August Update

[Taylorman]

Well i leveled War just for merrits after leveling my dark and lfp'n for months. What they should do is just Unnerf Aerns, Leave TP burn parties alone, and make a god damn monster that takes 5x damage from 2 handed weapons and piercing damage and throw the other 14 jobs left in the cold a friggin bone.

Wars are pissy dont mess with their camps.

But the emo dark in the corner cutting him self could use a hug.

There are more jobs in the game besides war blm rdm bard.

[Spider-Dan]

[quote=Taj]

Think a Nerf on TP burns is going to be added in this Update?

Why would you even think this, because people talked about it in a thread here?

Because they talked about adjusting the difficulty of mobs to make Black Mages in Melee parties more viable. Stop being a retard please. Thank you.

Are you retarded enough to think they'd change every monster that TP burns merit on for the sake of blm invites? Thank you.

In higher levels, a balanced party setup that skillchains and magic bursts struggles to gain experience points in comparison to a heavy melee party, which can kill enemies much faster and quicker. An
experience point bonus to successful Skillchains could help a more balanced setup of players earn levels and merits. Do you have plans to make skillchain/magic burst parties more attractive?

::lots of commotion between them:: This is very long answer, but the jist of if is, yes we realize that right now some people cannot get parties right now because it is easier for melee parties to kill monsters, and so we are thinking about doing some adjustments. There will be an overhaul when the new jobs come out because we want to make them balanced with the others. We will also balance the existing jobs to work with those. When that balance occurs, there will be some adjustments made, and hopefully that will make some of the other jobs more attractive and alleviate some of the melee parties. By doing these types of adjustments, we will have to make some of the monsters stronger.

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Doesn't this imply that the balancing will take place upon WoG's release, not in this update?

[vagus]

New item after completing ToAU, LolSash!!!!

I wanna see a ninja fix of AV (or atleast some clues), a fix on Bst and for all your drg's a modifer fix to wheeling thrust. Heh.

[Sho]

I choose you wamourachu!

In before sea king or bubbly bernie.

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I'm all late.

[Lexa]

I was under the impression that quite a few people level WAR, MNK, BRD or such, simply for the fact of meriting. I know a lot of people who has. <.<

[Sho]

I was under the impression that quite a few people level WAR, MNK, BRD or such, simply for the fact of meriting. I know a lot of people who has. <.<

Yea, i was one of them. Quickly got bored-- thank god BLU was implemented just in time.

[Khamsin]

I was under the impression that quite a few people level WAR, MNK, BRD or such, simply for the fact of meriting. I know a lot of people who has. <.<

Yea, i was one of them. Quickly got bored-- thank god BLU was implemented just in time.

I levelled it to be different, and to prove myself, despite whoever laughed at trying dual axes instead of g.axe, or thought WARs couldn't hold hate or do damage, or thought /MNK was the only way to go.

I still remember my first HNMLS. Once, when we were fighting aspid, our tanks died so they threw me in to hold it as a last resort. I survived the 5 min it took for the tanks to unweaken, then they put me in the adds PT and never let me back in main. Another time, at Kirin, our tanks died so, again, they threw me in to kite. I never lost hate during this time, and once the tanks unweakened, they told me to drop for the tanks again. I told them that I couldn't because Kirin was chasing me still. They said to stop provoking then. Yet another time, at Byakko, the tanks died (they had a habit of doing this), and so again they threw me in to hold it, but instead of actually supporting me, they just ran around and panicked, so I was solo tanking Byakko without haste, cures, enfeebles, etc. and died rather quickly. I probably would have, anyway, but the lack of support was fairly commonplace for when I was backup tanking. Even at Fafnir, I would pull hate without meaning to on occasion, Faf would take a couple shadows then go back onto the main tank. They told me to be careful and quit pulling hate.

The only bright side to it all was the fact that there wasn't much in the way of Ridill competition. I was the only one with WAR levelled, and we had one DRK. So it was a toss up between us two, since nobody could make up their minds which job it was better suited for. Nobody really even seemed to care (other than the DRK and me).

However, the LS broke some time later due to some aspid and KB drama, so that was the end of that. I took a break for a while, and when I got back into the HNM scene, everybody had WAR and all of a sudden was praising how awesome it is. Figures.

