FFXIV Dawntrail Official Job Guide Updates

[@StarscreamSigma]

Timestamp: 0:00 - Intro & Tank Overview 9:36 - Healer Overview 15:45 - Melee DPS Overview 26:40 - Physical Range DPS Overview 38:28 - Magical Range DPS Overview 48:57 - Final Thoughts

[@Minotyr]

Thanks bud

[@GlovikXIV]

Cheers Ty!

[@Solid_Fool]

Thank you

[@terraglade]

Thank you for this, shouldve been added in by default XD

[@bigfoxki]

SMN feels like getting a single 2X4 from homedepot at Christmas morning as a child and the kid next door gets a monster PC.

[@ryantice1186]

Their name is Plank put some respect on the name!

[@mosley3485]

Yeah, the picto rotation is literally how SMN should work.

[@AresLodin]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@AresLodin]

Drk main here. I get it and feel it. While they continue to make WAR the most broken class in the game I sit here getting shit in cause I'm a DRK main lmao

[@shaunconway8700]

@@AresLodinI like the drk, what don’t you like about it? Or are you just echoing everyone else and whining about AD still sharing a CD with C&S?

[@HakureiIllusion]

Square when Astrologian: "Okay I guess you can have a little bit of MP just so you aren't guaranteed to run out" Square when White Mage: "Here's three more free spells every two minutes, don't let Astrologian or Scholar know"

[@anyakosta364]

😂👏

[@AvRiku]

Just give me shb thinair, i want my 15sec of free casting

[@OniZell69]

Maybe it's overcorrecting? There was a time WHM was the only healer that needed to pay attention to their MP.

[@TheArnoldification]

me crying into my black mage archmage beard as I cast moogie beam in cutter's cry and oneshot an entire pack of enemies

[@Maple_Extract]

EX-BLACK MAGES SWARM HOBBY LOBBY, THE END TIMES ARE NIGH

[@devanwc23]

GNB and NIN gonna SLAP

[@theornerytrilobite]

RIP Ice Paradox. You were taken from us too soon.

[@asatowolfe]

At least Umbral Ice 3 gives full MP in one tick now instead of "almost full." And Paradox guarantees Fire Starter proc now so I guess that's nice. Ice Paradox will be missed tho. 😢

[@mikereyes2269]

holy crap umbral soul at 76 still is brutal. come on square enix, BLM at low level synch is going to be god awful.

[@andylawlzz]

BLM at low level sync has been god awful the entire time

[@xRammsteinxFTW]

it’s always been god awful at low levels lmao.

[@dazzlemasseur]

Compared to what ?

[@silvergrove8517]

*insert "Always has been" meme*

[@dazzlemasseur]

You get 3 umbral hearts every 100s with managing starting at Lvl 30. Bruh blm is fine

[@Ephelle]

Viper combo finisher buffs being 40s instead of 30s is actually a huge deal. It makes it a lot easier to do double Reawakens in 2s without losing that buff. With the 30s buffs it was pretty tight because Reawaken takes so long to get through. There were like 3 or 4 different 2 minute windows based around not losing that buff in different scenarios.

[@snowsoldier413]

Oh wow I didn't think they would be so aggressive in removing the SGE dots stacking. I know quite a few people were excited about that. A shame.

[@Cyiel568]

Healers don't have the right to have fun.

[@702mrshadow702]

Word from reddit (so take that with a grain of salt), is that the JPN FFXIV forums were pretty upset about sge having to have two dots thats why they removed it even though NA doesnt share that point of view in general.

[@The_Yukki]

@@702mrshadow702 jpn forums are apparently also fine with 1 dot+spam 1 button as healer with reasoning being "if you want fancy dps rotation play a dps". Or at least that's what that one post on healer strike says.

[@FaeAvalon]

​@@Cyiel568 lmao was just about to comment that they hate us

[@anthonyhayes9381]

Good give me something with more substance rather then two dots. Such a stupid thing to be complaining about

[@grimnerthefisherman]

Damn Happy, with a video on the Job changes already. You the best!

[@triviummaster]

i havent played in so long must be atleast 2 years now going to start playing again

[@JelloKatsu]

Black Mage's Manafont also went down from 120 seconds to 100 seconds which is very very nice

[@iPlayOnSpica]

Looking forward to leveling RDM 90-93 weirdly maining Jolt III, ignoring all Verfire/Verstone 0rocs.

[@CasepbX]

Woah what? Is Jolt 3 now better than Verfire and Verstone wha???

[@iPlayOnSpica]

@@CasepbX Yes, between lvl 84 and 94. At 94, it returns to normal again.

[@bl00dm0urne]

​@@CasepbX To be fair Jolt 3 may have a higher potency, but still only gives 2 BLK and WHT mana.

[@Valorousy]

The potency of jolt 3 is only 360, verthunder and aero are 420, and verstone and fire are 380. Not sure what you mean...

