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The clip of peri dot re-melding gear in p10s is hilarious

The biggest buff I want to see for BLM in DT is removing those silly ziplines between dungeon trash packs that cause me to lose umbral ice cause they take up so much time.

I think the main thing is that endwalker casters are what ffxiv has been like outside of the 2 min meta: It's unbalanced, but unique. None of the current casters really play like eachother at all, something that a lot of other players have voiced their issues with for the whole rest of the expac roles. We could give them all limited raises to balance them out and let them all have the same dps, and change the kits to be much simpler to make it more fair, but then we've just made what the other roles look like. I think going forward, casters will never be truly balanced, one will always rise to the top of any said goal, and people should understand that its the price we pay to make it something to discuss and consider.

I would ask Rinon Inanna if there is an easier way to remember the sage abilities because I just call them by the scholar names tbh

Turning Manafont into an excog-like buff that triggers when you hit 0 mp (or low mp, so it is still usable before flare / despair) is a great idea! I also think that repositioning ley lines once could go a long way towards making burst windows feel nicer, especially for more casual players. My personal pet idea for black mage is to give it something similar to Thin Air, so it can cast free despairs somewhat on demand. Or maybe like the ShB Thin Air, so it is a burst window where you can spam strong spells.

great concept for a video, well done! i hope this turns into a mini series to cover the other roles aswell :D

I think it would be nice to change BLM's Fire/Paradox to have a 1.5s cast time for ARR so that you don't need to glue your eyes on the hotbar to react to Firestarter in 0.5s.

I've been wondering on whether I should make a video about the state of Jobs and what I'd like to see going forward now that Job Quests are dead. And this video is only encouraging some ideas. haha

Red Mage: I'd like to see an interrupt finisher that refunds some black/white gauge in case they need to finish combo early to switch to utility.

great stuff with the interviews, gotta applaud!

Everyone was like wtf at the Scholars lvl 90 ability till everyone saw it in action. Think it even had to be nerfed cause it was too good at launch.

Hey Rinon, big (and new) fan. I dont really play casters (melee main) but I still find it interesting to hear about what top players for a role have to say. Were you considering doing this a series that would include most if not all roles? Could be a nice thing to create at the start and/or tail end of expansions for documentation's sake. As you said at the beginning of this video, its always fun to look back on how things were. Love the content, keep at it and best to you!

I wish they would give summoner the rest of the 3 primals for pheonix form. Ramuh (amythest), Leviathan (Sapphire), Shiva (diamond).

Its really time that the Rdm gets his own shield on demand like Manaward or Radiant Aegis.

Lovely video. I really hope they can come to happy medium for jobs like smn to where it is a great entry point but can also have some nuance again. Shadow bringers smn was one of my favorite jobs ever.

As a Monk main, I am terrified of the changes coming. Monk is FINALLY good in EW. Please don't change it too much, I'm begging you, I can't go back

Although it would be cool, I just want more buttons to push on Summoner, maybe with Aetherflow. Really all Energy Drain is good for us Fester weaving afterwards. Maybe a return to having a DOT or two outside Garuda's Slipstream to make the job lean back to how it was originally with sustained damage. Also obligatory Umbral element summons before Phoenix phase

Please do healers next and reveal the last top healer to be urself

All those mentions of a CD on Raise for SMN and RDM "That is BLU's thing!"

BLU is so OP it had to be limited from this video. 😔

It would be interesting for them to give summoner their dots back with something similar to Eukrasia from sage. And maybe since they’re going to expand the jobs as they are now we could hope that whenever they add new summons we can access them through that eukrasia mechanic.

For the tanks: How do you come up with a rotation for mitigations?

