Bad Design Ideas Thread.

[TBerry]

Nah. It can ONLY be cast in combat. WAR is not only too angry to die, it's too angry to let YOU stay dead either.

WAR will scare you back to life.

Bonus points if said Warrior is a Lalafell.

[Katish]

Red mage gets a damage bonus buff applied to themself for rezing someone.

[saltymage99]

RDM gets LB3 in all content. Only RDM.

It's gauge fills 50% faster than everyone else's.

After LB3, RDM gets a 25% increase to damage for 10 seconds.

Viva la verflashbang.

[LilimoLimomo]

All new jobs start at level 1. Grind those levels, slackers!

Gonna be real, I think there's a solid argument that this would be a good design.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Energy System.

Or in other words: fatigue system. It fluctuates depending on what the player's doing. Battling, crafting, gathering, and doing duties reduces this bar. Dropping lower than 30% would start causing adverse effect to players. Maybe increase damage taken, less damage dealt, reduction in crafting skills effectiveness, reduction in max recoverable GP, reduction in movement speed, unable to execute sprint etc. Exact rate of reduction is not fully thought yet.

Energy is replenishable by doing several things, such as:

• Eating food(s). -All- foods, incl the ones in our houses. Upon consumption, there will be temporary buff that reduces the rate which our energy depleted. The closer our ilv are to the consumed foods, the more effective both restoration & buff is.
• Doing /sit anywhere or /doze on beds. Chairs and beds---basically anything that let us sit not in /groundsit animation will offer faster regeneration rate.
• Logging out.

Extra tidbit: if our chara's tired, their idle animation will change to reflect such state.

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Other bad design ideas:

• All healer's bubbles actions draws in all nearby allies toward the bubbles by 3y.
• Tank's provoke increases target's damage dealt by 30% and increases auto attack speed by 100% temporarily.
• Introduce "overheal fatigue" system where if players heals way more than they're supposed to, it will temporarily reduce following healing received by their recipients. This can stack although exact amount is not given any thought just yet. Heal over times & percentage based heals bypasses this limitation.

[Anienai]

You lose xp when you get KO'd and will de-level if you die enough.

[Kewitt]

This thread....

[DiaDeem]

BiS raid gear can't be repaired and will break permanently once durability reaches zero.

[Varilyon]

EVERYTHING is tied to the MSQ!
- Wanna reach Heavensward? Did you breed your Gold Saucer Chocobo to level 9?
- Wanna start with Island Sanctuary? Did you complete all Ultimates?

I bet we would have so many players!

[TheMightyMollusk]

To proceed past patch 2.4, every player must complete the level 50 dragoon quest, so you know who this Estinien guy is. He's gonna be big later.