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

[CaptainLagbeard]

yes. bring them back. 6 positionals MNK was fun and anyone who doesn't like them is free to play tank or RPR instead.

Positionals lead to lost DPS when you have moments in fights where you can't either go to the bosses flank or back temporarily... And everyone sure loves doing less damage due to things you have no control over.

Kinda like how MNK used to be punished for not being able to attack the boss if they went untargetable for a mechanic and losing their Greased Lightning stacks and had to build them back up.

[VentVanitas]

Positionals lead to lost DPS when you have moments in fights where you can't either go to the bosses flank or back temporarily... And everyone sure loves doing less damage due to things you have no control over.

That's... what True North is for. Positionals shouldn't be designed to have 100% uptime in the first place otherwise what's the point. I actually liked playing fights like E9S or E11S that made it deliberately harder to hit them as MNK. Trying to optimize my usage of Riddle of Earth and TN stacks to maximize positional damage when I couldn't hit them was fun. I don't see the issue here.

[Monokhrom]

I think it'd be sick if Dancer got another dance besides standard step and tech step. We really don't need another button to press during Dancer's burst window.

[SweetPete]

I just want my support nature like caster dps job. Please let the new caster be nature like. Needs some plants in my life.

[LinaAkayomi]

I just want my support nature like caster dps job. Please let the new caster be nature like. Needs some plants in my life.

With how lush the new continent looked in screenshots and cutscenes, it'd be only fair.
Persnoally wishing for Green Mage, Geomancer or Druid or something like that, with heavy nature-magic influence.

[Derio]

SCH- I want energy drain not linked to aetherflow and instead on a 30s cooldown with a upgraded version at level 90-100 with a better animation.
WHM- Want another OGCD damage ability
SGE- Another giant beam that does big damage.
DRK- Either remove AD or split it from CS and put on a 30s cooldown with no damage value and flat heal potency. Add something to oblation and move to earlier levels or darkmind to help with leveling. The job needs some better sustain prior to level 70.
PLD- cut the button bloat. Add mitigation to bullwark or a heal. Add sustain to the earlier levels instead of it being so late.
GNB- Just fix the clunkyness of having a third cartridge.
WAR- A big follow up attack to Primal Rend would be nice.
SAM- Bring back Kaiten but in a new form with a follow up attack after the button press that does high damage. I know it wont be brought back to its original form.
DRG- put all jumps on the GCD and implement better OGCDs
SMN- Give us Ramuh, Shiva, and Odin as finishers after summoning Bahamut.
MCH- Boost the dps
NIN- make it to where the movement tool can have 2 versions, the controllable and one that automatically moves you in the direction you are facing by a set amount of distance.
All melee dps- get rid of positionals and replace it with something else because every expansion it seems like they are removing them slowly 1 by 1

[Winterfang]

It's kind-of hard to think what new toy could be given for RDM. Only visual change I could think of is changing the AoE spells to Verwater and Verblizzard so it has all the elements under its belt for a better visual of a Jack of All Trades.

[Valkyrie-Veil]

For AST… I just kinda want some flavor back. I want Exalted Detriment and Time Dilation back, for example.

[Shurrikhan]

I'm new to the forum

Welcome aboard.

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.

[GoatOfWar]

I want Gnb and Drk to be able to do something War can't already do better, but that's never going to happen.