Thread: Dancer 7.0 Wishlist

Originally Posted by LynxDubh

Does anyone have anything they wanna see for Dancer in Dawntrail? Either new skills or tuning of the current kits?

For my list of major wants:
-Have both Fountain and Bladeshower combo off of either Cascade or Windmill. They changed the procs for EW to let the single target and aoe flow better. This is the logical next step.
-Make Standard Step's cooldown affected by skill speed like Gunbreaker's Sonic Break. This would help combat a bit of drifting and let you fix minor timing and ping nonsense.
-More utility buttons. The rotation of Dancer is mostly fine and cool utility is what I'd want over too many finishers.

Some actually good major wants, though I'm still not a fan of how they handled the RNG as it gives off 3.x Machinist vibes with the changes to procs in Endwalker

These are my major wants for Dancer; Personally, just make the RNG less punishing and more forgiving, such as a 50% chance for Cascade to give either Reverse Cascade by itself or both Reverse Cascade Rising Windmill and Fountain gives a 50% chance for either Fountainfall by itself or both Fountainfall and Bloodshower, 25% chance to get up to 4 fourfold feathers, and using Fan Dance 1/2 gives you better chances to get Fan Dance 3 based on the number of fourfold feathers you have, capping at 100%, maybe even allow Sabre Dance to proc Starfall Dance and Fan Dance 4 outside of the buffs that proc them. Dancer is still a DPS at the end of day.

I know what Dancer needs: a 4th En Avant

Originally Posted by Sililos

For me: I want Starfall Dance and Devilment combined into one button. It doesn't need too be 2. Press devilment, have it change to Starfall Dance.
Id want the same for Fan Dance IV and Flourish.
Id Love the RNG to be less punishing.
Id Love a little more room for error. One mistake should not be enough to make a raid leader angry you 'are not pulling your weight' due to the notable DPS loss for less than perfect performance and RNG.
Id REALLY love if Dancers were given a performance mode like Bards get, but we string dance moves together. In performance mode you can string together the moves from your attacks without needing a target and without doing damage. Just time your moves so animations dont overlap. With the number of clubs out there now and dance partys, it would be a godsend for many RPers or just club goers in general.
Id settle for SE to put a little effort into dancer for once instead of looking at us, giving 20% effort and saying "Good enough" then ignoring us for the rest of the expansion. In Shadowbringers, our release expansion, we essentially got 2 seconds in the trailer and the focus was on it being a Viera while Gunbreaker got all the attention lol.
We didnt even get any notable attention in Radz during Endwalker, its the home of the entire Dancer order! You would think they would have Dancers out in force preforming to lift peoples spirits and combat people falling into despair.
We dont even get glams outside of our job gear and when we do, they are recolors of the ShB job gear. How many versions of it do we have now? 3?4? Why cant we get a Neo-Ishgardian style outfit that is for Dancers instead of Mechs? It would be low effort and fit well.A set of Late Allagan gear thats not the tank glam minus the skirt.
Just give us a little attention and time in the light. Were Dancers, we like attention but right now we are being treated like the unwanted middle child of the ShB family lol. "Dancers are fine, this is good enough. They dont need the same attention as Mechs and Bards." (And thats saying something since Bards are fairly ignored in favor of Mechs too lol).
Did you know Lyna is a Dancer? Every single person i mentioned that fact too certainly didnt know. Thats how little impact SE gave the job.
We want attention from SE and some actual time on stage damnit! XD

Funny that thing about gear... Same curse of RPR and GNB with their armor type items 90% of the time not matching their aesthetics.

RDM rarely feels contemplated by what casters get. I fell in love with Pictomancer, but already dread the lack of proper items for the job's aesthetics, looking in what we have.

This is yet another reason to unrestrict the glamour limitations for armor sets. The armor type that has what a Dancer normally would wear is actually Scouting.

Originally Posted by Raikai

As of a change I'd really like to see would be Closed Position having its recast time removed, basically being applied more freely, like its PVP iteration. This 'free' partner swap could lead to some interesting optimizations with jobs that have strong actions in the odd minute windows.

Closed Position should have a 5s cooldown and function like Kardia, where you can instantly apply it to anyone as an oGCD without having to deactivate and reactivate it. It's not like this would be a super OP thing at all; the benefits of Closed Position don't come from Closed Position but from Devilment and Standard Step, and it's easy enough to remove Standard Step from the old target if you change partners.

Also minor, but a variation of CP to be usable on the dancer themselves to not be as shafted on solo scenarios.

"Variation", maybe, after the term for a solo dance in ballet