I love the idea of white shift and black shift red mage but that's 100% not happening. Black shift party finder red mages would just create unnecessary toxicity. Imagine progging and the red mage in the party won't switch stances because "muh dps"

Its awesome to hear the different or even similar ideas, even though i dont do hardcore raiding (at least until maybe a good job rework for my main or more accessibility options get added)

I like the on-use white shift/black shift for Red Mage. Something to make it feel more like an actual hybrid. Make it so Vercure is the only usable spell white spell in black shift. White shift lets you raise, Regen, AoE, barrier at the cost of %dmg. Black shift you lose access to those spells and 20% less on vercure but deal increased damage and maybe access to a really nice black spell. I recently came to RDM and found it was really weird my DRG had the same amount of party buffs. There's other cool things like maybe black spells put a debuff on the boss that increases spell damage taken by 1% stacking up to 3-5. White spells do a small amount of healing to the lowest health party member, or grant you a shield that stacks up to like 15-20% of your health or something. I'm just spitballing here, these are just ideas that I think are cool that'll give it more of the feel of an actual red mage, I'll leave the balancing to the professionals. But it would be awesome if something like this allowed you to queue for non-savage trials/dungeons as a healer or be a designated healer out in the open world, etc.

I have played a lot of red mage, and I think I'd add an incentive to choose whether you're going to verholy or verflare other than just where your mana gauge is. Perhaps a stronger finisher - kind of like how monk works. This would give you something to plan other than when you're going to use your melee combo, and encourage you to force the gauge to one side or the other. I don't really play smn, but I might if it had a shiva mode. That could be really cool. I don't play BLM enough to know what it might need. What I have played feels really complete, but maybe giving it some satisfying *boom* moment that required set up outside the normal cycle could be fun.

besides a damage boost, red mage needs a personal mit (manaward/smn shield) & sprint shouldnt use up a dualcast. i love playing rdm to help friends with ulti prog, but the low damage & having no personal mit feels so bad compared to other casters

Nice video I switched from Bard to summoner purely for the easier to use stuff because my main struggle is mechanics and with less having to memorize stuff made it easier for me to actually not die as much (mental disorder struggles lol) as a result I have a much more enjoyable time

For tanks: Do you feel the mitigations added in EW were required in content to a reasonable amount? As a follow up would you want to see more the same or less mitigation requirements in dawntrail? Would you like to see flights with more enemies to control aggro of in savage (i.e. 2 or 3 bosses at once)?

The main change I'd love to see is changing ley lines to between lines while ley lines are active, I mean merge them in the same slot. I play on console and I have enough slots for all abilities but freeing a slot is always nice.

So for summoner For every simmon there should be a button that is available that can be intervened between rotations Ex : if i summon titan there should be a move available from titan while im summoning infrit that adds some type of versatility maybe a support like a mititgation or a movment ability and for infrit a dot from garuda or powerful OGCD that can weaved inbetween the gap closer finish

Adding positionals to RDM's melee combo would help with the job fantasy of a spell fencer and add that little bit of complexity that I want for the job. Also adding more utility spells would be nice.

Pls more of this with the other classes. I never play classes like Black mage but it is so interesting to hear about how the top top players think about their classes

I really wanna know as a healer main how to optimize for top tier healing. I do alright and can get purples in the first few fights of a savage tier but when I get to that 4th fight its a struggle just to get blue. What are those nitty gritty tips that push you from good to great?

All I want from the devs is for red mage ogcds to have timers that properly line up with 2 minute windows. It's insane that they actively changed the 45s cooldowns on sage and whm to 40s, but never touched red mage.

Hiii, what glams are you using?

banger video m'lord

Is the discord still up?

One thing I’d like to see for black mage is when using paradox, since it’s technically an ice attack, if you fail to get a fire starter proc you can cast only 1 fire 3 at half speed and reduced damage like you were switching back to astral phase pretending that paradox is umbral phase. This gives blm 1 emergency weave window to make playing blm without clipping a little more accessible. Cause as it is now, even if you manage your instant casts and cooldowns perfectly you only get 1 gcd window out of 9 to use those instant casts, and if cast a 3rd fire 4 and can’t go for the 4th without getting hit that 9th gcd is gone. Using a quickened fire 3 is probably gonna be bad for the parse, so if you don’t need it you can ignore it. It probably will set you back, but it won’t feel as bad as clipping or needing to use despair early, or worse using blizzard 3 early or last second transposing.

A question to any Paladin out there: What do you think of your invuln timer being the longest? Some Strats in PF may rely too much on invuln to work with PLD specifically, I noticed.

