Traits: The Good, The Bad, and The Useless

[Eloah]

So as we all know with Stormblood coming the battle system will be changing, how we don't know yet, but we know that various skill/abilities will be reworked, and the cross class system will be leaving us; though what will that mean for Crafters and Gatherers. Anyways, while many people are talking about the various changes to skills we might see, and new skills we might get, what about traits?

Any ideas regarding the traits you think are good, are okay but could be better, and should be replaced entirely?

I'll post some of my ides later.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

If fall damage were an actual thing is boss fights, this could be cool. Since it isn't, well...

[Eul]

If fall damage were an actual thing is boss fights, this could be cool. Since it isn't, well...

It's only good at frontline...

Meanwhile I want the ninja skill such as shadewalker and smoke bomb is useful at pvp.

[Alistaire]

If fall damage were an actual thing is boss fights, this could be cool. Since it isn't, well...

The funniest thing about this trait is it works while mounted. All my ninja skills have somehow prevented my magitek/chocobo/floating chair I'm sitting in from taking fall damage.

[Airget]

"Enhanced attributes" are just a waste of space, an excuse to "learn" something at x level that is so minuscule and lame.

[RubyScarlett]

Reduces Stoneskin cast time to 2.5 seconds


Uh, thanks? I guess...

[seekified]

All the Enhanced Mainstat traits are kinda crap, to be honest. They give a handful of points when current gear has everyone sitting at 1600+. I'm not sure those few points were even noticeable when leveling.

There's also a bunch of stuff that should be traits instead of actions, like Rouse/Spur and WAR's stance-specific abilities. Seriously, they did this for Equilibrium but couldn't find a good way of doing the same for Inner Beast/Fell Cleave and Steel Cyclone/Decimate? Thunder is another example, since it's basically the exact same spell that just becomes slightly stronger and slightly slower as you level up. I'd just remove the cast time increase and slap traits on the first Thunder spell.

[Wolf_Gang]

It would be cool if materia had passive traits.

[Rennies]

I dunno, I can't think of any traits off the top of my head that are particularly interesting. Tons of "stat up" and "extra duration"...

Maybe they could start making traits that reward diversifying your rotation a bit?

[Alistaire]

"Enhanced attributes" are just a waste of space, an excuse to "learn" something at x level that is so minuscule and lame.

It's also so crossclass skills can be better on their native job. Internal Release 30% on MNK, Raging Strikes shorter recast on BRD etc.