[Sagacious Sundi]

You should know that it's /WAR not WAR.

[Alisha]

I seem to remember when melee's did nothing but bitch about the exp manaburns were getting at one time and screamed sea nerf then SE did the complete opposite in ToAU putting blm's where melee's used to be and melee over the top and all of a sudden its "ok" now. Gimme a fucking break.

the issue here is SE didnt make TP burns effective by directly nerfing BLM. the reason the exp was previously scewed in favor of elemental damage particularly in lower level areas is because of the way monsters stats were set. high hp/def/eva. even though back then you could do tp burns in krt with monks an average pt doesnt cut it down there. one sucky mage can and probally will throw the whole thing off. toau camps are mostly like easy mode even a pt full of noob mages can function decently in mire. in my opinion nerfing tp burns would be like taking asprin for pain. sure it provides some temporary relief,but it doesnt address the underlying problem.

[Heywood]

Why cant se just reverse the Sea nerf and let blms have another place to merit, it's not like every blm on the server has sea. This will fall in line with making more people try to get sea, which based on their latest pm nerfs, seems to be a sign that they want more people with sea access.

Hell, I dont complain about tp burns, and I never did when they were deco pt's in sky or bone pt's in krt or arrow burns. SE doesnt like us burning mobs, but they have to get it thru their skull, thats the fastest way for us to grind out merits and thats teh way the playerbase is playing their game.

If they adjust mobs to resist tp burns by requiring a mb or something, all you're gonna get is a rdm casting stone1 on scission and blms still wont get invited. I personally dont want in on tpburn pts, I'd prefer to set up a traditional pt, sc + mb and work over the marids, but that one's hard to pull off. Let blms burn elementals in sea, it's not like it's game breaking, it's not like even half the blms on any server can actually go there and do it and it's not like anyone is really gonna complain anymore. I'd take a sea nerf reverse over a tpburn nerf anyday.

[Vhess]

Retarded party = 5k

Clearly, sir, you have never been in a retarded party.

BLM solo is nice to pick up a few extra experiance here and there, but it cant beat 25k/hr PTs.

Yeah, BLM solo is cool, but with average pickup parties these days averaging 90k/hr, it doesn't quite compete.

Actually, I agree with the sentiments (I think?) but with every response pumping up tp burn more and more, by the time the update comes out and this thread ends, we'll be talking about tp burn parties getting 500 merits a minute.

[Ruth]

No they wouldn't, but they could change the jobs so that after the first TP attack subsequent TP attacks do half damage, then a fourth damage, etc.

Relic Weapon holders would poop a brick on this having their double lvl 3 nerfed. Even outside that it would discourage building skillchains (i.e. WS > WS > Level 1 Skillchain > WS > Level 2 Skillchain > WS > Level 3 Skillchain > Relic WS > Level 3 Skillchain). Obviously don't see this done often, but the time I did see and saw the MB damage done by BLMs on the second Level 3 SC made my eyes pop out.

[Keno]

Well they could make it so that the damage done on WS doesn't affect the SC potency for the MB. And they could make relics not abide by the negating effect...

[Loziel]

There are more jobs in the game besides war blm rdm bard.

Yes there is Nin and Mnk too, lol

[Gwynplaine]

Attention duelists, enough of this whiney "my jobs unbalanced", "I need AF2", regurgitation. Poke-duels go~

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Seriously though I'm looking forward to new missions, and at least two new zones for slobs to afk in to maybe make AU less of a lag nightmare.

[Fryte]

What that picture needs is Mike Vick and some hounds.

[BRP]

90k/hr

lolwut? I don't think people are having troubles having to go back to town once every hour because they maxed their merits.

Fuck Yeah Bubbly Burnie needs to be a FFXI meme.

[Helpoemer]

nobody else notice the body armour of the jockeys on the chocobos? zomg new gears? or is that normal? never done chocobo racing so i wouldn't know if it did

[Rocl]

90k/hr?

[Akiyama]

Well guys, I'm sure it won't be total shit. I mean, CoP gave us something we all like, ZM gave us something most of us like, so ToAU is bound to give us something semi-useful through the crown. D: I just can't wait to see what it is.