Job Adjustments (Suggestions)

[Lyncath]

Rather than spread this out across the various job forums I might as well gather these suggestions here.

Corsair
Geomancer's Roll - Increases the attributes of party members within area of effect.
Runeist's Roll - Bestows a TP Bonus upon party members within area of effect.
Why haven't we gotten rolls for these two jobs yet?

Rune Fencer
Ward: Resonance - Increases attributes. Effects vary upon current runes harbored.
Ignis: STR, Attack, Weapon Skill Damage.
Suplor: DEX, Accuracy, Critical Hit Rate.
Tellus: VIT, Defense, Physical Damage Taken-%.

Rune Fencer gains access to the Temper spell at Lv95.
Rune Fencer gains access to Regen V at Lv99 or is unlocked via Gifts.

Geomancer
Indi-Regain / Geo-Regain - Caps at 50/tick with Dunna. 60/tick with Idris.

Spirit Bind - Causes the next Luopan cast to follow its target. The rate at which the Luopan loses HP is accelerated while it is mobile.

Enshelter - Fully restores the HP of your Luopan. Prevents it from receiving damage, and reduces the rate at which it loses HP.
Replaces the joke of a 1-hour that is Widened Compass. Basically rolls Life Cycle, Dematerialize, and Lasting Emanation into one ability.

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Have any you can think of?

[Kensagaku]

Runeist Roll having a TP bonus sounds odd; if anything, it should be something like a straight MDT versus the MDB we have from Magus's Roll. TP Bonus just doesn't seem to fit the job.

Resonance sounds a bit overpowered, tbh, and while I like the concept (at very least increasing stats, sort of like a PUP's Maneuvers does for their automaton), I think it also goes against the idea of trying to align your runes for elemental resistance against an enemy's spells. As a RUN you're going to be aiming to try and use runes to mitigate elemental damage, which means you can't use the bonuses reliably.

I wouldn't mind getting Temper on RUN, but I think the RDMs would burn you at the stake. God bless your soul.

Regen V is more SCH's territory because they are supposed to be the masters of over-time effects; they get the best Regen tier, potency bonuses via Light Arts JP, and straight up Light Arts bonuses, not to mention gear. Again, I wouldn't complain, but that one tier of Regen isn't earth-breaking.

Indi-Regain / Geo-Regain - I doubt they'd be so eager to give us a 50/tick, much as I would love that. COR gets that high but requires a good roll and/or bonuses. I'd say we'd be more likely to get something like 30/tick (which isn't bad in itself!) with Dunna and 40/tick with Idris.

Spirit Bind - Yes please. The drawback to it is reasonable and it makes it so much easier when you have a mobile party to use Luopans.

Enshelter - I rather like this, and it'd be a good addition to our SP abilities. Something like a 1-minute timer would balance it out, and it'd be useful for keeping your luopan alive on those big fights.

[Protey]

Rune Fencer gains access to the Temper spell at Lv95.

RDM only, you shall not get!

[Zeargi]

I'd Exchange Temper if RDM can get Banish 1-3, Holy, Enlight, Dread Spikes, and Endark >:3

[Malithar]

Geomancer
Indi-Regain / Geo-Regain - Caps at 50/tick with Dunna. 60/tick with Idris.

Spirit Bind - Causes the next Luopan cast to follow its target. The rate at which the Luopan loses HP is accelerated while it is mobile.

Enshelter - Fully restores the HP of your Luopan. Prevents it from receiving damage, and reduces the rate at which it loses HP.
Replaces the joke of a 1-hour that is Widened Compass. Basically rolls Life Cycle, Dematerialize, and Lasting Emanation into one ability.

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Have any you can think of?

Imagine Regain will be gained from Gifts at some point, though this batch will be -Ra IIIs I think, they were mentioned in a JP Dev report after the conclusion of SoA's missions. Regain is really the only other effect I think would be useful for Geo, most others would be a wash compared to what we have already. Even Regain will mostly be a pre-fight buff.

Could see the use in Spirit Bind in roaming parties, but really, Full Circling and recasting isn't that big of a deal for things other than trash. I wouldn't say no to it, but it'd only further laziness IMO.

Not a fan of that SP2 really. I'd rather see an SP2 that focuses more on our nuking capabilities. Say, a major 1~ min buff to Cardinal Chant. It'd serve multiple purposes, an SP that increases your own damage output by increasing MAB/MCrit/Magic Burst damage (FWIW, silly that 3 of the 4 directions focus on nuke damage), as well as giving a large increase to MAcc if you position yourself for that. Would certainly be useful in some content compared to our current SP2 or Enshelter. I see Enshelter as a temp increase in survivability to something that's easily replaceable which isn't really worthy of an SP2 IMO.

Maybe a bit wish listy, but I'd like to see old school combined Geo bubbles. They each provide their relative elemental debuff on an enemy while providing a Geomancy buff to players and Geomancy debuff to mobs. Say Indi/Geo Gust, gives Choke, Haste, and -def. Indi/Geo Sandstorm, Rasp, +def, -acc. Indi/Geo Inferno, Burn, +att, -MAB. Not that they'd be overly useful as they'd have to further balance these effects so they're not the instant go to compared to the single buff/debuff spells, but it'd be a nice throw back that may see some use.

[Martel]

The issue I see with spirit bind, is this. Say you cast frailty on a mob in a roaming CP party. Mob dies. Luopan sits there like an idiot.

But.. you can't cast luopan debuffs on players. Of course, you could indi frailty and have a buff luopan follow someone. But what if you were doing frailty/torpor?

Now, if they let you assign debuff luopan to follow players, cool. But following a mob isn't very helpful when single mobs either die near instantly, or don't move much.

This isn't to say I don't like the idea. I do like it. I've had the same thought myself. I just hope that if they ever implement it, that do it in a way that's fully functional.

[Malithar]

But.. you can't cast luopan debuffs on players. Of course, you could indi frailty and have a buff luopan follow someone. But what if you were doing frailty/torpor?

By far my biggest complaint with Luopans. Wish they'd set their targeting like Cure spells and let you target a Geo- spell on any target regardless if it's a buff or debuff.

[Protey]

I'd Exchange Temper if RDM can get Banish 1-3, Holy, Enlight, Dread Spikes, and Endark >:3

I think I might be able to agree with this... but I'd want barlight and bardark as well.

Do I think it'll happen? snowballs chance in hell.

[Tinytimtaru]

Rune Fencer – Needs some help to make it an endgame tank still:

Even with an Ergon weapon, still take way too much damage and blow through shadows way too fast to reliably tank any serious content (VD+).

Change Battuta to a full-time Job Trait (at the very least adjust the timers so we can keep this effect up longer in combat)

Cures (I - IV) – Vivacious Pulse does not cut it in any real content.

Corsair:

GEO-Roll – Resistance to status effects (like Amnesia in Incursion!) would be great.
RUN-Roll – Gotta be Magic Defense or Magic Evasion.

Decoy Shot! Or some form of enmity reduction for COR would really help.

[Zeargi]

I think I might be able to agree with this... but I'd want barlight and bardark as well.

Do I think it'll happen? snowballs chance in hell.

Forgot about those, I choose D.) All of the Above!