I will raise you one better: Assuming you're on about a DPS, Time Mage. I would give it two bars to manage (RDM style). One bar would be built by a set of 3 Spells, a standard GCD, a GCD with a... say, 10s CD, and a GCD with a 30s CD. The standard GCD would apply a DOT, the 10s and 30s CDs would extend the DOT's duration, so you'd want to avoid resetting the DOT with the 'standard' spell as much as possible (because it's the least efficient way to keep the timer up). The other bar would be raised by another set of 3 GCDs, a standard GCD, a GCD with... IDK, 15s CD, and a 60s CD. These GCDs, however, would have their CD reduced when using the 'lesser' GCD. So, the basic GCD would reduce '15s GCD' by 1s each time it's used, and '15s GCD' would reduce 60s by say, 3s when it's used. One side manipulates Time by extending an effect duration, one side manipulates Time by shortening CDs. Also, there's loads of cool space/time/astronomy terms available to name actions after. Solar Flare, Syzygy, Red Shift, Event Horizon, etc
As for Glamour, I personally hope the opposite. I want them to come out saying 'we are not updating this, so that we can work on a futureproofed system'. For example, a system where you take an item to a Glamour Dresser (as currently) and putting it in there means you've permanently unlocked it. By limiting the process to 'where there's a Glamour Dresser', it reduces the strain on the servers having to constantly update people's 'Glamour Log', and which item has been collected can be stored as an array of binary bits, with each bit referring to the item ID for each model. Assuming there's 500000 items in the game (probably less than this, but example numbers), that'd mean a file size of 61kb per player. That'd add up fast if we generated a file of that size for all 30mil accounts created (around 1.7terabytes by my maths), so there'd probably need to be a system wherein only active subs have their 'file' active, and non-subbed players have their 'file' moved over to cold storage
As for my complaining (to remain on topic), I don't like Healer design. I think it should change. I'm also not the kind of person to just complain without coming up with a way to get me to stop complaining, so I've laid out exactly how SE could get me to stop complaining about Healers.



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