[@HakureiIllusion]

@@Valorousy Red Magic Mastery at Lv84 upgrades Jolt II to Jolt III with 360 potency, at which point Verfire and Verstone are only 340 potency. It isn't until you get the Enchanted Blade Mastery trait at Lv94 that Verfire and Verstone go up to 380, meaning from Lv84-93 Jolt is better than Verfire/Verstone unless you reeeeeally need the 1 extra mana to eke out one last combo. There is a world where the extra AoE potential on the Moulinet+Spell combo makes up for the damage loss for taking Verfire/Verstone procs over just spamming Jolt, but you'd have to cast on average 200 single-target dualcast spell pairs to get that extra combo, and that's like 17 minutes of single-target casting to find a damage gain that only applies if you then go back into an AoE situation

[@brettrichards4048]

For the GNB changes, this is actually probably a slight fix to the endwalker rotation where gnashing fang and its follow up ability was doing slightly less damage then burst strike and during an optimal 2 minute with full cartiridges and sitting on the 3rd part of your combo, it was actually optimal to do gnashing fang outside of no mercy to start your combo which was pretty strange to be honest. This is mostly because you used to take the potency of gnashing fang and continuation together when compared to just burst strike, but when burst strike got a continuation that gap was closed. Seems like they've finally adjusted it back to now gnashing fang being optimal to use in no mercy and burst strike being filler. Good change.

[@DacianGradaMusic]

Not sure why it's more important to compare to media tour numbers specifically rather than live service since it's what people have been raiding with for a while now. Y'all couldn't really do lvl100 content over there, so idk... It's good to acknowledge I guess but as you've seen with the chat and stuff the actual 6.58->7.0 comparison is more relevant and talked about. It will affect how we all played the jobs until a few days ago vs. the update...

[@Ephelle]

He's assuming you have already looked at the media tour changes. A lot of theorycrafting has already been done based on the media tour, so it's important for those of us who have been following that to see what has changed from the media tour. Plus potency changes from one expansion to the next are pretty meaningless because the numbers don't exist in a vacuum, but potency changes within the same expansion (from media tour to launch for example) mean a lot more.

[@kittkat8413]

I think you only get the LB slower if you have copies of the same jobs

[@bl00dm0urne]

Yes that is correct.

[@Nina_Sidaris]

Was it jobs or roles i cant remember. My buddiea always try to spread out roles to gain max lb gain

[@ellierivers8053]

​@@Nina_Sidaris Jobs.

[@Shiirow]

@@Nina_Sidaris its job stacking they made it build slower, why would it be roles when every 8man autofills 2-2-4, and 24man with three teams of 1-2-5 when it comes to roles.

[@knightsolaire5351]

Umbral soul needs to be moved down to be usable at level 50 or 60.

[@jimmyletv]

Lv 90 summons not having auto attack is crazy.

[@mikepower8999]

really?

[@Shiirow]

why do they need auto attack?

[@mikepower8999]

@@Shiirow I see someone here has never bonked a mob to death with a book.

[@vandalrabbit2338]

>Mr Happy can say all the French words in the RDM kit >But can't say "couerl" correctly even though it's based on French

[@AxeMain]

I didn't know couerl was based on french. What word?

[@WitchofHeart13]

I’m here to see if ast gravity is still a winner (regardless I’m still playing it through) Edit: damn, everything else looks fine though

[@bl00dm0urne]

One day they'll bring back Manashift as a role action... one day...

[@varmintx0]

I miss getting showered in comms for manashifting. :)

[@dbull620]

Now that they've further buffed the potencies of Scattergun and Auto Crossbow and given us an extra bioblaster charge without doing anything to Flamethrower I think we can officially say Flamethrower is a DPS loss now in AOE? As I recall it was already basically DPS neutral in Endwalker so now it's just gotten worse by comparison. Still a cool emote at least? For dancer, I'm confused why they decided to make Tilana give you 50 meter when they just changed stuff like Barrel Stabilizer so you wouldn't have overcap concerns, hoping that's one of the early hot fixes.

[@DammitIvaldi]

Flamethrower has always been a DPS loss for me because I accidentally move after using it and it gets wasted. :]

[@koy540]

Flamethrower should be a sliding dash where mch holds two flame throwers akimbo.

[@LightSummoner84]

Poor Summoner :'(

[@Cyiel568]

It's really a shame to do this to this job.

[@BurnByMoonlight]

@@Cyiel568especially when SMN is such an iconic FF job.

[@that1blindkid146]

Does anyone know if Blood weapon gives more MP per proc to compensate for having 2 less procs?

[@zirilan3398]

We don't know yet but it can be assumed that it will now 1000 per stack to compensate

[@mathewkloepfer664]

@@zirilan3398 I hope so. Things have costs in increments of 1k so this will be nice. Obviously there was innate regen while you did your rotation but this is still better.

