MCH Hopes (Based on the Benchmark)

[Jonnycbad]

It looked like it might be an oGCD where they whip out a FlameThrower and fire it for a sec before putting it away and pulling their normal weapon out. Think of it like Edgar's "Tools" from FF6 (Edgar was a Machinist after all). Maybe MCH will get other "Tools" as oGCDs: Chainsaw, Drill, Bioblaster, etc..

[TristanBlane]

I'm still holding onto hope they will remove the cast bar. : ( I don't like it

[Yun_Tsuri]

Not really care about poses, animations or anything related, MCH is actually a well-done job when it comes to actual rotation and overall thinking, still its DPS depends too much from DRGs (same goes for BRDs) and hope they'll make metas fixable with players' skill (but they're going the other way, making it easier for everyone with a new flat system). Big problem is I see no dev. team effort for anything related to raids and actual gameplay (the whole game should be planned around them), but only cheap dressing-up / glamour contents which is extremely disturbing for those used to play MMORPGs, RPGs and J-RPGs around. Just sad a J-RPG master such Matsuno workin' on a 24-man casual raid alone, but it's already something I suppose.

[Ghastly]

Not really care about poses, animations or anything related, MCH is actually a well-done job when it comes to actual rotation and overall thinking, still its DPS depends too much from DRGs (same goes for BRDs) and hope they'll make metas fixable with players' skill (but they're going the other way, making it easier for everyone with a new flat system). Big problem is I see no dev. team effort for anything related to raids and actual gameplay (the whole game should be planned around them), but only cheap dressing-up / glamour contents which is extremely disturbing for those used to play MMORPGs, RPGs and J-RPGs around. Just sad a J-RPG master such Matsuno workin' on a 24-man casual raid alone, but it's already something I suppose.

A bit off topic but..

In mmo you depend on other people so things need to be a bit less challenging so that they can be fun and not frustrating
In regular FF you don't so things being difficult is actually fun

FFXIV devs are the best ones in current mmo field. Other mmo devs follow your philosophy about making things challenging and end up going f2p (f2p = death of that mmo).

I'm still holding onto hope they will remove the cast bar. : ( I don't like it

No caster bar would be the best change ever
I'm also hoping for no gauss barrel, or a way to turn it off for everyone

[Yun_Tsuri]

FFXIV devs are the best ones in current mmo field. Other mmo devs follow your philosophy about making things challenging and end up going f2p (f2p = death of that mmo).

Can't agree with that.
MMORPGs are basically dead imho today, the only way FFXIV survives is glamour (servers been literally empty for weeks since few months ago now) and the dressing-up feature the game is too focused on. So calling FFXIV devs the best ones because they sell glamour to make money cause we have no new or interesting contents is ways too much. Been playing FFXI since its NA release in 2003 (and I am from EU, I assure you making a NA account ready while living in EU at its time was harder than any FFXIV raid out there today), that game (and same goes for the original WoW team) had the greatest MMORPG dev team of all time with immense expansions giving you months - or even years of playtime with no catch-up patches and everything being fair and hard when it comes to gear especially. A great MMORPG is your second life, where dedication, skill, design and OST comes together and gives you memories you'll collect and bring with you forever. FFXIV, the way it is now since ARR, runs around comic micro-events, glamours and tons of old FF references with literally no innovation. Tomestone system is actually the worst point / gearing up system in MMO world where you need to repeat the same old contents in order to get cheap gear everyone has access to. And I don't even want to talk about the relic system which is literally a joke, on FFXI it required the highest amount of gil, a couple of years of various farm and clearing the strongest Dynamis bosses in game. But man, you had the fucking strongest weapon in game 10-15 people a server only obtained.

[Atlaworks]

I'm still holding onto hope they will remove the cast bar. : ( I don't like it

Just untoggle Gauss, bro

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

I don't mind the casts, I do want the actual graphic to go. Change it to Gauss Stance/Gauss Mode, get rid of the hideous contraption that either looks weird attached to the weapon, or freefloats and still looks weird.

As for the comments on glamour over battle, I'm gonna say that's just your opinion, and there IS the live letter later this month all about the job/role shared actions and battle system changes - something they've been so deeply working on they've waited til now to even speak on it. I'm not expecting perfection, but the overall idea is improvement, and that's all I'd personally like to see.