Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
As far as the concern of it still being a debuff and thus still requiring the player look at the target's state, I do have a solution to that. It's a realm of UI that I think is painfully unexplored in FFXIV, which is to superimpose effects over enemies. Here's an example from Genshin:
Haven't played Genshin, but I have dabbled in other MMOs that did similar (TERA being the first to come to mind, iirc). Yeah, that'd be cool.

(Granted, Ren could make the case that making people look anywhere but at their hotbars and buff bar(s) is brain-murder, but your suggestion should suffice for most, then.)

Quote Originally Posted by Ty_Taurus
"Ruach" is a name I've held onto for a while for White Mage, as with "Ablution." Something I've thought since Shadowbringers was that rather than replacing the earth/wind/water-but-not-actually trinity with raw light magic, that they should've been a combination of light and earth, light and wind, light and water (if we ever actually had a water spell). So instead of "Glare," we could have "Sepulchre." Instead of "Dia," we could have "Ruach." Instead of (HA you wish), we'd have "Ablution."
Sounds good.

One of the mock-ups I'm working on (WHM can take on an empowered state similar to Reaper's) does similar. (Other mock-up adds light as a separate element, though I think I'm preferring the first.)