Thread: Rebalancing Suggestions for 4.0

Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

I find it funny people are using PLD, the job with the least buttons to press, as the example for trimming down buttons.

"Yeah, PLD only has to use 3 buttons to do Rage of Halone... but what if they only needed 1?????"

It works well in Aion to keep skill bloat down, no reason it couldn't work here too.

Originally Posted by Freyyy

yet now every class has between 10 and 15 buttons in WoW, after all the revamps they did

exactly, because it got way out of hand
Wouldn't it be better if ffxiv tried to keep it reeled in before it has to do a gigantic revamp of every single class?

Originally Posted by Norleas

Instead of making Gauss Barrel not add cast times, add a seperate attachment called Quickdraw Grip:

-15% damage dealt
+30% skill speed
+5% crit chance
+20% chance to trigger Split Shot and Slug Shot's additional effect.

Gauss Round morphed into Rapid Fire Round
90 potency x stacks of ammunition (450 max.)
Additional effect: Removes damage reduction caused by Quickdraw Grip (5s)

Ricochet morphed into Bullet Hell
250 potency
AoE
Additional effect: Targets hit by this take 10% more incoming damage (10s)

I like this thematically.

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 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.

Originally Posted by Mysteltain

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.

I run my SCH with 5 hotbars + extended, but when each fairy is out I'll use only 2 + extended, until I need to switch out or resummon, then i will use my back 5th hotbar, so I may have 5 hotbars, but I only actively access 2 + extended on each fairy. :O

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?