Xeno Reacts to ALL Melee DPS Changes and NEW Abilities in Dawntrail FFXIV 

Two charges 60 second and we can pretend spineshatter never left

@@ninlos142 Plus Dragonfire Dive looks cooler anyways

Yet again, I’ll continue to advocate for dragonfire dive and Stardiver to leave a 10-15 second burning AOE on the ground!

fr, life is good

That’s great. Less tedium and more chances for DPS or flexing your rotation.

Gonna make content below lvl 54 actually playable bless

yeah, some people think it's good to overcome inconvenience. it is just bad gameplay.

having damage on more than 1 button is inconvenient you should just have 1 button for damage

​@@manbearpigserealgo ahead and push for the change

Either removed or maybe it gives some of the Kunai charges like armor crush but not needing the combo leadup so you can use it to setup a burst window?

it'll just get removed

Gap closer without having to lose out on burst window/turn around into a backflip is great. I'll miss the extra damage but I'm cool if they just boost Dragonfire Dive

Pretty much. Will depend on other changes, but if monk stays as flexible as it currently is and doesn't need to manage buff/debuff timers that should be the case.

Yeah idk a single monk main that's happy about the change, it removes all the complexity from your PB windows.

@@henriquerodrigues7795 complexity? More like time wasting bs. All MNK did for timer management is forcing you to use the less powerful timer gcds instead of your more powerful rotation gcds when you have to attend to a mechanic or when you come back from downtime. Having to constantly reapply a buff and dot is NOT engaging gameplay. With the new rework we will likely have a newer challenge in optimizing the gauge coming into a burst window so knowing when to use a reset will actually be more important. As a MNK player since HW this is the best MNK has looked in forever!

@@jemm113if you wanted a dumbed down job just play something else, not like it matters anymore jobs is brain dead now

@@7-jake647 you clearly didn’t read what I wrote.

@@7-jake647 I wouldn't call maintaining a shitty dot and a short dmg buff as being more complex.

Play Dancer

@@skyshatter9999 I do. But sometimes I'd rather play Dragoon. I play every job at least a little bit.

Ikr

Probably because none of the other dps have to give two shits about their position outside of handling a mechanic while melee dps need to find perfect pixels just to maintain their rotation without dying and theres nothing to help that. Casters at least get swift casts and if you miss multiple positionals it can add up to hundreds of potency.

@@Deminese2 Bro, melee has true north. 2 stacks, they last 10s each and has a 45s recharge time. On average we only need to move for a positional 2 times per 10s so you save them for awkward points in fights and unless you get stuck with a bad tank there is rarely a time where you're forced to hit 1 side for longer than 20s at a time.

@@cynthiastarcrossed sure but you're focusing entirely on positional part but mechanics are mechanics and if you have to walk away from the boss to do it you can't dps and thats not an issue for ranged. if they go back to smaller hitboxes like they said they would you're going to notice the discrepancy between ranged and melee

yes that's what makes melee different from Phys Ranged and Casters. That's the roles gimmick. How is that a valid complaint @@Deminese2

Yes now you can use the gap closer to just gap close and not for damage.

it's a good change, it gets rid of 2 button presses with animation lock during burst which was the annoying part of DRG

Spineshatter dive isn't for gap closing, it's for damage. Our gap closer is elusive jump.

@@SSilvertear They need to remove Dragonfire Dive aswell its an ARR skill with a potency of 300 and 2 minute cooldown= Useless skill. It even used to be 3 minutes lmao.

@@whoarethou3462 we don't know, maybe it's not 2min cd or 300 potency anymore. It looks too cool to be removed.

Yup I'm all for them taking difficulty out of piloting a job and into a boss fight. Pandemonium raids were a good example of how much more interesting fights can be unrestrained by considering positionals

Quit your crying it aint even out yet

​@boringfactor8792 announced changes for the job in next expansion -> something they don't like -> pack it up, final days are upon us Classic drama queen

@@DoppelgangerTH I remember back in endwalker it was the same thing, then monk turned out more than good. People just love to be upset for no reason.