I'd like to say Rdm needs a "Chain Spell" put it on 90s make it act like lightspeed on AST and it's a cooldown to ensure your ready for 2 min bursts by being able to fast cast white/black or save the day chain raises if they really want to keep it as a supportive role. That or something that converts all your white/black into a big burst over doing the melee combo burst

I think having RDMs rez not play so much into their power budget helps a lot, the rez is iconic and extremely useful so I don't think you should ever restrict its use, but maybe give RDM a buff that falls off for so many seconds if they rez, or if they don't wanna add a buff, make it so the rez makes you generate less gauge for a while afterwards, the versatility is part of the class fantasy so stopping you from using it is something I think they should avoid at all costs, (which is also why I don't think it should cost gauge to use) but rewarding you for focusing on damage could go a long way

Rinon, your FFXIV videos are easily my favorite. Your healing and world race retrospectives, discussions with other players, and insane commitment to ulti PF are miles - oh you're EU, kilometers, sorry - more in depth and interesting to me than the endlessly recycled "top 5 things you didn't know about FFXIV". As for questions - maybe you can answer this one yourself! - in addition to the (supposed) split between pure and barrier healers, there is also a split between healers with and without raid buffs. How meaningful or impactful do you think that split is? Would you like to see WHM and SGE given buffs or some other utility to give healers more non-healing support actions and if so what kind? Would any SCH mains like to have more involved buffing/have it be a larger part of their kit and if so, how would you implement it? I know that's a lot, sorry :D

Question for the healer role video: "What do you think makes your job stand out the most, and how do you think it could be improved upon without regressing to 'x iteration' or 'y change was bad'?"

I personally think changing summoner to start with bahamut rather to work TOWARDS it, as it was previously, makes a massive difference in terms of how the class feels. I really think they should have made it the other way round: use your crystals to summon each egi/summon and after that, do your final bahamut cast (basically similar to before, but less clunky and convoluted). It was just such a good feeling when you went through your rotation and then, as the cherry on the cake, you summoned big bad bahamut/phoenix to fuck the enemy up.

8:25 IIRC the reason they axed the DOTs is because there is a hard limit on DOTs on bosses which could really mess with dps classes relying on dots, so for them to bring in a DOT class, they would have to rework how the game handles buffs and debuffs entirely

I liked a lot of the suggestions, especially Peri's suggestion of increasing the RDM finishers cast speed - I personally, despite how it increases the skill ceiling and adds for some great cooldown usage, don't like the oGCD drift on RDM caused by having an uneven number of finishing spells. If the cast time on them was adjusted, potentially this would help it, though the addition of new skills might just bring back drift unless all of this was done with that in mind. I think the drift of Fleche and CS will be here to stay though - it feels cool to have Acceleration both deal w procs and deal w drift, despite it also being a bugbear for me w how the job feels to play.

I think allowing players to move leylines would be really stupid. The whole interesting thing about the ability is the limitation on movement that it requires. Finding good leyline spots is the interesting part of that ability. If anything, I think BLM needs more things that require them to be stationary for long periods.

the only relevant changes to summoner's kit would be how ping friendly it remains in dawntrail. it's an insanely popular class and should remain a low skill floor class moving forward but it would 100% benefit from having a higher skill ceiling. im curious how these players would change the class while preserving how approachable SMN is to players with high ping.

I really like Red mage, im far from the skill ceiling but i would like the meele attacks change to different finishers rather than the basic jolt become finisher combo. This would slighly increase the difficulty of the job but it could give more versatily and even appropiate single target and AoE specific options for the finishers.

I want for black mage a fire wall spell. He has mostly bomb based spells, where somethinbg explode from a certain point and do round aoe dmg. That becomes b0oring to see over time. Esspecial, because there is little movements,., while he is casting. Firewall would give him a line aoe attack, that is something new in his pattern. And, allows him aoe, if the enemy are not standing optimal for bomb aoe (similary to drg or reaper). Maybe, it could be a dot attack to. By standing for a short while. Similary to Doton. Or, instant of firewall, could it be a fire beam. Like the ones, whe see in Boznjia and some other bosses.

They're not. Summoner being lobotomized destroyed caster balance for the entire expac and it's unlikely an additional job "without raise, but with support elements" is going to enter that messed up dynamic in any helpful way. All of ranged in general has been in crisis for an expac where melee have been handed giant omnipositional bosses and a like 7-10% damage increase for no good reason - especially when you take Abyssos into account. Endwalker balance had the worst balance since ARR.

