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[Mrbeansman]

wtf, most of my post isn't displaying.

Moon runes break the forums.

[Yugl]

Even BLU can equip the club.

[6souls]

What I'm getting from google translate is that because swords are the main weapon of choice for Blue Mages, they have no plans to introduce new clubs that BLU can equip nor will BLU be added to the Magian trial clubs.

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青魔道士でも装備可能な片手棍について

    こんにちは。

    青魔道士でも装備可能な片手棍が最近登場していないのはさみしいところですね。

    ただしこれは、忘れているわけでも嫌がらせをしているわけでもありません！

    基本的に各武器種はそれぞれメインで使用するジョブの分を用意することを優先しています。
    （メインで使うジョブの分が追加されないという状況は悲しいと思うのです。）

    このような理由から、昨今追加された片手棍がハンマー系になっていてる訳ですが、そろそろ何か追加したいなぁとは考えています。性能の良い片手剣も少なくないので、性能付けは悩ましいところですが検討を続けてみます。

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Pole can be equipped in one hand for Blue Mage

Hi.

Pole not recently been introduced that can be handed in with the blue mage I just lonely.

This, however, nor does that not also forget the harassment!

Each weapon type is basically in favor of the job that you have a minute each to be used in the main.
(This has been added for use in the main fraction of the job I think is sad.)

From this reason, it is not Iteru Pole handed hammer system that was added recently, and I want to add something we believe Sorosoro. Sword few good performance so well, let's continue with the performance is considered just annoying.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post193326

[Kyte]

There was a whole post on BLU and clubs; I was curious as to whether it said we wouldn't be getting better clubs, or wouldn't be getting our club skill raised. The google translate seemed a little ambiguous. Let me try to link it

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[6souls]

Apparently you can quote Japanese if you use [code] instead of [quote].

[Kyte]

I'll have to keep that in mind, thanks.

[Kincard]

I'll go ahead and translate it for you guys to the best of my ability.

In regards to Blue mages and clubs

Hi guys.

Clubs that are BLU-equippable haven't appeared lately, guess that's a bit sad.

However, don't think that we've forgetten about it or we just don't want to add clubs to BLU!

We have been putting our priority on jobs that use specific weapons as their main weapon (If we didn't add weapons to each job's main weapon that'd be pretty sad, I think).

Because of this, lately the clubs we have been adding lean towards the hammer types, but we have been thinking "guess we should add something eh?" One-handed swords with nice stats are pretty few in number too, so we've been having a hell of a time thinking about it. We'll continue looking into it though.

tl;dr:
"Maybe."

[Kincard]

Double post, but I figure this is info you guys might like:

Prepare your anuses, they're going to weaken Ruinator under the same logic they're weakening Realmrazer. They want to make it so that if you have all the hits on Hexa/Rampage hit with 2-3 crits, it's about the same damage a Ruinator and Realmrazer. Basically, they want the former 2 to sacrifice higher damage potential for consistency.

They want Requiescat to be a weapon skill of choice for RDMs and BLUs, but not so much for PLDs. Something like that, anyway.

They're also putting their foot down about Shijin Spiral being weaker than Stringing Pummel and Victory Smite under the "balance" tree.

[Neisan]

Double post, but I figure this is info you guys might like:

Prepare your anuses, they're going to weaken Ruinator under the same logic they're weakening Realmrazer. They want to make it so that if you have all the hits on Hexa/Rampage hit with 2-3 crits, it's about the same damage a Ruinator and Realmrazer. Basically, they want the former 2 to sacrifice higher damage potential for consistency.

They want Requiescat to be a weapon skill of choice for RDMs and BLUs, but not so much for PLDs. Something like that, anyway.

They're also putting their foot down about Shijin Spiral being weaker than Stringing Pummel and Victory Smite under the "balance" tree.

Sharing with the world so they can feel the despair.

This shit is fucking brilliant.

[fantasticdan]

They want Requiescat to be a weapon skill of choice for RDMs and BLUs, but not so much for PLDs. Something like that, anyway.

Seems like pld has a big advantage over blu in gearing for this WS just from twilight gear, so I don't see how that makes any sense, unless the patch has some awesome gear for it.

[Neisan]

All I got from that is they want you to spend 100 merits on a WS that's only somewhat good on fodder mobs and anything you typically wouldn't fight anyway.

[Isiolia]

All I got from that is they want you to spend 100 merits on a WS that's only somewhat good on fodder mobs and anything you typically wouldn't fight anyway.

Yeah. It might make sense if they were just straight up, learned-by-skill WS...for ones you need to do a quest for, and have to merit, worrying about whether they're better than WS from the 50s/60s seems fairly stupid.

[Kincard]

Really, I'm more confused on the consistency aspect. If they wanted people to choose the new WSs for consistency, they would've made them one-hit WSs. As they are they actually have a equal/higher chance to miss hits.

Also, to clarify some things:

I apologize about my translation for Requiescat, I didn't read close enough. Basically, they were comparing Requiescat to the other "ignore defense" types of weapon skills in terms of usability. They mentioned Spirits Within being useful when you save TP to 300 (Who does that anymore...), and the fact that Atonement is a PLD-only tool used to keep hate (Erm, again, who still uses Atonement...), so they want to balance it using those two weapon skills in mind- an ease of usability compared to Spirits Within (Don't have to save TP for a long time before using it) and for it not to outclass Atonement in some capacity. That's the implication, at least.

With Shijin Spiral they were talking a lot about how you can close gaps between various H2H WSs by gearing/food/buffing appropriately.

[Kaisha]

I really hope they're not tweaking these WS right up until the last minute, and that these tracker notices are around a week off from what the devs are currently focusing on.

[Jem]

It must be pretty shitty if they want it to be worse than Atonement. Practically everything they have added recently has hate reset or half resists atonement or fucking both.

[Colenzo]

Atonement/Spirits within are weaponskills that don't have the same non-elemental weaponskill description that Requiescat has. We should stop getting our butt feelings hurt and realize that its a sitautional weaponskill and that the game is evolving and so should our play styles. That being said, I will be meriting the sword WS fully and using it on high defense monsters such as Hahava and also using it on Pil in the event that it actually does do damage to his shields. I will switch between that and CDC on different VW monsters and figure out which one of them will be the better WS to use given the situation. I think everybody else should do the same.

[Kyte]

So you want to use a weaponskill with an attack penalty on high defense monsters?

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[Greatguardian]

Requiescat doesn't ignore Attack/Def, just Damage Type alignments. Eg, things that are strong against Slashing or Physical damage in general. High Defense monsters are the last place you want to use a Non-Crit WS with an Attack penalty =/ use CDC.

[Julian]

Why we are getting our butt feelings hurt:

SE comes out: Hey guys, new WS!
Everyone: Yay!
SE: But you can only get them via meriting, and you have to either focus on maxing out 3, or unlocking them all and being weak!
Everyone: ....
SE: But some of them are actually really good, so it's ok!
Everyone: Yay!
SE: Just kidding, we're nerfing everything.
Everyone: Fuck you

[Draylo]

Hahava is a high def monster now? lol