[dev1024] Job Adjustments

[Lucavi]

Rip Drg/mage out of XI, throw it in another game that's more solo-friendly, and I'd be loving those drg changes. Big time.

[Rionel]

Soothing Ruby... so is it gonna be like a uber -na -ga spell, or will it also remove "Erase" effects? Either way, it's still pretty awesome.

The wording on Shock Squall that bothers me:

We are also planning to make the effect duration have a certain range, but we are making adjustments to make it roughly double that of the magic spell “Stun.”

What the heck does that mean? Like... you can cast it from really far away? Or do they mean like, the AoE will be huge? So ambiguous.

[Scythiroth]

The wording on Shock Squall that bothers me:

We are also planning to make the effect duration have a certain range, but we are making adjustments to make it roughly double that of the magic spell “Stun.”

What the heck does that mean? Like... you can cast it from really far away? Or do they mean like, the AoE will be huge? So ambiguous.

Not sure it matters, no one will use it.

[Sagacious Sundi]

Soothing Ruby... so is it gonna be like a uber -na -ga spell, or will it also remove "Erase" effects? Either way, it's still pretty awesome.

The wording on Shock Squall that bothers me:

We are also planning to make the effect duration have a certain range, but we are making adjustments to make it roughly double that of the magic spell “Stun.”

What the heck does that mean? Like... you can cast it from really far away? Or do they mean like, the AoE will be huge? So ambiguous.

I was confused at first, too, but looking at it again, they're talking about the range of the duration. So it will last (at minimum/maximum/on average?) twice as long as the spell Stun.

[Byrthnoth]

You can use Stun to try and stop TP moves/spells or get a quick break from damage to recover from them, and Avatar Stunga will probably be more useful for the second application. You should be able to stun some slow casting spells with it too, maybe? Also, it sounds like you can use it to pull hate off everyone.

[Cail]

Did anyone think that Cait Sith and Atomos were coming in this update? I guess that was to head off the massive whining come update day for people who didn't notice that two new avatars were not included in the update teasers. You can't get everything at once.

I definitely did not expect either this update. However, I'm sure the whiny SMNs all thought they were.. (not calling all smns whiny, im just talkign about smns who are whiny!)

[Alvein]

Summoners deserve to be able to whine, what a royal pain it is to get all of the avatars, what other real reason is there to complete TOAU these days? The rings are completely outclassed unless you're in Assault.

[Cail]

Getting avatars is hard?

[Gokulo]

He said royal pain, not hard.

[Cail]

True...though I personally don't think theyre bad at all... ToAU ended like 2-3yrs ago or some shit

[Septimus]

Summoners deserve to be able to whine, what a royal pain it is to get all of the avatars, what other real reason is there to complete TOAU these days? The rings are completely outclassed unless you're in Assault.

For completion's sake? Because the story was interesting?

Or the most important reason, because hopefully they will do an Apocalypse Nigh-type quest with WotG to tie up the loose ends and give us a nifty reward?

[Julian]

You can use Stun to try and stop TP moves/spells or get a quick break from damage to recover from them, and Avatar Stunga will probably be more useful for the second application. You should be able to stun some slow casting spells with it too, maybe? Also, it sounds like you can use it to pull hate off everyone.

This, seriously. I don't know why people bitch so much.

It's not a stun for WS/quick stuff, but it's still a decent breather stun. And since I'm assuming it doesn't do any damage, it will probably be a ward pact, just like every other non-damaging enfeeble, for all the people who would otherwise bitch that you can't use that and dd at the same time.

Or, hey, here's another *shocking* idea:
Some kind of situation like old dynamis, or maybe BCs, shit hits hard, and you have to sleepga. Shit will be waking up soon, have ramuh out, stuff wakes up, stunga, blm resleeps. Although most people have sleep timers and can time their sleep to go off as soon as stuff wakes, it's still nice for people who don't use stuff like that. (And I think blm are getting breakga?) but still, it may be situationally useful.

edit: and summoner has always had a shitton of useless blood pacts, and they'll continue to get them. Deal with it. At least this one has potential for situational usefulness.

[Miroku_Asura]

Soothing Ruby looks awesome, brace for the incoming shit storm from WHMs.

Not bitching at all lol granted I have both Smn and Whm leveled, but this just makes our job even easier >_>; that is, if summoners were used in parties where you would have a whm in anyway. That, and who knows, maybe carby will need to have the status ailment on him for the pact to work >_>

[NynJa]

edit: and summoner has always had a shitton of useless blood pacts, and they'll continue to get them. Deal with it. At least this one has potential for situational usefulness.

Rolling fucking Thunder
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[ronin sparthos]

Not bitching at all lol granted I have both Smn and Whm leveled, but this just makes our job even easier >_>; that is, if summoners were used in parties where you would have a whm in anyway. That, and who knows, maybe carby will need to have the status ailment on him for the pact to work >_>

It'll help tank party Voidwatch WHMs since SE has a penchant for adding mobs that spam a ton of debuffs.

Least that's the idea I feel they're working with.

[Miroku_Asura]

It'll help tank party Voidwatch WHMs since SE has a penchant for adding mobs that spam a ton of debuffs.

Least that's the idea I feel they're working with.

Very true- I don't have much experience with VW so I didn't even think about that.

[Draylo]

This, seriously. I don't know why people bitch so much.

It's not a stun for WS/quick stuff, but it's still a decent breather stun. And since I'm assuming it doesn't do any damage, it will probably be a ward pact, just like every other non-damaging enfeeble, for all the people who would otherwise bitch that you can't use that and dd at the same time.

Or, hey, here's another *shocking* idea:
Some kind of situation like old dynamis, or maybe BCs, shit hits hard, and you have to sleepga. Shit will be waking up soon, have ramuh out, stuff wakes up, stunga, blm resleeps. Although most people have sleep timers and can time their sleep to go off as soon as stuff wakes, it's still nice for people who don't use stuff like that. (And I think blm are getting breakga?) but still, it may be situationally useful.

edit: and summoner has always had a shitton of useless blood pacts, and they'll continue to get them. Deal with it. At least this one has potential for situational usefulness.

You bitch a lot about people bitching, just sayin'