Not quite a level 100 ability, but I would like to see SMN aetherflow gauge have more utility usage, much like its counterpart, SCH. It would make SMN fall more into a utility role, whether it’s a party buff, resist, or something different to assist the party alltogether such as a debuff you could apply to an enemy

my biggest dream for summoner is to become an expy of Bayonnetta 3, summoning your big Egi and Demi's and alternating between a strong attack and light attack of gemshine and ruin spells to cast a quick powerful egi/demi attack.

Being that the class I like at the moment is Monk I would love to ask the top Monk players who use controllers how do they do rotations easily cuz I find myself having a hard time getting into the right positions and not being able to get out of damaged tiles quick enough

I'd add the "Float" spell to Black Mage to mimic feather fall for world exploration. Because that's what I care about.

People talking about pve white/black shift that either damage buffs or enables infinite raise gets me very excited for red mage, it would be awesome for raiding. Any option to self limit raises would have to still allow red mage to do it as often as swiftcast though I think, or you could easily end up with people getting toxic playing with randoms over a red mage having chosen to not take raise if a healer dies in a dungeon or something, or getting mad that a red mage is slowing down a dungeon by remaining in utility mode for safety. That casual content toxicity potential might stop them from ever doing elective damage buff for utility nerf, but I can hope.

I personally would love another melee ability, maybe an ogcd? We have this cool sword that we only use when we fill our mana. And maybe remove reprisal? I rarely use it.

My biggest concern is for tanks, as much as I love feeling invincible as a lvl90 WAR I don't see room for meaningful additions when Bloodwhetting exists. Also I would like to enjoy playing GNB again but it feels clunky and WAR is just too good to pass up unless I go in planning to be the off tank.

It would be interesting to have combat rezzes only on healers and having non combat rez on mages so you dont have to worry about it in raids and stuff but it can still be useful for overworld, bozja, drs type things

Personally I feel like PCT is gonna be the job that helps put an approximate number to the power of raising. We have jobs in the game that are greed only and we can in tern be like okay this is the power of a raidwide buff, but can't do that for raising since BLM has neither. When it comes to actual skills. Going with everyone talking about black and white shift I'd really enjoy if either black or white shift (feeling black shift) had better MP regeneration with costlier spells. Increasing the mp cost by 1-200 for a passive version of lucid creating a neat interaction where during prog you shift bettwen the two mid melee combo to get a few extra super mp ticks. For Summoner maybe giving it some sort of Radiant Finale type skill where depending on what order you summon your primals you get a different buff(maybe nothing more than which one you summon first or which one is last.) Maybe something like Crit MP and an Heal potency increase? not sure the logistics but an idea. For BLM uuuuuuuuuhhhhhh make the Paradox rotation the right rotation, or something I dunno. Something for Melee dps if we had to replace positionals with something else. Some universal mechanic to the melee dps what would it be? something like making it so they all just through traits have faster gcds than the other roles, or making it so all of them have at least 2 combos stuff like that.

what is the best spell in the game and why is it miasma 2

3:31 Peri Dot is a very cool name. im not biased at all by the fact i'm also usiing a stone-inspired name.

I love the idea of RDM having Mana Shift from PvP so that you can choose pre-pull, with Black-shift being DPS focused while White-shift is more 'supportive'. I think it'd satisfy the kinds of RDM players who want more focus on DPS while not ignoring those who love the jobs more supportive side of its kit. My question would be, though, if White - Shift kept Verraise, what would Black - Shift replace Verraise with? How would Vercure be affected, since it is used to proc Dualcast before the boss becomes targetable.

i only played rdm of the casters, and being a casual player at that (story and regular raids/alliance raids) so i personally believe i cant say much. Also it'll be more than one cuz idk balancing so take your pick or criticize. nonetheless id grant follow up combos to certain abilities like Magick barrier and reduce cooldown. in this example turning vercure into a insta cast vermedica (the base vercure and a 80 potency regen afterwards). additionally let vercure verraise and vermedica grant white mana. grant stacks of a damage buff for casting restorative spells or defensive abilities, enough to make up for dmg loss caused by casting those spells instead of dmg. perhaps a bit more. it would fit into the vibe of the gallant defender that's part of rdm.

