One Change for Every Job in Dawntrail 

WHM: Merge Cure 1 and Cure 2 and remove that 15% free cure trait. This removes some jank that comes from the changes over the years and makes it easier when syncing down.

For Summoner: add more summons. Instead of summoning I/T/G again after Phoenix let us summon Shiva,Ramuh and Odin, just spice it up.

As an RDM main my main two wishes for RDMs are: if the cast for Verfire/Verstone is already started you get to cast it even if the proc expired during the cast. Secondly, casting vercure and rez should not break at least the Verholy/Verflare - Resolution combo.

Definitely agree on your take of Sprint not removing RDM's Dualcast. I'd also expand it so Sprint does not screw NIN's Ninjutsu.

Every job in the game: if there is an action that cannot be executed unless you press a cooldown first (ikishoten and ogi namikiri, flourish and starfall dance, fan dance 4 and devilment etc etc. That cooldown should turn into the action. That would save an insane amount of button space. This is already the case with a few skills like phantom kamaitachi but this should be the case across the board

Stormblood DRK was peak. Abyssal Drain had no cooldown, used MP, and if you used Dark Arts > Abyssal Drain you could get back A LOT of HP. Then you had Quietus and Delirium for MP management and you were even more unkillable than WAR is now in huge pulls.

RE: DRK and Abyssal Drain. I'd replace Enhanced Unmend with a trait that reduces AD cooldown by "x" whenever you use Stalwart Soul/Quietus. Keeps its use for AoE situations and can be kind of bursty since Delirium might give you an entire extra use on its own.

For Black Mage, my one mostly thought of as a funny joke but actually that could be kinda sick would be something to the tune of when you set down Ley Lines you get an extra buff which allows your Ley Lines to move with you a single time when you Aetherial Manipulation, provided you are in your Ley Lines when you do it. Maybe you got a rough placement initially, maybe you were good but suddenly need to dodge mechanics? You get one chance to adjust without being bummed about it

For the jobs I really care about: PLD - PLEASE never get rid of the gauge, it's the best part of the job since you have "burst" mitigation. But Cover does need a rework. GNB - 4th cartridge slot, your combo generates 2, double down costs 1 cartridge. Fixes the horrible jank with downtime and drifting DD. SCH - Maybe make the fairy actions usable while casting, the same way positioning the fairy is? It'd make the job easier, but it's a little weird to me how you can move Eos while casting, but not give her commands. Would make the delay make more sense. SGE - Someone already commented it but AoE Kardia on Soteria is sick. AST - Royal Road/Sleeve Draw again could be really cool, but I think the button bloat around the card system should be cut down a bit too. DRG - Please don't remove the looping rotation ;-;

For Dragoon, it has to be the Eye buff. It's so clunky to either A, manually target an ally quickly and then quickly snap back to boss whilst keeping our GCDs flowing well or B, using a macro that can just not work in combat at times. I'd love to see it work more like DNC/SGE where you pre-designate a party member with one skill and then they get the eye buffs from then on. Feel like this change would be fine considering we no longer have the visual tether to reinforce the lore that we're giving someone the benefit of our Eye.

I want them to put Storm's Eye on the job gauge. It's the only buff we have to keep track of, just put it on the Beast Gauge like every other job that has a buff they need to keep up 100% of the time.

As a SCH main, the ONLY change….Fey Union. That needs a revamp to do SOMETHING other than a stronger, tether regen.

One change that GNB double down can have is actually just make it double, aka 2 hits that can crit separately so that each crit have less impact

Re: DRK sustain, give Salted Earth a lifesteal that heals the DRK for maybe 200 potency for each enemy being hit by the dot.

For Black Mage, I'd feel complete if Thunder DOT is a 30 second dot that stacks up to 1 minute like DOTs do with other jobs. If I can just refresh extra DOT time with sub 30 seconds remaining on the debuff, it will make choosing when to use my instant cast option less awkward and add more movement potential to the job.

The faerie idea of pressing the button and the faerie does the thing needs to be applied to Living Shadow and Automaton Queen. Both have a long wind up before they start hitting

I've been playing Bard a lot this expansion and I totally agree with the suggestion to make a change to songs. However I think the much simpler change is to make songs useable anytime during downtime by making them not require a target. Of course you would need to make them unsuable outside of combat to aviod pre-pull memes (but that doesn't change the behaviour compared to a targeted skill anyway). Another possible change (though it is technically an addition): Introduce a recovery tool for your song rotation, something like monk's Celestial Revolution, a skill that you don't want to see in an ideal scenario but that saves you from being punished more that you already are. Specifically I would add a 4th song that is weaker than the ones we already have but that lets you fill a time you would otherwise go songless in, i.e. after a death. Bonus points if introduced at a low level (ARR or HW).

