[To the Devs] Nerf petrify for the sake of solo players or just called it "Death"

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Originally Posted by Rie

Most of the time, you can turn away and avoid getting petrified. Suck less.

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I heard there's this thing called latency that prevents you from seeing things in time to actually react in a way that would prevent the effect or damage. Confirm/Deny?

There's also everyone's favorite campaign mob, Gi'Ghi Rockchopper who seems to have the uncanny ability to chain-breakga for insane range while perpetually having 2 pets capable of inflicting you with Calcifying Mist for yet even more stoner fun of the non-cannabis variety. Now I have the munchies.

I need clarification:

To nerf petrified, you mean to banned all [A] n00b who started the game 2 days ago and got 3 level 90 jobs and always afk/petrified in an exp pt or the magic petrify?

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Originally Posted by CrystalWeapon

They screwed up bind a long time ago as well. I used to have fun with that on rdm and blm. *get hate* > *bind the mob in place* > *let the melee's beat the hell out of it till it's off you* Now petri and bind are cookie cutter versions of each other with the first lasting longer than the second.

Kinda curious did hordecore get banned for a while or something? It's been a while since he's spammed his two random thoughts for the day.

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Not quite right, but close. I favor Break when I don't want a mob casting on me (Silence won't land, just wore, or I haven't cast it yet) or plinking me with ranged attacks. Otherwise, yeah, I tend to use Break much like Bind.

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Originally Posted by Eeek

Not quite right, but close. I favor Break when I don't want a mob casting on me (Silence won't land, just wore, or I haven't cast it yet) or plinking me with ranged attacks. Otherwise, yeah, I tend to use Break much like Bind.

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True true, sorry I overlooked that aspect. I just miss the days of binding a sleeping mob then nuking the piss out of him before it wore off. I quit blm years ago, came back during the abyssea add ons. I noticed the gimp to bind, got my hopes up for break, then got disappointed again when I saw it wore off in a similar fashion.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

I heard there's this thing called latency that prevents you from seeing things in time to actually react in a way that would prevent the effect or damage. Confirm/Deny?

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Maybe lag, but if you are paying attention you can easily see "Sand Lizard casts Baleful Gaze on X" or "Evil Eye casts Level 5 Petrify on X" in plenty of time to turn away from it and avoid any subsequent damage.

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Originally Posted by CrystalWeapon

True true, sorry I overlooked that aspect. I just miss the days of binding a sleeping mob then nuking the piss out of him before it wore off. I quit blm years ago, came back during the abyssea add ons. I noticed the gimp to bind, got my hopes up for break, then got disappointed again when I saw it wore off in a similar fashion.

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I think all of us mages were disappointed when Break didn't work like the Petrify that mobs get to use. :(

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Originally Posted by Octaviane

Maybe lag, but if you are paying attention you can easily see "Sand Lizard casts Baleful Gaze on X" or "Evil Eye casts Level 5 Petrify on X" in plenty of time to turn away from it and avoid any subsequent damage.

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While this is Correct for Baleful Gaze from lizards, Level 5 Petrify is not a gaze attack, so turning would not prevent it.

However, there are exceptions to the Baleful gaze, "Baleful gaze" from Cockatrice is near instant, unless you're already turning/turned around when it readies it (Thanks to lovely game lag) you're always going to be hit, which it crap.

However, I will say, If we were to "nerf" Petrify, I would like it simply to be similar to player petrify, make it to where getting hit has a small chance to "break" petrify. Would be nice, not needed, but nice.

How in the world would I have fun MPK'ing my LS in Dynamis-Bastok? On that first Beastmaster pull, I get my Diaga nice and ready...

So you object to petrify while soloing but you're ok with paralyze?