New 2-hour Abilities

[fernando]

i liked what they gave to PLD, oh wait mybad it's not a 2hour it's called THE SHAFT.

[Arcon]

An awful lot of these are going to come down to duration.

Especially the SMN one. Am I reading this right, that the BP delay will be set to zero? Meaning, you can spam BPs with a (Convertable) MP pool of up to 3k? This could be a massive boost for certain fights. That's about 20 BPs worth of hateless damage that can be spammed faster than weapon skills, if the time allows you to consume all of your available MP.

[Siiri]

These seem really weak as a whole. What happened to the person who designed embrava?

[tyrantsyn]

Hell, for all we know, it could make those self-only buffs (or maybe even just enhancing in general) AoE while active, and if it doesn't currently, you guys could scream until they give in. Pretty sure that would give rdm a permanent slot in zergs, if only because being able to give the melees in their party boosted stoneskin, boosted phalanx, boosted enspells (at least when haste samba isn't available or isn't necessary), and boosted temper (especially boosted temper) would make for some pretty handy zerg buffs.

We had it out back and forth with the Dev's about aura's and aoe buff's for RDM. They've made it pretty clear that is not the direction RDM will be taking. Longer duration seem to be tho ticket tho apparently, and maybe quite possible higher value's of buff's.

[Mavrick]

BST Absorbs the pet and recovers both HP and removes status ailments. Also, the player will receive a Reraise effect.

I dare anyone here to find a another job with as much useless job abilities as BST.

[deces]

BST Absorbs the pet and recovers both HP and removes status ailments. Also, the player will receive a Reraise effect.

DO NOT WANT!

[Edyth]

Yes please:
SMN (this is holy awesome.... 10+ consecutive blood pacts)
NIN (can do something without dying now, and it's pretty good)
PUP (Overdrive doesn't do anything, so yay for doing something)
COR (Wild Card is almost always a letdown... let us roll only XI with full merits please)

Sounds pretty good:
BLU
DNC

Questionable:
WAR (MNK has Formless Strikes on a much lower recast....)
THF (will have to see how effective)
SAM (Meikyo Shisui is really good, you know)

Useless if they share recast with old two-hours:
WHM
BLM
RDM
PLD
BST
BRD (unless it lowers enemy stats so much that it outdoes Soul Voice)
DRG (two seconds later, Wyvern dies anyway against a nasty enemy; plus, it'd have to make the wyvern stronger than a Spirit Surging DRG to be useful; so start pumping out that quadruple digit damage, Chomper!)
SCH (try to find a party leader who wouldn't kick a SCH who pulls that **** instead of Embrava)

Both 2-hours are terrible:
DRK

[Luvbunny]

These seem really weak as a whole. What happened to the person who designed embrava?

He or she got massive schooling on scholary subject as "BARANCE"!!!! and how to please stop giving player a really really good two hours and one that is actually deserved to be called 2 hour job ability. So yeah, we are getting craptastic mostly useless new thing, except you know, Samurai is once again getting a new JA that is actually extremely potent.

[Phogg]

I dare anyone here to find a another job with as much useless job abilities as BST.

Level Name
01 Familiar - Useless
01 Charm - Useless (unless you are crazy like me and farm dyna THF/BST like a bawce)
10 Gauge - Useless
12 Reward - All Right! $$
23 Call Beast - All Right! $$
30 Tame - Useless
75 (Merit) Feral Howl - Useless outside Dynamis
75 (Merit) Killer Instinct - Nifty under the right circumstances

Pet JA's
01 Fight - Yeah, do it.
10 Heel - Kthx
15 Stay - Let's take a picture!
25 Sic - Useless
25 Ready - All right!
35 Leave - Nuuuuuu! Effectively useless since charm when the way of the Dodo pet
45 Snarl - All Right!
83 Spur - All Right!
93 Run Wild - Meh

New 2-hour - Useless

Add Pet JA timer reset and you have something, or try again completely. Otherwise, you have another line in the list of things no one will use.

[Luvbunny]

I dare anyone here to find a another job with as much useless job abilities as BST.

Totally agreed with you, they should redesigned Familiar, and make it pet has more hp, attack, accuracy, evasion and magic defense bonus. With the new 2 hours will let pet to be able to spam Ready move for a 90 seconds, cured all hp and status ailments, plus give it haste, regen 4 and regain for 5 mnts. After all the job is called Beastmaster and not dragoon. This new 2 hours should AFFECT the jug pets!! and not the master.