Flaws of the combat system

[Payadopa]

Emnity is a boring fluff mechanic, I'm glad they made it braindead. Before, casual players couldn't understand how to manage it, and good players found it boring.

Support DPS are key in any content that matters, buffs are big, and once again, good players will know how to maximise them.

You whole complaint seems to be, dungeons too easy. They don't matter, they are story content.

Hard disagree. The game would tremendously benefit from anything that makes people do things other than mindlessly press AoE #1 and #2. In XI enmity management was a skill in and of itself. Here it's not even present. This psychotic mah DPS is the reason everything else gets axed if you ask me.

[StriderShinryu]

Ultima Online and Everquest had perfectly fine pets two decades ago. WoW has similarly complex raid encounters nowadays, and its pet classes work well in that game. You'd think FFXIV is being made by at least equally good devs and coders. I find it really weird that they're having such problems with pets.

They have said previously that the pet issues are rooted in the way FF14 handles it's network coding and latency. It's not good but it's something built into the actual core of the game and is why they keep trying to work on pets (and why they keep reducing pet related interactions because they feel they just can't get it to work the way they want it to work).

[Catwho]

Healers used to have complex rotations. Scholar was one of the most wonderful, deep, high ceiling jobs because of it. Three DoTs. I miss it.

They dumbed it down because people complained it was too hard.

[ASkellington]

Healers honestly need a complete overhaul. This nonsense of "pure vs shield" healing needs to go for the sheer fact that it means despite having 4 healers we just have 2 and an extra two that are straight up better clones.
"Pure healers" shouldn't have a single shield. Shield healers shouldn't have regens.


WHM - pure, burst on demand healing. Any regens that remain cost significantly more than their other healing options. As a bonus you now have a rotation. Enjoy.
AST - Regen healer. Your only "burst" options are Horoscope, ES, and ED. Neutral Sect and Celestial Intersection no longer have shielding. Give them something else.
SCH - I'd like to be the pet healer but y'know pet management conflicts. Regardless, bring back Miasma and Bane.
SGE - Pure shielding. No regens to be found.

Our oGCDs should have a mana cost and increase CDs for them. Why? Piety is currently worthless because our oGCDs cost 0 mana and with the current combat design they're up too often for Raidwides and Tankbusters for us to be forced into our GCDs to even deplete our mana.

And for the "extremes, savages, ultimates" argument I ask this: Where is the challenging 4 man content that isn't a PotD/HoH clone? I'll wait.