I think removing Ifrit dash would make summoner worse. Ifrit dash is one of the few parts of the new summoner rotation that you need to put at least some thought into. More simplification is not what the job needs.

I honestly am so glad you suggested that change for RDM, Haps. As a Red Mage main since 4.0, I have lost so many dualcast procs to this in dungeons and even mid combat if I needed to sprint out of a Nope Zone I flipped into.

Fellow DRG main here! The thing I'm looking forward to hoping be a thing for the rework, is having Life either at the start of the instance/pull or I'll be it a new button that gives us life window (however they end up doing Life of the Dragon windows now) so that way openers actually have more potency and they can feel like an actual job in phases like P2 DSR or P1 TOP. However the thing I'm most scared about, is that they kind of rework it into being like RPR. You said it in the video about jumps being on GCDs. At least the fun of DRG for me, is the amount of OGCDs in your rotation (yes it is bloated right now). however the one I think that it would work the best for is Stardiver, considering we've gotten shorter animation locks for all the jumps BESIDES Stardiver, I'm inclined to think that they're just gonna make it like Primal Rend. P.S please give us a personal, and make it before level 70. qwq

Change that almost all jobs need: remove potency from gap closers.

For RDM there is nothing more frustrating then being in the middle of a Vefire/Veraero cast and the "ready" proc buff ends interrupting the cast. The window is very tight, but that's what makes it feel so awful when it happens. Depending on the latency I really have to consider if starting a cast at 3 seconds remaining is a good choice or to play it safe and cast jolt

I would like to see more versatility with SCH’s fairy gauge. Buff the healing potency, or let you spend it for a stacking shield, or an aoe heal, or an aoe stacking shield.

My idea for Anatman is to make it generate stacks of of new buff and when you get enough stacks they transform into a buff that guarantees a Critical Hit on you next Weaponskill. Really encourage players to find the right windows to set up these big crits after downtimes.

As a scholar main I have to throw it out there. We need Sacred Soil untied from Aetherflow, and for faerie gauge to be useful again, so let's make sacred soil cost faerie gauge instead of aetherflow. They don't have to change potencies at all, and the faerie skills have already been improved to be more snappy. Could make a case for having Aetherpact be more snappy, buuuut the times where you'd actually use it are few and far between. Having to always put out 2 sacred soils every time we pop aetherflow severely limits the amount of healing scholar COULD be putting out. Those extra 2 aetherflow stacks could be used on a 2nd indom and an Excog. But because the mitigation on sacred soil is soooo valuable, we don't get the choice.

As a "WHM main", I do agree with Rapture needing lower level. After doing UCOB in the past year, the lack of reliable aoe healing on the move was awful. Nael was fine because people didn't move as much, and I could do GCD heals after stopping, but things like Quickmarch I disliked until I started holding Assize for when I was moving in after the dives. During the first few days we were there, I'd try to run in and cast Medica or something and someone would die because they had low health and not getting healed. Either that or I had to hold and use Swiftcast specifically for that mechanic, which did break the next one. Blackfire. My coheal was SCH and he did Succor before we moved and Indom after the stack but I don't know if it was damage variance or whatever but we regularly had people dying to towers after if they didn't get a spot heal, so I started saving Swiftcast specifically for a Cure 3 to heal the stack damage. Tenstrike could be ass, depending on all of our starting locations. As we got better with placement (specifically people running further in to bait the cleaves, at least halfway, less people ended up dying to simple damage.

Gunbreaker can have one change for me, make Blasting Zone a frontal cone/area. The skill is a massive beam of light, why can it it hit more mobs? Especially if we look at Squall's Limit break of it hitting all enemies. :D

Auto-crossbow reducing recast like Heat Blast does on Machinist.

I think theres always something you can add to jobs that fortifies their identity, just because something looks complete doesnt mean you cant add anything to it.

If we're talking simple stuff.... here're mine for the jobs I know the best: Redmage: You can only res 5 times per fight in savage or ultimate fights. So we can finally stop nerfing them just because of res. That's literally my only complaint. Redmage is perfect, just too weak. Dragoon: Eye Partner - you no longer need to target your allies midfight to apply Eye, you designate someone who gets eye when you use it at the start and it sticks throughout. White Mage: 2 charges of Assize.

