Future of Limit Break

[Mika_Zahard]

It's basically just used by melee dps 90+% of the time,

Because melee LB (specially 3) does the most damage of all of them. I really suggest you to look at the wiki to see why that happens.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki...sy_XIV)#Braver

Something that has irked me for years is how limit break feels very meh.

...occasionally it's for healers to save everyone from a wipe and once or twice an expansion...

Well you said so yourself, healer LB3 has very specific purposes: Save a run/prevent raises from getting the 25 or 50% stat debuffs, and full heal the party.

...and once or twice an expansion they have the obligatory boss the tanks need to lb3 on your the party wipes.

And this one is a design choice from Devs.
If you have a problem with those, you should suggest something .. better for Devs to take into account.

You suggested DoTs, but people dont like dots, specially keeping them up (check old SMN complains).

[Malthir]

Because melee LB (specially 3) does the most damage of all of them. I really suggest you to look at the wiki to see why that happens.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki...sy_XIV)#Braver


Well you said so yourself, healer LB3 has very specific purposes: Save a run/prevent raises from getting the 25 or 50% stat debuffs, and full heal the party.


And this one is a design choice from Devs.
If you have a problem with those, you should suggest something .. better for Devs to take into account.

You suggested DoTs, but people dont like dots, specially keeping them up (check old SMN complains).

I'm not suggesting Dot's I'm suggesting some kind of system that involves the entire party, if the limit break is a party bar it would be nice if the party felt involved in using it. For most players it's just a button you never press, just a bit of a waste IMO.

I was suggesting to either make the limit break an individual bar even give them to potential to combo off each other, or do some form of system similar to that of LOTRO's in which all the party gets to pick how the limit break plays out and instead of one character doing everything the animation is tied to the party.

I always thought it would be a more fun and co-operative system if every job got a personal LB and by using them in a specific order you could create a specific aftermath effect. Similar to systems like ffxi’s skillchains, 1.0’s battle regimen, or single player games like ff tactics combo system or ff12’s mist system.

For example every player could get a single LB bar that lets them use a job specific attack that’s just a powerful attack in its own right (not as powerful as a current LB but still worth using). Every person that uses one adds an aftermath stack and changes their LB button to “trigger aftermath”.

Aftermaths would basically be the current LBs and the more aftermath stacks you build the more powerful the resulting effect.

That's pretty much the system lotro had that I was talking about. Every party member picks between damage, heal, dot or mana back depending on the combo from the party changes the attack it is pretty simplistic but still better than what we have. Something like this would be cool IMO, personally I lean towards give all characters a personal limit break some form of a cool attack obviously not doing as much damage as a current LB3 and then have a combo system if a DPS and Tank use limit break one after another then a big attack goes off that damages and buffs the party or something to that effect.