Meteor

[Fupafighter]

fanatics proc a red or 2 METEOR SPAM.

[Arcon]

Unless the resistance is in the same class as AV's Souleater resistance, this will still be very much overpowered on VW mobs. A party of 18 BLM could take down any VW mob in seconds with ease. Just use Alacrity and ES, pop the NM, use a Fool's/Fanatic's and start a coordinated nuke. 4s casting will be increased to ~6s casting time, considering all people will start at slightly different times. Which means in about 20 seconds all three Meteors will be fired and what's left of the mob will have to be scraped from the floor.

[Godofgods]

For the metor animation have we have the three Cherukiki siblings appear in front of us shouting ME-TE-OR! ?



I miss these guys... (and girl)

[Zackan]

Blah to all you meteor is overpowered, all jobs need a op ability.. i call shinanigans.


Unless this makes us king of DPS its all bad arguments. Remember back to the lvl 75 days doing Divine Might? There were many ways to do that fight, but the easiest by far was 15+ lvl 75 Blm's timing thundaga 3. Blm is SUPPOSE to be KING of spike damage. Having meteor gave to us is like.. our crown was stolen from us... but now we are getting it back.

My only question in regards to meteor... does it make us out DPS other classes? I don't see this happening.. its a 10 min cooldown after all.

[Camate]

Greetings!

I’d like to give some follow-up info on the cumulative resistance for Meteor.
　
• Cumulative Resistance Effect and Duration Time
The damage reduction effect from the cumulative resistance peaks directly after Meteor hits and then gradually tapers off. The effect disappears after 5 minutes.

When casting Meteor with a party of 6 people every time you can use Elemental Seal, you will not be affected by cumulative resistance at all.
　
• Necessity for Cumulative Resistance
As many of you who are testing out the spell on the test server know, casting Meteor with 6 people deals a high amount of damage compared to other elemental magic spells, and since it is non-elemental, you can expect it to deal a steady amount of large damage without elemental resistances at all.

This is the attractiveness of Meteor and lends itself to being used as a trump card of sorts.

On the other hand, we feel that there shouldn’t be extreme circumstances where you can clear every bit of content only by casting Meteor.

This is one of the reasons for the necessity of Elemental Seal, but this can be avoided by using abilities and medicines, so in order to limit chain casting of Meteor we decided to implement the cumulative resistance safeguard as a result of looking into how we can prevent this.

In other words, we felt it necessary to prevent strategies that focus on alliances using Meteor at once or other strategies that rely on medicines and abilities to allow for continuous use of Meteor.
　

[Fredjan]

In other words, we felt it necessary to prevent strategies that focus on alliances using Meteor at once or other strategies that rely on medicines and abilities to allow for continuous use of Meteor.

Completely agree that it's necessary to have more of a limitation than just Elemental Seal. Meteor's an awesome concept, but the ability for 18 BLM to abuse this (or 6 BLM repeatedly through ability/item use) would turn the game into something that's not even a challenge.... against stuff that currently is considered as such.

[MarkovChain]

　
• Necessity for Cumulative Resistance
As many of you who are testing out the spell on the test server know, casting Meteor with 6 people deals a high amount of damage compared to other elemental magic spells, and since it is non-elemental, you can expect it to deal a steady amount of large damage without elemental resistances at all.
　

What's the point of making it non elemental then ? It should be light or drk element and it would get resists.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

What's the point of making it non elemental then ? It should be light or drk element and it would get resists.

Really? the point of Meteor is it is non-elemental.

[MarkovChain]

Really? the point of Meteor is it is non-elemental.

No SE chose to make it non elemental (unknown if it is also the case for AV and behemoths), and making it non elemental makes 90% of BLM gear trash for it. No idea why they made it non elemental in the first place. It sounded cool maybe buy now they are facing the consequences of their choices. At least we learned that mobs have no magic evasion to non elemental damage, so we can be certain that mob's stats are "elemental : +x magic evasion" and also that "magic evasion" gear doesn't affect non elemental damage. Not that it matters.

It the end we are getting a gimp spell that you can only use once, completely defeating the purpose of gathering 6 BLM in the party.

[Eric]

No SE chose to make it non elemental (unknown if it is also the case for AV and behemoths), and making it non elemental makes 90% of BLM gear trash for it. No idea why they made it non elemental in the first place. It sounded cool maybe buy now they are facing the consequences of their choices. At least we learned that mobs have no magic evasion to non elemental damage, so we can be certain that mob's stats are "elemental : +x magic evasion" and also that "magic evasion" gear doesn't affect non elemental damage. Not that it matters.

Have you seen the damage numbers for Meteor? Shut up and enjoy how awesome the spell is.

People like you always seem to need a reason to bitch about something. Just stop it. It's fucking annoying.