[@zirilan3398]

@@mathewkloepfer664 It's actually 800MP now per stack 600 Blootweapon+200 Delirium so we lose 600MP total compared to before but since Frey doesn't cost gage anymore I'll guess it evens out

[@artemisp2819]

To clarify, only non-standard single target is dead for BLM. Non-standard aoe is still a potential potency gain.

[@dazzlemasseur]

Anyway it's only relevant if you parse 100

[@artemisp2819]

@@dazzlemasseur tell that to BLM mains lol

[@loganwebb5449]

Was hoping and praying for chapter markers :(

[@danlockhart6465]

What’s a chapter marker?

[@shikichaos]

I surprised no one commented about how the new combo from Delirium now also gives MP whereas it didn't have that in the media tour.

[@meitomiyazaki9848]

I may be remembering wrong but I believe they did? They said during media tour that the effect of blood weapon has been added to delirium and I think the old blood weapon button is gone because of it.

[@shikichaos]

@@meitomiyazaki9848 I thought so too until I compared them to Mr. Happy's video from the media tour. The 3 attacks didn't have the text written on them about getting MP. They did give MP when watching them used but that seemed to be from the stacks of Delirium and the Bloodweapon which also give MP in Endwalker. Presumably in Dawntrail hitting with them will give you more MP.

[@meitomiyazaki9848]

@@shikichaos I think maybe it was just a text error or something then cause the media tour build was old

[@shikichaos]

@@meitomiyazaki9848 we'll find out as soon as we get the skills.

[@UberNoob404]

Maybe I'm bad at math, but unless rainbow drip into black paint combo is optional filler, doesn't casting two white combos and motifs lower its filler DPS?

[@migz9205]

idk if anyone feels this way, but happy's disregard to certain parts of the changes kinda takes away the objectivity he usually holds. someone in chat told him oracle was buffed (which was a pretty significant buff at that), and he just scoffs at it because "it only happens every 2 minutes." That's pretty significant considering its all impacted by buffs, yet he made a huge note to macrocosmos and then also disregards it in the same breath saying "with how good it was in the beginning of EW in one instance, you guys will be okay." What's the point of delivering objective news if you'll either downplay or make bigger puddles of stuff? i thought this video was talking about job guide changes objectively, not disregard stuff about jobs you don't really play often lol. and before people grab pitchforks or get emotional, i'm not saying happy is a bad CC by any means or is the worst person in the community for this, he's only human, just giving my opinion on the lack of bias at certain points on this video is all. have fun on launch later tonight :D

[@rejectamenta]

Agreed but it's pretty on-brand

[@Biomelast]

If you want any serious analysis of Healer content do not look for happy's opinions on it. He's always wrong about the stuff that matters, it's kind of hilarious.

[@migz9205]

@@Biomelast yea i never look to him for anything serious necessarily, but i did always regard him of being predominantly objective and not so dismissive but sometimes i think he takes what “his friends” say too much at face value and makes it his identity and opinion rather than saying “hey idk shit about this because i dont play it but here are the written facts” as a job guide update video should be. Idk, just my 2 cents, its not gonna stop me from watching his next vid but def makes me hesitant about what his own opinion may be vs a regurgitated opinion of someone else

[@Biomelast]

@@migz9205 last time during the endwalker changes he mentioned sage would have mp problems on release and when sage got released and had 0 problems on mp management i was really surprised. It just served to show he didn't even bother to give the job a proper workout, and maybe he couldn't due to time constraints and whatnot but the only occasion sge had mp problems was if you weren't healing at all because your mp economy is tied to your ogcd healing.

[@iPlayOnSpica]

He was rather narrow-minded. When he was live, more than a few of us were pointing out the media tour build PCT's Rainbow Drip's insane aoe potential, and he literally did not care. Yet, if there was something like DSR waiting for us, the Rainbow Drip + Holy rotation was absolutely going to be a game changer for any 2-target boss fight. No longer relevant, of course. Besides prepull, I find it difficult to come up with any situation at all where hardcasting the new Rainbow Drip is worth doing. It's not worth using swiftcast on in combat for movement because it's more worth swiftcasting a motif (which is a mandatory part of your rotation). There really might be no further use for it except during 2 min bursts.

[@Gemini_Godhand]

Great! Because all i cared about was Gunbreaker anyway!

[@Toad-yv8ko]

oh wow, they really took the Picto feedback about how it seems very strong and might need some potency adjustments... and doubled downed and made it even stronger? Isn't it just strictly speaking better than BLM or a melee, in every possible situation now?

[@xbree_]

I mean they will rebalance everything before savage comes out right?

[@Toad-yv8ko]

@@xbree_ idk, hard to tell. Reaper got nerfed hard at the start of EW but i don't remember if that was before savage or after. I remember BLM/SAM/MCH being super bad because they underestimated the changes to the 2minute system and the buffs for those jobs came around end of week2 savage (so 4 weeks after EW release) iirc? And MCH was super hard grief with people blacklisting it from PF until 6.3? I think the RPR nerfes came before that though, yeah. I think I remember running Extreme-1 when that hit?

