Thread: 3.05 Job Balance Request Megathread

Originally Posted by Ryaz

How so? You use buffs at the beginning of the fight with Reload. 45 seconds pass and you use Reload again. Another 45 seconds pass (a total of a minute and a half) and you've got Blood for Blood, Hawk's Eye, Rapid Fire and Wildfire all ready to go with Reload. This change would basically ensure you'd have Reload up for Wildfire. Even Raging Strikes would line up every 4th reload. The only one that would actually be out of alignment would be Hypercharge.

i was misremembering, my bad.

Revert the cross-classed Blood for Blood nerf from 2.X. Give us back 20% Dmg increase

Originally Posted by PlumpyMcduff

It's been stated that 3.05 will be a big balance sweep, so please submit all your balance requests here with stated reasons... list the Job as a header in Bold, please feel free to use my format for uniformity if you wish


MACHINIST

Blank - remove potency

Reason: less incentive to utilize it to enhance DPS (healthier gameplay, less frustration)

If this happens, you also need to remove the potency on fluid aura and repelling shot. Why repelling shot, since it doesn't knock enemies back? Because now you've given bard a very slight DPS edge. Fair is fair, after all.

BLM :
+2 seconds to astral fire
Thundercloud procs add 3 seconds to astral fire and enochian
Allow us to finish fire IV/Blizzard IV cast if enochian run out midcast.

Disclaimer: these are 'bigger' changes, they of course merit additional tuning elsewhere... these don't necessarily need implementation nor to be expedited if chosen, but they'd be nice to have in general.


GENERAL GAMEPLAY

DoT's not breaking combo's

Reason: this' too punishing with varied levels of skill/speed-speed, certain damage-buff abilities (e.g. Heavy Thrust) breaking combo's are sufficient on their own


Melee's Ranged Abilities not breaking combo's (e.g. Shield Lob)

Reason: skillful execution of these abilities should be incentivized, not punished (ex. weaving them in when avoiding aoe's)

Originally Posted by Stormsoul

this right here is THE biggest thing i want. Gauss Round's animation is fail, and it really should be much better. Rend Mind on the other hand's animation/sound effect are so good i use it on cooldown regardless of whether or not the boss is doing magic damage xP. i feel like those two should just swap animations... it actually feels like they already did once in development, Gauss Round's icon shows a MCH crouching down like in the rend mind animation.

Agreed.

It's like a main CD ability too... still looks like cr**.

Pfft alot of MCH animations look terrible compared to every other class, even wildfire sucks.

Originally Posted by Stormsoul

this right here is THE biggest thing i want. Gauss Round's animation is fail, and it really should be much better. Rend Mind on the other hand's animation/sound effect are so good i use it on cooldown regardless of whether or not the boss is doing magic damage xP. i feel like those two should just swap animations... it actually feels like they already did once in development, Gauss Round's icon shows a MCH crouching down like in the rend mind animation.

I mentioned this once before in another thread. Gauss round really lacks the punch I thought it would. Head graze has much more heft to it.