Job Adjustments (12/01/2006)

[Ninjiz]

I don't see any difficult zones appearing anytime ever in ToAU. And I see spells just like items. And plenty of jobs have their best equipment in a certain expansion.

Spells do not equal items. You don't see people doing 600 Dynamis runs for Dia III or Shellra V, after all. Mages, Bards, and Summoners don't have to jump through these kinds of mission hoops for their top-end spells and summons- why do BLU's?

I can sit there as a Black or White mage and pick up every "best" spell off the Auction House. By comparison if I want to do that as Blue Mage, I have to go through most of CoP to do so? (IIRC, Sky doesn't have any unique stuff to learn for a BLU, and all ToAU BLU spells are in exp areas).

Cry more. The whore fucking game is based on time. Once you learn the spell, you're done and happy.

And I think that Flux post is relevant. They are buffing classes that just don't need it, while ignoring the classes that don't get a lick.

I thinks its pretty silly to be asking to be able to merit Blu spells that are ALRDY availible in the game... and no DIA3 and all that doesnt count, becaue they arent ubtainable by any other method except through merits. So its pointless to argue and complain that its unfair to some lazy Blu who doesnt want to progress through CoP. And the argument that someone might not have the expansion is moot, SMNs need CoP expansion and to progress through the story to be able to get Diablolos. To a MAGE spells ARE items. Hell i dont even consider Blue mage to be a "mage job" despite the word mage in its name. To me its a melee that uses magic so to compare it to other mages in the way they learn spells is pointless.

[Kyreth]

Cry more. The whore fucking game is based on time. Once you learn the spell, you're done and happy.

Fair enough. The answer obviously is: "Yes, you should have to complete most of CoP to get your 70+ spells as a BLU in ToAU, and that the job is impossible to complete without doing so."

You can all put the flamethrowers down. I'm quite crispy now.

[Miji]

They are buffing classes that just don't need it, while ignoring the classes that don't get a lick.

They aren't even done announcing updates. How can you possibly say they're going to ignore the rest?

[Elmer the Pointy]

Cry more. The whore fucking game is based on time. Once you learn the spell, you're done and happy.

Fair enough. The answer obviously is: "Yes, you should have to complete most of CoP to get your 70+ spells as a BLU in ToAU, and that the job is impossible to complete without doing so."

You can all put the flamethrowers down. I'm quite crispy now.

You should be in Sea anyway to get Limbus gear. Think of the spells as icing on the cake. What other job gets more benefits out of Sea than BLU? Endgame equipment literally tailored to their playstyle (HP, MP, melee bonuses) and powerful new spells.

and it's all free!

[Lordender]

I really hope they add more challenging HNM, i mean everything is a damn joke when they added the auto refresh + shield mastery update and now they are going to make pld even better.

[Gatsby]

I really hope they add more challenging HNM that have worthwhile drops, i mean everything is a damn joke when they added the auto refresh + shield mastery update and now they are going to make pld even better.

Fixed.

[SassiAsura]

I did IP and name ban FFXI-APP.com, I'm taking it a step further right now.

Half alseep so not sure if this was mentioned during the thread but this...

Rampart
In addition to the defense bonus granted to party members within the area of effect, Rampart will now also provide a "Magic Shield" that will absorb a certain amount of magic damage in the same manner as the spell "Stoneskin."

I'm a little curious if there will be a modifier for this to make it take more damage. Watch it be lolCHR cause of Koenig.

Modifier will probably be similar to warcry...

[Rocl]

Cry more. The whore fucking game is based on time. Once you learn the spell, you're done and happy.

Fair enough. The answer obviously is: "Yes, you should have to complete most of CoP to get your 70+ spells as a BLU in ToAU, and that the job is impossible to complete without doing so."

You can all put the flamethrowers down. I'm quite crispy now.

You should be in Sea anyway to get Limbus gear. Think of the spells as icing on the cake. What other job gets more benefits out of Sea than BLU? Endgame equipment literally tailored to their playstyle (HP, MP, melee bonuses) and powerful new spells.

and it's all free!

cosmo cleanse is 50k

[Sidanoir]

Absorb spells are actually worth casting now in EXP I think---yay for DRk
Also that makes NIN/DRK even more powerful for hate generation...although can't compare to /BRD still I wouldn't think...