Rdm lvl 100 skill : ambidextrous When activated, 10-15 secs of dual cast active for each cast, with a 120 sec cooldown

Very cool video. As a caster main and even more sadly RDM-Main in usual, i had a rough time in EW. Sometimes i said to some friends, that i can understand, how MCH was feeling in ShB though. ^^ Abyssos was horrific and the moment where i was thinking about unsubbing the game. Being tortured by those balancing issues was hard for me. I even swapped to SMN in the end and it nearly broke my heart, that i did way more damage on SMN than on RDM, even though i'm playing RDM since it was released. Being not rewarded by playing a more difficult class nearly perfect compared to a "phys ranged", where you need 5 pulls to optimize it, was really hard to accept and it made me angry. I think SE just simply doesn't know, what RDMs need and where the problems are. Like for example the forced spellspeed on gear since the end of shadowbringers which causes a DMG-down on RDM because of drifts. This sucks. And always getting the answer from SE that the balancing is fine on casters because RDM and SMN can rezz is just pissing me off XD. I'd love to see that SE removes the rezz from the casters, so this excuse fo lower damage is just gone and the healers actually kinda have to do their job again. And if they give RDM another finisher i'll personally travel to Japan and slap Yoshis ass. I'm very curious about the pictomancer and if the rezzes stay like it is, i'll probably start on redmage and gonna swap to Pictomancer if the more damage is needed. But i really really hope, they get rid of the balancing between the ranged and melees again. I was missing the option of having triple ranged comp without being afraid of damage in Endwalker, so this is the biggest wish that i have for dawntrail :)

An enkindle for the elemental primals would be sick. Especially if it was a hard cast that consumed all your gems of that colour so you have options for situations. Garuda is an aoe feather rain Titan is a conal landslide And ifrit isnt a hard cast, but a nail you place that explodes after X time

Smn needs some of their Shadowbringers complexity back Deleting their combat raise isn’t it imo, since they can’t bypass the long cast for it if swiftcast is down (where Rdm still can) I’m thinking, coming out of Phoenix phase….the available summons/primals should be Levi, Ramuh, and Shiva and maybe more hard hitting hard casts from those three/DoT application and not too exceedingly long hard casts like with Ifrit being channeled

Where are the top SAM mains?

A question I would ask one of these top players is about the "freedom" Eksuplosion mentions about Black Mage. I honestly feel like I'd love to play Black Mage more, as I did grow to like it quite a bit back when I went through the process of leveling all DoW and DoM jobs to 90, and started enjoying it in PVP. But I always remember being a little lost on how it's rotation really worked with all the different fires and ices, when I should use stuff like sharpcast, thunder upkeep, etc. It always felt like there was a very fixed way of doing rotations for BLM, and it's the idea of trying to memorize and always follow that that makes me hesitatnt to start playing it again, as I have trouble keeping track with some rotation orders for some Jobs in this game (forgetting a number of skills on Dragoon, certain buff skills slipping my mind when playing Monk, etc.) Hell, even with my main job, Bard, I still mess up a bit here and there despite having it's rotation nailed into my brain in "heat of the moment" situations. So to hear a top player mention a large amount of freedom to BLM rotations caught my ear, and it'd be nice if it could be explained further. I also agree with the idea of a one-time Leyline adjustment skill being added, and a resource cost for res abilities on SMN and RDM.

What I really love about the rez casters. In casual content like dungeons or trials. As a healer main, I have big time Anxiety to die and loose the fight that way. Having someone in the party that can bring me back is a HUGE relive. Balancing Jobs is a tough cell because you could balance all of them to the high tier raid content. But then smol Jimmy whos started blackmage is making less damage than the healer. But if you make it to beginner friendly pros and end game players loose interest. At the moment im in between those two extremes and im enjoining all of the casters. Plus being the last one alive in a Raid, rezing the healer so he can bring everyone back with an LB3 is just the best feeling ever. I dont really know what Sqare could do to improve this situation, but for Summoner I would like more Egis to summon or select from. Having 5 and per Bahamut/Phenix you can summon 3 of them.

