Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
The only time GL was actually something more than a "keeping up with the Joneses" type mechanic was during the Tornado Kick rotation period in which GL could actually be used as a build up mechanic towards Tornado Kick in a semi-similar fashion as Geirskogul (sp?) and Foul, even if there was more to it than either one of those skills, but that died off going into ShB. So a QoL improvement to something that is now back to nothing but a simple "maintain or you fail" mechanic is better than just watching as time and time again we are punished for not having the proper tools to maintain our core mechanic as our 5 maintenance skills all fail to do their damn job in a practical sense.
Then
  1. Don't kill the TK rotation. Tune it so it's less clunky and less obligatory. GL can thereby actually be something more than a once-per-instance wind-up punishment for playing MNK.
  2. Fix the maintenance tools themselves and don't remove tools by which to rapidly regain GL.
And look at that, no need or even significant temptation to reduce GL to a mere stain of a mechanic.