Hello FFXIV Localizers and fellow English players of FFXIV,

I wanted to provide feedback and start a discussion on some of the conditional buffs that were added with 7.0's changes to how skills proc other skills (for example, how Fight or Flight now adds "Goring Blade Ready").

In my opinion, the buffs that follow the naming pattern of "X Ready" are, well... somewhat boring. Not bad, just not really that engaging as, for example, "Perfect Host" for Reaper or "Magicked Swordplay" for Red Mage.

To that end, I wanted to provide some suggested alternatives for existing buffs that follow this naming pattern. This is by no means exhaustive, but as I was playing in Patch 7.0, some of these ideas came to me. Please feel free to leave your own suggestions for these and other names.

PLD
* "Goring Blade Ready" - "Ready to Gore" or (to go with "Fight or Flight") "Ready to Fight"
* "Blade of Honor Ready" - "Honor-bound" or "Bound by Honor"
WAR
* "Primal Rend Ready" - "Ready to Rend" or "Rending Strength"
* "Primal Ruination Ready" - "Ready to Ruin" or "Ruining Power"
DRG
* "Dive Ready" - "Dragon's Mirage"
* "Nastrond Ready" - "Eyes of the Dragon" (this would "bring back" the eye theming as well!)
MCH
* "Excavator Ready" - "Excavator Prepared" ("prepared" would fit thematically with MCH being gadget-themed)
DNC
* "Last Dance Ready" - "Finale"/"Grand Finale"
* "Finishing Move Ready" - "Flourishing Finish" (since it is provided by Flourish)
* "Dance of the Dawn Ready" - "Encore"/"Grand Encore" (since it is executed after Technical Step)

I'm not sure what flexibility the localization team has with respect to naming buffs like this, but given that some names follow the "X Ready" pattern and others don't, I hope that at least some of these can be considered.

Thank you,
ShermTank
S'maha Durhanta@Coeurl