New 2-hour Abilities

[Camate]

Greetings everyone!

I have a bit of follow-up information to share about a couple of the new special abilities.

• Warrior
  The new special ability’s effect duration is 30 seconds, and for multi-hit weapon skills, double attack will be calculated as usual so it will not be applied to every hit. We encourage you to try this out on the Test Server in a variety of conditions.
  
  
• White mage
  We plan on adjusting the balance between the effect and the duration as we monitor test trends; however, if we extend one aspect the other would have to be reduced somewhat. Effect wise this would mean the types of status ailments that are resisted. With that said we would like to hear your feedback on this ability.
  
  
• Black mage
  While this ability will not give large increases to the maximum damage dealt from a single spell, it will make it possible to increase the average damage output by gaining a magical accuracy boost that is on the same level as Elemental Seal.
  
  Also, this ability will benefit not only elemental magic, but enfeebling magic and dark magic as well. In terms of increasing damage, we are currently looking into making it easier to land elemental magic by removing half-resists or via other methods. (However, removing half-resists for enfeebling magic would be too much of a boon, so it will be necessary to make adjustments to limit it to elemental magic.)
  
  
• Blue mage
  As we are planning to add spells to Unbridled Learning, in the future as the array of spells grow, the possibilities of this ability will also grow as well.

As always, please test out these abilities as much as possible on the Test Server and continue to give your feedback! We will be checking on the other questions we have seen in this thread, so until we get a response from the development team, sit tight!

[Byrth]

I'd recommend making the White Mage 2-hour give immunity to Charm, Petrify, Death, Terror, and Dispel. It should last for 2 minutes.

[Mirage]

Sounds good to me. At least 95% resistance, in either case.

[Cowardlybabooon]

I'd recommend making the White Mage 2-hour give immunity to Charm, Petrify, Death, Terror, and Dispel. It should last for 2 minutes.

Include Stun with terror.

[noirin]

As long as they don't pull a Sacrosanctity on WHM's new 2hr [1hr?] and make it only last for 1 hit or 30 seconds. If i recall the original design of the new ability was suppose to make your party highly resistant, if not immune, to enfeebles. As Byrth said, it should make you highly resistant to everything he mentioned [it's suppose to be a 2hr afterall]. 2 minutes of duration sounds pretty decent, i can't imagine more than a handful of fights that would last much longer than that, where this would come importantly into play.

[SpankWustler]

[*]White mage
We plan on adjusting the balance between the effect and the duration as we monitor test trends; however, if we extend one aspect the other would have to be reduced somewhat. Effect wise this would mean the types of status ailments that are resisted. With that said we would like to hear your feedback on this ability.

Unless the ability will add a large amount of resistance to some of the nastier status ailments, such as Charm or out-and-out Death such as from the spell, it's hard for me to even start thinking about the duration as something important.

Ideally, I'd like something like this:

I'd recommend making the White Mage 2-hour give immunity to Charm, Petrify, Death, Terror, and Dispel. It should last for 2 minutes.

[Helel]

Well it needs to differentiate itself from perfect defense in some way. If it doesn't have the -dt then it needs to nullify extra effects like Byrth mentioned. It should, at the very very least, nullify every effect that PD does. Charm absolutely needs to be nullified, same for petrify, etc.

[Mirage]

Yeah, the new WHM special ability would be pretty weak if it doesn't protect against more status effects than Perfect Defence currently does. Considering PD adds an enfeebling resistance and damage resistance for up to a minute, the new WHM ability should at least have a duration close to that, and resistance to more enfeebling effects than P.Def because it doesn't give any sort of damage resistance.

If it only protects against status effects that are normally easy to deal with, such as silence, paralyze and slow, it won't be very strong, and even less useful if used against a mob that doesn't even use more than a few different debuffs.

Will this status effect resistance also work against auras? I think it should, at least partially.

Now that I think about it, a resistance to Dispel sounds very good. I hope this happens.

[Hashmalum]

• White mage
  We plan on adjusting the balance between the effect and the duration as we monitor test trends; however, if we extend one aspect the other would have to be reduced somewhat. Effect wise this would mean the types of status ailments that are resisted. With that said we would like to hear your feedback on this ability.

Definitely needs to be immune to all the totally incapacitating statuses: Sleep/Nightmare Sleep, Stun, Petrify, Terror, Charm, and the cheapest of the cheap, Death. It's not a status (but then Dispel isn't either), but is there any chance of doing anything to prevent ability timer reset? Also, does Dispel protection affect status absorbtion like Glavoid, etc. use?

Also, speaking of Charm, there was something mentioned a long time ago about WHM getting a Charm removal spell. What ever happened with that?

• Blue mage
  As we are planning to add spells to Unbridled Knowledge, in the future as the array of spells grow, the possibilities of this ability will also grow as well.

In other words, "Trust us, it might not be good now but it will be good later". No thanks. How about improving the existing spells first? While there are still numerous NM families that spells could be gleaned from, if they are the same quality of most of the existing NM spells they won't be worthwhile.

[Mirage]

In regards to charm, is there any way to actually resist charm? I mean, does it have an element so that you can stack elemental resist gear and hope to avoid it, or is gear which specifically states "resist charm" the only way to avoid it?

I think charm should be affected by resistances like any other magically inflicted status, if this isn't already the case. It is pretty dumb to let a monster that is over 20 levels below you be able to charm you, and even dumber for them to be able to keep the charm on you for a long time, like it currently feels like they are able to.

Also, whm should get bardarkra and barlightra.

Now, less off topic:

Camate: If Unbridled Learning spells currently are so bad that being able to continuously use them during the new Special ability still doesn't make the ability good, I think that is a pretty strong indication that the unbridled learning spells currently just aren't very good at all. Considering UL spells can't be used very often outside of this new SP ability, perhaps the dev team should just admit that the spells aren't very good, and improve a lot of the current ones as well.

If UL spells already were strong enough for it to warrant the one spell per 5 minutes limit they have, the new SP ability would probably already be good, and we wouldn't be having this issue at all!