To Devs: Fix Blu

[SpankWustler]

To put a finer point on what Yugl is saying, can you guys tell me how the Blind effect on Nightmare Scythe and the INT Down effect on Skullbreaker are so overpowered that those effects require floored magic accuracy? Can you weave a tale about White Mage's overwhelming power if Randgrith actually applied its Evasion Down effect properly?

Because exactly the same mechanic that affects certain Blue Magic spells, some potentially powerful and some mid-level and useless either way, affects all that stuff too.

Blue Mage is one of the best one-handed melee in FFXI, but that doesn't change something that is either a bug or the most insane tactic for adjusting additional effects ever.

[Areayea]

hm... best thing to this post is I agree that yes, breath spells need to be fixed, and vw procs should be 3 of each element not 4... that's what kills blu in vw

[Llana_Virren]

A Derailed (not detailed) post

The subject of this conversation is "To Devs: Fix BLU" and the basis of the conversation was spells that are a waste of space because they do nothing.

Diaga may be relevant to Ballista, but Ballista is not relevant to the end-game no matter how tough you die-hards wish it to be.

We're not talking about weak v. strong weaponskills, and we're not talking about a problem that "transcends BLU". We're talking specifically about BLU. So create another thread if you want to talk about the dynamics of competing weaponskills.

Lastly, yes the test server in many ways mirrors or adjusts to the live server, however you're assuming that changes made to the test server after the live server imply "deficiencies" as you put it. I disagree; not everything about the live server should or needs to match the test server, and not every discrepancy is inherently a bug.

[SpankWustler]

The subject of this conversation is "To Devs: Fix BLU"

I agree this topic has an over-reaching title and the contents of the first post are way too scatter-shot to welcome focused discussion. That isn't unique to this topic, though.

Welcome to the Official Forums, where nobody has ever taken an English 101 course, nobody would appreciate the irony of being hit in the head with a copy of Ulysses rather than Models for Writers as punishment for poor conveyance of ideas through text, and everybody makes their way down the Magian Trail.

So, I try to pick something kinda-sorta related to a super-broad topic and respond to that. In this case, that happens to be the super-weird magic accuracy mechanic that affects Blue Magic from Sandspin to Tourbillion and weapon-skills from Skullbreaker to Full Break.

[Llana_Virren]

...[T]he Official Forums, where nobody has ever taken an English 101 course....

Welcome to the internet lol.

[Tennotsukai]

Meh, I clep'd that course. Plus, typing from my phone these posts and comments doesn't help at all. Well, I hope we can hear from Camate on this subject... the OP that is.

[SpankWustler]

Meh, I clep'd that course. Plus, typing from my phone these posts and comments doesn't help at all. Well, I hope we can hear from Camate on this subject... the OP that is.

Given how often the magic accuracy weirdness has been brought up in various other forums with lack of response, sadly, I think the Development Bros just roll their eyes back into their heads and start drooling onto their keyboards when it comes up.

Either that, or they think Skullbreaker is the most epic enfeebling ability ever. In which case, I wouldn't hold out much hope for Thunder Breath ever making sense either.

[saevel]

Ok I'll end all the BS discussion then. SE won't be doing the above proposed *fixes*, they may eventually fix the VW procs through. People can keep pretending, though I suggest you don't hold you breath.

Actually do hold your breath, that many less annoying people we have to deal with.

[Afania]

where is prothescar when you need him....

I think he's inactive(I think), and you can't post if you're inactive.

[Tennotsukai]

I think he's inactive(I think), and you can't post if you're inactive.

Yeah, I PM'd him on ffxiah and found that out, lol. I wonder why though... he's one of the best.