Thoughts on the FFXI Job Adjustment Manifesto

[Economizer]

I'll keep suggesting they stop going this direction since we have a test server and a feedback forum for such things.

Perhaps Scholars will manage to get sub usable Helix spells blocked. I don't think it would overly affect anyone outside of procs. This has a pretty good chance of even being the best solution to the issue - even if SE went along with Helix spells scaling up with level, I don't think there would be much difference if Helix spells were just learned at level 50 or 55 if they really wanted to lower the level on them.

All that said, I just think that given how much SE's team seems to want this change, there should be suggestions that work with it too, in addition to just saying that Helix spells shouldn't be adjusted in level. If the dev team is willing to be flexible, we should be too in our feedback. It is more of a back up plan of sorts, kind of like saying, "I would much prefer A, but if you must go with B, please make C adjustments to the idea."

So please, keep up the pressure in what you want, I don't think it is unreasonable to say Helix spells shouldn't be sub usable. Just be willing to discuss alternatives if the changes SE is making end up going through.

[Sotek]

All that said, I just think that given how much SE's team seems to want this change, there should be suggestions that work with it too, in addition to just saying that Helix spells shouldn't be adjusted in level. If the dev team is willing to be flexible, we should be too in our feedback. It is more of a back up plan of sorts, kind of like saying, "I would much prefer A, but if you must go with B, please make C adjustments to the idea."

The issue I have with this is that there is literally no reason for them to lower the level of Helices. When they have no conceivable reason to do this it's very hard to cut them some slack.

Letting lower level Scholars feel more scholarly is a non-reason and quite clearly bullshit, or at the very least extremely poorly thought out; be it through a new level capped end game event that the majority of people are going to hate, or simply not understanding the current level system that badly.
Adjusting the strength of them, again, doesn't require their level to be dropped. Another non-reason.

I'd be flexible with them if they'd be honest with us. If they came out and said "We don't want Scholar to be useful for our stupid Stagger system", I'd be flexible, pissed off, but flexible. As it is, I'm just pissed off. Eight Helices isn't exactly the twenty four unique spells Black Mage gets for Stagger, but it was a start. Now White Mage gets them all, thanks SE.