There's one aspect of DNC design that bothers me...

[Makeda]

I highly suspect dancer won’t get any buffs to it’s DPS until it’s a little less popular.

Right now it is just a super fun rotation and set of tools to play with, so it’s got a lot of “stick” for “flavor of the expac”. People don’t want to switch off of it... better to not get a static than to give up playing dancer... the lower performance is just going to be a thing until the community gets over it...

If you want a buff to dancer... you gotta fix some of the other DPS first so they get their fun back. All the former BRD and RDM and SAM and NJN and SMN players that switched to DNC because their job fun got sacrificed on the “class identity” altar of dancer...

Make all of them fun again, and when less than 103% of DPS players are DNC mains, SE will look at it.

As for balancing dancer...

I like that feathers are seriously random. I get that making them surefire off of certain other skills is an easy balance. But then we would just be sacrificing DNCers class identity.

I would rather buff the buffs... that’s a change in numbers that can be done without any impact to the random and playstyle... harder to do? Yes. But better long term result. If we just smooth out the random then all we’re doing is hurting the class identity of yet another FFXIV job in the name of homogenity