Thread: The Culling: Moving into 5.0

What Actions, Abilities, or Mechanics do you see getting dropped, folded into others, or outright removed to make room for the new moving forward into Not-Garlemald?

As a few examples, using Black Mage

Between the Lines: Folded into Leylines. Reactivating Leylines while it is active performs Between the Lines. BTL's activation requires at least one second after casting Leylines to be functional (So you don't double tap yourself into a spell interrupt)

Enochian is folded into AF/UI as a trait.

Fire 4 and Blizzard 4 are folded into the same action, such as in PVP.

I can see them getting rid of RDM's Tether spell.

I'm not even sure what they were thinking when they added it to the list of RDM abilities.

WHM: Lilies need to either be removed, or updated to something that is actually relevant. The very minor cooldown reduction is barely noticeable.

DRK: Dark Arts spam definitely needs to be on its way out. The [Dark Arts] job [Dark Arts] is [Dark Arts] really [Dark Arts] tedious. Living Dead also needs a rework.

SMN: Tri-bind has been a meme forever. Make it useful or cut the fat. Pet control has also been awful since the very beginning.

SCH: Pet control has also been awful since the very beginning.

MNK: Tornado Kick and Riddle of Fire are just awful.

MCN: Just LOL. This job has so many issues its not even worth talking about.

DRG: Maybe one day this job won't be the butt of every floor tank joke. Animation Locked forever!

That's all that comes to mind off the top of my head lol.

Originally Posted by Nicodemus_Mercy

I like lilies just as they because they aren't relevant. Initially, SE got it into their head that EVERYONE needed a class gauge of some sort which I vehemently disagree with, and honestly I think SE realized it wasn't necessary either. I believe SE gave WHM a gauge that was intentionally low impact so as not to cause any drastic changes in game play for WHM and I am thankful for that. I like WHM as it is (and as it was prior to Stormblood). I would not want to deal with some weird mechanic like the BLM gauge on WHM.

Gauges are literally just timer and resource trackers that aren't aligned to your buff bar. A quick at-a-glance of your job specific mechanics that wouldn't get lost in the plethora of buffs that get tossed out on a constantly shifting bar.

Originally Posted by Kabooa

Gauges are literally just timer and resource trackers that aren't aligned to your buff bar. A quick at-a-glance of your job specific mechanics that wouldn't get lost in the plethora of buffs that get tossed out on a constantly shifting bar.

Only sort of. It also gave rise to new, and often pointless mechanics just because they wanted to give everyone a job gauge. Things like Ninki and DRG gazes and the fairy gauge, which seem to exist solely because some dev thought the UI wasn't flashy enough.

Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

Only sort of. It also gave rise to new, and often pointless mechanics just because they wanted to give everyone a job gauge. Things like Ninki and DRG gazes and the fairy gauge, which seem to exist solely because some dev thought the UI wasn't flashy enough.

Hey man, if you'd rather have a small icon with a number 0-100 for your stuff on your bar, more power to you.

Originally Posted by Nicodemus_Mercy

I like lilies just as they because they aren't relevant. Initially, SE got it into their head that EVERYONE needed a class gauge of some sort which I vehemently disagree with, and honestly I think SE realized it wasn't necessary either. I believe SE gave WHM a gauge that was intentionally low impact so as not to cause any drastic changes in game play for WHM and I am thankful for that. I like WHM as it is (and as it was prior to Stormblood). I would not want to deal with some weird mechanic like the BLM gauge on WHM.

To be fair, I did use "removed" as an option. It seems like removing the lily system would still fit your needs.