I love Red Mage and it's my favorite dps job. My current issue with it isn't so much that it does lower damage than the other two casters, it's the way its two minute buffs are laid out. Currently at level 80 RDM slaps pretty hard but i think that's because all of its burst fits in its buff window from 100 black and white mana Because theres one extra GCD in the buff window at level 90, you now lose out on two GCDs in the buff window. Losing two hard hitting GCDs really hurts its damage. I would increase its buff window time by 5 seconds and decrease the buff from 5% to 3%. There will likely be another skill after resolution, making four skills drop out of the buff window from 100 mana, assuming it hasnt changed by Dawntrail. I hope whatever they do they make RDM feel as good as it plays now. Also Fleche and Contre Sixte do physical damage but the mellee combo doesn't, please adjust this😂

Making Ressurection spell cost 6000 or 8000 MP maybe good enough as a way to limit caster (especially RDM) from spamming raise, and if this implemented surely they need to increase these rez caster damage to offset the risk of this adjustment (not by much, but enough to lessen the risk of unable to cast GCD for some time due to low of MP). And especially for SMN, i really hope that they add the rest of our iconic eikon (pun intended, pls laugh), make us choose 3 summons from all of them and the specific combination will affect how Phoenix or Bahamut trance will do different things like make some combinations will make these trances GCD be insta cast, some combinations make the trances GCD cast like ifrit phase with extra damage, and some combinations, idk maybe make it deal lesser damage but regen MP(?) to help the adjustment about ressurection spell i said above (but if this is added then they need to give a way for RDM to regen MP too).

- For Red Mage I would love to be able to hold 2 Progs for VerFire/VerStone as well as VerHoly and VerFlare giving a guaranteed Prog even if both Black and White Mana are exactly equal. - For SMN I would agree to the suggestions of either giving him 6 Summons he has to manage or giving each Summon more possible actions than you are able to do in your window, choosing between weaker mobility casts and stronger hard-casts. Maybe even both. - For BLM I honeslty just again agree to the suggestions made: Manafont should give you a buff that auto-activates afte a Flare/Despair/if you are below 800 Mana, and maybe as an option you press the button manually again to force activate it. In addition to that I would also agree to the suggestion that the effect of Lay Lines should linger on you a bit even if you have to move out of them (or that you can summon them to you once per use). And just so level 50 doesn't feel as bad: Allow me to have 2 Stacks of Firestarter so I don't have to make the decission between Fire 1 and Fire 3 within my friggin Slide-Cast window in Crystal tower XD

YOOOOO wonderful's idea of having hard casts AND instant casts on summoner is a 900 iq idea. They'd need to be very close in potency to align with square's ethos of trying to keep the floor and ceiling close together but that would definitely solve a ton of issues with it basically feeling like a phys ranged with less utility.

Holy moly this video was 🔥 I generally play Sam more focus in melees and tanks but enjoy rdm a lot but suck at blm. Having all this pov from top tier caster feels great and Im looking forward to the melee and tank discussion. Im generally casual/mid core done a few tier of savage and dsr but the change of doing a ult in sam and doing it on rpr is a world of change. Im a console player and I always wonder the opinions of other melee in the concept of double weaving and much of a important factor is it without no clippy and such. Cause the idea of playing nin or drk seems great but due to being on console playing it effectively is a torture. (Something i would love the dev address it somehow, still have no idea how tho) Generally the reason i play sam pld warr since they aren't double weaving intense. But at the same time I wanna try viper cause i enjoy melee just in fear of being a double weaving intense job again which in console theres nothing you can do about just suck with it or play something else. Same reason i dont play mch due to the heated charge weave cause it just feel wrong and clunky.

