The MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV is making a skill diet. With the Stormblood expansion, some game mechanics are being removed. This is quite complicated. We will show you what is happening.

The live letter on the job changes coming to Final Fantasy XIV is worth a second visit.

One of the goals of Stormblood will be to streamline the game significantly. Values are changing, skills are being merged or disappearing altogether.

Some values like piety or intelligence are changing

This is what happens with healers – the Cleric Stance question is clarified

For simplification, these changes for healers are crucial:

The “Cleric Stance” (Penitent) is changing. Until now, druids, white mages, and scholars could decide whether they preferred to deal “damage” or “heal.” The problem arose that healers wiped their group because they were in damage stance and this limited healing performance. Others were so nervous that a wipe could happen that they never dealt damage and never switched to this stance.

This will no longer happen – the idea is that healers can safely deal damage without having to sacrifice healing performance. The Cleric Stance is now a kind of “Damage Boost” with Stormblood; it no longer reduces healing performance.

Further changes:

• Piety will no longer be a primary attribute but will become a secondary attribute – that is for healers
• The value “Int” will no longer matter for healers – with Stormblood, healing value and spell damage depend on the willpower value.

Meta values are changing for tanks and DPS

Some more complex meta values will disappear or change significantly:

• Parry is being removed; instead, there will be the value “Tenacity,” which is only for tanks and reduces damage
• Accuracy is being removed – but you will still be able to miss when you get debuffs – instead, there is the value “Direct Hit” on equipment for DPS. Direct Hits deal bonus damage.

Cross-class actions

What is disappearing are the Cross-job Actions, which will be replaced by “Role Actions.” Until now, you could use skills from other jobs. This will no longer work that way, but the different classes within a role will receive a shared pool of such abilities. This shared skills pool will no longer depend on the job but on the role that a class plays.

The roles include: tank, healer, ranged DPS, melee DPS, and sorcerer.

Simplification quite complicated

Another special feature: With Stormblood, in the future, each class will receive a customized interface to help players keep an eye on the values that are important for their class: such as the resources they are currently building.

Many of the changes are relatively complicated and detailed. How it will eventually play out will likely be known in less than a month. Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood will be released on June 20 for PC and PS4.

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Final Fantasy XIV is too complex – With Stormblood, skills are disappearing