As a summoner main who still misses his dots, pet jank, ruin ii, and egi assaults, it's hard for me to think of something other than moving back. That said, the one thing that I genuinely enjoy about new summoner is how packed it is with non-ruin skills, and how downtime makes you have to do interesting things like timing your last two gcd's in a phase to be summon ifrit and crimson cyclone. So my suggestion is lean even more into the spoiled for choice aspect of summoner gcd's. Give us extra summons and make us have to choose what gcd's we throw away. Involve an aspect of having to choose between casted gcd's for damage and instant gcd's for movement. On top of all that, make the fight design not afraid to require choosing movement spells over casted, higher damage spells.

The 3 single combinations definitely need new animations

Honestly RDM needs a lot of changes because there's so many QoL issues that make it not fun. It's not just the being unable to raise during melee combo, but the OGCD drift caused by that is horrendous. It feels bad to have to choose between acceleration/swiftcast giving you uptime when you move, or forcibly correcting your OGCD drift for dualcast, and while it's easier to move with RDM than BLM, BLM mobility feels more useful and honestly better for uptime. That's insane. Speaking of Drift, why the hell is Manafication and Embolden 10 seconds apart? You basically need to either stagger the CDs which feels really bad to do, or you need to basically be able to time the fight and know if you're losing a melee combo or not by waiting...although that ALSO feels bad. Can Embolden PLEASE buff your own OGCDs? Come on. Can the stupid 5 mana spender have a use or be replaced? Like Black Mage's limitations aren't for everyone, but they result in a fun challenge. Red Mage's limitations are just heaps upon heaps of annoyances that keep it from feeling satisfying.

For DRK, combine Abyssal Drain with Flood of Darkness. Under the effect of Dark Arts, restore HP by 75% of damage dealt to each target (similar to war bloodwhetting, but less frequent and more potent). Applies to both Edge and Flood abilities. This way when you use TBN, you can hold onto Dark Arts until you are lower health, then use it for massive hp gain. Also aids in raids where you take a buster which pops TBN, you then have the ability to heal yourself for fairly substantial health (though not enough to make healers irrelevant). For SCH, I'd like a single target shield that uses the gauge, or just more uses for the gauge in general. SGE is so strong with tons of shield that are OGCD, both party wide and single, can take multiple hits. SCH just feels like it's sitting on so much gauge way too often. If it wasn't for Chain, then I don't think many people would be bringing a SCH.

More easily visible durations for monk buffs and maybe target enemy demolish dot. Put them in a job gauge.

MNK: It's had a flaw in its kit since stormblood, meditation stacks have no buffer for capping like other job gauges have. The procs can be erratic, sometimes all coming in at once when you're close to full already or filling too late in your GCD window to allow for a weave. I'd give it a buffer of 5 stacks (so ten stacks total) like how other jobs have gauges of 100 with their abilities usually requiring 50 gauge; that'd let Monks sit on Forbidden Chakra for a crucial second or two and cut down on wasted Meditation stack procs. A restriction would be that the stacks past 5 can't be charged manually using Meditate.

For RDM I'd like to see their OGCD skill cooldowns actually line up with 2 min bursts, they're the only job in the game with these awkward 25 and 35 second offensive OGCD cooldowns and their incompatibility with the 2 min meta stands out like a sore thumb, especially after all of the 45 second skills got shortened to 40 for the same reason.

Thank you for mentioning in passing the gap closer for PLD. I run all manner of content as PLD, so when I wind up in anything pre ShB and see a DRK or GNB leap to the boss I get genuinely annoyed as I am forced to waddle over instead.

If I were to mess with AST's card stuff, I think the issue is, any sort of randomization you have can just be unfun, like you don't get what you want in the moment so it becomes frustrating, so I thought of a sort of loose random system that still allows enough flexibility to have some control over it. I imagined a system sort of like BRD songs, but more randomized. Imagine you have a deck of cards, and it's just a few cards, like 5 at the most or something, and you use draw to draw from the deck. Each card has a different passive effect that stays up as long as it's your active card. Could be things like aoe regen, increased healing, increased cast speed for the AST, damage buff for everyone, stuff like that, that just stays up. Always something useful, but could sometimes not be as useful as another skill. So you give draw like a 10 second cooldown, and the card effect a 20-30 second timer. That way if it's an effect you like, you can keep it up for awhile, and if it's one you don't want at the moment, you can move on to the next relatively quickly, but not just spam draw till you get what you want. When you draw another card, the previous active card goes to a discard pile, so it's no longer part of the deck, until you've gone through every card in the deck, when the discard pile is shuffled and moved back to the deck. This way you're always guaranteed to *eventually* get every effect, and you have some control over how quickly these effects get swapped. This cuts down dramatically on buttons and weaves, since you no longer need to draw, look, redraw, target party member, apply. Obviously sometimes you get the card you want first try, but anyone that plays AST for any amount of time knows that more often than not, you don't get what you want lol. This new system would reduce it all down to one button, you just weave between a cast, and no need to target a specific party member to apply it, but it still keeps that unique randomized card feeling.

