You will now be able to block both physical and magical damage. ( Paladin) Your Oath Builds when you are in different Oath stances. ( Ninja) hasn’t had a big change, but the Senki gauge (Job Gauge) will increase will grow with auto-attacks, that can be consumed with actions. ( Monk) will be able to build chakra (as displayed in the Job Gauge) and “take it from their party members.” The Heat Gauge will have an effect on your actions so you will need to pay attention to it. ( Machinist) Like Bard, will also have no casting. A trait “Blood of the Dragon” will attract the gaze of the First Brood when Miracle Dive is used. ( Dragoon) Not much has changed in your rotation, but new actions have been added for the level increase to 70. Building it will require using other actions. ( Dark Knight) When you get Black Blood you’ll be able to see the Blood Gauge it will deplete when using certain actions. ( Black Mage) cannot use Enochian right away, but is tied to their Job Gauge it may not fill right away since it is based on your level. Different songs will be displayed in the Job Gauge and will let you know when they expire. The Job Gauge will display your current cards in play more prominently than in the status icon tray. ( Astrologian) This Job hasn’t changed too much, but there is a new action that you can place on the map. It will also change as you level up, unlocking more as you go. The goal here is to reduce the damage disparity between skilled veterans and newcomers. The revisions have reigned in some of the “overpowered” synergies so every job is viable to be selected in a raiding environment.Įach Job will now have a graphic element called a “Job Gauge.” These are specialized to the mechanics of each Job, and are intended to convey it in a more visual way. Regarding aforementioned “class synergy” the team noted that Warrior and Ninja worked great together, but not so much with Monk. The team has gone over all the jobs to consolidate actions. In Thunder’s case, it will be two actions because there are single-target (Thunder -> Thunder III) and AOE-target (Thunder II -> Thunder IV) properties. Spells (ex: Stone, Stone II, Stone III, Stone IV) will be consolidated so that they will only be one action - if you are doing lower level content while synced, it will drop to a lower tier. When you first log in to Stormblood, you’ll likely be tweaking your hotbars accordingly. Also, you’ll no longer need to level an additional class to obtain your Job.Īctions that have been deleted will show up on your hotbars, but they will be greyed out. Now, actions will be reclassified by battle role: tank, healer, ranged DPS, melee DPS, and caster. The problem was that if you were leveling a marauder, you’d have to level gladiator to get “Provoke,” a necessary tanking too. When designing the new battle system changes, the team looked at some of the issues with the current system: overly complex, hotbars using too much space, managing many status icons, and “core versus casual” player disparity, and “lack of synergy” between jobs.Īdditional actions, abilities you can choose from other classes, are being abolished.

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