[@Dreamforge.Atelier]

​@@Toad-yv8kothey absolutely will balance everything. Guess I'll enjoy my OP Pictomancer while it lasts 😄

[@ianh1561]

New clases are always buffed at the start of the expac they will be nerffed

[@dazzlemasseur]

Just don't be toxic in party finder and it won't matter

[@Sin606]

I'm here for this.

[@ChoasOrderPAIN]

MCH- rip and tear, until it is done... gimme my shotgun...

[@korygraves6739]

Wait, no mention of Warriors decimate and gauge interaction with Infuriate changes?

[@Jade_birb]

He literally mentioned it.

[@korygraves6739]

​@@Jade_birb The gauge change, that is, not potency, should of clarified

[@Jade_birb]

​@korygraves6739 He literally talked about the potency and it only being a gain on 4 targets. Pay attention if you're going to complain.

[@korygraves6739]

​@@Jade_birbNo, they changed how infuriate affects Decimate. It says you need 50 gauge BEFORE it changes to Chaotic Cyclone

[@korygraves6739]

​@@Jade_birbI clarified it wasn't about Potency, if you read. Please take your time and try to comprehend what is before you before getting upset

[@brycemoose7026]

I don't really mind what solar bahmuts looks like it's the fact that it plays exactly like the other 2 demisummons minus potency stuff. It just feels like such a missed opportunity that they are all just hit deathflare and spam the astral flare equivalent. Imaging if reapers enshrowd phase was just spamming cross reaping for 15 seconds with a 2.4 gcd 😂 phionex had a 2 button combo in shadowbringers but they got rid of in favor of just spamming 1 button ??? I don't get it man I don't want old summoner back but the job just feels unfinished after the rework and I feel like we're gonna wait another 2.5 years for 8.0 and all we're gonna get is a painflare upgrade or something like that. there are so many things they could've added like combo actions to titan ifrit and Garuda that would've replaced there summon buttons but they chose to give the combo action to searing light😭

[@TheLMBLucas]

6:55 Players: Make Blue Mage a regular job!! Devs: Make a blue dps you say? Ok, got it

[@Shiirow]

people still dont understand why Blu is limited job. you have no idea how badly it would be neutered to fit into a regular party, its entire theming would be lost in translation.

[@Windupchronic]

@@ShiirowAlso the sheer volume of players that would show up in parties with _only_ Water Cannon.

[@TheLMBLucas]

@@Shiirow yeah it's impossible, I don't know why they keep asking for that, it's nonesense But on the other hand... why isn't it like Pictomancer? lol

[@Narlan1]

As a dnc main I feel under appreciated

[@Snook1985]

I'm probably the only person that likes the EW SMN changes. Mainly because it actually plays like an FF summoner.

[@TheGreektrojan]

A lot of people liked them for that reason. Its an agressively simple class though and a lot of people expected it to be fleshed out in DT. Instead, its virtually the same, if not even simpler.

[@marslara]

tbf a lot of people DO like the direction of summoner, they just want more nuance on how to play the job instead of the same rotation but blue for a bit 😂

[@DacianGradaMusic]

I'm actually on the same boat, it's a true Summoner now and the job fantasy is really fun. The big issue is that EW rework was a perfect baseline to add to and make a cool job on top of it, while in DT we have... nothing.

[@voistar5387]

​@@DacianGradaMusic I'm personally neutral on Dawntrail SMN. I like how SMN is right now (mostly because as the first comment and most players say, it actually feels like a SMN now and has an identity) so I am fine with it not changing much and Hydaelyn Bahamut is still cool. Plus I feel like the fact there is now a 4 min loop with all 3 Demis with two repeated Solars is definitely setup for a Dark aspected SMN to replace one of them and then maybe a new Ultimate Demi once you get light and dark.

[@JPrescottQ]

You aren't the only one. It is the most popular caster in EW, and one of the most popular jobs overall. Not just casually, but at all levels of content. There are more reddit posers who claim to have loved pre EW SMN than actually played it. Some people like to make the job they play extensions of their own "genius," and act like SMN is somehow beneath them.

[@cometkazi]

The servers up yet?

[@jaysea838]

GBR getting higher potency just makes sense.. the job is only really good (vs the other tanks) if you are consistently getting crits; otherwise it’s an average role at best. The mits are definitely top tier but it’s only really needed in high end play which is not the majority of the player base. It erks me that WAR is so brain dead to use but at least it’s a consistent class.

[@ltmaniac]

*GNB

[@Silvercoat]

So Dokumori is DMG+ with Treasure Hunter?

[@zillahstar]

Title is misleading. You are only talking about what they adjusted compared to the media tour?