I personally love how button light summoner is. That's what drew me to it in the first place and it lets me be head-empty while still being helpful. I agree with removing the Ifrit dash though. Making that something that doesn't force me out of position would be fantastic

Re: Astro idea. At first I was wondering what a timed dot ability could be but I think I cracked the code. My idea would be similar to how WHM has an on-hit potency to their dot: the lower the time remaining on combust is when it gets refreshed, the higher the initial burst is. It always feels good to me on bard to snap my dots with IJ at the last second even if I don't need to, but this could make Astro have something unique and strong about how they manage their dot.

I’m slightly hoping for GNB to become slightly less strict, like the other tanks. But at the same time, I kinda like GNB being the hardest/Strictest tank, seeing as it’s supposed to be like a DPS with Mits/Stance

For RDM: get rid of Verraise, I`m so fed up with getting doubletaxed just because this skill exists, esspecially when many fights on Savage are bodychecks on bodychecks. Another thing on RDM that was also addressed in the vid is the length of the combo. I would like to see it going back to beeing 5 part where your singletarget-combo grants you black stacks and Enchanted Moulenet giving you white stacks. Black stacks unlocking Verflare-Resolution and white unlocking Verholy-Scourge For SMN: remove carbi and put the player as the source of the shield like they did with the partybuff I love carbi but it serves no purpose anymore on SMN. Keep it for Arcanist to have a resemblance when the class splits into the Jobs For BLM: Paradox getting the singletarget with aoe-falloff-treatment. I would love to see Xenoglot-stacks beein introduced early as well as a early version of Umbral Soul. The early Xenoglotstack beein used on a guaranteed doubledamage Scathe with little to no aoe-downfall and early Umbral Soul simply refreshing the Eno-timer. It`s super akward to have to keep swapping your stance when later on all you do is refreshing with Umbral Soul DRK: TBN grants you the proc either when it breaks or the timer runs out alternativly no MP-cost and a 25 sec CD. Living Shadow actually mimiking your skills like Bunshin does on NIN NIN: Raiju-ready not beeing canceled when using a weaponskill (there is no sense to having a 30 sec timer on the buff when you have to use it within the next 3 secs basically). Have it beein one button as a dash (like it is right now) and have your melee-combo beein replaced with the non-dash attack. Basically 6.0 NIN but the Raiju-skills replace the buttons that would normaly cancel them.

I know SCH is in a very good spot, but I would really love for them to lean more in to the use of fairies being a remote heal/buffer (like Whispering Dawn, Fey Blessing and Fey Illumination). I'd just really like to see them lean in to the remote healing capabilities a little more. Give an option that allows us to channel the casting of Succor and Indomatibility through Eos/Selene to reduce the need for having to reposition for healing. E9S was the one fight that really made me wish there was more options to heal directly from the fairy during panel phase.

GNB needs an increase in their No Mercy window, give it charges or extend the duration. We have so much to try and cram in the initial window. Also allow us to build ammo pre pull. Going in with zero resources up just feel bad because for our opener we typically need to do one full 3 hit combo rotation and popping no mercy. Theres also the issue with skill speed needing to be at a certain cap otherwise we clip our skills. Last i played 2.4 skill speed was the sweet spot.

As a SMN main I kind of like the Ifrit gap closer, I wouldn't mind being able to have a better gap closer, even though it's not that important when you are ranged. Off topic, since you changed one existing action but : give us one more summon, I'd go for Leviathan. Having a Tidal Wave attack would be so cool.

As a scholar main from the very beginning: I would love the scholar to have more fairy based spells and mechanics so bad

For BRD: Just remove the damage from songs. Buff other gcds or don't, just make it a spell you can freely cast. That will immediately solve the downtime issue.

as a whm main i want the pvp gap closer headbutt/aoe heal as my level 100 ability

I want the fairy to get the Sprint buff (or have the option to make her always by my side). Lost count of the times we were sprinting for that W2W then I used Whispering Dawn and the fairy was really far away and nobody got the Regen.

