Is it time to remove dots from the game?

[Shougun]

. . . that doesn't mean there aren't those that do and there should exist jobs for both.

Yeah I think they can design different styles of play for different jobs and hopefully players will try the jobs that satisfy their style most. Not all jobs need DoTs but some jobs should have them.

Like I think having a healer be this more simplified style is probably good for many people, but also clearly a bit boring for others, so they should ideally make sure there is a healer that has many decision trees (not just buttons to mash, even if the tree is a bit simple it can help feel like you have to stay awake to do what you need to do- for those who are looking for that faster / higher demand at least).

[Ilenya]

This has nothing to do with that.

You missed the joke.

As it stands, speaking as someone who had more DoTs and had them taken away over the years (RIP SCH Thunder), I'd rather not have them be lost completely. Bard, especially, is built around it, so they'd have to change bard AGAIN to get that working.

[BasicBlake]

God I hope so. Every time I see someone like “this class needs a dot” “this class needs another one”.... I just sigh.

[Payadopa]

Press a button every 20 seconds. Very stimulating. Yeah, many DoTs should just go. Same with these asinine skills that just do damage every 20 or so seconds without any prerequisite. What's the point? It's just there so we can pretend we got a new skill.

[MsQi]

DoTs are fun. There's nothing like watching something slowly die a little on the inside.

If anything needs to go away it's overly specific rotations.

[Amnmaat]

Remove egis, that's the one dot that should be removed.

[sauc]

If anything the game needs a real dot class. Affliction warlock was my favorite spec followed closely by demonology in wow.

When I played in arr summoner had a ton of dots if I recall and when I played again in stormblood I was pretty disappointed seeing theres only a miasma and bio.

Furthermore the game needs to display dot ticks much better, they don't even show up in the combat log and you can't see them on the target unless you turn on everyone elses damage as far as I know (gl finding whats yours in the sea of numbers)

and finally speed needs to make them just tick more often in the same period of time instead of just ticks harder, maybe it would finally be a stat that isn't basically useless except for blm and maybe some minor gcd breakpoint people try to reach.

[Tlamila]

Ok Ok I got it. Remove skills! They're boring anyway. I just want to autoattack.

[kaynide]

I am all for DoTs as an option, but I do agree there can or should be a certain amount of streamlining into rotations, like just building into the main rotation.

Sam is a good example of it being awkward: personally I would have thought the “tier 1” special if SAM to be a line attack, or perhaps a situational defensive buff (and thus unneeded unless solo/emergency).

[Lersayil]

I am all for DoTs as an option, but I do agree there can or should be a certain amount of streamlining into rotations, like just building into the main rotation.

Sam is a good example of it being awkward: personally I would have thought the “tier 1” special if SAM to be a line attack, or perhaps a situational defensive buff (and thus unneeded unless solo/emergency).

Ironically it's probably the opposite. Higanbana is the only thing keeping the SAM rotation going straight into brain-dead territory. Not sure about you, but repeating the Midare rotation non stop is extremely simplistic and boring to me.

That being said it has nothing to do with it being a DoT, so if they mess with the base 3 sen rotation in other ways I wouldn't care much if they changed it.