Thread: 3.1 Balance/QoL Request Megathread

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Bard/Machinist

Please reduce Gauss Barrel/Wanderer's Minuets' recasts to 10 seconds.

I know popping in & out of those stances should be a conscious decision but 15s is overly long IMO.


Machinist

Take the potency off of Blank Shot (the knockback) & reduce the CD of Reload to 45 seconds as compensation.

This would do wonders. Not only would this mean we wouldn't need to use it to up our DPS (less harassment in Dungeons/PVE = win-win), it'd also mean that Reload lines up with every other Wildfire (much smoother gameplay).

Also, please enhance a number of MCH's animations/visuals... Gauss Round, Heartbreak, & Wildfire in particular.

I know the class isn't meant to be incredibly flashy but it's too underwhelming at the moment. A tracer visual to the Rook Autoturret attack would be awesome too & easy to design/implement.

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-Make blizz IV instan cast

-thundercloud procs now extend enochian by 5 seconds

Qol: materia melds
I can tolerate the long animation but if melds fails, window should not close, it should remain on the melds window /ask to continue melds.

Black Mage

- Allow Blizzard IV and Fire IV to be cast any time (no enochian or astral/umbral), but have them cast at a reduced potency (i.e. 190) when enochian is not active.

- Increase the number of full potency targets on Flare to three, with reduced damage starting on the fourth target and beyond.

Dark Knight
- Enable magical attack parries in Darkside, balance it so each parried magical attack will slightly reduce MP or something.

- Alter the Dark Arts effect on Dark Passenger and Dark Dance, blind and evasion does not fit well with dark dance's MP regain.

- ie. Add a DOT effect on Dark Arts/Dark Passenger, increases attack speed for Dark Arts/Dark Dance (well, you are 'dancing')

- Allow Reprisal to be activated under Dark Arts, it's completely useless in the case of off tanking/Magical attack enemies.

- TP issue, add a refresh TP effect to Blood Weapon or something.

- In terms of mitigations, Shadow Wall is basically a vengence without the extra effects, so why the longer CD for a lesser effect?


Ninja
- TP issues, allow Mug to steal TP instead of HP
- Change the new skill names back to romanized japanese, seriously who came up with "Dream within a Dream" for "Mugen Sandan (夢幻三段)"
- A shukuchi change would be really nice. MNK's shoulder tackle is 30s CD, DRG has Spineshatter Dive and Dragonfire Dive, both are on 60s CD. NINs only have Shukuchi which is 60s CD, although it doesn't require a target, it takes an extra step to actually follow up with an attack. Give it something along the lines of "Grants the effect of Shukuchi, using a weaponskill will move towards the target within 15y range, or target the ground to move quickly to the specified location." Basically giving the option to turn the next weaponskill into a gap closer while still retaining the original effect.
- Slight DPS boost by reducing the CD on Mugen Sandan and Issou (Dream within a Dream and Duality)
- Change or replace smokescreen, a 3minute CD quelling strike is useless. If the healer gets aggro on trashpulls we can simply shadeshift to the tank and rip the monsters off the healer. On boss openers BLM/BRD should have quelling strike on anyways.
- MUDRA LAG! I mean, I understand if theres an input delay, but having the ninjutsus used on client side, only to have the server respond with a bunny, that's too much. It doesn't make sense to have a weapon skill interrupt a mudra, the punishment should only be there to force you to remember your mudra combinations correctly.

Machinist

-Enhanced Slug Shot proc should pop at the end of the Split Shot cast instead after the Split Shot animation, making easy to react.

Originally Posted by Geardagas

BARD

Increase potency on some attacks.

I understand we're a support class and that our DPS should be naturally lower, but our support simply isn't strong enough to warrant a DPS gap this significant.

I don't know where it got lost in the ether, but your foe rec alone can add a lot of DPS. It's up to the casters in your group to actually be good and utilize that tool to the max (its not an instant for sure massive DPS boost), but you're severely under appreciating how much DPS you can add with just that one song.