I saw someone say on the forums that for Dragoon's rework, they may make the jumps part of the Life of the Dragon phase only, but they can make some of them GCD's like Primal Rend. I thought this was a really cool idea to keep the burst timings the same and structured similarly, but allow for the burst window to be more iconic and stand out. And thematically I think it makes sense that when you go into the Life of the Dragon phase that you get empowered with, well, the life of a dragon and gain the ability to jump high, become stronger, etc. Also I feel like they need a proper personal defensive of some kind. Dragons have incredibly tough scales, so something like "Dragon Scales - makes the user take 15% less damage for 15s" similar to Monk's Riddle of Earth

In regards to RDM's dualcast getting eaten up by sprint - It's even worse than that. Not ONLY does sprint do that shit but every goddamn buff in the game does it. For those who dont see the implications, it gets used up when potting... Which makes it just a **LITTLE** annoying when you have a downtime phase and have a re-opener with pots right after as you want to go into said phase with a dual cast proc so you can immediately start throwing out your stuff (even worse when youre supposed to throw your buff on the first weave due to resource pulling).

A few changes I'd like to see (changes not new buttons): SGE - a reworked Soteria that makes Kardia not only heal more but also makes it an AOE effect BRD - songs are just buffs that don't require a target (and don't do damage) DNC - a reworked Flourish that instead of giving a free reverse cascade and fountainfall it just garantees 100% proc chance for everything

I don't mind the gap closer as a SMN main. I have learned to use it in raiding to quickly get to the correct position, and it also allows mobility during ifrit phases, with movement built into it if needed. The BIGGEST change I want for Summoner is to keep our current Demi buildup upon death. There is nothing more frustrating as a SMN than dying to a mechanic while building towards phoenix, only to die, and get reverted back to Bahamut, which causes our burst window to be opposite everyone else's. It's something that REALLY needs to be addressed.

WAR: Inner Release and Primal Rend don't need to be separate buttons. Have Inner Release turn into Primal Rend when it's pressed.

you actually hit the correct change for GNB in the reaper part Gnb heavily suffers from downtime without it becomiing a jankchest, it absolutely NEEDS a button to charge bullets during downtime, either this or make double down not costing bullets at all

You mentionned the graphic update for fell cleave, that's exactly what I want for Paladin and goring blade. Give me something with more panache, and change the LB too 😂(but you were right on cover for sure)

I’m hoping for a spender for the fairy gauge. At the moment it’s only tied to the healing tether which is great but would be cool if we could use 50 gauge for a huge shield or heal idk OR AN ATTACK I wish sidewinder for bard was more engaging. Make it proc something or maybe decrease the cooldown? Black mage is perfect as is.

For Dancer, I'd like Tillana to refresh the Fountainfall and Flourishing Cascade procs. Would give more skill expression (i.e. higher ceiling) in knowing how to manage your procs during a burst and potentially dropping Standard Step in the burst for greater potential plus potential feathers. I hate how busy the burst can be, but I'm more than happy to double down on that.

Realistic changes: Warrior - Make Raw Intuition/Bloodwhetting heal for more but not scale with the number of enemies. Remove CC from Holmgang so we don't have to macro it anymore. Paladin - Paladin feels like it lacks class identity for too long, so swap Holy Spirit+Divine Magic Mastery (64) and Goring Blade (54). Hallowed Ground is 90% DR and death protection, with a reasonable cooldown. Dark Knight - TBN at 45 with longer cooldown and no Dark Arts, then back to normal at 70. Gunbreaker - Superbolide gives you a healing absorb equal to your current health, rather than setting your HP to 1. Continuation for Fated Circle. White Mage - Holy is too strong in dungeons, so instead of stunning foes, it applies a small absorb to allies and damages enemies. Cure 1 upgrades into Cure 2. Scholar - Aetherflow/Lustrate moved down to 40, to make dealing with bad tanks in Stone Vigil easier. I swear, that place is cursed. Astrologian - Remove Undraw. Benefic 1 upgrades into Benefic 2. Make Synastry work with abilities. Monk - Anatman provides personal damage reduction and a pulsing, channeled self-heal. Dragoon - Remove the strange sounds from Chaos Thrust and Chaotic Spring. Why do those abilities sound like a moogle with a flute is following me around? Ninja - Shukuchi doesn't break Hide. Hide reduces movement speed less. Add "Hide resets Mudra" as a Ninja trait so that new players will be more likely to know about it! Samurai - Consolidate Shoha 1 and 2. Consolidate Ikishoten and Ogi Namikiri. Bard - Two charges of Empyreal Arrow. Remove Iron Jaws, but add DoT application to Sidewinder. Dancer - Change Improvisation to a pulsing, channeled heal rather than a HoT that builds over time. Black Mage - I think this might be a bad idea, but I'd love to playtest it - remove the proc on Scathe and make it refresh AF/UI by 3 seconds, up to max duration. Summoner - Now that FF16 is out and we don't need a Clive test run anymore, can we get a rework to make Summoner feel like a traditional FF summoner? :P Red Mage - Add a cooldown to Verraise. Sprint doesn't consume Dualcast.

