Just a typical day in Eureka Pyros, in a random NM party made up of strangers:
Is it a coincidence that 5/8 of the party members are RDM? No! Red Mage is extremely over-represented in Eureka, necessary in savage prog parties and almost-mandatory for solo deep dungeons and lots of other FFXIV content. It's the only class that can insta-rez and self-heal without onerous cooldowns and still put out a good amount of dps while doing so.
Wouldn't it be great if other classes had that same versatility? It's completely possible if Square would relax some of the restrictions and update certain things that are out-of-date:
1) Update potions for ShB and let us use them on other people. Super Potions (HQ) are the current max level potions in the game, and were released in patch 4.3 — over 2 years ago. They will heal 15% up to a max 6k hp. Most lv80 classes are in the 80k - 100k range, so 15% of the lower end would come to about 12k. A new tier of potions to replace Stormblood-era pots should be around twice as potent as Super Potions. Reducing the long cooldowns on these potions and letting us target others to use potions on would benefit everyone and provide a much-needed gil sink. You can target other players to use Spine Drops / Echo Drops on, but not potions. Why?
2) Phoenix Downs should both be usable in combat and stackable. Let tanks or other DPS rez players. Give the phoenix down a long cooldown and cast time if you must. Why are these unique items? If I could buy a stack of 20 phoenix downs and use them in Eureka instead of going RDM, it might break up a little of the monotony and give us a more diverse party composition. If this is OP for lower-level players, create a new tier of phoenix down, why not?
Please don't take this in any way as me advocating for a RDM nerf — buffing all the other classes instead to compensate would vastly improve gameplay and let us help our fellow Eorzeans in times of need, regardless of our current job.
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Is it a coincidence that 5/8 of the party members are RDM? No! Red Mage is extremely over-represented in Eureka, necessary in savage prog parties and almost-mandatory for solo deep dungeons and lots of other FFXIV content. It's the only class that can insta-rez and self-heal without onerous cooldowns and still put out a good amount of dps while doing so.
Wouldn't it be great if other classes had that same versatility? It's completely possible if Square would relax some of the restrictions and update certain things that are out-of-date:
1) Update potions for ShB and let us use them on other people. Super Potions (HQ) are the current max level potions in the game, and were released in patch 4.3 — over 2 years ago. They will heal 15% up to a max 6k hp. Most lv80 classes are in the 80k - 100k range, so 15% of the lower end would come to about 12k. A new tier of potions to replace Stormblood-era pots should be around twice as potent as Super Potions. Reducing the long cooldowns on these potions and letting us target others to use potions on would benefit everyone and provide a much-needed gil sink. You can target other players to use Spine Drops / Echo Drops on, but not potions. Why?
2) Phoenix Downs should both be usable in combat and stackable. Let tanks or other DPS rez players. Give the phoenix down a long cooldown and cast time if you must. Why are these unique items? If I could buy a stack of 20 phoenix downs and use them in Eureka instead of going RDM, it might break up a little of the monotony and give us a more diverse party composition. If this is OP for lower-level players, create a new tier of phoenix down, why not?
Please don't take this in any way as me advocating for a RDM nerf — buffing all the other classes instead to compensate would vastly improve gameplay and let us help our fellow Eorzeans in times of need, regardless of our current job.
Continue reading...