More upcoming job changes (not from Fanfes)

[Eltia]

About Holy II / Banish IV. All SE said is that they won't be added as merit point abilities and they would be added as normal magic scroll. They did not say whether or not Holy II / Banish IV will be added at all.

About Tomahawk. My understanding is that SE wants it to lower specific damage type resistance of any mobs. e.g. if Tomahawk hit a slime, its resistance to blunt, slash and stab type of damage would decrease. (No idea if this is how Tomahawk works now, my WAR is Lv.38.)

BLU can't use Ridill. (SE is pretty clear on this one.) They will add more BLU specific swords.

EDIT: Expanded on Ridill's clause.

[Miltani]

Theres more after the "Blue cant get ridill" part that was left out... I think it says the intended limit was with one hand or something? -.-

I believe they're saying that ridill is too good for blu therefore they cannot allow them to use it

[Sho]

Theres more after the "Blue cant get ridill" part that was left out... I think it says the intended limit was with one hand or something? -.-

S-E acknowledging that Ridill is overpowered? :O

They fear Chain Affinity + Ridill, imo.

[TsingTao]

The max merit for each catergory under each group will be 5

For the new 2nd tier Job merits?
If so does this mean the total is going up too or just that you can now go 5 & 1?

sam's overwhelm has more significent dmg now

Hot.

[GriefStrickenGrandma]

Pup jse hm? Any of you blus know which blu spells in the .dats would be the equivalant of cure II and V?

[Not Kuno]

Pup jse hm? Any of you blus know which blu spells in the .dats would be the equivalant of cure II and V?

I know I saw Wild Carrot in there. There might have been another one but I forget.

[Aodh]

It would be one of the highest damage swords BLU could equip, and then 2-3hits on top. It would be drastically unfair to BLU in general to let them equip it. BLUs main damage is our spells through TP, hence no multi-hits.

The "Increase to 5 in group" part, Is that group 2? Are they going to have more than 6 possible upgrades as well or people who went 3/3 on abilities might have to pull 2 out if they want something at 5.

[Sho]

Pup jse hm? Any of you blus know which blu spells in the .dats would be the equivalant of cure II and V?

I know I saw Wild Carrot in there. There might have been another one but I forget.

Wild Carrot (Cure II) and White Wind (Cure V, used by Puks)

I guess those two spells will officially make BLU/WHM > SMN/WHM, in terms of full healing. >.>

[Ploid]

If they allow 2 more merits into feint that's a 2 mins recast. That would be nice for hnms and dynamis x NMs.

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

It would be one of the highest damage swords BLU could equip, and then 2-3hits on top. It would be drastically unfair to BLU in general to let them equip it. BLUs main damage is our spells through TP, hence no multi-hits.

The "Increase to 5 in group" part, Is that group 2? Are they going to have more than 6 possible upgrades as well or people who went 3/3 on abilities might have to pull 2 out if they want something at 5.

Its already drastically unfair to jobs that can equip it...

And yes the increase to 5 is group 2. Its going to be 5/10, it was obvious from the design.

[Brandson]

It would be one of the highest damage swords BLU could equip, and then 2-3hits on top. It would be drastically unfair to BLU in general to let them equip it. BLUs main damage is our spells through TP, hence no multi-hits.

The "Increase to 5 in group" part, Is that group 2? Are they going to have more than 6 possible upgrades as well or people who went 3/3 on abilities might have to pull 2 out if they want something at 5.

It will probably be the same as group 1 merits. 10 total, 5 per group maximum. Devotion with a 10min recast starts to sound pretty good.

[genome]

When is this going to be added? I really look forward to merit again for new caps. I wish they would add more new stuff for monk though...
I also hope some of the new rolls and spells will be useful for subjobs too, right now it's hard to find a good reason to sub COR and BLU...
Invigorate with 5 merits sounds pretty nice, 730+ hp back from each chakra.

[further]

I'd still like them to give PLD shell4 at level 75.

My PLD is level 1 but I have always thought this was stupid too. Why in the hell does PLD not have Shell 4? ESPECIALLY now that WHM has access to Shellra 5. GIVE THE DAMN PLDS SHELL 4

[DeadLegend]

They moved Raise down to 50 for PLD but put nothing in the gap left at 75 :(

I gotta get my rdm to 75 before this update so I can get real, honest-to-god merit parties. lol

[hexagram23]

At the risk of sounding like a retard....how accurate is this info? I don't know Japanese, nor do I know much about Japanese FFXI information sites. Is this info from a credible source? This wouldn't be the first time someone translated something from Japanese and it ended up being a random wish list a JPN player created that had nothing to do with anything SE ever planned on doing, is why I'm asking.

Fred.

[epigram]

Killer Instinct merit-able down to 5min recast seems ok. Unfortunately there is no "enhance killer-instinct" gear out to extend duration. Without this gear it gives 1min 30 seconds of a circle (with drk drg or pld sub). every 10min. That sorta sucks. Increased duration gear would extend it to 3min every 10min which isn't that bad (with drk drg or pld sub).

For killer effects / instinct to be great, bst circles from both main job and sub job need to give all effects at the same level of the bst to all of the pt members. 25% intimidation for 3min every 10 minutes would be nice for exp or hnm (except sea...).

Still level 75 funguar is really nice, no need to spend 20k-22k on a stack of CCs :D.

[Gatsby]

I've asked my native speaker friend to do a translation. One problem has popped up though, the narrative appears to be a fan's wish and not what is to be expected ingame.

[Khamsin]

It would be one of the highest damage swords BLU could equip, and then 2-3hits on top. It would be drastically unfair to BLU in general to let them equip it. BLUs main damage is our spells through TP, hence no multi-hits.

The "Increase to 5 in group" part, Is that group 2? Are they going to have more than 6 possible upgrades as well or people who went 3/3 on abilities might have to pull 2 out if they want something at 5.

Its already drastically unfair to jobs that can equip it...

Unfair to jobs that can't equip it, maybe, but very fair to jobs that can equip it. At least, I wouldn't call being able to use Ridill on WAR "unfair" to myself.

Pup jse hm? Any of you blus know which blu spells in the .dats would be the equivalant of cure II and V?

I know I saw Wild Carrot in there. There might have been another one but I forget.

Wild Carrot (Cure II) and White Wind (Cure V, used by Puks)

I guess those two spells will officially make BLU/WHM > SMN/WHM, in terms of full healing. >.>

They said Cure IV, not Cure V (or Curaga).

- New BLU magic that are equivalent to Cure II and IV;

[deivi]

they'll never stop expanding merrits

[Aelfinn]

Still level 75 funguar is really nice, no need to spend 20k-22k on a stack of CCs :D.

fungus +6lvls with current cap of beast affin already beats carrie in parses. +10lvls fungus would OWN lol