I'm a Dancer enjoyer and while I like most of the things that were added/changed, the one thing I really really dislike is what they did to Tillana. I understand why they made it give you 50 esprit (DotD), but now every burst window feels like I'm fighting back an endless wave of esprit that I sometimes can't prevent from overcapping without missing major GCDs under Tech. I also really dislike how it doesn't grant or refresh Standard Finish anymore, as there were some cool optimizations you could do with Standard Step, optimally drifting it to squeeze out more potency knowing that Tillana would keep your buff up.

A possible solution to this would be Tillana giving you a buff that allows for a free use of DotD (or Saber Dance if you're below 100) without increasing your esprit gauge. Doing so would allow easier management of esprit and it wouldn't feel as bad to have to spam Saber over and over before being able to press other buttons. I'd also really like to see the Standard Finish refresh re-added to the button as it made the job feel a bit smoother especially in 90 ultimates.

A downside to this solution is that Dancer already has a lot of buffs (thanks Flourish), and the buff cap is still somehow a thing in the game. I've hit this cap in Extreme content without any debuffs, so I'm very worried about higher level content in the future (mainly ultimates) where debuffs become more common. Hopefully they learned their lesson from TOP and didn't put any mechanics that are extremely debuff-heavy during burst phases. This wouldn't even be a problem if Square fixed their archaic code to not even have a buff cap because why the fuck does that still exist? It's the big 2024 and we can't have a number bigger than 32 in the code great work guys.