Thoughts on the FFXI Job Adjustment Manifesto

[Alhanelem]

Wait, there's gear that enhances Adloquium? This is news to me.

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[Kimble]

Maybe its enhancing magic based? like how boost and gain spells are?

[Bayohne]

Fixed! Man, you guys are callin' me out non-stop today. Spelled scholar wrong, Bayohne! I've never seen Adloquium-enhancing gear, Bayohne! We miss Camate, Bayohne!

Man...

[Economizer]

Wait, there's gear that enhances Adloquium? This is news to me.

I think they mean gear that boosts the stratagems that can be used with it, like making it last longer. Either that or they're going to release gear that makes it more potent. I really hope so too, because I'd die of a laughing fit if they really meant equipping gear to boost Accession and Perpetuance.

Edit:

In the future, we plan on looking into introducing gear that enhances the effect.

Yup, edited very quickly to reflect what they meant. Poor community reps almost got schooled by a horde of angry Scholars who are acting like they just lost Tenure.

Actually, I think Tenure should be a new Scholar ability of some sort.

[Neisan_Quetz]

EDIT: Post corrected

[Byrth]

Also, you'd have to be a little bit willfully blind to not consider Grounds of Valor and Abyssea "standard procedure."

[SpankWustler]

I guess the general theme of the Scholar adjustments is "We're working on a lot of stuff with Scholar right now, it's a process, please be patient and don't expect any one change to move mountains."

Given that the Regen changes are pretty decent and that the few job over-hauls have gone well in the past, I'm okay with believing the current state of Helices is just one phase of a larger change. Well, assuming that large change doesn't involve level-capped content and me feeling sad because of level-capped content.

This is a bit off-topic, but regarding the effects of "Adloquium," we decided not to adjust its base stats. We recommend increasing its effects by adjusting equipped gear.

I recommend developing a piece of gear that enhances the potency of "Adloquium" some time between now and level 99. I love equipment that affects spells or abilities, but such equipment needs to actually exist in order to have such effects.

Edit: A lot happened while I was going to the bathroom with my post half-typed, apparently! I see gear that enhances "Adloquium" is already planned. Cool.

[Ank]

Vague future adjustments are great and all, just remember that we live now and saying "yeah this adjustment sucks now and only serves to lessen your importance, but we've got a plan" is hard to swallow.

I love equipment that affects spells or abilities

I do to but... I've got a lot of gear on sch. Why can't adloquium just not suck?

[Sasaraixx]

I’m sorry for making similar requests two days in a row, but please understand that we are making adjustments so that scholar becomes a useful job all around and not just a tool for procing weakness in Voidwatch content.

I would ask how that adjustment makes SCH more useful all around. I also would ask you to question the wisdom of making yet another endgame event where SCH lacks any spell procs. Many jobs were left out of Abyssea. You've added a new one to Voidwatch.

Regarding whether being able to use Helix spells starting at a lower level is right or wrong, we understand that it is possible to level up in Grounds of Valor and Abyssea with the help of other players, but we do not consider that standard procedure.

I think it is pretty standard. While key spots in Abyssea parties should not be considered the norm for leveling up, you cannot deny that standard parties are without a doubt the least used method of the three. I can't understand making an adjustment that really isn't that helpful based on a fairly underutilized form of leveling.

Instead of shortening the time in between damage dealt over time, we would like to establish that damage is dealt every 10 seconds.

Even slower tics? You have to increase the damage and duration then. Is the 90 second duration included in the Dark Arts bonus? Will it be available to /SCH jobs as well? You seem to be creating more problems with Helices than actually making them better for Scholars.

This is a bit off-topic, but regarding the effects of "Adloquium," we decided not to adjust its base stats. We recommend increasing its effects by adjusting equipped gear.

How? No gear in the game adjusts the effect, only the duration. Or are you saying that Enhancing Skill now affects potency?

Edit!!
Don't think about adding this gear. Do it!

[Sasaraixx]

Edit:

Yup, edited very quickly to reflect what they meant. Poor community reps almost got schooled by a horde of angry Scholars who are acting like they just lost Tenure.

Actually, I think Tenure should be a new Scholar ability of some sort.

I have a feeling you are about to get it a lot worse than Bayohne.