Thread: 7.0 DPS Wishlist

Originally Posted by Big-Isaac

Having Mirage Dive replace Jump/High Jump upon use seems like the obvious first fix.

Haha, not particularly wishlist relevant BUT they actually tried this already! Mirage dive would replace High jump after it was used and lotsa people thought it was great but then there was the unintended issue where sometimes you mash the high jump button off cd and people would end up accidentally firing off both high jump AND mirage dive. The issue was sometimes you're already sitting on 2 eyes and you want to sit on mirage dive and fire off gierskogul to enter life of the dragon before finally hitting that mirage dive and pocketing the eye. Instead because some people were too spammy that eye would get lost to the wind and given how dependant DRGs kit is on life of the dragon phases you'd just tank your rotation if you made this mistake.

SO the fix was. implement a 1 second delay between triggering high jump and mirage dive being active. BUT then this also had ANOTHER unintended issue where certain fights, namely Dragonsongs Reprise had a phase where you had exactly enough time to Jump at the start of the phase and then jump again at the end with miliseconds of time to land mirage dive and gain an eye. BUT because of the 1 second delay of high jump switching over to mirage dive. This was now impossible. So SE said WELP. WE TRIED. and abolished the change all together xD Good times.

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.

DNC and NIN are perfect examples of jobs that have the opposing problem that lead to the same situation

DNC needs to have restrictions on how long it can hold resources because right now you just build up for 2 minutes then dump in the burst. NIN meanwhile bends its entire rotation around CD’s that have a 2 minute CD so can only sit in the burst window

Both have opposite problems but it leads to the god awful non burst window and the god awful “my skill expression is how well can I do 7 double weaves”

What happened to skill expression actually being maintaining a rotation around phases, downtime and mechanics, not “a jobs difficulty is proportional to how many times you double weave”

Originally Posted by Supersnow845

What happened to skill expression actually being maintaining a rotation around phases, downtime and mechanics, not “a jobs difficulty is proportional to how many times you double weave”

In my case it completely shuts me down from playing some jobs at their full capacity, like AST, because my 140ms ping won't allow me to properly double weave anything. Not living in the USA, even a good gaming VPN doesn't help much. I can still complete high end content with clipping my gcd, but sucks to know that I could never achieve the same results as somebody living under 50ms ping no matter how I tried.

Ugh, I just had a realization...

IF DT leveling range gives the 120s party buffs an upgrade that extends their duration for 5 seconds just to add more stuff to the 2min meta.

Controversial, I guess, but I don't really mind the 2-minute meta as a concept. IMO all they have to do is add more stuff (like more 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 or 60s cooldown skills) that livens up rotations in between the big burst windows.

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.

They're right, DRG has no bloat. DRG being busy is why it's fun. If someone doesn't like busy jobs they have plenty of less busy jobs to choose from.

Originally Posted by Big-Isaac

DRG is the only job in the entire game I can't comfortably fit into my keybinds.

DRG has the same number of buttons as DNC, which you have listed as your main job. They are both on the lower end of job abilities at 29, including role actions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._in_endwalker/

To me, DRG's bloat doesn't come from the number of buttons, but how redundant some of them are. Like it has 4 buttons (Life Surge, Lance Charge, Dragon Sight, and Battle Litany -- 5 if you want to include getting the Power Surge buff off Disembowel/Sonic Thrust) that are just damage buff buttons. Surely some of them could be consolidated to make room for more jump, other attacks or something.