Quote Originally Posted by Swordsman View Post
What would you consider a successful rework? Harder jobs? Less button bloat? End of the 2 minute meta? Something crazier like talent trees and specs?
  • A system that allows players to choose an easy spec, or a hard spec, with it defaulting to the easy spec. That way, people who want "hard and engaging" with "keep-up buffs" and "additional effects" and complex interactions between attacks can choose the other one.
  • More unique aspects to the jobs again. It's alright for one to be slightly disadvantaged or to achieve the same thing in a different way like they used to.
  • No more fixed timeframe metas. If we need to remove raid-wide damage buffs, then so be it. Damage buffs could also be changed to not be multiplicative. I'd rather this so that jobs can have vastly different rotation lengths. To a degree they may all have to align with, say, a DPS check 6 minutes into a fight, but a 6 minute meta is better than a 2 minute meta because they can all achieve that differently (1 minute rotation, 1.5 minute rotation, 3 minute rotation, etc).
  • Role spec (for example Paladin and Warrior having a healer spec, or Samurai and Ninja having a tank spec) would be nice. I don't think this needs to be anything crazy... just swap their role actions and traits out, and include a tank stance in role actions.
  • Unique animations for role actions - for example, Shield Bash can replace Low Blow.
  • More ideas for utility like Rescue, Aetherial Manipulation, Arm's Length, Stuns, Interrupts, Reprisal, etc.
  • Many people want more complex power progression, so maybe a special materia slot where you loot a materia from specific fights that influences your abilities differently, dpending on the fight you got it from.
Oh, and Astrologian I'd like to go back to being more like 5.0 release, personally.
Tanks actually position, interrupt, stun, mitigate, and tank. Like tanks.
All this. Mitigation should be actually needed. Trash mobs and bosses can have interrupts, which the ShB dungeons did well. Positioning bosses was a pain point, especially for new players, but auto-centering isn't the answer and causes its own problems. I'm glad they've at least significantly reduced this, but it still happens occasionally.