My feedback on new DNC

[NightHour]

I play DNC in High End Content (mainly Savage and Ultimates).

I'm not a world racer, I'm not hardcore. I'm a midcore player.


The biggest issues with DNC are

1. Tillana granting Gauge.
2. Finishing Move takes forever for it's animation and damage to register
3. Last Dance is also extremely slow to register it's animation and damage


Before I explain the Tillana issue, let's look at how Esprit is generated.


1. Weaponskills used by yourself during combat.
2. Chance to be gained through weaponskills or spells used by your Dance Partner
3. Chance to be gained through weaponskills or spells used by your party when under the effects of Technical Finish



Esprit's generation for the most part is extremely random, while Tillana does alleviate some of that randomness it also causes another problem - Unintentional overcapping



Imagine this - You're in a raid group and your group is performing relatively well, You're at 20 gauge, you're about to hit Tillana and as you hit Tillana you get some esprit procs which takes you over 50 gauge. Tillana now also grants 50 gauge causing an overcap in resources that you have absolutely no control of.


You can't "hold Tillana" because you have no idea or control over when Esprit is going to proc or how many of your party members will trigger a proc during Tech.


The 2 minute window for Dancer is already extremely tight, holding abilities on the hope that a random proc happens will cause you to put important abilities outside of buffs.






Here's 2 ways we can resolve this issue -


Suggestion #1:

- Tillana no longer increases Esprit by 50.
- Tillana now grants a buff, we can call it "Saber Dance Ready" or "Enhanced Saber Dance" for 30 seconds.

This buff will make your next Esprit spending ability cost no Esprit.


Suggestion #2:

- Tillana no increases Esprit by 50.
- Dance of the Dawn no longer costs esprit to use.



Doing either of these would remove the random unintentional overcapping from the already Esprit flooded 2 minute windows.



I'd also like Finishing Move and Last Dance to register the hit quicker than they do now.