Dancer idea.

[TThibi]

I feel ffxiv's dancer would benefit greatly from ffxi's version of Sambas, instead of the 5 second panic button shield samba currently is, make it persist like tank stances, every time the dancer hits an opponent it afflicts that opponent with a shared debuff/buff that reprocs every time a party member affected by the buff hits that enemy. I believe Haste Samba was mentioned when SE started announcing content for dancer, not sure what happened to it but dnc would benefit from Haste, and drain sambas, maybe even other debuffs like paralyzing, Addling, and Viral sambas. Perhaps some elemental dances that inflict elemental damage on striking. Something to take my parties mind off the fact that my luck with feathers is sadly lacking in this fight, and help me as the dancer not feel as if nothing i'm doing is having any real impact. Also boost feathers, remove rng it didn't work for Mch it's not going to work for dancer give it up or give us a luck stat we can improve with gear.

Also the grunting please i'm using steps and my miqo who has the singing voice of an angel, sounds like she just took a fist to the gut, was knee'd in the groin, and is possibly a 60 year old asthmatic smoking a pack a day. Get rid of it, or dub another sound over it. Also dancer exclusive gear sets get us off Bard/Machinist gear, immersion is important? Well stop dressing my dancer in full length robes, and other nonsense, Japanese dancers may dress in full body armor in the US flexibility and freedom of motion are important, less is more. They did it for ninja, they did it for Dragoon, Dancer actually makes the most sense to have unique armor styles that fit the aesthetic. Yes we can glam, no there are not enough dancer appropriate glam items in game. Yes I have them all I am positive, I work hard at the real endgame.

No i'm not trolling, I like everyone else have my own image of what my dancer should look like, how it should perform, and what I'd want it to do. As it is the job is well set up, but it suffers from lack of personal dps which invites bullying from the toxic toad community of parser demons whose opinions sadly carry more weight than legions of dancer players screaming "all is fine, the steps are making up for it." The fact is the steps are not making up for it, Dancer has to compete, hard, to not be relegated to the sidelines. Every dance, every move we have to force out as much dps as we possibly can just to pull half our weight in an 8 man group. God help us if we have a string of bad luck, or our closed position partner is a moron, and keeps dying to mechanics over, and over again. There is little forgiveness, things are much too tight for a job as whimsicle as dancer that should scream individual creativity, and freedom of motion. Unless of course you just, let go, but then you'd never get anything done.