Thread: 3.1 Balance/QoL Request Megathread

MONK:

Form Shift OUT OF COMBAT puts you in the specified stance with no time duration (to avoid having to spam over and over trying to stay in Coeurl form while waiting for tanks on raid bosses for example)

Meditation OUT OF COMBAT stacks immediately to 5 (I know they answered this already, but keep asking to get attention again)

Tornado Kick - Apply damage at the start of the animation (as said before, just re-posting for more attention)

Other than that I personally think the direction Monks were taken and the skills that were added compliment us perfectly. the numbers and balance are fine, we just have very slight QoL needs. Currently there's a lot of OUT OF COMBAT crap we have to rotate / maintain every pull . I don't feel the need to balance anything (except Tornado Kick damage at the start of the animation as it is a long animation)

On a side note, I'd like to suggest an Elixir Field animation changed to reflect blunt damage. Maybe a nice spinning kick? Blasting blue light from our hands doesn't strike me as Monkish or blunt damage.

Other suggested change isn't needed. You Tornado kick before LB, or let someone else do it if applicable.

The following abilities' effects need to proc at the start of their animation, not end.
-Disembowel
-Bio

I hate that I can't weave in Jumps or Legsweep until Disembowel animation is done, and as a SCH/SMN, if I do bio2>miasma>bio, i can't use Bane to spread all 3 effects until about 1.5-2 seconds after Bio is cast.

Summoner: Place command for pet should teleport the pet to the location ( so it don't have to walk ) kinda like how Machinist's can chang they turrets location easy cause it just despawn and spawn at new location.

If they did that, Summoners could tank with their pets by teleporting them around the battlefield and avoiding all damage. They could basically keep the enemy in a constant chase where the Egi never gets hit because they're teleported away when the mob gets close. They would have to put a CD on Place if they made it an instant teleport. I think turrets can be teleported because they aren't on the enmity table i think?

MCH
- Ricochet gets a similar damage formula has Flare/Holy. Secondary hit deals full damage to primary target, and diminishing returns on damage for every other target afterwards. For a 60s cooldown skill, it's kind of lack luster in everything outside of single target bosses (which even alexander lacks at times). The amount of enemies that can dilute the secondary hit in dungeons and some raid environments really downplays the skill as something you get at level 60.
-More bonus effects on MCH weaponskills/abilities through ammo consumption. They passed it off as one of MCH's main functions, but it seems incredibly under utilized when you look at abilties like hot shot, lead shot and gauss round. It does nothing for the former 2 other than to add 20 potency on the initial hit, and no skills actually require ammo to be executed.

BRD
-Rework Straighter Shot's proc detection. It occurs too late into a typical weaponskill cooldown that you'll never catch the proc unless you purposely delay your weapon skill.
-Rework River of blood to give a stacking buff that boosts the damage of your next Bloodletter or Rain of Death. It'd function better with the cast times introduced by WM.
-Redo/rework Wanderer's Minuet. It's functionally the exact same skill as machinist's GB. It ends up pigeon holing both classes to have the same foundation of gameplay and feels like a really wasted oppertunitiy. They could've done something like have WM to have cast times, reduce GCDs to 1.5 seconds with reduced TP cost, and no damage bonus while enabling the use of Empyreal and Ironjaws.

BLM
-Thunder series is not on GCD but still has cast times. This would allow them to quick cast thundercloud procs without disrupting their enochian timers to a greater degree.

Ninja - Increase Shukuchi range to 25 yards and change it to not break Hide.

Originally Posted by Sleigh

I'm gonna try to refrain from getting rude but I've already shown you my testing that says it is indeed 10%. Please show me your results that differ.

Slash/Blunt/Pierce 10% > Magic 10%?!?!?

Dis guy right?