One change that I really really want to see is to the mp management of black mage. I love playing black mage and I love that they have a very flexible way of playing. Working around the timing of mechanics and knowing when you can get off certain casts fully and how long you want to stay in ice vs fire is very interesting and allows for a lot of skill expression. It makes me want to play it more and get better because there is so many ways to do a fight compared to summoner basically doing the same thing every pull with small variations. But, the fact that some of Black Mages optimized play requires an addon to track the tickrate of mp regen and lucid is seriously so stupid. It feels weird and unsatisfying, plus almost impossible without a mod counting it down for you. That kind of optimization is unlike any other jobs high level play and I hate it. I am not someone who plays Black Mage a ton but my suggestion as a solution would be that black mage cannot passively regen mana in both fire AND ice. Instead, when in Umbral Ice 3, you gain back like 5000 mp each time you use a non-fire spell (thunder, blizz IV, paradox, xeno, etc). That way regaining mana in ice form is active and clear, not bound to a tickrate that isn't clearly represented in game. It doesn't have to be 5000 mp too, it could be like 3333 mp or 2500 mp if you think more gcds are necessary in umbral ice form. Plus umbral soul would count as a non-fire spell so you could still regain mana and hearts during downtime or forced movement without triple cast. I think removing this kind of weird optimization is healthier for the job and makes it so much clearer for new players how Black Mage functions

Best change for drk with regards to abyss drain is make it a part of aoe combo either as a 3 parter or as an either drain or stalwart

Cure 1 -> Cure 2 should be a trait upgrade. Same with Medica 1 -> Medica 2. There’s no need for them to be separate buttons in the current game. All jobs need a basic combo upgrade visually as well. The 1-2-3 for a lot of jobs is really stale.

My changes to black mage: Ley Lines creates a circle that lasts for 3 min with a 30s cool down. Only 1 circle can affect you at a time. Aetherial Manipulation still rushes you to a party member if you have them targeted. However, if you have a circle of power active and no party member targeted, then it teleports you to the last circle you were in or to your next circle. This lets a BLM be far more mobile but have to plan ahead to get that mobility

Honestly, my dream for anatman has always been for it to reduce damage you take. Even a small 5% reduction would be really nice to have for certain mechanics

The problem with cover is that when its useful, Pally becomes best in slot and pretty much mandatory in content. Which I'm okay with if all the other tanks get extremely strong skills for their identity.

WHM: Gain all lily spells at an earlier level. I’d like to gain the first lily spell at level 50 and then the remaining two at the 50-60 range. This way, the job can gain traits at later levels that upgrade the spells. For example, introduce Rapture at level 60 as a weaker spell, then have it upgrade to the Rapture we know today. As for what that weaker spell is, use a spell that already exists in the game’s files: Aero III or Water III/IV.

I want them to add a stance toggle to all healers that switches main healing GCDs to swap between regen or barriers. This would mean the beloved "Diurnal sect" returns to AST mains. I know it's homogenisation but it's important for party composition so that having SCH + SGE or WHM + AST comps are more viable. Plus it means we won't have an odd number of healer types (e.g. 3 regen and 2 barrier), should SE ever decide to make a new healer in the expansion after DT. I never like the forced division of pure/barrier healers in Endwalker (because that meant removing diurnal sect from AST which also removed some skill expression) so I think having a stance toggle like this is a good addition for healers.

Red Mage; Acceleration should grant insta-cast Verraise, without interrupting combo. Could extend to Veraero/Verthunder not interrupting combo. That way it keeps the kit cohesive & also sort of plays in to "Acceleration" thing, going fast and could probably lend itself a bit more freedom with the second charge. & yeah, sprint thing.

I'd love for more things that use faerie gauge on scholar. And the fey union needs to be really pumped up. THe game's design has moved away from the autoattacks are a big part of the damage, which is what fey union seems designed to do. I hate filling a gauge and not having a cool thing to do from it

Sage - this one is gonna be weird, but hear me out. The the means of generating addersgall and addersting. Make sting a charge system, and every time you use toxicon you get a gall. That would increase mobility. Dragoon - just get rid of wheeling thrust and f&c. Ever since the chance to blood, we don't need them anymore, it's just more button bloat. Put positionals (if they even last to Dawntrail) on chaos and full thrust, same with Raiden proccing off them.

All cover needs is a range increase along with a manual way to turn it off (right click buff), as well as hopefully just make it 0 cost. The skill itself is very good especially in prog, but often times you cant tether to an ally even on the other side of the boss target circle because the range is so short, while this does have its tactical advantage of allowing you to unlink the tether if you dont want to soak any more damage. I've used it in ultimates as well when somebody makes a mistake and needed a res, but when the invulnerability wont last or they were required to sprint.

