll be surprised.

My question to the dev team: what the hells is so hard about giving us an extra attack (or two depending) on a 10-20s cool down that isn't tied to a heal/buff/debuff? Your excuse of it being too hard now die with these changes.

SCH

I'll be honest and say the new Seraphim (Seraph) "effect" went over my head since I was more paying attention to the animations over the character model. Is there some old SCH icon/animation/something its referencing? That belongs on WHM.

WHM

Speaking of... why does it need a gap closer? Because SGE????

SGE

Rejoice in AOE Kardia? Is that what the new buff is to be, or is it just any spell? AOE DoT though (hopefully it does not share an application with E.Dosis). Now allow SGE's DoTs to heal each tick.

AST

Y'know I kinda had the feeling that that was gonna be the new Draw. 60s though? Really? 30s would have been fine.

I honestly think it can be salvaged - the animation for this "Draw" is a reused Sleeve Draw. Make it Sleeve Draw every 60s, line the cards up with Divination window and give us regular Draw back every 15s with RNG cards. Now we have set cards + RNG.

GOOD BYE ASTRODYNE AND THE SEALS SYSTEM. MAY YOU ROT IN THE SEVENTH PIT AND NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.

[GrimGale]

Going into Dawntrail after the Job Action Trailer, my willingness to play healer Jobs again has increased. The new changes are still subpar, but based on what we got compared to EW, I’ll take what I can get.

I’m hype for SGE again. It’s getting everything I want. New DPS spell, which maybe a oGCD, and a AoE DoT is good. Hopefully the new DoT stacks with the job’s existing DoT instead of replacing one with the other.

AST & WHM are tied. I’m glad that WHM is getting a new DPS spell, but does it have to be tied to PoM? We got unique cards for AST, but at the cost of its RNG. That’s… disappointing.

Still not touching SCH. Get that WHM fairy thing away from me.

New SGE spell is not an oGCD, it doesn't have the teal whoosh effect that Skill classed abilities have. It also does not consume Addersting.

[currentlemon]

New SGE spell is not an oGCD, it doesn't have the teal whoosh effect that Skill classed abilities have. It also does not consume Addersting.

Crapbaskets!

Guess we have to wait for media tour to learn more.

[WaxSw]

Here praying that the sge attack has a cd of 30-20s (not 2m) and that the eukrasian dyskrasia dot stacks with dosis dot and is a gain on 1, those two things together could be huge for sage

[SenzorialBoundries]

Horrible changes for dps, yet another case of dumbing down to the extreme and removing any sort of skill expression, the opposite what the oh so great yoshida-san promised in a live letter. Have never seen such horrible changes ever minus healers, healers had some good changes especially whm.

[Deceptus]

Horrible changes for dps, yet another case of dumbing down to the extreme and removing any sort of skill expression, the opposite what the oh so great yoshida-san promised in a live letter. Have never seen such horrible changes ever minus healers, healers had some good changes especially whm.

Yet for some reason they're extending out the mitigation durations. Truly baffling.

[ZiraZ]

"If you want more engaging content, wait for 8.0"

[Rolder50]

"If you want more engaging content, wait for 8.0"

And then when 8.0 comes, he'll be telling us to wait until 9.0 instead.

[AnotherPerson]

WHM
Speaking of... why does it need a gap closer? Because SGE????

I think it's because WHM is the supposed antithesis to BLM and if BLM can zip around the map, it makes sense WHM could zip around too during the magi war.

They went about it in a way that they can say "We gave you what you want, why are you STILL not happy?".

But people stated they wanted DPS skills because the whole problem of wanting more DPS options is to not be pressing DoT + Broil x11 every minute on the GCD that it becomes so noticeable/boring when there's nothing to heal, so they already didn't give what was asked because you'd still be pressing Glare/Broil/Malefic majority of the time... unless they change the entirety of solo instances for healers to be focused on healing rather than damage and party-instances have so much frequent damage that healers are far too busy healing rather than pressing their attack spells.

I think the big kicker is that all DPS gain increased survival with addle/feint/ranged party mitigation buffed, second wind gets buffed, and tanks get mitigation buffed further. Especially with the number of party members scaling to the content we do, the effect is quite substantial in a party setting compared to just one DPS or one tank getting an increase in survivability as each one of them covers the other one during a skill's downtime.

They really couldn't give healers a couple 20s to 30s cooldown dps skill in exchange for how big of a buff every other role gets in a party setting in relation to the healer role and had to lock the new skills with a 120s cooldown? oof.