Barspells

[Eldelphia]

On the whole I love where WHM is at the moment and I love my barspells. Any chance we could see

Barstunra
Barlumina i.e. AoE Barlight
Barnocta i.e. AoE Bardark

?

[Daniel_Hatcher]

I also would like this, it also means if it sticks to their style as with all the others RDM would get the self target equivalent.

[Merton9999]

I'd like this too, but I'm not holding my breath. For some reason SCH and BRD have been deemed worthy to have all element versions of their spell lines, but oddly the missing light and dark enspells were finally introduced only to jobs that are considered specialists in those elements. My nightmare is this will be in the August level cap announcement:

Barnocta: PLD 91
Barluminus: DRK 91

[Naria]

Having a bar light/dark spell on whm and rdm would be great, but I'm not sure how much hope I have for this, considering my smn could have banish IV if I shelled out for a light spirit pact but and my whm doesn't. SE seems to be focusing more on giving jobs new "abilities" then continuations of the old ones.

[Bubeeky]

I would love to get these spells, I'd also love to have our barstatus spells become worthwhile...

[Fetus]

I would love to get these spells, I'd also love to have our barstatus spells become worthwhile...

Start breaking 200+ elemental resistance on your Bar-spell and stack it with the appropriate status you want to avoid (using Barstonra and Barpetra, for example) if you want to start seeing somewhat reliable results. If you know you're going to spam Tunga all day or something, the above example might be appropriate. Or if you're fighting Bukhis, Barblizzara and Barparalyzra work wonders (he spams ice-elemental magic). Basically, you have to fully focus yourself to one element to make anything worthwhile in terms of Bar-spells.

[Aaralyn]

Start breaking 200+ elemental resistance on your Bar-spell and stack it with the appropriate status you want to avoid (using Barstonra and Barpetra, for example) if you want to start seeing somewhat reliable results. If you know you're going to spam Tunga all day or something, the above example might be appropriate. Or if you're fighting Bukhis, Barblizzara and Barparalyzra work wonders (he spams ice-elemental magic). Basically, you have to fully focus yourself to one element to make anything worthwhile in terms of Bar-spells.

200+in barspells alone? How? I have best barpsell set to my knowledge, and have enhancing magic fully merited, though uncapped, but not by much I think? 357 uncapped as /SCH. 158 is my highest.

[Fetus]

200+in barspells alone? How? I have best barpsell set to my knowledge, and have enhancing magic fully merited, though uncapped, but not by much I think? 357 uncapped as /SCH. 158 is my highest.

I seemed to have made a typo. I meant to say try to break 200+ elemental resistance and use the appropriate Bar-status spell (refer to the examples in my post); Not that my Bar-spells alone were breaking 200+. Thanks for pointing that out.

There are a lot of ways to get over 200+ elemental resistance easily. With 8/8 Enhancing Magic, 5/5 Bar-spell Effect, Light Arts and capped Enhancing Magic, as a naked WHM/SCH, I get 130 elemental resistance per Bar-spell. There's a ton of equipment that grants more elemental resistances, Bard songs and Atmas that grant +100 elemental resistance.

Like I already said, you have to tailor yourself to one element to get the most out of Bar-spells.

And Bubeeky, if you've seen amazing results and you think that trying to get over 200+ elemental resistance is ridiculous, then why are you complaining? Just wondering.

[Jykia]

bar spells have been the turning point of life or death for my group on more than one occasion. having merits and the bar-enhancing gear helps a lot. even at a 140 buff, the differences are noticeable.

[Aleste]

200 seems wildly inaccurate... I'm at 154 atm (missing cape/gloves)

Considering the only additional piece that could be added is the Hyksos Robe (for a further 10 skill, but sacrificing the set bonus/barspell enhancement of Orison body) and even that won't jump you ~40 skill.

Ontopic: I can't imagine there being too many mob families where bar-light/dark would get a fair amount of usage, although I wouldn't mind it for completion sake.