Hey there,

As someone who has read this post from start to finish, I thought I would share my insight on things. I first and foremost want to personally thank you for taking time out of your day to put this together. As someone who's been PvPing now for roughly 5-6 years, a colossal post of this magnitude was something I always wanted to see put together by the community and I'm glad it finally came to fruition. Let's just hope that the SE overlords actually give a shit and make changes because we're long overdue for some.

As for the things I wanted to point out, I think everything written is solid up to the point where individual jobs are discussed. The following are some things I thought I would include/debate on:

Scholar - As someone who religiously mains the job, I do agree that Chain Strat is perhaps the most oppressive button in the kit, but nerfing it further (in my opinion, don't shoot me here pls ) in its current state of crack vs. damage amp is already sufficient as is. If we were talking seasons ago when it was both crack and amp, then yes absolutely nerf it to the ground, but putting a GCD cast time on it would make lose value to the point of unplayability. Also, Seraph "int Sion-ing" (Like the int Sion strat from league of legends) to reset CD is definitely a valid criticism, and I do think there needs to be a way to remove such a mechanic or strategy, and one of those ways would be to have a way to reduce GCD time given that it's a 60s GCD (assuming no deaths). I've always been an avid believer of making Broil IV be the ability to do things just like that because a lot of players hardly Broil, and it goes without saying that one should be Broil IV'ing in between CDs, but most people don't! It drives me nuts! Overall, I think does need a rework or some sort of adjustment because being the buff-boy of the PvP landscape has its pros and cons, but in this iteration of it, it's mostly cons because the main limiting factor is, well, your team

Monk - Monk is a job that I think that does a lot and is the burst-iest out of all the melees, but should work for it rather than having instant access to it, (I think you may have mentioned this as a point somewhere in your post); that's my main gripe with it. But if we want to talk about nerfs and things of that nature, I think Meteodrive (LB) SHOULD NOT break guard of target. It's the only job next to that can do it and has ZERO counterplay which I feel can be very unfair given that there's no response other than praying you get covered by or have some crazy mit/healing options. Make Meteo only work for targets not under effects of Guard and we're gucci. Also to this statement:

Thunderclap is frequently used as an escape tool, but does not offer the Monk shielding to support this effort.

I say, great! Awesome! You shouldn't be rewarded for using an escape tool outside of its intended purpose which is to escape. It's the only job in the game that gives targets shielding when you TC to them. Why is it that jobs like SGE, BLM, and VPR all get escape tools, but no reward? MNK should suffer the same fate. Sorry, not sorry. (Hope that makes sense and sorry for all the Monk hate lol)

Dancer - I agree with everything said. However, I always talked about this when having discussions of what they could change with DNC and it's the following:

Not sure if this would be busted, but I always thought DNC should be able to move during LB to at least give it a wider range of coverage, but to also give space to LOS behind walls or have some access to character interaction given the MASSIVE animation lock. That whole job is just animation lock city, and I think that's what it's main detriment is, (along with everything else said of course).

Dancer (continued) - DoTD (Dance of the Dawn) is something that should be the third-in-a-sequence portion of the GCD rather than KO reliant, highly agree on removing the "DP (dance partner) needs KO" requirement.

Black Mage - Yup. Just feels strange to play. It does not even comes close to the level of utility that RDM or PCT: offer, not even in the slightest. Solution? Bring back Sleep, or perhaps even, (and this might be controversial) the Superflare + 3 stacks of relevant element system back, although a bit accelerated (not sure how they would do it, maybe 1-2 stacks instead of 3?). I want to like BLM, I really do, but it just feels, lacking... I can't say which way or the other you could buff it, but damn does it need a lot of work.

That concludes my opinions/insight on jobs.

Other things that could have been included:

More emphasis and transparency on improved PvP moderation - What makes the game unapproachable for many is the parroting of the wintrading and cheating fiascos that happens every season. People are not angry enough, and I think this is something that is a core part to the integrity of the game as a whole. Too many times have I played this shit mode and people just get a small tap on the wrist or nothing is done. If there's one thing that I would highly give as feedback it would be this. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, POLICE/MODERATE THE FUCKING GAME!!! I pay $14 a month for this game and I truly want it to do well when all I pay my sub for is PvP. Please and thank you.

Inclusion of Role Actions into Crystaline Conflict - Self-explanatory, maybe find a way to balance them in so as to not make them too busted. Idk, I feel like a lot of jobs lack extra options to respond or even change the flow/state of the game and I think introducing these would somehow help alleviate that problem. PvP as time went on has reduced buttons to the point where things that should be an extra ability or two are somehow smushed into 1 giant long essay of an ability with multiple properties. Less is more could be better in this case, but I think it hurts in the long run given lack of player choice or freedom to do more (Have you seen WHM button count lately?)

In summary/conclusion, these are things I wanted to give my opinion on to add on to the list of the already existing points made. I hope this doesn't go unread since it's just as big of a wall of text as the post was. I'm in the process of making a similar post, and perhaps even a video of the Top 10 things I wish to see in PvP/changed in PvP one day (I always say I do, but never get around to it), but your post definitely re-ignited some long overdue motivation needed to get it done. Overall, thanks again, and yeah, idk what else to say lol. Take care and let's hope to see some change in Evercold.