What class needs a buff or nerf?

[SaitoHikari]

"ranged physical dps" is too easy. Would you like them to add positional to be inline with the rest of the physical dps, or would you like cast time to be comparable to casters?

BRD / MCH have it easy as is, with oGCD being available without affecting ability queue, and ways to manage movement.

Correction: Only Machinist really has ways to manage movement. Bard doesn't get anywhere near as much freedom as Machinist does.

Admittedly, fellow Bards that are looking at WM from a mobility standpoint are for the most part, quite wrong. The real issue is that WM design clashes with what the class was previously designed for in terms of attack rotations, while not actually adding any interesting effects to earlier skills compared to Machinist. Designing a class around cooldown resets and suddenly slapping cast times onto all their other skills is inefficient and very conflicting design. Meanwhile, Machinist gets a bullet system to experiment with prior to learning Gauss Barrel for the sake of maximizing damage. It just so happens that Gauss Barrel stresses the importance of proper bullet usage even further, by making it tied to the ability to circumvent cast times and weave in oGCDs more easily.

Of course, all of the Machinist skills were designed all at once, and so all their skills were already designed with Gauss in mind. WM was added to a class that had existed for years.

Bard really should have had a Ley Lines-type system instead of importing a limitation directly from Machinist with none of the interesting mechanics to work around said limitations. It's actually really disgusting how well designed Gauss Barrel is for Machinist, and how poorly designed Minuet was for Bards in comparison. I really can't call it anything other than a poorly thought out copy-paste job in the name of balance.

I go way more in depth on my thoughts throughout this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Rain-of-Death