FINAL FANTASY XI Job Adjustmentｓ Manifesto [Blue Mage]

[xbobx]

There you go. Expect a price drop in the already low-costing Mageblade from BLUs spamming Waugyl. Tada.

Mageblade is rare/ex

[Kensagaku]

Well derp. I have one and you think I'd check. That's what I get for mindlessly replying. :P

[Scuro]

Honestly if it doesn't wipe multiple status ailments or all status ailments currently applied to party members, /throws away in trash, useless and I'll never use it nor equip it unless it has a sexy JA. I would rather use AoE Erase from winds of promy.

[Kensagaku]

Except that erase won't cure poison, paralysis, or any of the other non-erase spells. It'd be a nice AoE healing especially if it's along the lines of a Curaga 3, which is what I'm hoping. Odds are it'll be a curaga II and we'll all QQ about it, but until then I'd rather wait and see. It'd be nice to have a support healing effect for your party as needed, and Winds of Promy isn't going to be restoring HP so that's sorta an odd argument.

[Absit]

You know what I'd like to see? More points! Come on Square! Just give us one extra point at lvls 1, 11, 21, etc. JUST ONE! You give us all these spells/job traits we can get but never enough points!

[Draylo]

That's suppose to be part of the challenge.

[Kegsay]

White Wind is ~700 hp cure.

[Masamunai]

Ignoring the salty THF's, a lot of stuff mentioned that noones picked up on.
Nice! A new job ability! I wonder if it'll have an effect on all spells, or just provide access to HNM.
Thank god the HNM spells are not tacked onto Azure Lore too.

This is interesting. I hope I'm interpreting this wrong but an increase to the number of spells we can set by level? (i.e. LV1-10 6 Spells Max, LV31-40 25 spells max). I've never had an issue with the limit as I've always run out of set points, so hopefully some additional set points will come too.

Thank you.

Higher tiers of Fast Cast coming. Good. They still need to fix our Fast Cast though.

Higher tier of Store TP - Very nice.

Counter 2? Sweet. BLU/MNK can cap counter rate with that.

Higher Tier of Auto Regen - I did not see that coming. Nice, but with 6 set spell point it costs for T1 Auto Regen

Triple Attack - This will be interesting. However there is the thought that Blue Mage doesn't get a lot of Triple Attack equipment.

Trait - 5%
Homam Corazza - 1%
Epona's Ring - 3%

Without more Triple Attack equipment and assuming the trait is the same strength as THF TA1, we're looking at a grand total of 9% TA. And with Homam Corazza already outclassed in every way, it's really just 8%.

That's poor.

5% Triple Attack Trait < 10% Double Attack Trait.

To make this even considerably worthwhile, Blue Mage needs a higher rate of TA.

At the very least, they would need to make the DA Khanda +2 turn into TA. A GOOD amount of TA.

Treasure Hunter - TH1? Pointless. TH2? I'd be interested.

^This. and i would add also what 2 other posteres said:

- please re-evaluate BLUE Magic Attack scalings. Because right now BLUs can't even approach a BLM or SCH spike dmg, or a melee DD dmg, with spells on any notorious monster that matters (ie lvl80+ NMs vs. BLU90). Direct consequence: BLUs are simply called to come to event in another job or stuck in healing/triggering whore only role...
EDIT: i mean as "base" BLU, ie not using SneakAttack, or asking COR buffs to "cheat" spell dmg.

- the 1min cooldown timer... uber annoying... especially on events needing blu for trigger. Someone posted a typical scenario: leader ask blu to set a trigger spell, blu starts to go in spell list and set said spell -20secs passed already there-, blu starts waiting 1min, someone triggers around 45secs waiting, blu feels like "Damn it now i have to re-set the spell i ditched for that trigger spell..." - at least 3mins wasted there, where usually NM is dead by then... Other scenario would be to anticipate and set the 3 potential trigger spell needed, but then that means gimping our total set points to 40~44 instead of usual 50 with 5merits in Assimilation...
A reasonable solution would be either to set that cooldown just before opening the spells list and setting spell(s), not after (and of course NO cooldown if no new spell set); or reduce it to 30secs...

[Ezekieal]

So far i think White Wind never cure status, just give cure all party member equal to your current HP

Just finished a FF7 playthrough, and White Wind DEFINATELY does remove many status ailments, however it removes buffs too. I have seen it remove bio(poison), blindness, slow, confusion, toad and mini to name a few. It also removes all the buffs from Big Guard ie barrier mbarrier and haste.

[Zeo]

- the 1min cooldown timer... uber annoying... especially on events needing blu for trigger. Someone posted a typical scenario: leader ask blu to set a trigger spell, blu starts to go in spell list and set said spell -20secs passed already there-, blu starts waiting 1min, someone triggers around 45secs waiting, blu feels like "Damn it now i have to re-set the spell i ditched for that trigger spell..." - at least 3mins wasted there, where usually NM is dead by then... Other scenario would be to anticipate and set the 3 potential trigger spell needed, but then that means gimping our total set points to 40~44 instead of usual 50 with 5merits in Assimilation...
A reasonable solution would be either to set that cooldown just before opening the spells list and setting spell(s), not after (and of course NO cooldown if no new spell set); or reduce it to 30secs...

This is why I hate using my BLU in VW. I could understand having the cooldown for tactical reasons. OK. They should at least reduce the number of spells possible for each element.