Thread: Rebalancing Suggestions for 4.0

I play on a standard m/kb as well and everything for every class fits on there fine. Turns out, every class gains abilities at about the same rate and they all have roughly the same number of buttons to press (except for pet classes, who might want a couple extra).

However, just because everything fits on there now doesn't mean it will in the future. It also doesn't mean the current combo system is a good one. Finally, 123->111 isn't dumbing down if 2 and 3 don't do anything on their own anyway because there's no execution requirements to speak of. These aren't chain combos in a fighting game.

I'm just gonna say, I think MCH/BRD are fine as is and that includes the Gauss Barrel and Wanderer's, the cast time is not as big of a deal as people try to make it out to be.

I'd really like SE to consider making our interaction with our abilities more intuitive and engaging.

Take a look at how games likes Blade and Soul, Aion, TERA, and ArcheAge deal with limited space for a lot of abilities. For example, let's say Ability 1 can trigger Ability 2. Instead of pressing '1' and then '2', Ability 1's icon changes to Ability 2, so the player only has to press '1' again. If this is used for multiple abilities, it means we can actually get a wider range of abilities to use from all of the space that's left over.

They've said it more and more that FF14 is beginning to transition towards more unique and challenging content to keep the game fresh. Maybe on top of enhancing the way we engage with our abilities, we could see a return of elemental weaknesses/strengths/etc, or maybe lowering the GCD from 2.5 to 2, or 1.5.

Idk if this was suggested or not yet. But making the MCH turrets follow, similar to sum/sch. That would help maintain the turret buffs so they are more equal to brd.

Originally Posted by Sylisto

Idk if this was suggested or not yet. But making the MCH turrets follow, similar to sum/sch. That would help maintain the turret buffs so they are more equal to brd.

The turrets actually already have an impressive range. And MCHs generally have free reign over where they're placed. Now I wouldn't be adverse to a 3rd turret that's mobile, but the big question is what would it do that the Rook/Bishop don't already do?

Originally Posted by CrystalRainbow

No changes to system needed if marcos would be reworked to .0X of a second.

I wish I could plus 1 more then once. That would fix all my issues.

Originally Posted by Mysteltain

For SMN and SCH, just remove the need for all the different buttons to have your pet manually attack/cast and consolidate them into four abilities whose effect is determined by the current Carbuncle/Egi/Fairy. These names are clunky, but you get the gist, I hope:

Alpha Tactic: standard auto-attack/heal
Beta Tactic: the stun/knockback/regen/debuff heal
Gamma Tactic: the AoE attack/regen/buff
Delta Tactic: the AoE buff/Contagion/Silence/whatever Eos' 4th ability is (not a big SCH player since 3.0).

That just condensed the 12 SMN pet and 8 SCH pet abilities to a max of 4 shared among the Egis and Fairies, assuming you also have their auto-attack hotbared (which I don't know why you would, but I'm not a big SMN/SCH player, so feel free to correct me on that).

Scholars and Summoners don't suffer from these. They are compartmentalized within themselves and can be isolated onto different hotbars.

Originally Posted by Rawrz

Scholars and Summoners don't suffer from these. They are compartmentalized within themselves and can be isolated onto different hotbars.

True, but on controller it's been a nightmare to get everything for SCH and SMN to fit on three cross hotbars (two standard and an expanded hotbar). Admittedly, limiting myself to three per job is a personal preference, but those two jobs do have the largest amount of ability bloat if one wants to manually control their pets.