FINAL FANTASY XI Job Adjustmentｓ Manifesto [Blue Mage]

[Nightfyre]

Enough with the 5 min recast interrupts already. I can already AoE stun weak mobs with one of several spells without burning a 5 minute JA, trying to stun anything of consequence with Thunderbolt or Absolute Terror is largely impractical because anything that needs to be stunned will have already gone off by the time you're halfway through casting the spell, if not by the time you've gotten out of JA lock. Even if you give Terror a decent cast time as opposed to Thunderbolt, you're still looking at an interrupt with a minimum 1.5 second cast time. You could pop Unbridled Learning the moment it comes up, but it only lasts a minute and if you really need the spell that badly what are you going to do for the remaining 4 minutes? I thought Temporal Shift was bad with its 2 minute recast but frankly this is ridiculous.

[Draylo]

There could be something we aren't seeing here as well, the spell itself gives terror but there are no descriptions based on Camates post. What if it had an additional effect like hate reset, similiar to horrid roar. That could be useful haha. (hate reset for the BLU only, obviously)

[THD]

We'd consider the Pixie special abilities Spring Breeze, Summer Breeze, Autumn Breeze, and Winter Breeze, but they are too powerful, so they are pretty unlikely to be implemented.

I'm sorry, but this is a completely unintelligent argument against implementing spells. We all know SE is able and capable of changing spells around to avoid "overpowering" Blue Mages. Take the following scenarios for example:

Example: Exuviation

• Player effect: Restores HP and removes one detrimental magic effect.*
• Enemy effect: Full Erase. Restores HP based on amount of debuffs it erased from itself.*

Example: Blazing Bound

• Player effect: Deals fire damage to an enemy.*
• Enemy effect: Deals Area-of-Effect fire damage + Burn.*

*From: http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/

Once again, this excuse is lame and lacks total credibility. If SE does not want to include any Pixie spells, that is their prerogative; just come out and say it. But don't pretend we're idiots with these types of comments.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

I'm sorry, but this is a completely unintelligent argument against implementing spells. We all know SE is able and capable of changing spells around to avoid "overpowering" Blue Mages. Take the following scenarios for example:

Example: Exuviation

• Player effect: Restores HP and removes one detrimental magic effect.*
• Enemy effect: Full Erase. Restores HP based on amount of debuffs it erased from itself.*

Example: Blazing Bound

• Player effect: Deals fire damage to an enemy.*
• Enemy effect: Deals Area-of-Effect fire damage + Burn.*

*From: http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/

Once again, this excuse is lame and lacks total credibility. If SE does not want to include any Pixie spells, that is their prerogative; just come out and say it. But don't pretend we're idiots with these types of comments.

Can you blame them, even gimped those spells would be equal to JA'a and way too powerful.

[Zagen]

Can you blame them, even gimped those spells would be equal to JA'a and way too powerful.

Not really, for example:

Spring Breeze - 25% of total TP down + sleep on trash mobs. 10 TP down on NMs if it lands
Summer Breeze - Aoe Erase + self regain at 1tp/tick based on skill say 10 or 20 skill = 1 second.
Autumn Breeze - Self target Cure VI equivalent that doesn't work with Diffusion.
Winter Breeze - Dispel + short Stun on trash mobs. Dispel if it lands on NMs.
Zephyr Arrow - Ranged Damage + Bind on trash. Ranged Damage on NMs.
Lethe Arrows - Same as Zehpyr, with chance of Amnesia on trash mobs.
Cyclonic Turmoil - Damage similar to Leaf Storm + Dispel 1 buff.

There the pixie abilities have been nerfed to non over powered state. THD is right their excuse is BS, there's no reason to make up stupid excuses that hold no water just say no.

[Babekeke]

If a spell is overpowered, it should just have a big mp cost and cost 10+ blue magic spell points to set. That way it becomes 'emergency only', and if you set spells to prepare for that emergency, you have to lose out on several other spells to accomodate it.

That's how BLU works!

[Prothscar]

If a spell is overpowered, it should just have a big mp cost and cost 10+ blue magic spell points to set. That way it becomes 'emergency only', and if you set spells to prepare for that emergency, you have to lose out on several other spells to accomodate it.

That's how BLU works!

No. No this is not how BLU works.

[Darkvalkyr]

She's kiddin around, take it with a light heart and go have a hearty laugh.

[Babekeke]

No. No this is not how BLU works.

The more overpowering a spell is, the harder is should be to accomodate. The 4-5 point spells tend to be thus, so if you want to set them, you can't set as many.
1000 needles was *supposed* to be way overpowering for it's level (unfortunately the broken accuracy made this not so) so it was 5 points to set and 350mp.

Hence, that's how BLU works.

[Zagen]

The more overpowering a spell is, the harder is should be to accomodate. The 4-5 point spells tend to be thus, so if you want to set them, you can't set as many.
1000 needles was *supposed* to be way overpowering for it's level (unfortunately the broken accuracy made this not so) so it was 5 points to set and 350mp.

Hence, that's how BLU works.

Regurgitation says what? Not to mention a ton of other spells we get. So no that's not how BLU works.