Meteor

[Alhanelem]

The first paragraph states that immediately after the first BLM casts, damage for the next spell will be reduced. The second paragraph states that a BLM party of 6 casting meteor every time that ES is (natually) up will not be affected at all.

These are not consistent statements. Which is true? The second statement can only be true if damage reduction starts only after the 6th spell hits.

6 BLMs cast a single meteor. It's not 6 meteors being cast. What you get in the log is something like this:

Coolguy starts casting Meteor on the Badguy. (Ring appears over target's head and a blob goes into it)
Awesomeguy starts casting Meteor on the Badguy. (another blob goes into the ring still on screen)
Hotchick starts casting Meteor on the Badguy. (another blob goes into the ring)
Badass starts casting Meteor on the Badguy. (another blob goes into the ring)
Foxylady starts casting Meteor on the Badguy. (another blob goes into the ring)
Bestestguy starts casting Meteor on the Badguy. (another blob goes into the ring, and the meteor drops)
Coolguy leads the casting of meteor.
Badguy takes 43487 points of damage.

If someone else starts casting while the first person is casting, the first person's spell doesn't end until everyone else who starts casting finishes.

In other words, it works exactly like the black mages in the opening cinematic, banding together to create a single powerful spell.

[Asymptotic]

Actually, the last caster is the leader.

[Lokithor]

Thanks for the explanations. I've not seen a post anywhere that actually describes the mechanics that clearly.

[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.

[larrymc]

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.
　

This makes a lot of sense. I wish SE was this clear and concise in all of their communications.

[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.

[Arcon]

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

With properly geared BLM the resist rate could be floored and it would be abused. This guarantees proper resists.

[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.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

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.

Say what!?

1. The spell isn't gimp in any form.
2. It was always non-elemental.
3. It makes Affinity Staves and Weather Bonus pointless and that's all.
4. You're the reason they put a block on it, Meteor wouldn't be the BLM's only spell, in waiting for Seal to return you can do MANY other spells.

Troll harder!