What if leylines had permanent duration

[Renalt]

Just like Dance Partner, once you use the spell it's there for the rest of the fight. The reuse will just change the position of the leylines. Would this make BLM broken? Easier? Better? Worse? What do you think?

At that point just remove the spell and make it a permanent innate boost.

There. I made it worse.

[Tahbitha]

I personally would love it

But it would be probably OP and result in a nerf overall, so I must reluctantly decline to endorse it.

But I'd love it

[TheMightyMollusk]

At that point just remove the spell and make it a permanent innate boost.

There. I made it worse.

But the graphic stays, permanently floating around the player.

Cue AFKers everywhere, now with giant glowing rune circles.

There. I made it even worse.

[KitingGenbu]

Knowing SE, they'll probably just make it a passive just at lower %. Enochian used to be an active until it wasn't....

[OgruMogru]

Enochian used to be an active until it wasn't....

I genuinely miss this though because you had to juggle the refresh of it and got diminishing returns on the duration. It's probably for the best that it's not like that anymore but I loved it and wouldn't mind seeing us getting a weaker version of it as a personal buff on cooldown that you had to juggle refresh for with diminishing returns on power but that didn't lock you out of using your kit like it used to.

[Raikai]

It would maybe dumb down BLM playstyle a bit.

However, I'd love if Leylines could leave some 'ley line residue' at the location that you activated it, so you could Between the Lines there on demand. Would add yet another strategic layer with LeyLines positioning.

[Zairava]

Absolutely not, that would make it more annoying than Rune of Power on WoW (which finally got axed. Thank god). Let me keep the expression it brings.

[Denji]

I genuinely miss this though because you had to juggle the refresh of it and got diminishing returns on the duration. It's probably for the best that it's not like that anymore but I loved it and wouldn't mind seeing us getting a weaker version of it as a personal buff on cooldown that you had to juggle refresh for with diminishing returns on power but that didn't lock you out of using your kit like it used to.

sort of how i feel about inner release being stacks now instead of a countdown where your gcd mattered.
like, i -get- why they changed it but ):

[Renalt]

But the graphic stays, permanently floating around the player.

Cue AFKers everywhere, now with giant glowing rune circles.

There. I made it even worse.

It's not a competition TMM!

Cause if it was...you are winning.

[Avoidy]

Would remove skill ceiling when you don't have to plan the usage anymore.

Would damage the feel of the job when it has constantly shorter cast times. At the moment BLM is the only job in the game which is usually slower than the GCD due to long cast times. And yes, some people prefer the slower pace.

Sounds like the kinds of braindead changes they're steadily applying to every other job in pve. Remove the skill ceiling and ruin the feel of the job for people who currently love it? 2 for 1 special, let's goooo. If Yoshi didn't main blm it'd be getting the smn/healer/brd/sam treatment tomorrow.