Thread: 5.0 Combat changes: What do you expect?

I want Exalted Detriment back

PLD is the job I could give the most feedback. I'd like the job to have:

1- A close gap. All tanks have it. PLD can also have it, some sort of Shield Charge or something like that. Make it consume gauge.
2- Holy Spirit but AoE. Call it Holy Burst. Enhanced with Requiescat. This would give them more AoE tools like the other tanks.
3- Reduction of CD times: Compared to other tanks, I feel the cds of both Sentinel and specially Bulwark are too high.
4- Making stance dancing off-GCD. It consumes MP, there's already a penalty.
5- Reduce or remove the animation delay of Hallowed Grounds.

Other than that, I have misc. suggestions for the rest of the tanks:

DRK:
-Just remove the need of using DA even to sit down. Seriously.

GUN:
-Don't make it an offgcd fest.

WAR:
-Is okay.

WHM - More water-based techniques, likely off-GCD.
SCH - Fourth Aetherflow stack and/or offensive technique to apply it.
AST - Card saving / delaying, potential paired card bonuses

PLD - AoE enmity combo finisher after Savage Blade
WAR - Finally get a use for MP
DRK - Dunno, they're still a grey area for me.

BLM - Astral/Umbral stack "eating" for Ley Line bonuses
SMN - That fourth Aetherflow stack is looking pretty good...
BRD - The return of Flaming Arrow
MNK - Greased Lightning stack "eating" for Chakra bonuses, or vice versa
NIN - Cooldown adjustments based on quantity of signs to make one- and two- sign more relevant.
SAM - Frontal positionals. Learn those cleave timings!
RDM - More transition from magic to melee and back again.
DRG - Tough one. They've always been balanced enough to not complain about much after Heavy Thrust was fixed. Dunno.
MCH - Dunno, they're still a grey area for me.
BLU - Moar spells!

I want to say I would be surprised if Scholar gets more buttons. I really want to say that. But I won't. I hope we don't though.

I expect the tanks to be harder-split into proper MT jobs and OT jobs, because Yoshi kinda implied that.

Healers to still be a underwhelming due to a high degree of homogeneous skills.

I honestly don't have a whole lot of expectations. The last time I did was in Stormblood and I ended up getting burned by Monk getting some of the most lazily designed skills the devs have ever conceived. But in spite of that I'm once again hopeful for Monk since the devs have said in at least one interview that it's under the microscope for an overhaul, and frankly it's one of the jobs in most need of it. There's an enormous number of skills that don't need to exist (One Ilm Punch, the Fists Stances), skills that are fairly ineffective at what they're supposed to do or even kind of counter intuitive (Tornado Kick and Riddle of Earth), skills that have been highly divisive or that people outright hate (Riddle of Fire), and one skill that is going to lose its (already pretty useless) function when TP goes away (Purification).

Otherwise the only two things I'm really hoping for is for all categories of Physical Damage types to be folded together so that Dragoon's Piercing monopoly can die, and I want them to fold Maiming and Scouting gear into Striking and Aiming respectively. Dragoon has no reason to have additional physical defense after they brought up it's magical defense and Scouting doesn't need its own category period. Most of the times at least two sets of the Striking/Maiming/Scouting/Aiming gear ends up being recolors also, so it's not like the devs are committed to the jobs aesthetic and indeed, they actually had Striking share the model of its primal gear with the Tanks instead of Maiming despite Dragoon being the one Armored Melee. All it really does is bloat the loot pools and make it less likely for you to get something you can use.