Thoughts on the FFXI Job Adjustment Manifesto

[Sasaraixx]

Thank you for all of the testing Pebe. Those of us not on the test server really do appreciate it. And thanks to all those folks testing and posting feedback, it seems that SE is paying attention.

There was a new post on the JP SCH forum today. They are reducing the MP cost of both Embrava and Merton from 30% to 20%. Tabula Rasa's duration is being extended from 90 seconds to 180 seconds. Embrava will be castable on PC's outside of your party and they slightly increased the damage on Merton it seems.

They're also going to give us the reason for the addition of 2hr spells and they will continue adjusting Tabula Rasa at a later date. There are a lot of other items they want to adjust and going forward they are going to make SCH adjustments a priority.

I say we keep providing our constructive feedback. They are aware that SCH needs some work. If they tweak the right elements we'll be back in business.

I appreciate the Dev team being so open, transparent and willing to quickly make adjustments. The test servers are a great way to facilitate change. We may not always agree with their vision but I do think that they are hearing our concerns.

[Ank]

Sweet, I'm glad you or someone that could read it saw that post - so impatient for info but my google translate fu is poor.
180 seconds, that's really interesting, they've tripled the original duration from 1 minute to 3 - makes me wonder what they're really planning.

[Sotek]

I do hope they're finally going to make Stratagems not wear off when casting under Tabula, though if they're increasing the duration to 180 seconds I highly doubt they will - unless they have plans to increase the duration of Chainspell and Manafont - since that just becomes highly overpowered. Hopefully they do some minor adjustments to it, making Tabula Rasa its own Arts (so it replaces Light/Dark rather than going alongside it) for starters, with full Addendum access and access to all Stratagems. It is fairly annoying to switch Arts during Tabula Rasa, especially with the 60 second recast on them.
I'd still rather have a 60 second duration provided that Stratagems don't wear off above all else though, but I'm not going to complain too much if they're tripling its duration. Still, it's annoying to have to reapply 3~5 Stratagems every spell; then again it is called Blank Slate.

Still, if they're looking for feedback it can't hurt for me to repost everything I've already suggested, again.
We really should have a single thread for feedback, having our suggestions sporadically spread across several threads can't make it easy for whoever has to go through these forums looking for it. Two thread, one for suggestions and one for discussion of suggestions seems like a good idea, though we'd need a moderator to have that work properly. I do have to wonder why SE doesn't just give two or three regulars from each job section demi-mod status and have them relay our suggestions to the actual mods who then take them to development, it would be far more efficient than having three or four mods cover the entire forum.

[Pebe]

3 min tabula Rasa.... So I can cast Kaustra x15 in one 2hr @.@ MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! On another note, I guess i'll retest Kaustra when that update hits on same mobs to show the difference in max damage. Ty btw for pointing out that you get the skill benefit in both arts when under tabula rasa, you can tell that I didn't use it much :P. I probably won't get around to testing anymore for a little while as I have a lot of school work to do. I think having all stratedgems up for the entire duration of tabula rasa would be as you said, extremely overpowered. I could just go Ebullience >> parsimony >> alacrity >>Focalization >> enmity down one which i forget since its not merited >> manifestation >>> Blizzard V >> Kaustra >> Fire V >> Kaustra >> Blizzard V >> kaustra >> etc
Toss in a sublimation and convert maybe an aspir halfway through and that would just own manafont XD

[Eric]

Thank you for all of the testing Pebe. Those of us not on the test server really do appreciate it. And thanks to all those folks testing and posting feedback, it seems that SE is paying attention.

There was a new post on the JP SCH forum today. They are reducing the MP cost of both Embrava and Merton from 30% to 20%. Tabula Rasa's duration is being extended from 90 seconds to 180 seconds. Embrava will be castable on PC's outside of your party and they slightly increased the damage on Merton it seems.

They're also going to give us the reason for the addition of 2hr spells and they will continue adjusting Tabula Rasa at a later date. There are a lot of other items they want to adjust and going forward they are going to make SCH adjustments a priority.

