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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| A Realm Reset
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If that trailer is anything to look by I think that will be fine.
WHM now have basically a weird BLM kind of playstyle with those 3 lillies (Umbral Hearts)and the over time red rose that is like Polyglot.
AST I would assume now draws 4 cards for each member.
No idea about Schoolar since I have yet to play that job.
Yoshi's goal is pretty much to make it literally impossible to complain that any aspect of playing a job is too hard.
Not necessarily much was said but some citing of "utilizing Monk was un-fun" which is anecdotally super weird as everyone I know always can't wait for a chance to go play Monk. They didn't say much on it beyond GL4 upkeep so I'm assuming this was specifically targeting the TK rotation variants more than anything else.
I think he literally made a statement regarding lowering the impact of a skill gap? So I mean. Things.
Basically just a 4th greased lightning and a skill to maintain. They were worried about implementing it earlier because they were afraid it'd make things too fast for some players.
This actually makes me happy.
I mean
I'll finally be able to watch Netflix during prog since I'll spend half my GCDs doing nothing. So that's nice.
So they refrained from making core changes to Monk during Stormblood for fear of making the gap based on player skill too wide due to extreme speed, but this led to Monk's overall power ceiling being very weak without extreme min-max'ing (un-fun play), so they've added the extra GL stack and skills to quickly recover it to help close the gap and allow players to play in different styles without sacrificing power.
One of the reasons I personally moved to SAM in Stormblood was because executing the best rotations for managing GL and being statistically effective fuckin' sucked, and deviating from it lead to some intense drops in DPS. SAM made me feel like I could improvise, be mobile, not lose out on DPS due to boss mechanics, and still be effective.
These changes to Monk to amazing and I'm looking forward to getting back into it.
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Why? It was a DPS buff and wasn't really that difficult to fit into the rotation.
I figure they might just make attacks stronger without it and it's one less thing to keep track of.
They still have offensive spells, don't take pure healer literally until we know more.
Thanks a lot, hopefully that means I can play again and have fun with MNK.
It bugs me a little that healers were "in such a bad state we definitely can't release a 4th one" and yet the statements on it are basically "So some stuff changed. Also WHM needed another heal."
RIP microphone batteries. Can't really comment on the other classes but so far the DRG and WAR/tanking changes sound logical. The healer stuff was a bit "huh?" inducing nonetheless. And it's a little intriguing/concerning that they've kind of been redesigning mch/brd each expansion.
They've cut away a few times now so it's probably already happened at least once.
So that's why they have the job listing for a live event audio technician on their website.
Okay. I'm still slightly bummed they didn't make Dancer a healer but this seems like it could be a lot of fun.
Some of these buff effects seem a little ... strong? When we're looking at something around 30% buffs. Even if it appears to be throwing out your own GCD uptime to compensate?
Just going to shrug until we get numbers.
The irony is all I could think watching it was "The DPS GCDs seem like filler?"
Just going to shrug until we get numbers.
The irony is all I could think watching it was "The DPS GCDs seem like filler?"
Yeah they're totally there just because of the way classes are categorized in this game so they had to make it at least do some sort of direct DPS, which is hilarious. The devs clearly had a great concept for a support job, but they obviously can't do a straight up pure support job, so here's some random hoop-throwing attacks you can super-buff on the side so you match the numbers quota of the other DPS jobs. It looks like a lot of fun to play, but that has nothing to do with its actual ability to DPS, lol.
(Also this weird left-handed gaming controller thing looks super cool.)
I assume it'll be balanced around the own DNC's lower DPS, although this could create weird issues where you just stack 2BLMs 2DNCs because of the discrepency between damage dealers output and the reduction of "synergy" they mentionned. That or everyone feeding buffs into one super DPS(like DRG if they still have the dragon eye link thing, AST feeding cards and I guess NIN for TA if they still have that).
We'll see but DNC looked interesting enough to me and they didn't even show the green fan attacks stuff in the 2nd gauge system which apparently builds when your partner does stuff, which hopefully will work with chocobo/trusts when soloing.
He killed these plants pretty fast considering it looked like he was pressing random buttons and didn't have the partner attacking(chocobo) so it didn't look too terrible in that regard.
It just strikes me as weird because as a healer you can totally just "I will do my steps here between heals and filler GCDs until heal." I expected the steps to like ... be how they did damage and generate their buffs and not just two divorced sets of gameplay. It's weird.
I read on the Reddit thread that they said it means healers will have less of am emphasis on "shield healing" vs. "regen healing" and will just "heal".
If true, that wouldn't be that bad.
Might as well, its new content and we probably dont want people spamming bench scores here.
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