Thread: Future Job skill additions or changes you wish to see in 7.0 and beyond

Originally Posted by BlaqWolv

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SAMURAI

• Starting Point: Revert Samurai to its former state from just before Endwalker.
  
  
• Background/Universal Changes:

• Conal and Linear AoEs no longer require a target. If there is none, they will simply follow the character's facing. If there is one, by default, the game will check both the number of effective hits to be had under the character's facing and in facing towards the target enemy, and use the greater of the two. This can be set to always prefer target-facing or character facing, under Character Settings.

• Some QoL/Flavor Adjustments:

• Instead of granting 10 Kenki directly, Third Eye now upgrades your next use of either Shiten or Kyuten into Seigan or Soten, which cost 10 Kenki less while dealing full damage and healing for a portion of damage dealt (or some other additional effect). This just offers a bit more animation variety without costing any additional buttons.
• Almost all of Samurai's AoE skills now hit their primary target (if any) or first target struck (if not) for greater damage, expanding their available use cases, though their base damage has been faintly decreased (buffed if hitting 1-4 to 1-6 targets [variance due simply to sticking to multiples of 5 potency]; nerfed faintly above those counts). Among other effects, this should make 2-target cleaving Tenka more useful outside of uses just before TG, and should make Tenka feel like a rotational boon during leveling (instead of a wet fart below the average single-target potency-per-GCD, as per its present Endwalker state).
• If not placed on one's hotbars separately from Iaijutsu, Tsubame-Gaeshi now replaces Iaijutsu while no Sen are active. (If one uses a Iaijutsu, they can TG it until they can again use a regular Iaijutsu.) If placed separately, Tsubame-Gaeshi just copies the most recent Iaijutsu outright. (These function effectively identically in most sustained combat, while the latter has slight perks in dungeons.)
• The direct damage of Higanbana has been increased by 100, but its total periodic potency has been decreased by 100 (10 less per tick). This gives it a bit more value in dungeons.
• Instead of granting a total of 20 Kenki like all other combos (and thereby making Kaiten nearly impossible to underfund), Kenki Mastery II (or its renamed form) instead causes Yukikaze to generates Yuki-Kemuri, causing your next Shinten/Senei or Kyuten/Guren to empower itself and any further Shinten/Senei or Kyuten/Guren actions within 3 seconds. This period is extendable to 6 seconds via Kaiten. Each empowered hit has an additional visual component for that bit more punch and flavor, with the bonus damage shown separately (think Nozuchi). This also means that the total potency granted by Yukikaze is more varied, increasing the value of avoiding Yukikaze during Meikyo Shisui while increasing Yukikaze's value in large burst, especially against a focus target in AoE situations.
• Allow Hagakure to "Crit", generating 50% more Kenki at 5 Kenki per tick over up to X seconds. At each level the relative value of Iaijutsu is increased past its Stormblood values (e.g., the levels at which Tsubame-Gaeshi and Shoha are acquired), also buff Hagakure to leave it still merely a costly option rather than increasingly an outright trap.
• Meditate now reduced the number of stacks required for one's next Shoha, rather than generating stacks directly, as not to be anti-synergetic with passive generation from Iaijutsu before downtime.
• [OPTIONAL] Meditation stacks renamed to Honed Blade (or whatever). Shoha can now be used at 1-3 stacks of Honed Blade. Its animation now cycles between three components, with as many of its components being used as stacks are consumed. Deals 10 extra potency per stack, per stack (170|350|540).

• Endwalker Additions:

• Ogi Namikiri added as a separate action. Each Tsubame-Gaeshi allows for a cast of Ogi Namikiri or Kaeshi: Namikiri, holding up to 3 stacks. Generally, these stacks are therefore used two at a time, since Kaeshi bundles in the effect of Kaiten for free, effectively saving 240 potency. It's a big boom that looks sexy. That's a good enough reason, I suppose, to bring it back, now with a bit more [Blitz-like] flexibility useful to dungeoning.
• Shoha gains Shoha Mastery, causing it to release crimson arcs of kenki from each slash, striking enemies in a line behind the target for reduced damage.
• Some new buff to Ikishoten or any of the low-CD Kenki spenders that generates some new gameplay opportunities.
• Second charge of Meikyo Shisui, only, and perhaps MKSS CDR. There's no need for a second charge of TG, as that'd just get sunk into the 2-minute burst if so allowed.
• Basic potency buffs to keep SAM competitive.

• Some Leveling Adjustments:

• Reduce Fuka and Fugetsu to 16s at a time, stacking to 32s, with Kasha and Gekko now also granting Fuka and Fugetsu. This at least lets them feel like actual mechanics while leveling. 32s is also plenty even with TG.
• Greatly accelerate the acquisition of Kaiten, Hagakure, Gyoten, and Yaten, such as to levels 30, 35, 40, 45, etc. Decrease potencies as needed in compensation prior to lv52 (since Kaiten is the largest source of ppm there), and/or originally make Kaiten usable only on weaponskills other than Iaijutsu in order to reduce its ppm contribution (by having it be used only on Gekko and Kasha).
• Increase Enpi's base Kenki generation by 5, but reduce its base potency by 30-60. This will allow for immediate use of Gyoten.
• At most levels we'd previously have acquired the above accelerated skills, again accelerate other skills/traits, such as via Kaiten Mastery (allowing it to affect Iaijutsu and to increase the benefit of Fuka/Fugetsu), Kenki Mastery II, Kyuten, and Shiten, in that order.

And for Dawntrail: Just yet more actions that allow for core CDs or spenders to generate further windows of opportunity for involved actions that give distinct moments to its rotation without those moments likely always hitting each at a particular time, or maybe situational combo skills whose use would produce fewer Iaijutsu per minute but allow for greater dynamism in Fuka/Fugetsu, or some way of just flavorfully tying skills together, such as via CDR.

General Changes (all Jobs):
-Remove the majority of Raid buffs, Some are fine Such as Bards Buffs but raid buffs that fit into the "120" category should go, Add more inresting buffs to some jobs such as things that target another player like Astro cards or dragon site, Theirs currently no point in raid buffs other then to limit job design into burst jobs.

Tank
-More Importance in protecting the Party, give them strong team support target mits. Make it so they actually *have* to protect and be aware of their team like healers.
-Reward them for mitigating damage with extra dps.
-Lessen the sustain Slightly, PLD shouldn't heal from magic attacks but get more sustain elsewhere (just less then the magic burst gives you), Warrior shouldn't have abilities to heal allies, they shouldn't heal for each enemy hit, DRK should be given slow life steal on attacks.
-Drk Rotational Rework. (Also give it cool magic attacks, not just a "big" sword user with a pet...)
-Warrior some abilities revert to beast gauge such as their OGCD punch and gap closer.
-PLD gets more consistent but less janky support

Healer
-Less focus on OGCD healing skills. Healer feels more resourced based instead of making a choice when to dps or when to heal.
-More outgoing damage to require more Healing per fight, even casual fights.
-possible room for some more dps buttons, Procs would be really nice (we shouldn't turn healer into dps though).

Dps
-New Melee gets Procs, current melees are kinda bland so this would be interesting.
-New Caster gets long cast times and doesn't feel like summoners "design"
-Phys ranged gets a bit more utility abilities to compensate for being only picked for the 1% damage buff, they shouldn't fall off too far behind.
-Bosses hit boxes reduced to be more punishing to melees, melees should play around getting the most uptime possible.