Test Server Findings

[Atoreis]

Here's hoping for aegis schism for the wind debuff. >_>

Yeah sure :D unless with macc of Mortal ray

[Darkmagi]

Would probably be nerfed to at least angon potency too.

[Drai]

How do you know it's a Debuff? Could be something awesome like Calamitous wind or something kind dumb like Crosswind

[Septimus]

RDM is so far off the map that Gravity II would have to be game-breakingly good in order to get it anywhere near back on track. And even if it was, one spell isn't really enough to fix the job. In other words, nay.

Also, gogo Surya's+3 damage trials for new BLM spell? lulz...

Square-Enix: "Hey RDMs, here is a higher-tier version of a spell that doesn't land on the mobs that you want it to land on! Balance!"

And people said that I was mad when I started a Surya's Staff! Who is laughing now?! (Not me, that shit is fucking hard. Probably the single worst staff trial ever.)

[Karbuncle]

RDM is just getting kick in the dick after kick in the dick.

That poor job

[Septimus]

RDM is just getting kick in the dick after kick in the dick.

That poor job

I wouldn't even consider this a kick in the dick. It is just pure cluelessness to think that a higher-tier version of a spell that nearly everything is immune to is going to help the job.

[Karbuncle]

IDK, I'll stick by my previous statement.

My educated guess is they determined the correct course for RDM, and decided against it, and gave you Gravity II :D

[Vriska]

IDK, I'll stick by my previous statement.

My educated guess is they determined the correct course for RDM, and decided against it, and gave you Gravity II :D

I would not be surprised in the slightest.

[shepardG]

They should give rdm A+ sword skill and Fencer 5. fixed.

[dasva]

Maybe gravity II will actually land on nms made in the last 3 years...

[Kaisha]

Wasn't the focus of Gravity 2 supposed to be the evasion down additional or something rather than the weighing down? Perhaps they'll actually make that shit land.

Spoiler: show

Fuck yeah, I'm whiffing 1% less on this NM!

Spoiler: show

Can't wait for SE to add it to the VW trigger chart if it does resist 90% of the time.

[Septimus]

They should give rdm A+ sword skill and Fencer 5. fixed.

Don't even fucking joke about that. The next thing you know the melee RDMs will be infecting this forum with their special brand of dumb, then the mods are going to have to spend all of our time banning them and their new characters that they make over and over again because we just don't understand how brilliant they are.

[Spira]

Sorry, I don't really work with animations, and don't know how these dats relate to the animation dats. I don't even know how the people that do animations even do it I assume they generate a list of new dats in the update, and then look at all of those in altanaviewer? idk

no new animations or dat models were added with this update.
first thing i checked.

edit: i still think that blm99 spell is the group cast Meteor-esque thing i saw in the dats the last update.

[Dew]

Tried some the new vw nms. The Skele opened with Meteor. Pixie had endispel on about 80% of hits. Favored using Norn arrow and Lethe arrrows. Wivre spammed Crippling slam. Book opened with insta cast Waterga IV. Beetle has at least 1-2 new tp moves. Corpselight didn't seem too hard. Didn't try the 3 in wings areas yet.

[Nightfyre]

Corpselight would be a 2-part fight given dat mining, correct? I remember a Dvergr mob as well.

[Rehn]

So coercion/discipline still looks like the set of atma to stick with for DDs.

[Spira]

Corpselight would be a 2-part fight given dat mining, correct? I remember a Dvergr mob as well.

not necessarily. seeing as corpselights have their own set of TP moves, they're more than sufficient to function as NMs by themselves (eg. Virvatuli).. and there is still the possibility of the Dvergr being thrown into the other half of VW III..

[ronin sparthos]

not necessarily. seeing as corpselights have their own set of TP moves, they're more than sufficient to function as NMs by themselves (eg. Virvatuli).. and there is still the possibility of the Dvergr being thrown into the other half of VW III..

It could be like Gasha where the fight is actually 3 battles. One corpselight, two corpselights and then the Dvergr.

Im assuming of course that no ones killed the corpselight NM to find out.

[Kegsay]

Monster types which are now relatively common and yet we lack spells from:
- Chariots
- Acrolith
- Pixie
- Yovra (reasoning: Amphipteres)
- Sandworm
- Fomor
- Gears

Compiled speculation on names:

jet-stream-attack - a line help text
MP Cost: 98 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 42.5
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Non-Elemental / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU96

Torrential Torment/Vitriolic Barrage/Asthenic Fog ?
MP Cost: 172 Casting Time: 3.0 Recast Delay: 19.0
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Water / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU96

Discharge? Ion Shower?
MP Cost: 193 Casting Time: 7.0 Recast Delay: 56.0
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Thunder / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU97

Heat Barrier or Berserk-type move (e.g. Fluorescene)
MP Cost: 18 Casting Time: 4.0 Recast Delay: 11.0
Target: Self Only / Type: Blue / Element: Fire / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU98

jet-stream-attack - a line help text
MP Cost: 79 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 58.25
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Non-Elemental / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU98

Cyclonic Turmoil? Aeolian Void?
MP Cost: 26 Casting Time: 1.0 Recast Delay: 29.5
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Wind / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU99

jet-stream-attack - a line help text
MP Cost: 52 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 22.0
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Non-Elemental / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU99

======== HNM SPELLS (Unbridled Learning) ========
- Expected spell from Khimaira (there's cerb and hydra)

Absolute Terror - (Certainty: 80% - SE stated this would be in, and it's the only elemental one left minus GoH)
MP Cost: 29 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 30.0
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Dark / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU96

Gates of Hades - (Certainty: 95% - SE stated this would be in and it's the only HNM fire type)
MP Cost: 156 Casting Time: 3.5 Recast Delay: 30.0
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Fire / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU97

jet-stream-attack - a line help text
MP Cost: 108 Casting Time: 1.0 Recast Delay: 30.0
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Non-Elemental / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU97

Pyric Bulwark - (Certainty: 95% - Only HNM self-buff)
MP Cost: 50 Casting Time: 1.5 Recast Delay: 30.0
Target: Self Only / Type: Blue / Element: Light / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU98

jet-stream-attack - a line help text
MP Cost: 122 Casting Time: 1.0 Recast Delay: 30.0
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Non-Elemental / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU99

jet-stream-attack - a line help text
MP Cost: 99 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 30.0
Target: Enemy / Type: Blue / Element: Non-Elemental / Skill: Blue Magic
Jobs: BLU99

[Vriska]

I'd kill for the fire self-buff to be Boiling Blood. But it won't be.

Water nuke could be Seaspray, Orobons? Dancing Chains, Fomors?

Thunder one could be Death Trap because we know how they love giving us AoE stuns. -trollfaec- Or... Spheroids' Electrocharge?