​@@boringfactor8792 this person will do a 180° when it comes out and there's more things happening on the screen that require attention than the very important monk rotation choices

What is monk 2 target? And from the strikers do i like the monk more. Samurai has the better weapon. But feeled allways to slow and stiff to me. And feels like, that he has no reach with his sword. Monk is faster and look more nice to watch. And using his combos feeled easier/ more streamlined and has a better flow. The only thing I dislike by the monk is, that his attacks had no impacts from feeling. Whe saw in the trailer of sb and shb, that his punches can create shockwaves and high destruction. But ingame are most punches feeling to weak. That looks to change with this expansion. And the other thing I dislike by the monk is the immersion. How can he fight with his pure fist or glowes peoples with swords, spear, guns/bows and magic? He has a to short reach with his arms and legs and the limps should be cutted very easily. But from gameplay? Is he in my top 5 classes. BLM: who I like, because he is a wizard, DRG: because he the class where it feels, I can play it at the best (I’m wavering between blm and drg as my main, they feels like opposites to each other and the strength of each class is even, what bothers me, blm is slow but powerful and allows me to watch the surrounding, but feels boring over time, when all is perfect and I has mostly only to press fire4, drg to the other hand is fast and I have to press a lot of buttons, that creates the problem, that I’m sometimes so much focused on attacks, that I doesn’t notice the surrounding) Scholar: he is the healer I like the most, especially, because of the fairy Reaper: I like his weapon, his outfit and theme and his fast placing. I only dislike it, that it’s hurts my finger over time, when I play him, because, I need to press 2 buttons for using his void skills (because of the placing of the skills) Monk: I like monk, because he is fast and I can play him, while I shut down most of my brain. He is only lower on the list, because of the immersion problems, I have with him. And the problem, that he is good in meele. But has practically no range attacks, who are freely to use (they are only avaible with enough chakra or maybe with the riddle of fire skill and so on).

Its funny to me. Like no one plays DRG, and suddenly with the rework, everyone and their mom plays DRG and say that the rework is bad. It doesn't even make sense.

Fuc* needing 2 eyes to go into life, people who complain are just stupid or "purists". Juts remains to see how less busy the class will be now which people might complain about, Life only lasts 20s also so i'm guessing no more Nastrond spam.

Bruh, I main DRG since Stormblood and those changes are terrible. LotD is gone and with all optimization and fun that job providied. If anything, I'd say people aren't complaining enough.

People have forgotten how you needed 3 eyes to go into Life back in SB and they brought that down to 2 in ShB. Makes sense that they might remove that requirement entirely eventually to keep it performing with the other melees.

​@@Paraguai123or maybe people actually care for either Dragoon, or preserving more complicated rotations, or even both.

Bruh, stop asking for kaiten, it is never coming back, stfu!

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it 😂

Bro, stop, it is not the same without LotD management. Not even close.

I main dragoon since heavensward and yes changing a jump for a dash its terrible. Dragoon IS the jumping job. This is what makes the job original

@@Laharldelacave But the drg has his jumps. He has jump/high jump (downside, you stay on your place), the aoe jump (maybe they reduce as a compromise the cd allready, the skill feels to weak for a 2 min cd), Stardiver and the following up jump attack. The number of jumps is the same (ok, maybe 1 jump lower, because you could do spine 2 times). The only downside is, that most of them are not so free/often usable. And it’s true, that jumps are the signature of drg. But, from a evolution clip I saw was jumps allways only a part of its set. And not the main skills from them. Jumps are skills, specifically to fight flying enemies. But against humans are jumps sub-optimal. For them are dashes/forward jumps more useful (should be faster and is easier to hit smaller enemies). Should spineshatter be keeped, without dmg? Maybe. It would have probably been easier and look more cool. But a dash is nice to. One advantage is, that inexperience drg would not try to jump over a edge (like the hand in the god raid), because they think, they could overcome it. Because it’s a jump (did that kind of mistakes sometimes). By making jumps rare, are they allways specials and don’t become gummibears.

yea you dont manage lotd now so fights with downtime are now not the same anymore

Similar complaints happened when BOTD management got axed after HW too. It's the way she goes. I'll reserve judgement after I've dug in at lvl 100 for a bit. RIP Spine shatter though :( Would've been fine if they just removed the potency from it and kept it in.

Hey, at least it’s got a reason to be used now, so quit your whining!

Yes. They should have buffed it instead of making it easier.

It placed them in melee range. That’s exactly what a gap closer does. It’s probably not a set distance, maybe it sets them at max melee instead of 0 yalm range, but otherwise it doesn’t seem to do damage so what else would it be?

It'll probably work similatly to monks dash except only on the enemy

@@ugxsan I thought Spineshatter already got changed into a no potency closer

@@thepeanutter9972 It did not. Had to double check to make sure, but it has a potency of 250 right now, hence why we save them for burst windows rather than using them as needed, which tbh defeats the purpose of having charges.

@@ugxsan Thanks