I say we keep providing our constructive feedback. They are aware that SCH needs some work. If they tweak the right elements we'll be back in business.

I appreciate the Dev team being so open, transparent and willing to quickly make adjustments. The test servers are a great way to facilitate change. We may not always agree with their vision but I do think that they are hearing our concerns.

This makes me so happy.

[Raksha]

Tabula Rasa's duration is being extended from 90 seconds to 180 seconds.

Any improvements are welcome, but I hope this doesnt make people think that this will 'fix' SCH.

Embrava will be castable on PC's outside of your party

I wonder it they'll make haste accessionable now too.

They're also going to give us the reason for the addition of 2hr spells and they will continue adjusting Tabula Rasa at a later date. There are a lot of other items they want to adjust and going forward they are going to make SCH adjustments a priority.

Maybe i'm just delusional, but I've never really thought that SCH needed major fixes to begin with. Sure adloq/animus spells suck, but it's not like they're a nerf. SCH has pretty much kept pace with the other mages except for light arts.

I say we keep providing our constructive feedback. They are aware that SCH needs some work. If they tweak the right elements we'll be back in business.

I appreciate the Dev team being so open, transparent and willing to quickly make adjustments. The test servers are a great way to facilitate change. We may not always agree with their vision but I do think that they are hearing our concerns.

Agreed! Thank you for all of your consideration devs.

[Merton9999]

Thank you for all of the testing Pebe. Those of us not on the test server really do appreciate it. And thanks to all those folks testing and posting feedback, it seems that SE is paying attention.

There was a new post on the JP SCH forum today. They are reducing the MP cost of both Embrava and Merton from 30% to 20%. Tabula Rasa's duration is being extended from 90 seconds to 180 seconds. Embrava will be castable on PC's outside of your party and they slightly increased the damage on Merton it seems.

They're also going to give us the reason for the addition of 2hr spells and they will continue adjusting Tabula Rasa at a later date. There are a lot of other items they want to adjust and going forward they are going to make SCH adjustments a priority.

I say we keep providing our constructive feedback. They are aware that SCH needs some work. If they tweak the right elements we'll be back in business.

I appreciate the Dev team being so open, transparent and willing to quickly make adjustments. The test servers are a great way to facilitate change. We may not always agree with their vision but I do think that they are hearing our concerns.

You just made my day again Sasaraixx. This all sounds very encouraging, both in terms of looking forward to the changes and in the dev team's willingness to adjust based on test server feedback.

[Sasaraixx]

You just made my day again Sasaraixx.

I aim to please

I haven't translated posts lately because Camate's posts usually follow not too long afterwards. I figured with the holiday today there may be bit of a delay. Hopefully I didn't make any errors!

I will say that if they do stick with making Tabula Rasa 3 minutes, then I withdraw my request to make stratagems last the duratioin of the 2 hour.

[Merton9999]

I will say that if they do stick with making Tabula Rasa 3 minutes, then I withdraw my request to make stratagems last the duratioin of the 2 hour.

I always thought this would be a good idea if they did it with everything but Accession and Manifestation. There are some circumstances where I wouldn't want AOE buffs (storms) or enfeebles (fighting NMs amongst non-aggro mobs for example). I'd be fine with hitting just the AOE strat. But you're right, with a three minute duration this is less than necessary now. I'd still like it though. Even if it's technically easy to do and the time cost isn't as noticeable, it's still kind of messy looking and annoying to spam them all.

[Sasaraixx]

My idea was to make it so that you could toggle them on and off. For example, you use Accession during Tabula Rasa and the icon remains up for the full duration. You cast Embrava and what ever else you need and then you click the icon to toggle it off.

So much of the time of TR was eaten up by using charges. A 3 minute duration would alleviate that hassle a bit. 3 minutes of focalization, alacrity, parsimony and ebullience would be a bit much compared to other 2 hours I think. Having to use the strategems balances it out quite a bit imo.