Thread: 7.0 DPS Wishlist

Reaper wishlist, vaguely ordered from most practical to least practical.

1. Rearrange the level reaper gets skills at so that level syncing isn't so terrible.

2. A little button consolidation. Mostly, arcane circle should become plentiful harvest and enshroud should become communio.

3. A trait where Harvest Moon applies the shadow of death debuff. Not much endgame value but it would be nice in dungeons.

4. One of the basic combo buttons upgrading to provide 20 gauge instead of 10 so I can enshroud more.

5. I'd like to see the voidsent get to do a bit more. Probably something like when you exit enshroud, your demon buddy hangs around like esteem and does attacks with you for a few gcd's.

DRG wishlist~~

1. Remove some of the bloat buttons such as:
- Life Surge. Just build that in somewhere or give a potency buff to compensate.
- Lance charge. We already have Dragon sight, just make that a little stronger and remove Lance charge.

2. More Jumps. Make Dragoon way more jump centric. Maybe Life of the Dragon can give you access to a new Jump that's on the GCD and is reduced to I dunno... say 1.5s so you can spam. Either put it on a really short timer or have a resource that those jumps expend. Then you have your Star Diver as an ender. Bit like RPR? and a bit like MCH? Point is find some way to give us more jumps

3. Even more jumps. Give us a new jump, call it Super Jump. It would behave like the DRG PVP limit break, Skyhigh/Skyshatter but it would be built as a engage/downtime type skill. Slap a channelling time of like 5s during combat and make it instant outside of combat (like reaper's Soulsow) It would give DRG something to do during downtime. Also, instead of just avoiding all damage while in the air, just make it something like take 10% reduced damage. (DRG also the only melee with no personal mit loldrg)

4. Make skill drift less punishing. Give DRG a little more flexibility on timings with things like Jump and Geirskogul. It is horrid how essential those two skills are to the DRG kit and as soon as they drift out of sync the super strict DRG rotation goes down the toilet. I understand it's part of what separates the better players from the average players but this is just not a fun way to go about it. Find another way to make DRG more technically challenging to execute, just not this super strict all all or nothing approach. (I wouldn't mind more positionals or more jumps that we have to negotiate timings and avoid AoE's that turn us into loldrgs)

MNK has five abilities for a state of either downtime or not being able to punch the enemy at a particular moment: Meditate, Thunderclap, Formshift, Anatman, and Six-Sided Star. Out of all of these, the first two are used much more often than the others, while the others are used 0-2 times a fight. I think some of them can either be removed or made more usable.

Formshift: Removed. MNK now takes a formless fist stance out of combat indefinitely.

Anatman: Return chakra gain to it, grant formless stance when channelled for a few seconds, reduce CD.

Six-sided Star: Increase to 5y, guarantee a chakra pip, and have it refresh Disciplined Fist if active.

The rest is mostly housekeeping. I want chakra overflow; 7 is fine but won't say no to more. Riddle of Wind is mathematically useful but boring; make it more interesting. Give us a trait that gives us more HP because in every Final Fantasy but this one, monks have dummy thicc HP. Also, while monk doesn't have a button bloat issue, Perfect Balance should just become Masterful Blitz. Game won't let us spend it until it's compiled 3 attacks so may as well.

Lastly, a prayer to the Twelve I will never have answered: give back positionals on opo opo and raptor.

DRG has no bloat.

Besides if you are going to remove buffs from DRG, remove Battle Litany. I'm so tired of the stupid mandatory 2 min raid wide buff on every job. Lance Charge especially actually flows with the rotation instead of being just another fire and forget on CD.

My biggest wish is a really simple change they could do right now.

Adjust bloodbath so that it restores health based off all damage dealt, not just physical damage. Right now the skill is needlessly worse for ninjas who have a half magic damage kit.

xD

I thought this was just a rando wishlist for rando players :P I'm not SE so don't worry so much hahaha.

DRG is bretty bloaty imo though and it is defos on MYYYY wishlist to reduce the more boring side of the 2min button spam. Life Surge and Lance Charge being the biggest unnecessary buttons (IMO) xD

Just try finding a spot to put feint during openers or 2min windows xD

You are free to disagree of course, but remember I'm not SE. You're okay :P just a bit of fun while we wait for dawntrail

Originally Posted by Reldhir

As to the chap that said DRG has no bloat. Currently the DRG 2min window is jam packed to the brim.

Not just Dragoon. Dancer, which is a job that I don't think there's any bloat other than buttons that could transform into other buttons and yet their 2min windows are not just full to the brim, but sometimes depending on RNG, you may even leave the burst phase with unspent resources or procs. Ninja's window is also completely full.

For more 'toys' to be added, they would have to push something out of the 2min meta, which might be optimal, but doesn't necessarily feels good to do so. Instead, they could add more complexity to the "not 2min meta" phases, because they are bland as unseasoned boiled chicken for many jobs.