Job overhaul expectations for Endwalker

[ASkellington]

What I want to see:

Classes

BRD overhaul
DRK overhaul
MNK overhaul/revisited
SMN trim??? idk what this class needs tbh
MCH revisited

As far as roles go, Healer and Tank need to be looked at. Badly

What I am near 100% sure is going to happen:

DRK/BRD/MNK little to no changes that addresses player issues
AST removal of Noct sect and becomes a WHM clone
SCH left in the dust as SGE takes it place
WHM ...who again?

SGE will either be one of two things:

1. It'll either have everything healers want (cause new job) making everyone play it because it great while also hating every aspect of it because to get what we finally wanted we had to destroy 3 jobs (on top of having people ignore the wishes of WHM/AST/SCH for their jobs to be better cause "just play SGE")

2. It isn't GNB or DNC, it's a healer, so it gets to suffer the same treatment (or worse!) and be a 2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 occasional heals spammer

[ReynTime]

SMN seems to be a safe bet to be getting a major overhaul.
AST is going to get butchered (again) to become an exclusively reactive healer.
I'm betting PLD will have its utility cut back because XIV team seems to hate letting jobs have situational actions or feel too different to others in the same role.
DRG and BLM will be simplified because heaven forbid you have a DPS job that has a higher skill ceiling than average to maintain good damage.

What I want doesn't matter. Because I like situational utility actions, I liked when healers had stuff like protect and stoneskin, I liked when enmity management was a thing all roles had to work together for, and I liked things like cleric stance. I wanted complexity and active party synergy, not even more simplification and repetition to the flow of actions. I wanted the so promised system that rewards effort and innovation. The "effort" required keeps getting toned down every expansion. And the "innovation" hasn't been seen in over 7 years.
So naturally, I'm going against the tide here. That's the opposite of what they want to do with the game's combat.

[AnnRam]

I hope every job gets more "complicated" or flexibles because some rotations at 80 are extremely boring.

Of course Monk, literally unplayable.

[Shougun]

Warrior is going to get another fell cleave.

[Vespar]

What I would like to see, is shield healers get specific shield types or separate shields so that when SCH and Sage or SCH+SCH are in a party they aren't overwriting each other.
I feel it would be nice so that in groups folks didnt have to worry if they were paired with another shield healer. Pure healers dont have to worry about this.. so it seems only fair.

Otherwise my only other worry is the stuff folks have been spewing about SE gutting SMN pets. Which I feel is unlikely but you never know.

[Raiya]

I loved this spell. If they do bring it back I would guess they would call it something else and give it a glowy effect like holy. They changed all our spells from stone/air to glowy spells. Unless Sage takes the glowy light spells and WHM gets back the nature theme I don’t see the exact spell coming back. I personally like the nature theme and hope they do though.

They could just give it back at lvl52 and upgrade it to Dia III at the 70's Range. At the very least it should share its effect with the single target aero like Thunder having one single dot is a joke as its worthless on group pulls.

[BunniEclair]

Not a complete overhaul but I would like the AOE rotation of RDM reworked or added to. It doesn’t feel very satisfying as it is now, especially compared to the huge flourish of scorch as the finisher of the single target melee combo.

[Sathona]

Besides Astro for converting to Regen healer, probably Summoner..again.

[Listrella]

well it seems like summoner is getting a major rework, I expect to see some significant changes to warrior as well as it's current considered the worst of the tanks. Astrologian also seems to be getting some big changes, beyond that i'm not really sure but every class will change to some degree.

[HisShadowX]

I rather see all jobs simplified meaningless new abilities, but rather upgraded abilities as you level.

Machinist does it correctly, but allowing most abilities to simply be upgraded.

Right now my Gamepad left stick had my gamepad toolbar Level 50 abilities, 60 abilities, 70 abilities and 80 abilities for all the jobs I have.

My tanks have WAY to many abilities that I often have to remove depending on the level.

Why not just keep it simple instead of new abilities just focus on upgrading old ones? Every expansion, we lose or gain an ability. Why not simplify all of the abilities?