Thread: DNC 7.0 is in its worst state.

Maybe it’s just because I’m less familiar with Dancer, but does anyone else find matching up Standard Step and Flourish cool downs to be a massive pain in the ass? It’s like no matter what I do one always drifts away from the other lol.

And yeah the overcapping with Tilana makes the opener a pain too, especially compared to Bard where you can fit in the new tools so much more easily since they’re both gcds. And with so many things going on during it, it feels like there’s barely any time to use the Flourish procs before Technical ends.

Lastly totally agree that it’s super sad they didn’t bother to give Dancer (or Bard) a single new support option. I still haven’t seen a single person who was like ‘Yeah I play Poet/Dancer because I love dealing super high damage and hitting super high funny numbers’ lol

Originally Posted by Connor

Maybe it’s just because I’m less familiar with Dancer, but does anyone else find matching up Standard Step and Flourish cool downs to be a massive pain in the ass?

RNG prayers aside, I think that's the only real challenge about the job - to keep your gcd rolling perfectly so those actions end up matching into the next gcd slot - which is kinda 'meh' in my book if that's the only thing going on for an above average Dancer.

One thing in my wishlist was that Closed Position worked exactly like in PVP - freely swapping. Imagine what that would open for a Dancer's optimization, outside of the 2min windows, to keep an eye on what other dpsers can do in their odd minute marks to potentially seize a different partner as Standard Step comes off cooldown. In a group with a Pictomancer and a Ninja, the Dancer would surely be swapping DP between them according to the fight's timeline.

Originally Posted by Connor

Maybe it’s just because I’m less familiar with Dancer, but does anyone else find matching up Standard Step and Flourish cool downs to be a massive pain in the ass? It’s like no matter what I do one always drifts away from the other lol.

And yeah the overcapping with Tilana makes the opener a pain too, especially compared to Bard where you can fit in the new tools so much more easily since they’re both gcds. And with so many things going on during it, it feels like there’s barely any time to use the Flourish procs before Technical ends.

Lastly totally agree that it’s super sad they didn’t bother to give Dancer (or Bard) a single new support option. I still haven’t seen a single person who was like ‘Yeah I play Poet/Dancer because I love dealing super high damage and hitting super high funny numbers’ lol

Yes and no. That "issue" is only one insofar that it introduces an element that ought to not be a problem of dancer in the first place because we should be bound by chance. But SQEX hates chance-based elements in jobs, and hence everything is slowly hammered into a static rotation, even Dancers who were so far the last bastion of non-uniform non-interchangeable DPS design.