[Job Adjustmentｓ Manifesto] RDM

[Rayik]

yes Strago is a blu but seriously.. who ever used him beyond the 1st event @ the fire house. Was always 2 characters to sit out and he was such a bench warmer.. Realm with fake mustache was much better and fun.

I liked Strago! He was one of the only characters that actually looked like he should be using magic, very old-school wizardy-looking guy. His blue magic was kind of lame compared to the other spells everyone else had access to through Magicite. I think the Magicite ruined everyone's unique abilities in FF6, since everyone can just learn Ultima and be done with it.

[user201108211515]

Dont get me wrong, I got him all his spells every time I played through.. But yea his spells were kinda weak

lol yea but why ultima when you can 8hit everything for 9999 a hit lol

I had thought that before too.. Why can everyone use magic.. only tera and cells shoulda got them really

[Rayik]

New Job stuff

So, RDM did get a Fast Cast JA. Not really sure how useful that's going to be except between battles.

Temper sounds interesting; allows target to occasionally attack twice.

Gain-STR; another nifty spell.

Not much really exciting for RDM on this one. Nice things, but nothing jaw-dropping.

[cidbahamut]

The wording on the JA sounded like it was something we could use to target other party members, although that could just as easily be a bad translation.

[Rayik]

Re-reading the post a bit, If Temper really is "occasionally attacks twice" and not just some form of DA%, then could actually be pretty massive. I posted the link first thing this morning, I don't think my brain was quite awake yet. OAT activates way more than DA in the case of weapons, so maybe this spell will mimic that.

[Seriha]

I'm hoping for DA% over OAT like on Joyeuse and such. Latter doesn't work on WS, former can be further enhanced by gear like Brutal Earring and Atheling Mantle. And as Hyrist pointed out in another thread, it could mean it could also stack upon the DA trait if /WAR. So, if it happens to be 15%, that plus 10% /WAR, 5% Brutal, 2% trousers, and 3% Atheling, you're looking at 35% DA for any weapon you happen to pick up. Might not be Joyeuse's ~45%, but it's also a jump up from a D35 sword where current magians are mid-50s or higher. Could also maintain this /NIN with a DA% sword, similar to BLUs, who are likely to have DA set if focusing on melee (and that is seemingly going to evolve into TA with more spells).

Yeah, 15% is hypothetical, but something like this is one of those baby steps we've needed to steer melee away from lol status. I'm curious to see what gear could come along with this update along with the general WS adjustments.

[FioryGriever]

Wondering if this is the new EN style spell they were referring to, and would it stack w/ EN spells if so.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

The wording on the JA sounded like it was something we could use to target other party members, although that could just as easily be a bad translation.

JAP site (google translate) states Gain-STR is Self-Target only but doesn't do the same for this new spell.

[Ketaru]

Everything like what Temper turns out to be (whether it can be cast on others or not, whether it'll have a duration that won't suck) remains to be seen, but I feel kind of belittled that they have given WHM Addle...not so much BRD because BRD will likely stack with us. But looks like my hopes of having job exclusive enfeebles has just been thrown out the window.

[cidbahamut]

Everything like what Temper turns out to be (whether it can be cast on others or not, whether it'll have a duration that won't suck) remains to be seen, but I feel kind of belittled that they have given WHM Addle...not so much BRD because BRD will likely stack with us. But looks like my hopes of having job exclusive enfeebles has just been thrown out the window.

They did that when they handed Break to Black Mage so I can't really say I'm surprised by it. Disappointed, but not all that surprised. Masters of enfeebling, my ass.