Vanafest 2012 Predections

[Monchat]

so a new expansion and at least one new job confirmed (geomancer, looks like a buffer job).

[Zumi]

Well we got geomancer.

[Nala]

Any yall notice on the official home page for the expantion that it does not list ps2 support?


Also about geomancer looks to be a sch/pup/rdm hybrid, does damage, buffs and debuffs, drops totem like things that have HP pools that can be hit by mobs AOE => useless, they will either be too unspecific and fall into RDM category or be too damn awesome to not have as a support role, cant imagine they'd actually let them do well in the DD department to.

Probably am a bit too cynical at this point considering they still havent fixed many major issues yet /sigh hell if they repaired the emity system we might actually allow

[Zumi]

The JP trailer had PS2 listed, probably cause they still sell PS2 games there.

[Mefuki]

The way I'm looking at GEO, it seems like it's completing a trifecta of buff+DD jobs. BRD is buffs+melee, COR is buffs+ranged and GEO is buffs+magic damage. Maybe that's not right, I'm just thinking aloud. Hmm...I guess that kind of sounds like RDM but SE said they wanted to make RDM focus on debuffs.

If that's the case, then they are going to have to be very careful about this enfeeble resistance update to make their vision for RDM a reality.

[bungiefanNA]

The JP trailer had PS2 listed, probably cause they still sell PS2 games there.

Well, I think I know how to manually install an expansion, and the data files should be the same between regions, so I will try to come up with a way to port the JP install data to an NA PS2. I already had a manual update without reinstall for when the last Abyssea expansion caused the "insufficient HDD space" error.

[Zumi]

I am guessing the 2nd new job is a Templer

[saevel]

The way I'm looking at GEO, it seems like it's completing a trifecta of buff+DD jobs. BRD is buffs+melee, COR is buffs+ranged and GEO is buffs+magic damage. Maybe that's not right, I'm just thinking aloud. Hmm...I guess that kind of sounds like RDM but SE said they wanted to make RDM focus on debuffs.

If that's the case, then they are going to have to be very careful about this enfeeble resistance update to make their vision for RDM a reality.

Except Geo has aoe buffs and debuffs.

The resistance update their talking about is for their eventual release of Geo not RDM. As far as SE is concerned RDM doesn't exist anymore, they haven't even attempted to fix a single part of that job. Right now RDM is dead, it doesn't exist and has absolutely no role in any part of the game.

[MarkovChain]

RDM does exist but it now called WHM. Before the level cap increase RDM was preferred to whm becuase of it large MP pool. Now that WHM can have 6-7 refresh tics before refresh, as well as convert, they are the new RDM.

[Mefuki]

Well, maybe they are thinking of making debuffs stack like buffs stack.