As a DNC main, ive wondered since the pvp rework if they have been using that environment to test some ideas out for future expansions. The idea of En Avant working similarly in PvE and augmenting an ability that follows it is very interesting to me, it could augment in a way that helps with feathers like you said, or perhaps some other way that makes the dps on dancer more predictable, which would reduce the impact of feather rng in comparison.

Some ideas I thought off the top of my head to spitball: For the DRG rework, a part of me hopes they focus more on jumping more frequently. DRK: Make TBN give you a stack Dark Arts if it fails to pop at the end of the duration. Make Oblation not bad. Change Dark Mind to be an all-type damage mitigation like the other tanks. MCH: Make Flamethrower generate heat SAM: Consolidate Hissatsu: Guren and Senei. Unlikely to happen, but finally split/decouple Arcanist/Summoner/Scholar General change: Give all jobs access to an AoE GCD sooner in the leveling experience

14:18 What if we eliminated the time duration from the songs and instead implemented a short cooldown for each? We could introduce a stance-like system that allows for swapping at any time, with each stance offering unique strengths. This adjustment could simplify the Bard's already complex resource management and increase flexibility.

Plain and Simple, DRK needs a massive change to how it operates in general. Oblation needs to be removed, its a Band-Aid button and its utter bloat, its the only tank that needs to pop an extra mit for a tb while also having the most bloated rotation in terms of ogcds, it makes it just feel awkward and annoying especially around 2m windows where theres a tb, and the 10s duration of Dark Mind, Oblation ect makes it a bit harder to prepop these around burst windows. And the job suffers in both survivability, and DPS as it currently stands. Oblation should be attached to TBN, and it should function similar to most tank mits where you get the short duration benefit of oblation (Like the 4s of extra 15% on most short tank mits) but the shielding aspect of tbn should stay till its consumed, or return unused shielding as hp. and no matter what at the end of the timer, you get your dark arts proc(or get it immediately if the shield was consumed by dmg obviously.) TBN should retain its mana cost simply because it can be used as a way to transfer more dps into burst windows and i think removing that would be silly. as for additional features the job should receive, all mana you spend should be returned as hp, 50 potency per 300 mana or something. Dark Missionary should be 70. Carve and Spit should be the single target heal variant of Abyssal Drain, and Lastly, their gcd potency should be in line with all other tanks 200, 300, 400 respectively (Currently 170, 260, 340) thats a total of 130 potency overall they do less per rotation, while having one of the weaker 1m cycles in exchange for a slightly above average 2m) I absolutely love this job, its my favorite looking aesthetically, and its my favorite to also play. That unfortunately doesn't change the fact that its lacking a lot of the benefits other tanks have over it, and DRK's only saving grace was its damage potential, which is no longer its saving grace cuz warrior does more... its actually depressing

As a Machinist main this might be a controversial point but... I wouldn't mind personally seeing a new version of Gauss Barrel. If there's a point in an encounter I could safely plant myself, pop an attachment on my weapon, and increase my overall damage at the cost of movement when I don't have to move I would love to have that capability.

Hot take: I think Addersting should be reworked into a system where Sage has like a soft DPS rotation that makes it more engaging since it usually wants to only oGCD heal right now due to weak GCD/Strong oGCD heals and Kardia.

When it comes to SMN and the Ifrit charge, I had to completely adjust my Egi rotation from what I had it as prior to doing Zodiark EX because the charge during my normal rotation was throwing me right in during all of the times that I needed to be somewhere else

as a DRK main you hit the nail on the head, all you need to do to "fix DRK" is have the healing potency of Abyssal Drain at a set mark that "isn't op an makes sense" if its a single target an have the potency lowered based off how many targets it hits, also remove it from sharing the same cooldown as Carve and Spit an give Abyssal Drain something like a 3,000 mp consumption per use with a 15 sec recast timer similar to Blackest Knight smh

RPR: Make Gluttony a 55 second cooldown so that reaper doesn’t have a 123 second rotation for high ping players BLM: Make the thunder dot last 5 seconds longer so you can have a designated place in the ice phase to refresh it, regardless of your spell speed.

I think a great change for Summoner would be to have Physic actually heal people

A lot more interesting than my MCH idea of “Idk, Make drill give battery too?”

My thing with SMN is I like having the dash but I don't like having such a limited window to use it. Maybe uncouple one ability from each summon from having to use it during that 30 second period. Give us a Crimson Cycone on a long cd but we can use it any time. Could do the same with Slipstream and Mountain Buster and have new Dawntrail abilities fill in during the timed sections.