Im a melee main, and honestly I envy the uniqueness of casters, sure they are not balance in every scenario (prog, speedruns, etc) however that is what makes them unique! some are better at somethings and worse than others. As melee any job I play do the same, damage, sure with different flavors, but still. If all caster had raise, or none did, then they would all feel homogenized in my opinion and we all know how that went with tanks and healers. I agree with Sfia that we need more unique utility like expedience.

speaking of picking the brains of the job design team i would like to discuss with them why they thought gutting scholar in shadowbringers was a good move and why they hate scholar mains :3

Combat rez plays an important role in that it keeps players that died involved in the fight, in case they get a rez.

summoner: would like to see them get the other 3 base elemental summons as summons when you Phoenix. makes there learning the class back to learning the long rotation red mage: i always like more utility on my DPS. black mage: make it so you do not need to relearn the class every 10 levels

Playing as a black mage is a lot of fun. It’s my main. Just hit 90 with in. Post shadowbringers patch notes. You cannot beat triple cast, fire 4. It’s amazing

2 charges on rdm rez, so it's still impactful and unique but they don't have to balance it with as many body checks

If combat res is going to stay for summoner, I'd like to only be usable during Phoenix, it fits flavor wise, at least.

Language barrier would certainly be an issue but wish you could interview some demons from east for other roles (likes of silverkey and lapin gino lmao)

One question: Is the role "Caster" or "Magical Ranged DPS"? People say "Caster", and kind of disparage SMN as "basically a phys ranged", but it's not "Caster" (things that have cast times - which would need to include Healers), but "Magical Ranged DPS", which...can include an instant cast Job, yeah?

13:46 as a BLM player i think it would be so funny if they gave us an upgraded scathe. on a more serious note, i'd really love black mage to be able to cast Double or Triple from FFVIII, we've seen some bosses do it, so im jealous. it could work the samme way as Barrage from bard where it's a Really long cooldown that makes your next spell hit 2-3 times, to balance it it could also cost more, that would also speed up the rotation without giving black mage more MP per phase. though im not very optimist that we'll ever have that kinda ability on BLM...

The problem with adding more summon options to summoner is button bloat. Summoner already basically caps out buttons available on controller and the devs have already shown that matters to them

I think it's good to have one of the starting mages be more accessible. For me it just sucks that one of the more complicated jobs was sacrificed for it.

Would add Ultima to Black mage. Just feels like we are ready to use the ultimate magic.

Res for both rdm and smn I don't see going away. For RDM, it is a direct identity of the class for as long as rdm has existed in final fantasy. For smn, the problem is the share with arcanist. While arcanist is a dps role, the res and heal are there to get would be scholars a chance to feel what that would be like. The problem is that the heal loses its identity in the smn kit post level 50 because of the more focused gear for them where mind stats no longer exist for physick to scale on. To remove both from arcanist until they become scholar at 30 seems like a bad idea. I agree that smn getting another summon would spice things up. The question is where and how. For the 90-100 would seem the best place, but for something this momentous, I would expect a quest to unlock. But class quests ended with stormblood. Maybe at 100 as part of a new capstone quest, but that feels kind of late and meh to unlock then. While someone like ramuh or leviathan comes to mind, a new primal related to the tural instead of eorzea would be a fun change. Outside more summons to spice up rotations, my other big issue is physick. It still feels like smn gets a slight penalty for having it even though it stops working by the time arr is over. So like how dreadwyrm stance changes to bahamut summon with traits, a trait that changes physick to mend or something that scales on int should arrive around level 50. Would we use it? Probably not. But would it at least stop the spell from being forgotten about while taking up a spell count? yes, I think so. As for blm, I have nothing. Of the three casters, I'm the weakest with blm by far.

It would be interesting if they tied smn rez on the Phoenix phase.