[@dazzlemasseur]

Yeah wished he'd read everything

[@siritachi31]

Yeah ngl I expected him to actually go over everything and he completely skipped Dragoon that got a few potency drops even

[@Ephelle]

He's spent the last 2 weeks talking about what changed from EW to the media tour. Why would he go over it again when there's new information to focus on?

[@deckire]

ok, thanks for clearing up the Dark Knight gripe I had, I saw the skill split of Salted earth and I fumed about it.. They kinda need to put that warning that you can choice to have it split, and not just they are no longer connected.

[@bl00dm0urne]

I guess it could've been explained better, but I personally managed to put "2+2" together.

[@Dio.]

It wasn't that difficult to understand.

[@deckire]

@@Dio. How is it not hard to understand if you did not have info on the skill split option, the skill text on the guide just states that it just doesn't share a skill slot.

[@Xbob42]

I kinda get comparing it to media tour stuff, but it wasn't really "known info" since it was a bunch of stuff that was subject to change and has never been in the live game, so dramatically less people will be familiar with those changes that, in a sense, never really existed to begin with. Would've been nice to have a visual representing the media tour tooltips if you were going to do this, since not all of us memorized all those tooltips and potencies or whatever. I get you kind of go over it verbally, but it's distracting whenever you get sidetracked with chat talking about old potencies or functions from the live game and you're talking about the media tour, haha.

[@saezra881]

no time stamps? Damn

[@ludnqka]

no timestamps? cmooooooon dude

[@AngelofAmbrosia]

He’s probably trying to crank out quickly given that everything is happening very soon.

[@Greatsharkbite]

you make the vid then, first world probs

[@deProfundisAdAstra]

this is taken directly from the livestream, as he’s reading through it. If you want a more comprehensive and polished guide, I’m certain that will come later

[@luuxii]

This

[@TheArnoldification]

@@Greatsharkbite imagine pulling out the starving kids in africa card over someone criticizing a convenience feature on a yt vid lol

[@smugmcmuffin]

Time stamps?

[@rtbear674]

I check with my uwu run, I get +2560 more potency throughout the whole fight as RDM. like extra 7-8 gcd using Jolt II potency. I get +3080 potency throughout the whole fight for TEA. 9 ish gcd. I don't know how it compares with the other caster. but at least it's better than the EW RDM. Now just thinking for 2 targets what to do. Previously. Jolt2 + impact + jolt2 + impact = 320+ 420 + 320 + 420 = 1480 While. Jolt 2 + Verthunaero + verfirestone + Verthunaero = 320 + 360 + 340 + 360 = 1380 Now. Jolt2 + impact + jolt2 + impact = 280 + 420 + 280 + 420 = 1400 While. Jolt 2 + Verthunaero + verfirestone + Verthunaero = 280 + 360 + 380 + 360 = 1380 I guess Jolt 2 + impact is still the way to go for 2 targets. Verfire/stone doesn't always proc, It still gives 20 more potency than single targets. unless you're generating either mana. Still lower than previously? yes. But every other thing got potency buffed.

[@finalhalo3]

I am sticking with my DNC at this point. Yes I also play SMN too but DNC I have trained too much on.

[@Shiirow]

how do you train on a job thats 99% rng, have you been going to vegas and hitting the craps table to boost your personal luck stat?

[@finalhalo3]

@@Shiirow lol There is a rotation that you have to be good at when you have the resources stored for boss fights.

[@turntapeover5749]

Calling right now. Picto is gonna get nerfed hard. They feel like a blue mage right now. Thats crazy.

[@HakureiIllusion]

Worth noting, I understand why it was skipped over, but the potency buff for Oracle is pretty significant. Nearly 50% stronger, and was absolutely necessary because of everything else about the job and its changes. Its personal damage output was already the worst among healers, it lost half its damage buff cards, and it just generally didn't get as much in the way of damage buffs for 7.0 as other healers. Terrible MP economy wasn't the only thing that'd leave it DOA, its damage was set to be by far the weakest of every healer as well. The massive Oracle buff I feel still doesn't fully rectify that but definitely at least brings it closer. As for the concept of followups on healer abilities, speaking as a healer main, I'm neutral on them. Like, Oracle after Divination and Glare IV after Presence of Mind, yes, those I think are fine. Divine Caress after Temperance is *conceptually* good since I feel like people underutilize Temperance, so locking another skill behind it is a good way to encourage people to use it more liberally, but as mentioned, forcing Divine Caress to be used so closely to Temperance is a little awkward, they probably could've done better with this one. What's utterly baffling though is locking Sun Sign behind Neutral Sect, since Neutral Sect itself gives practically zero benefit to an experienced Astrologian outside of high-end content. It only functions with healing SPELLS, and as mentioned, we barely have the MP to keep up right now, nevermind if we try to start casting Aspected Helios. Neutral Sect can be a decent way to bring people back up if some mistakes have been made, but then the mitigation from Sun Sign has probably already missed the point where you'd want it.