Gj SE on making PLD even easier to play...if you can't get off Flash or Cure yourself while tanking level DRG >.>

All in all looks like some nice updates, maybe SE is finally realizing Job Abilities with long recast timers (read like 3 mins or more >.>) should do more than just add 10 defense or whatever sentinel does and mediocre hate..

What ever happened to making Scythe more "appealing"..not that I think Scythe is too shabby at all now but still we all know that 1H weapons > 2H weapons...

What are they going to fix on BLM? Up their staff skill to 276 so they can TP burn and MB their own SCs?

[Elmer the Pointy]

Cry more. The whore fucking game is based on time. Once you learn the spell, you're done and happy.

Fair enough. The answer obviously is: "Yes, you should have to complete most of CoP to get your 70+ spells as a BLU in ToAU, and that the job is impossible to complete without doing so."

You can all put the flamethrowers down. I'm quite crispy now.

You should be in Sea anyway to get Limbus gear. Think of the spells as icing on the cake. What other job gets more benefits out of Sea than BLU? Endgame equipment literally tailored to their playstyle (HP, MP, melee bonuses) and powerful new spells.

and it's all free!

cosmo cleanse is 50k

WHATEVER

spells are still free

[Lordender]

heh drk change is only good if you get a rdm who is going to actually refresh you in exp, most rdm are way to lazy to refresh drk's. Absorb spells are completely dismal in the end game should have boosted accuracy cause darkseal blows and not worth 3 merit points.

[Ninjiz]

heh drk change is only good if you get a rdm who is going to actually refresh you in exp, most rdm just dont care to refresh drk's because most Drks dont even cast anything. Absorb spells are completely dismal in the end game should have boosted accuracy cause darkseal blows and not worth 3 merit points.

Fixed


when i did the rdm thing drks were low priority since most of the ones i saw never used any spells. Now i atleast see them casting Ab-TP but still....

[Dohorehn]

kind of disheartening to see jobs like beastmaster skipped over when there are so many obvious needs for a fix

[Lordender]

kind of disheartening to see jobs like beastmaster skipped over when there are so many obvious needs for a fix

Bst should of been the first job to get buffed when they started this whole thing after literally spamming "Please have faith in us to fix bst" @ fan festival.

[Miji]

kind of disheartening to see jobs like beastmaster skipped over when there are so many obvious needs for a fix

Again, they aren't even done with announcing the updates; they've hardly even started it seems. Save your crying for after all the information is released.

[Khalil]

So far, it's looking good. But let's not get our hopes. I imagine this will be like the recent bannings; good fixes, then back to the ol' days.

I just hope they add worthwhile HNMs into this update...

[Dohorehn]

well there's a trend. ummm the remaining next few updates will probably be... tweaks to Linkshell Community Beta, mediocre new armor... and maybe one additional job adjustment, which will probably be not beastmaster.

*See 2 months ago, for more details.

[Sidanoir]

2 second cast will make it easy for dark to cast an Absorb as mob is coming back to camp

[NynJa]

2 second cast will make it easy for dark to cast an Absorb as mob is coming back to camp

rofl

[Purplenv]

Quick Draw hitting the mob will remain 100%.
Quck Draw accuracy has always been reffering to the accuracy of doing full damage (ie. resists).
You could merit "Quick Draw Accuracy" before this patch and it was 100% then.
AGI being a direct modifier of Quick Draw Accuracy is once again not talking about hit/miss, but rather the ability to do full damage.

My COR type1 merits just became one of my easiest choices. To bad I put 1 merit in Phantom Roll recast just the other day... Oh well, 10k xp is nothing with the PT invites I'll get now.

2 problems I see.
1. PT leaders realizing COR can now pull.
2. COR realizing they need to have the equipment/skills/sub job to pull.

Try and tell me that a COR/NIN with a Peacemaker, and full evasion gear, with possibly the need for an AGI gear set for sleep duration, can't pull, and do damage.