Barspells

[Eldelphia]

On the whole I love where WHM is at the moment and I love my barspells. Any chance we could see

Barstunra
Barlumina i.e. AoE Barlight
Barnocta i.e. AoE Bardark

?

[Daniel_Hatcher]

I also would like this, it also means if it sticks to their style as with all the others RDM would get the self target equivalent.

[Merton9999]

I'd like this too, but I'm not holding my breath. For some reason SCH and BRD have been deemed worthy to have all element versions of their spell lines, but oddly the missing light and dark enspells were finally introduced only to jobs that are considered specialists in those elements. My nightmare is this will be in the August level cap announcement:

Barnocta: PLD 91
Barluminus: DRK 91

[Naria]

Having a bar light/dark spell on whm and rdm would be great, but I'm not sure how much hope I have for this, considering my smn could have banish IV if I shelled out for a light spirit pact but and my whm doesn't. SE seems to be focusing more on giving jobs new "abilities" then continuations of the old ones.

[Bubeeky]

I would love to get these spells, I'd also love to have our barstatus spells become worthwhile...

[Fetus]

I would love to get these spells, I'd also love to have our barstatus spells become worthwhile...

Start breaking 200+ elemental resistance on your Bar-spell and stack it with the appropriate status you want to avoid (using Barstonra and Barpetra, for example) if you want to start seeing somewhat reliable results. If you know you're going to spam Tunga all day or something, the above example might be appropriate. Or if you're fighting Bukhis, Barblizzara and Barparalyzra work wonders (he spams ice-elemental magic). Basically, you have to fully focus yourself to one element to make anything worthwhile in terms of Bar-spells.

[Jykia]

bar spells have been the turning point of life or death for my group on more than one occasion. having merits and the bar-enhancing gear helps a lot. even at a 140 buff, the differences are noticeable.

[Aaralyn]

Start breaking 200+ elemental resistance on your Bar-spell and stack it with the appropriate status you want to avoid (using Barstonra and Barpetra, for example) if you want to start seeing somewhat reliable results. If you know you're going to spam Tunga all day or something, the above example might be appropriate. Or if you're fighting Bukhis, Barblizzara and Barparalyzra work wonders (he spams ice-elemental magic). Basically, you have to fully focus yourself to one element to make anything worthwhile in terms of Bar-spells.

200+in barspells alone? How? I have best barpsell set to my knowledge, and have enhancing magic fully merited, though uncapped, but not by much I think? 357 uncapped as /SCH. 158 is my highest.

[Aleste]

200 seems wildly inaccurate... I'm at 154 atm (missing cape/gloves)

Considering the only additional piece that could be added is the Hyksos Robe (for a further 10 skill, but sacrificing the set bonus/barspell enhancement of Orison body) and even that won't jump you ~40 skill.

Ontopic: I can't imagine there being too many mob families where bar-light/dark would get a fair amount of usage, although I wouldn't mind it for completion sake.

[Bubeeky]

yea, 200 is rediculous...especially since I've seen amazing results from my barelement spells at their current levels...I'm not worried about those though...what bothers me is that I DO stack bar elements and barstatuses, and the barstatuses do nothing worthwhile because I'm called upon to cure the status (and rightly so) before the barstatus can do anything...I can't remember where I first saw it, but I'd like to see the barstatus spells physically block a status once or twice or something...you know, physically bar the status like I'd assume a barstatus should work.