So, I have been in this game for just about a decade, and have played soo much of the game. I have seen things change from cross job actions, to stance changing into what it is today. I am excited to see where the game will go, however, I wanted to do this project just cause im bored. What I wanna do is see if I can find a way to bring back all class identity for each job. I feel that the jobs went from having that identity, to losing it entirely. I want to start with tanks solely because I have been maining tank this last raiding tier, and I feel they are the worst when it comes to Job identity.
So what I will do for this, is i am gonna post this section, and then under it ill reply with the first Job i wanna change and thats DRK. then ill touch GNB -> Warrior and last Paladin. so with that on this ill say what i think is wrong with current tanks and what not and see where I would love to change it.
So every tank has eight main things that are exactly the same. Arguements saying some differences but lets be real. These are . a 1/2/3. a personal mit thats the same save for DRK. a 40%, a job flavor (imo) auto mit. (I.E. Camouflage) 2 buttons for AoE. invuln, a raid wide mit and a dash with two tanks having damage on them still (think thats dumb btw.)
The issue with this is every tank is interchangeable and each tank feels the same, except burst windows which, to me, isnt engaging. Each tank does have their own flavor but instead of it being actually engaging, its how many GCD's can we hit under no mercy, 8 or 9. . make sure you get 5 edge's into raid window and pots, so on and so forth, to me thats redunant and lame. on top of that the mits are also unflavorful, so with each tank, i want to change things to help fit a theme. A theme that resonates from where they came from and how we can implement that idea, and put it into xiv.
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So what I will do for this, is i am gonna post this section, and then under it ill reply with the first Job i wanna change and thats DRK. then ill touch GNB -> Warrior and last Paladin. so with that on this ill say what i think is wrong with current tanks and what not and see where I would love to change it.
So every tank has eight main things that are exactly the same. Arguements saying some differences but lets be real. These are . a 1/2/3. a personal mit thats the same save for DRK. a 40%, a job flavor (imo) auto mit. (I.E. Camouflage) 2 buttons for AoE. invuln, a raid wide mit and a dash with two tanks having damage on them still (think thats dumb btw.)
The issue with this is every tank is interchangeable and each tank feels the same, except burst windows which, to me, isnt engaging. Each tank does have their own flavor but instead of it being actually engaging, its how many GCD's can we hit under no mercy, 8 or 9. . make sure you get 5 edge's into raid window and pots, so on and so forth, to me thats redunant and lame. on top of that the mits are also unflavorful, so with each tank, i want to change things to help fit a theme. A theme that resonates from where they came from and how we can implement that idea, and put it into xiv.
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