Quote Originally Posted by Septimus View Post
Comparing Odin to Merton is like comparing apples to oranges. They are cosmetically similar (both need two-hour, both are darkness-based) but have incredibly different mechanics. (Odin is a low chance of death, Merton is single-target direct-damage with a DoT that can be converted to AoE with Manifestation.) Yes, Odin should be improved for both normal monsters and NMs, but Merton isn't the Dev Team giving a SMN ability to another job.

If they gave SCH the ability to cast Death with Tabula Rasa, allowed it to be used with Manifestation, and it didn't have terrible magic accuracy, then yes SMNs would have the right to be miffed about it. But if this makes you mad, you should also be mad at BLMs for having AoE nukes that they can cast that don't require their two-hours. And if that makes you mad, you probably need therapy.

The other thing that I noticed in this thread is that people are talking about Abyssea as if it is still going to be the focus of the game after this next update. I love Abyssea, but Abyssea is over- for better or for worse the new focus of the game is now Voidwatch.
Voidwatch..that thing mostly no one does beyond Japanese? Because it's basically a glorified R.N.G with a slight challenge? Sorry but Abyssea is here to stay, especially if you want to level beyond 90 lol.

Not to mention the stagger system introduced with Abyssea seems to be appearing everywhere....so...