Rune Fencer Tidbits?

[ManaKing]

Any chance we can get a better idea of what enhancing magic Rune Fencers are going to get access to?

Also, MP pool. Somewhere near PLD or closer to RDM?

I know I don't need to make a Ragnarok or Caladbolg, since they can't use them. Any insight as to what kind of offensive abilities they will have?

[Daniel_Hatcher]

FOR MP: Neither, they don't use MP, they use Runes.

[Mathieu]

From the sounds of it, their offensive capabilities are "can use Great Sword." It seems to be mostly a defensive job.

Also, as mentioned, they don't have magic. Runes are their own separate thing.

[Demon6324236]

If I'm not mistaken SE contradicts themselves on this. If I remember correctly they have said a few times they would have Enhancing magic but they would not be a magic job, which makes no sense. So honestly thats the question we need answered 1st, will Rune have any magic? If so, what will it be, and how much MP will it have to spend on its magic?

[Arcon]

I believe I heard it mentioned that they will in fact use MP. I'll try to find the post, but I'm sure I heard it somewhere.

[Insaniac]

It's in the gamer escape interview:

Rune fencers will also be able to utilize enhancing magic, so like paladins they will also utilize and consume MP.

[saevel]

From the sounds of it, their offensive capabilities are "can use Great Sword." It seems to be mostly a defensive job.

Also, as mentioned, they don't have magic. Runes are their own separate thing.

Pray deeply from whatever secret place you keep your hope that this isn't the case. If it's a purely defensive job then it'll never be used, ever.

In case nobody's here has actually been playing the game, we don't use tanks anymore as their worthless. A super Brochain PLD can do absolutely nothing except hold a NM or adds. The "tank" can never hold hate, the DD's can't "hold back" or you'll time our / wipe, and even then the NM just goes "GRRR DIE!!" and everyone (except the PLD) takes 1500~2000+ damage. So even if the PLD was able to hold hate it wouldn't do any good as everyone else would be dead. Blame SE's shitty game design, they refused to update hate / damage mechanics and instead of creating AI they instead made every single NM require Perfect Defense or Fanatics Drinks to survive.

SE needs to completely redo their NM stats, reduce their aoe damage output by 50~75% or more, otherwise it's just requires PD. Then reduce hate from damage to 25% of it's current value (same with cures) and increase hate gained via JA / Flash while giving *tank* jobs some additional hate tools. Only way a tank can possibly "tank" is if they can generate more hate with their tools then a melee can going full bore.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

It's in the gamer escape interview:

lol, wow, good to see SE actually decided on what the job would have before announcing it.

Oh, no, wait!

Week 1: They wont have magic.
Week 2: They will have magic.
Week 3: Okay we give up, we're making it as useless as RDM.

[Mathieu]

Until Rune Fencer is actually out, it's pretty much up in the air what they are going to be. This isn't even factoring in that they could have a Ninja situation and have some completely broken ability that makes them ideal at a different role than they were designed for.

[ManaKing]

Until Rune Fencer is actually out, it's pretty much up in the air what they are going to be. This isn't even factoring in that they could have a Ninja situation and have some completely broken ability that makes them ideal at a different role than they were designed for.

Didn't even think about that.

Also, glad someone else saw the post of them having MP and Enhancing magic.