[@Eviper44]

You really need to time stamp your videos. Especially when you just ramble and people have to search for classes you would like to know. Instead of setting through..I think, I don't know, I'm not sure...

[@dononejeme1528]

Drop the ball Happs you know you should’ve put time stamps.

[@dazzlemasseur]

Do it

[@Brian-fh8pq]

Gnb potency seems too good to be true. Im anticipating nerfs already in 7.1

[@Joel-d7q1f]

Wait wars aoe will only hit 4 mobs?

[@wolrereaper]

dark new cooldown is good but it’s 120 seconds replacement. we got heart of corundum on 120 seconds 😂😂😂

[@Levi_Skardsen]

Is PCT a pure DPS like SAM, MCH, BLM, VPR, BLM?

[@ayauetoazumi6824]

No most pure dps don't have stuff that buffs the team picto buffs the team and heals

[@taichou9475]

no, they have raid utility, dmg buff, heal, mit and shield lol

[@AnnoyingSquib]

As a DRK main. I don't necessarily hate that they made S&D an optional separate button, but I am wondering what the point of it is. To help players find it? To cater to players that like button bloat? Personally I think S&D is fine but when it comes to player interaction, it feels pointless. Why delay activating it? I find myself button mashing SE just so I can get it out of the way. I feel like they should either make S&D a trait that activates upon the first tick of SE. Or implement a risk reward where the potency of S&D increases during the late stages of SE. That way, it will feel so much more satisfying to reach for that button imho.

[@xGhostassassin]

I’m in the same mind tbh, I personally don’t see the point of it other than to fill another slot. When I first saw the revision, I hated the idea of it being separate but I’m glad it’s a choice. Other than that, like someone else commented, is Blood Weapon going to give more MP per hit to compensate for having 2 less stacks

[@AxeMain]

I really want to pick someone's brain that is gonna put it on a separate button. Makes zero sense to me

[@AnnoyingSquib]

@@AxeMain I play on a controller like the heathen I am. I actually like the buttons stacking where it makes sense. Gives me way more room. I can see where it could cause trouble if they implemented more of the same, but not for something like SE.

[@Lazlothegeek303]

I DONT FEEL LIKE A DRAGOON ANYMORE! 😢

[@Dharengo]

Why does this video skip over so many new actions? Are they just not worth discussing? Or the things that are changed since endwalker? All i hear is media tour this, media tour that.

[@Shiirow]

he only talks about things that interest or effect him, if your job doesnt, he usually just skips or give a severely abridged overview.

[@TheCak3FTW]

He went over in a different video all the new actions from the media tour. In here he’s talking about what has changed from the media tour to the official patch release, since they still change actions and everything after the media tour.

[@Dharengo]

@@TheCak3FTW Hm. I see. I skipped the media tour stuff because I didn't want to see live gameplay.

[@zekieff]

Hate the dash changes to Drk and Gnb, but otherwise happy with my main classes. Appreciate the video Happy!

[@The_Yukki]

I'd love for them to keep the animations but holy fuck remove potencies from all dashes.

[@jtowensbyiii6018]

​@The_Yukki they did remove them from the tanks

[@voledae]

@@jtowensbyiii6018 pld and war dashes still do damage, it's just drk and gnb potencies that was removed.

[@amethonys2798]

Huh? The change is good and needs to apply to all the tanks. Potency shouldn't be tied to utility spells especially on OGCDs. Never actually having a dash because you have to spend them on damage under buffs is incredibly stupid design.

[@zekieff]

@@amethonys2798 So you throw your weight forwards to move then don't use it to hurt your opponent, makes little sense to me personally not having damage there. Also I like weaving ogcds into combos.

[@wiliyantoadinata9170]

The off tank job getting harder and harder

[@B_MoreJ]

Party Comp: GNB & WAR SCH & AST VPR & SAM PIC & DNC That's the comp.

[@KyriaTheMystic]

I'm never going to forgive them for getting rid of Plunge, one of Dark Knights coolest animations and replacing it with a wet fart of a Monk dash ripoff, in the same breath they said they want to go back to exploring job identity more. Hypocrites.

[@roronoazoro7317]

They said it’s to help with the amount of buttons you need to push. Whether you agree or not is fine but at least they had a reason for it. I play gunbreaker and to be honest I like rough divides animation better than what we have now, but I’m kind of glad I can hold my gap closer to use when I need it instead of just for damage.

[@Zyart]

@@roronoazoro7317 The only buttons they're pushing at this point, are the ones in every single player who's tired of every last Job being neutered for players who can't even spell DPS, let alone do it.

[@sirpixelot7109]

Im gonna be the best viper out of all of you

[@wackantheduck6883]

So... Healers still shit? But now the only healer with a glimmer of hope had said hope stomped out? Nice.