good video. i'll be surprised if the new rdm skill isnt a 4th finisher lol

So I come from the position of someone who started in EW (About the edge of 6.1, finished EW just before 6.2 dropped), maxed out every combat class, although I wouldn't say Mastered, but Caster was my favorite role and still kinda is. Ive done some EXs but haven't gotten fully into Raiding yet. I definitely think Leylines needs SOME sort of change for BLM. Maybe making it a self buff like Presence of Mind is too harsh, but I like the idea of a once per in use reposition. I think a lot of fight design since Tsuki has increasingly become more... Chaotic? Frantic? Faster paced? More movement is needed for the fights, and I expect it to be more so in DT. I think thats the real change I'd like. I think its cast times aren't as scary as newer people think, with Swiftcast, Triplecast, Sharpcast, Hearts, casting *itself* isn't that bad. Its just Leylines imo forcing you to sit for 30 seconds. Compare it to SAM, who has at least pretty close DPS but doesn't need to work that much harder than other Melee DPS. If anything, according to Caster Logic, NIN should be the Melee DPS with the Highest output and no party support. Its easily the buisiest of the Melee with tons of stuff to keep track of. I think the "BLM needs to be incredibly difficult argument" gets thrown out the window when you make the connection. This isn't me saying it should lose its identity, more so a justification of the gap between Casters in terms of Ease of Learning and how they are in harder content and that it should be lessened slightly. Speaking of, SMN. SMN was my "Learning" class. I went through HW Patches to the end of EW with it and did a lot of EXs with it. Personally, I think the sentiment of giving Phoenix new Summons, while certainly being nice visually, wouldn't really change as much unless they make it more utility oriented or something. The issue is that they tie everything to Astral Impulse. I think SMN could do with a Teleport or Gap Closer THAT ISN'T TIED TO RUBY or an actual DoT to upkeep that isn't Slipstream. The ultimate issue with SMN is thag theres nothing to worry about outside of "Oh Pheonix/Bahamut is ready" and Searing Light. I think another DoT would at least give you something to actually be mindful of. But Im also an idiot that tends to forget my DoTs on any class from time to time. RDM... I think is perfect learning-wise, I feel that even if DT is just EW 2 gameplay wise, its numbers should go up and be a middle ground of SMN/BLM. But please no more Finishers, Jesus Christ. I think I saw a mention of a Combo Interrupt that refunds some Mana which could be neat, but I dunno what theyd give it As for my hopes of Pictomancer, I kinda hope its the Dancer of Casters in that its a Caster Support. You can argue SMN and RDM already are that, but Id like a bit more I guess. Support in FF14 is pretty varied, RPRs Barrier being a small Regen when popped is legitimately really fun

Summoner should get more summons ( six would be my preferred)and each summon should give a buff to the party something like oh while titan is out there's a passive 3% damage reduction or Garuda is out and everyone gets a shield Red mage I think needs some button reduction specifically I think the melee combo could be turned into something similar to what they did with gunbreakers spender combo. I would also like them to give red mage a buff when the black and white mana are near perfectly balanced to do more damage or unlock a move or something Lastly black mage I think should be able to absorb there leyline for more damage

I have more a philisophy question for the casters: In most games that have a meta (video games or otherwise), there often a trend that its just better to have your DPS output as maxed out as possible as you "shouldn't need utility if you git gud." Yet we see utility being the king as evidenced by the popularity of SMN and RDM. Even if the answer might seem obvious, I want to hear your thoughts about this? Moreover, do you play any other games (video game or card games) where your opinion would be different?

I want them to remove combat rez for SMN/RDM and make it a Role Action with a long (2 min? 5 min?) cooldown that restores MP on use, and is instant cast GCD. As for changes to the individual jobs themselves, maybe allowing SMN to choose between Bahamut and Phoenix for their Demi phase instead of having it always be one into the other, so you could better plan the utility of Phoenix phase would be nice. You could even tie a new slate of Egis in with Shiva/Leviathan/Ramuh. Bahamut would get Ramuh/Leviathan/Titan and be the more DPS focused set with cast times, Phoenix would get Shiva/Garuda/Ifrit and be more mobility and utility focused. BLM could get a spender after a certain number of Polyglot usages. Maybe a trait to make Manaward an AOE to add some utility. Oh, and something to do precombat to make the opener not so clip cringey. Like a magical Soulsow or something to give us a primed instant cast just to get moving.

Smn main can’t wait to see my changes

i love RDM, the stylish gameplay, the utility and just overall aesthetics...but yea damage wise its just not the best feeling. Personally i hope they turn RDM like a DoT sustain caster just to give its damage a lil bit of kick like how the early EW PLD was or maybe BRD's poisons. I mean they have verflare and verholy, surely in fantasy logic those can cause actual burns against enemies. But eh, one can hope. Also i fully agree with the different set of Primals you can use for SMN. we have Bahamuth and Phoenix phase, why not each phase they switch to a different set. Or maybe to make it more interesting, we can have a unique Primal loadout to use before fights like you can mish-mash them according to the fight, like utility, speedkill and or balance. That would really make SMN more engaging since you're not blindingly pressing shiny buttons.