Was talking with some friends the other night about what could be added from previous FF games and "Magic Sword" came up. When I say magic sword, I mean FF9 style where Vivi powers up Steiner's sword, which then unleashes a powerful elemental attack (Details).
When I consider what it could be like in FFXIV, I imagine a mage class (thaum or con with respective elements) nuking another melee character, giving that character the ability to do some good elemental damage for a single attack or short time (not talking FFXI en-spells here). It would need to be implemented in a way that all classes enjoy the strategy, for instance:
- CON/THM nukes another character, giving them said elemental power up
- Nuked player performs an attack (auto, or WS?) that performs extra elemental damage
- Nuked player receives enmity for most or all of the damage
A lot of these idea threads are pretty stupid (and something like this might be coming back with battle regimens?), but I was curious what other people thought.