[@CubicleJ0ckey]

Healers still shit. Hopefully the encounter design changes they spoke about will actually make healing fun and not just single button spammer. But let’s be honest, that’s cope

[@wackantheduck6883]

@@CubicleJ0ckey True. They said the same thing about ShB and EW.

[@itsdietime6382]

They shafted dragoon so hard its infuriating. They removed one of the best gap clasers in the game that dealt damage and replaced it with a shitty forward dash that serves no purpose whatsoever. And to add insult to injury they got rid of dragoons dragon sight just fucking wonderful. Awful change and square should be ashamed

[@Zoeila]

I don't care about how high picto numbers are the aesthetics are ugly

[@kman6004]

Astro still starts instances with the Astral deck (Lord of crowns) drawn, which is literally just grief. So obnoxious that they didn't fix that, or at least make it so you can pick which deck you start with

[@Mz_jazzy]

Hey Mr. Happy I need you to bring to Squares attention. The dual dye channels. They are not right and they need to be fixed. I know you can make a video about that so square can look and fix it. Thank you, see you in game ❤

[@Dreamforge.Atelier]

I am SO ready to finally become a Pictomancer!

[@TheLMBLucas]

Everybody gangsta making fun of Pictomancer until the full patch notes are out and it is the strongest caster, best put together job, most original, most engaging and best designed job on release lol

[@fmalch1209]

Shame it looks like a children's cartoon threw up on an art school dropout.

[@snowbird2893]

@@fmalch1209 Correction. Shame YOU THINK it looks....*

[@TajinQ]

Even though I'm not that much into its aesthetics, it's refreshing to see a different direction from what we usually get.

[@Hedge_Knight_Gaming]

@@fmalch1209 You can have your badass tough guy job with Viper and I'll take the unique fun looking one with Picto. Everyone's happy.

[@GEMINIVice1]

New dps are always strong/good at the expense of existing jobs….been that way for several (if not all) expansions

[@Scerttle]

40:12 they'll look better in their new picto glams lmfao

[@Scerttle]

Look forward to 46% enochian in 7.1

[@Scerttle]

Jokes aside, with Picto being so strong it should turn the volume down on the haters.

[@killahky2678]

They just had to touch warrior🤦🏽‍♂️ couldn’t had just left the damn thing alone.

[@raarasunai4896]

It’s funny to me that basically every buff was brought up to 20 seconds, except Trick Attack/Kunai’s Bane

[@maikatase]

IMO, Black Mage always felt like a job that was designed for a different game. It becomes a turret locked in place in a game where fights require mobility. It required precision working with server ticks to replenish MP. It basically only barely worked out with all the jank because the director of the game willed it. I think just like what he said there will still be a big difference between good Black Mages and average Black Mages. But honestly, Pictomancer is what I'm really excited for. SMN doesn't even even pretend to feel like a mage/caster. And RDM, I feel like if verraise was removed, the job would be completely unplayable (also it never really scratched that itch of feeling like you're playing a casting job too well). If Pictomancer is fun (but not too easy!), and doesn't feel like you're fighting against the basic job design and server limitations, I'm super excited to potentially finally play and fully enjoy a caster DPS.

[@1966rah]

Can I just state the obvious? They always make the media tour stuff OP and over the top just to get people psyched for it and by expansion release its RARELY the same as the media tour. And then a year later everything is 1000% different so I wouldnt waste my time getting excited about the vaunted, almighty media tour when in 12 months its gonna be a whole different game. We've had this game for like a decade now... has Happy reallllllllly not caught onto Squares hype game media tour fake outs that they ALWAYS do yet? I just dont understand why he gives such a fuck about the media tour theyve always been fake as hell to get people interested and a year later its ALWAYS 1000% different... Whatever floats your boat, it's your fantasy bro live in it happily lol. P.S. Do NOT play a drinking game taking a shot of booze every time he says MEDIA TOURRRR... You WILL die of alcohol poisoning lmfao good god say it with me kids.... MEEEEDIAAAA TOURRRRRR

[@kcmccray5686]

They really need to do something oblation and TBN or just bring back soul survivor and revise it 🤦‍♂️

[@KanetsidohiKanotoush]

I'm a casual, and an average Black Mage main, so? Only the few amazing, highly skilled Black Mages have the right to have fun with a forgiving rotation? I started playing consistently about a year ago because I loved Black Mage, it's the only class I actually like so I sank lot of effort trying to do my best, just for the class to be reworked, and probably ruined for me, great!

[@andylawlzz]

if you're a casual and average black mage player then you were never using the shit they took away to actually do more dps. I guarantee you were losing dps by trying and failing to execute. the new rotation is not suddenly unforgiving, 2 instant fire refreshes means you only need 2 fire 4s every 15 seconds to avoid the failure state everyone's crying about and if you can't do that you're not worth considering when talking about job changes anyway

[@FalakIll]

If you're a casual blm player and you're not using transpose lines then the job changes won't change much for you

[@KanetsidohiKanotoush]

@@andylawlzz Oh wow, casual, average BLM players are not worth thinking about, even if probably most of them are, even those who think they're the best But I digress, surely all players are great or hardcore from the beginning, maybe that's the reason why AOE needed nerfing, and the level 100 skill is (in my humble opinion, of course), underwhelming Duly noted, thanks

[@ianh1561]

@@KanetsidohiKanotoush Some jobs are harder some are easier , it looks cool and all but it takes time, it is what it is.

