Thread: 5.2+ Job Balance Feedback Thread

Healers
Giving Healers some means of recovering MP during combat. Such as granting 500-1500MP by casting Glare, Broil or Malefic.

While under CC effects, Healers are unable to Purify their party members if their character is turned away from said member. The playerbase at large considers this a design flaw, please fix the facing requirement from the ability.

Ranged/Caster
The playerbase feels Ranged Physical and Casters having close-range AoE (Enchanted Moulinet/Quick Nock/Spread Shot) is a poor design choice. The design mainly affects Frontline and Rival Wing modes, where moving in close-range to use AoE abilities often gets you killed very quickly, especially because it feels like these abilities were added with Frontline in mind.

Examples: Wide Volley for Bard, Grenade Shot for Machinist, a reworked Contre Sixte (on the GCD, gauge cost added) for Red Mage.

Originally Posted by Astryoneus

Ranged/Caster
The playerbase feels Ranged Physical and Casters having close-range AoE (Enchanted Moulinet/Quick Nock/Spread Shot) is a poor design choice. The design mainly affects Frontline and Rival Wing modes, where moving in close-range to use AoE abilities often gets you killed very quickly, especially because it feels like these abilities were added with Frontline in mind.

Examples: Wide Volley for Bard, Grenade Shot for Machinist, a reworked Contre Sixte (on the GCD, gauge cost added) for Red Mage.

After I realized it wasn't just me, I find it funny now how often Black Mage casts their adrenaline rush and then dies. Range is based on the center of the circle and it's a big circle so you have to get pretty close to cast it on a group. Then everyone sees the aoe marker and the Black Mage gets focused while doing their long cast time and can't use medical kit etc until after. I think it's only slightly better for ranged classes with the line attack but the damage is weak and if I get hit with it, I usually have medical kit to use or I wouldn't be in range. And the real best thing about the Black Mage aoe is hitting a bunch of people with the cometeor +25% dmg for iirc 10 seconds debuff anyway, rather than the damage itself.

I certainly wouldn't mind another 10 or 15 yalms on Thunder 2 and Freeze and Foul/Flare. In Frontline Onsal Hakir, we are irrelevant fighting on a node until we move forward and spend our medical kits quickly. Even with our full burst up, we don't usually have enough to burst down non-tank melee players diving into the backlines and our aoe is mostly useless in that backline role. Keeping people from capping nodes with AOE is fun but a niche thing and again you have to run forward for that.

White Mage
Revert the change to White Mages' Regen spell. Bringing up other Healer Jobs was necessary, but bringing down White Mage at the same time was unnecessary.

Gunbreaker
Bring back the Draw and Junction ability to GNB: This core ability allowed for more variation, strategy, and utility that was unique to GNB that was both fun and interesting and an overall disappointment to lose.

Give GNB better utility, or more damage to compete with the other tanks: Currently GNB's damage does not make up for the utility the other tanks can bring(i.e. Vuln Up + Holmgang, Damage down + Ranged Burst + Hallowed, Healing Down at almost 100% uptime, etc.). This can be balanced by either a flat increase to GNB's damage equivalent to the utility lost, or additional utility to even out the playing field(Draw and Junction).

Don't have the Gnashing Fang combo interrupt your single target or AoE combo: It doesn't in PVE, no reason it should in PVP.

Increase the Fast Draw(Haste) max duration from 15sec to 20-25sec and implement GNB's Fast Draw buff timer onto it's job gauge: Comparing this to DRK's Darkside buff that only requires a single oGCD to maintain, with a max duration of 30sec; to GNB's Fast Draw that requires a gauge spent GCD to maintain(3 GCD's to max value at 3 stacks), but only has a max duration of 15sec, it is non-equivical in favor of DRK. Another possibility would be to make Lightning Shot an oGCD on a 20-30sec timer, keeping the same effect in order to make maintaining the buff far less of a burden.

Either make it so the shield removal from Bow Shock happens before the damage, make Bow Shock do 0 damage and decrease the cooldown, or change it to something else entirely: As it stands now, Bow Shock will do damage to the shield it is trying to remove, before the shield is actually removed, making the ability counter productive.

Ninja
Changing Ill Wind into Jugulate (AoE into single target Silence) from the past would help balance Ninja. No decrease in potency needed.

Machinist
Machinist needs Between The Eyes or some other form of defnitive burst. Currently the burst window for Machinist is with Drill and Hypercharge (all of them on the GCD) which does not compare to, for example, Dancer's definitive burst window. Increasing the Hypercharge combo potencies would be ideal, if Hypercharge is to remain as the main burst window of the Job. In it's current iteration, the Job feels clunky to use and the reward to effort ratio is not in the right place.