Thread: 7.0 DPS Wishlist

DNC:

-Remove the channeling aspect of Improvisation, have it apply the full shield effect immediately on use to anyone within range.

MCH:

-Remove the channeling aspect of Flamethrower, and do something interesting with it. Maybe make it an OGCD that applies a DoT that gets a damage boost from using Bioblaster prior, or something. Alternatively, unlock Flamethrower at a lower level, and have it upgrade into Chain Saw later.
-Auto Crossbow reducing Gauss Round/Ricochet cooldown.
-Overall, have more of MCH's abilities effect one another. It has an awful lot of isolated skills with plenty of room to put in some cool mechanics.
-Either: Less focus on double-weaving during Hypercharge – OR – Remove the hasted GCD effect from Hypercharge. This is a subjective one. Tiny fluctuations in ping can make double-weaving during Hypercharge very janky for me due to it's decreased GCD, which feels bad because I'm overcapping on Gauss Round/Ricochet very easily if I'm not double-weaving. Kreyd's suggestion of combining Gauss Round and Ricochet would solve this as well.
-AoE battery spender.
-Give Wildfire an AoE splash.
-Give me some official way to change the animations for Split/Slug/Clean Shot back to their un-heated versions, please. The wicked sick flip trick shots they upgrade into just don't do it for me.
-Again, unironically, give me ammunition back.

RPR:

-Make Shadow of Death generate at least 10 Soul Gauge on use.
-Being able to maintain Soul Reaver stacks when using other abilities. Currently, even using Blood Stalk/Grim Swathe will eat the stacks from Gluttony, which is so wildly backwards it baffles me.
-Have some method of passively generating Harvest Moon over time in combat. You could still Soulsow during downtime to speed up the process.
-I'd like if Enshroud window felt a little more impactful. As is, it goes by so quickly that half of both Void/Cross Reaping's animations are getting canceled by each other. Regardless of actual damage output, I'd like if it at least felt like it was hitting a tad bit harder.

Viper:

-Please god, don't give it a hasted GCD. Plenty of DPS already utilize speedy gimmicks, and my favorite jobs tend to be ones with "normal" GCD speeds with double-weaving to give those satisfying high APM windows.

BRD
- better song usability -- make them not require a target, and maybe give them a shorter duration with shorter cooldown, and give each song 2 charges with a means to convert excess coda into gauge
- song name, and animation upgrades
- give Burst Shot the pvp half-cast mechanic
- more instances of damage like Barrage that occur throughout its rotation, and not just during raid burst
- cut dots or bring back some form of proc interaction with dot ticks
- a party sprint utility song

MCH
- rebalance Wildfire to have a shorter cooldown, let it crit/dh, and let it do aoe damage
- bring in the pvp sniper rifle, and make sure it hits HARD
- aoe automaton
- Auto Crossbow interacts with Gauss Round/Ricochet cooldowns
- Flamethrower interaction with Bioblaster

RDM
- more opportunities to preform melee attacks
- some way to do a reverse burst where you start with a magic combo that leads into a melee combo
- nerf Verraise

SMN
- summon Leviathan, Ramuh, and Shiva
- more hard casts

BLU
- Curling Iron from Barbariccia as a haste buff with a long duration
- Harrowing Hell from p10n as like a physical damage Surpanakha
- Ravening from p9n as a coinflip physical or magical damage buff with a chance to grant both from the beast spirit

melee dps
- I finally find a melee dps I enjoy playing either through changes to existing jobs or Viper

Samurai: combine ikishoten and Ogi buttons. Combine Shoha and shoha 2. Add more damaging ogcds and another combo

Reaper : Put plentiful and arcane circle together. Give a way to extend enshroud

Viper : no casting abilities at all, nothing that forces me to stand still for any reason, and a 1.5s gcd with a ton of ogcds. Maybe a dot or some kind of poison. Wishful thinking but also allow separate glamour on each sword. Cause why not.

Originally Posted by Raikai

In the trailer (right before the screen shattering effect), the VIP miqo'te seems to be 'charging' a move... I fear for it. Unless they just fixed something for the trailer, or it might be the beginning of the LB3. Hopefully isn't a casted action.

I’m just hoping that part was purely cinematic since the sword was also stuck in the ground lol. I feel like if there’s a cast that isn’t from the lb I will just be so depressed lol. It’s like I don’t get why they love taking jobs that should be mobile and giving them cast times.
Reminds me of wanderers minuet and I thought that was a terrible decision.

Forcing mobile jobs to stand still has probably been my biggest pet peeve of job design in ffxiv.