[@amethonys2798]

​@@KanetsidohiKanotoush I mean in anything before EX/Savage you can literally clear content never casting a single fire spell, so yes, Square shouldn't take any input from players not doing harder content because it doesn't matter how hard they fumble.

[@HyouVizer]

when full patch notes dropped 6am est, Viper & Picto didn't show levels of when they get each action and passive. It was so weird lol.

[@SmurfRockRune]

You're just skipping so many changes, just go one by one from the top.

[@trevorakridge4692]

He knows most of it because he was privileged enough to play the early build

[@Elidan1012]

He is skipping what was already in media tour. There is no reason to go over those again.

[@SmurfRockRune]

@@Elidan1012 I avoided all the media tour stuff because I didn't wanna just get half of the info and then try to figure out the other half later, I was waiting until it was all available. Now I have to find multiple videos to get the information? That's stupid.

[@OhNoTheFace]

@@Elidan1012 Most are going to only watch the major video

[@Jade_birb]

​@@SmurfRockRuneSkill issue.

[@nezunskyfire292]

New Haps video, let's goooooo!

[@Maple_Extract]

Actually straight up bad. I have a feeling this is the expansion where I fall out with the game. Some of these job changes come across like no one on the team truly cares about it at all.

[@JMagistics3]

Tommrow!!!

[@Mah_Boiiii]

Sorry but I couldn't disagree more with the DNC changes. Going back to ShB static SS every 30s with no room for delaying removes all choice and on-the-fly execution of the job; Everything is the same every 2 mins, nothing is dynamic anymore. Plus the Tillana change (without a tech step change) makes our rotation timing worse (back to 119.5s). These just feel like a slapdash change made once they heard about the 0SS rotation. These are really bad "fixes" to the 0SS "problem" and feel like a step back with the progression of the job's rotation.

[@levintine777]

Explain BLM changes to me like i'm a casual sprout

[@Dio.]

Damn, they didn't delete Warrior.

[@Drewbacca7789]

They never will. We do a little less AOE damage now in dungeons but WARs will never die my guy 😊.

[@bl00dm0urne]

​@@Drewbacca7789 unless they got hit my an uncleansable Doom debuff or servertick decided you didn't pressed your skills fast enough.

[@siritachi31]

My dude you need to change the title. Everyone thought you would be going over all the changes from Endwalker to DT. No you are ONLY talking about changed from Media tour which to most don't matter because we don't know off the top of our heads the difference from here to Endwalker

[@v8046]

GOTTA BUFF BUNGREAKER

[@amethonys2798]

Shit ngl I didn't even know Macrocosmos did damage.

[@marslara]

never read the tooltip? 😂

[@bl00dm0urne]

​@@marslara to be fair, I too had to do a double take cause I misread it as like an extra cure.

[@Mina-Diamandis]

Yippieeee

[@TheOneGreat]

AST is so underwhelming with its lvl 100 it's not even funny. As if the now less shitty cards weren't bad enough.

[@dazzlemasseur]

NIN is op now

[@dazzlemasseur]

Aeolian edge goes from 550 to 540 empowered by AC

[@tatersalad76]

Cool, this means odds are that PF will block out samurai or viper because they're both greedy melees with no party buffs. Thanks Yoshi P

[@marslara]

That's now how that works 😂 blm and sam never offered buffs and made up the difference with sheer damage, don't know about viper yet but jobs won't get locked out just because they have no buff.

[@TheArnoldification]

the only PFs that block out selfish dps are trap groups so it's effectively a hidden benefit for selfish dps more than anything

[@amethonys2798]

What are you even on about? BLM was almost never blacklisted despite not having a buff OR a raise.

[@Shiirow]

if your damage will outstrip any possible negatives, they will invite. why do people keep acting like the average party will suddenly do this.

[@tylerkarnes2947]

I’m convinced you healer mains are masochists. Y’all never get anything interesting lmao

[@ralphiecodes]

They need a PTR lol

[@davidbernardino8109]

No

[@Shiirow]

No

[@TeaTimeRumble]

Man these are... dry

[@Tenken77]

Every sentence sounds like he's asking a question. It's so annoying.

[@meteorwalkergg]

Oh, we're finally merging the two timelines since the healers on strike have already seen this & played the expansion already but the rest of us haven't

[@jtowensbyiii6018]

Ah I get it, it's because healers got shit on with no changes

[@bloodyninja2411]

Healers whine about being healer jobs and now they are mad