Questions from the black mages of Vana'diel!

[Alhanelem]

All we want is a worthwhile weapon to gain... plz pass that on the the devs camate.

Mythic weapon. Stop complaining and bust your butt to get one. (feel free, however, to keep complaining about how absurdly hard they are to get in the hopes that they nerf it a bit...)

[Duelle]

However, if we simply get rid of the stat differences and make all elemental spells equal, there will be concerns that the advantageous aspects of each element will be lost.

Seeing that such a change would cause the BLM to be more aware of what a monster's elemental resistances are (and use the appropriate spell), wouldn't it enhance the advantageous aspects of each element? It'd certainly make the relation each element has to one another mean more than just the picture shown in windurst to explain the relation of the elements.

[Zackan]

Mythic weapon. Stop complaining and bust your butt to get one. (feel free, however, to keep complaining about how absurdly hard they are to get in the hopes that they nerf it a bit...)

Looking at that weapon....

I have to say.. this is definitely along the right tracks.

Future Blm weapons need to be along this theme. I wouldnt mind having the option for a DD staff.. but 2/3 of the high end weapons(relic, mythic, emp) are DD weapons. They need to be stat boosting like the mythic weapon is.

So change either the relic or the emp,

[Darkwizardzin]

Mythic weapon. Stop complaining and bust your butt to get one. (feel free, however, to keep complaining about how absurdly hard they are to get in the hopes that they nerf it a bit...)

No I won't stop complaining. In my opinion black mages shouldn't get the bad end of the relic/empyrean weapons just because we can't melee effectivly.

Plus Mythic weapon isn't the "end all" answer you think it is:

* The black mage mythic weapon (Laevateinn) becomes out done by magian staffs like Varuna's staff +2 (Ice affinty: Magic accuracy +1, Ice affinty: Magic Damage +5, Ice affinty: casting time -12%) in magic damage due to the stat "magic attack bouns" having less effect on damage the more of it you have...is this on purpose? If so why? and if not do you have plans to address this so that the weapon is more worth while to obtain?

You see? Even on the mythic weapon we are lacking... these weapons need to be changed. :/

[Darkwizardzin]

Changed the op to reflect the questions the devs answered. More questions can be added/asked for.

[Kojo]

If you're gonna give BLM melee, you'll either need a "Tetra Staff" of sorts that enhances all magic, or a Job Trait that ups the added effect of elemental staves and stops TP loss from swapping to a weapon of the same type, or else 'Black Melee' should just be scrapped. I doubt any BLM in their right mind will stop their devastating spells to melee.

[Sargent]

stops TP loss from swapping to a weapon of the same type

This would be a good idea, although a lil broken, and I can see melee jobs complain about it. There's no doubt that every decent blm will swap staves because nuking in just one staff is simply unfeasible considering the bonus you get from just the Lv.51 staves. It would also make Hvergelmir useful for BLM, in conjunction with Occult Acumen, which at the moment is a pretty useless trait for BLM to have just because of the way it's played.

With the new Darkness Elemental Magic. It's already been dat mined from the last update, and it doesn't look like Comet. It's good to see that we are getting more then just Comet/Meteor after Tier V nukes are added, although I fear Meteor might become another "gear specific" spell like Impact, and like Massacure Elegy was hinted to be.

And regarding Impact. Yes, the stats- is nice, but the damage-to-MP is way too over the top. At the moment, it is the only Darkness nuke that does instant, good damage and it does less damage for twice the MP then some T5 nukes.

[BurnNotice]

I don't know if anyone has asked this question, but has SE ever consider lowering the MP cost for outdated spells since BLMs are getting new spells that will require more MP.

[Inafking]

Blah blah blah

Still waiting on the answer to my question, Camate.

[Retsujo]

There is definitely a trend of black mages using only the stronger elements; however, we are aware that this is a large issue for elemental magic adjustments.

However, if we simply get rid of the stat differences and make all elemental spells equal, there will be concerns that the advantageous aspects of each element will be lost. Also there would be a need to completely change the levels in which these spells are learned. We are currently looking into adjustments that will enhance the merits of each element and their usage by establishing differences through enhancing damage and other elements via power, MP cost, status bonuses, etc.

I don't see how making each elemental spell equal would break anything in terms of enemy weakness and all that. If anything, it would allow all BLMs to choose an element they like, rather than all BLMs ever focusing on Thunder and Blizzard based spells. I think spell equality would put more of a variety from BLM to BLM. I've known quite a few who would've enjoyed BLM more if they could deal as much damage with Stone spells as they could Thunder.

Personally, I've always found it weird that Stone does less damage than Thunder on a monster who's neither weak nor strong to both elements.