For NIN: 1. Potentially bring back the guaranteed crit on Hyosho while dialing back the potency 15-20% 2. Make Goka damage neutral on 2-Target 3. Meisui should also give a potency buff to Hellfrog Medium so that it gains usefulness as well in dungeon pulls.

For me, it's tough with Samurai. It's fairly complete. Maybe something else to spend Kenki on than Shinten. But yeah, consolidation would be a good change.

For Bard I'd love for a downtime ability. For example: A cast that works sorta like Samurai's meditation, but you can move during it. It removes cooldown for the duration of the cast. Maybe an animation of the bard tuning their instruments lol

DRG main here, ignoring the future rework, I want them to start instances with full eyes. DRK, regen on TBN break is all I ask for. If we wanna get fun with DRK, Abyssal Drain and Carve and Spit give a single big pot heal with Abyssal getting fall-off healing beyond target. Overhealing gives a barrier based on overheal up to a decent cap. Oblation, convert a chunk of your health to a barrier and give dmg reduction, still can target party members. We can keep OG BLU for Carnivale and a BLU specific Duty Finder Setting for challenges. I want them to give BLU a real rotation but let us glam the spell effects. GCD spam Fish :3

I want PLD to be able to store multiple charges of the instant Holy Spirit cast. It would be fun to min max more casts in your burst or have even more flexibility to go ranged during certain mechanics. Also, take potency off of gap closer.

As a healer, I want more of a DPS rotation. Nothing crazy, but give us two more damage spells to use.

Something for SMN, even if it is small. WHEN YOU EQUIP THE SMN JOB STONE, YOUR PHYSIC SWAPS FROM USING YOUR MIND STAT TO USING YOUR INT STAT Yes, I'm still mad that this isn't a thing.

Regarding the PLD job gauge there's a problem with just getting rid of it. It's used for 3 skills: Sheltron, Cover and Divine Intervention (each using 50). So unless those skills get reworked the job gauge has to stay, would be nice if it had more uses or recharged differently. I think the job just needs a mild rework and a button crunch. While its great as the most defensive tank thats really all its useful for right now, defensive OT or baby's first tank.

How about for Sage: Eukrasian Toxikon: Instant cast, 1.5 sec recast Same potency as Dosis/Toxikon, but it consumes an Addersgall to generate an Addersting, so you can trade excess Addersgalls for movement

Red Mage not killing their resolution combo if you so much as nudge a spell would be nice. Like, it currently cancels even if you dont actually finish casting the spell, which is wild to me considering how they made all melee jobs not break their combos while using ranged attacks. Also ofc, getting rid of verraise or at the very least not being taxed for having it when any remotely difficult content is just full of bodychecks rendering it useless.

I also agree about Kaiten, but SAM does need some other ability to consume Kenki as that resource generates very fast and the only other way to keep it from capping out is to spam the OGCDs that use kenki as they are small cost compared to Kaiten. Or that is how it felt during my time leveling the job.

For Warrior, I'd love to see some nods back to the Marauder roots. If we're saying that narratively we're at the point where instead of learning old techniques, we're innovating new ones, then I'd love to see a bit of the naval aspect of Marauder come back. Boarding axes were primarily used for cutting ropes, but on rare occasions where a boarding party had enough men to take the deck but not overwhelm the ship, they would also be employed to try and de-mast a ship - which was hard, considering how thick the mast is! Hewing through such a thick obstruction with a single, powerful swing seems right up Warrior's alley, so I think there's definitely something there, either for animation inspiration *or* as an upgraded Fell Cleave.

For WAR, I'd mostly like for Inner Release to also grant Storm's Eye rather than just extend the buff so we can pull with it rather than having to do our Storm's Eye combo first. Edit: Maybe this would be better as an upgrade trait, but maybe Infuriate could extend Storm's Eye by 5 seconds.

For Red Mage, a small but easy buff they could do is make embolden an all damage increase for the rdm themselves instead of only magic. That way, their corp a corp and fleche/contre damage can be increased and they don't have to do much.

I again I would take the charge and disengage abilities off the the gauge bar for Samurai. But Consolidation of the buttons would be amazing

For me I used to love Monk so so much. And I don't like how it is now only for one super simple reason: Masterful Blitz being a GCD. If it had been an oGCD like Stardiver, I would have committed to Monk this expansion I think. I have ALWAYS loved how fluid the ShB rotation felt, so for the stacks to charge up masterful blitz just naturall come with using the rotation was nice! Then Blitz being actually a GCD made it feel so strange to me.