Thread: Rebalancing Suggestions for 4.0

Having read the recent interview, I'm aware now that all jobs are being looked at for balancing/rebalancing. With that in mind, and within reason, let's offer up suggestions of what we the players would like, in hopes that it will be taken under consideration going forward.

I would like to begin with Machinist:
- No casting stance. Perhaps an ability or two can retain a cast time, but make it worthwhile at least. This would naturally apply to BRD as well. Return them to being mobile, mid/long range physical support.
- Visually, get rid of the Gauss Barrel in favor of a "Gauss Mode" if you will. It's been universally hated by the MCH players, and can easily still be seen as a buff/stance marker if there are concerns of not being able to identify players using/not using it. In fairness, consider making the shot combo a standard, consistent one. Remove the potency of shot procs and apply it overall to the usage of the Gauss Mode, IF we simply must keep the stance as a whole.
- Merge Dismantle and Rend Mind. They share a cooldown, they're fundamentally the same skill, and Virus is an ability that effectively does the same thing in one skill as opposed to separate skills that take up 2 slots. Similarly, Leg Graze and Foot Graze offer different debuffing effects and thus don't really need to share a cooldown. SMN's Tri-Bind and Miasma offer the same debuffs but do not share a cooldown. There is little reason for 2 separate MCH skills to share a cooldown.
- We remain the only job in the game with no self-healing skill or access to a cross class ability of the same type. Similarly, we lack the ability to cross class a defensive skill beyond a parry increase, which currently doesn't help much at all. With Parry changes being considered, I (personally) am willing to wait and see if it proves to be a bit more effective, but because of the classes we have to pull cross class skills from, we are at a loss for damage mitigation and minor self-sustainability.
-Improve our running animation. The weapon arm is too static, and the way it's held in motion is impractical.

Hum about OP points

If you want your mobility back then you will also lose a good part of your dps
You can have a gain without a loss that would be too easy

The gauss barrel can already be remove visually, spread the proc damage to all would mean permanent dps boost
Hell no !

Meeting skill ? No, they are here because the player have to carefully choose which one he use
Just like an ast should choose who will have his card
And this is a skill that the bard doesn't have and make an advantage to the mch

@Zafrei
In which way a multi-skill rotation is something from the past ?
That force the player to think and adapt

No problem here
You're merely suggesting to ease the game...

@Duelle
So channeling shot ?

@ThirdChild_ZKI

You're right, I meant to say Heavy. As for BRD, in my view it should've had cast times applied only to the WM skills, then perhaps it wouldn't feel as clunky.

I'd like to see tank damage leveled out a bit when dealing with a boss/trial. I think they should all get roughly the same sort of DPS just how they achieve it changes.

WAR hits it, DRK debuffs it, PLD buffs his allies.

My BRD suggestion:
Merge all the buffs into one, all the songs into one, all the debuffs into one and scrap the Wanderer's Minuet.

That way people will be able to focus on the mechanics and won't feel like figting their own job.

More buttons, more fun! That's my motto.

So long as they have a toggle that still allows BRD/MCH to up their damage without becoming too overpowered by it + free movement, sure I'm all for removing Wanderer's Minuet and Gauss Barrel.

But if it comes down to leaving those on and us still getting the damage boost from the stances, or taking them away and making us go back to having no real constant damage boost and having to rely on buffs, then I'd honestly rather keep them in or rework them so they still limit us in some way which makes the damage boost fair to a high-mobility class :x