Ranged DPS, what's gonna be the highest after 2.1?

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Originally Posted by Nemhy

So they cannot do WP speedruns anymore...while summoner gets TRASHED in content that actually matters. Great trade

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Content that matters = Twintania. BLM still doesn't even come close to SMN on that fight even with losing thunder.

Yeah, I'm mad about the boots change, but you know what we get 450 myth a week, we're gearing up faster it's not the end of the world IMO. Black Mages are still gonna be used for Burst/AoE, summoners are still gonna be preferred for single target bosses, Bards are going to be wanted for support.

Using AF+1 boots for like 2 months now hasn't given me any problems.

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Originally Posted by Seobit

Using AF+1 boots for like 2 months now hasn't given me any problems.

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The problem isn't there.

Instead of changing the BLM's boots who has the exact same stats as the allagan one... they changed the allagan one which WERE way better for the SMN that the mytho one. They're giving more options to BLM and forcing SMN to buy the mytho one... that is just plain wrong.

You got just as many options as BLM. Two items. Pick one or the other.

Nope. We need more ACC than they.

Then pick the boots that give accuracy.

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Originally Posted by Allyrion

Regardless, we have lost Blizzard II due to it's potency getting halved which is a big part of our Flare rotation.
I wonder if Flare is even viable now since Transposing is going to have a greater effect on the speed of the AoE rotation.

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I take this back after looking at changes to Freeze.
Quoting myself from another thread -

Now Freeze.
The is potentially going to take the place of Blizzard II in our Rotation.

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Freeze
Potency has been increased from 20 to 100, and the casting time has been reduced from 3.5 to 3 seconds.

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It now does the old Blizzard II damage, is 0.5 seconds longer and does cost a good bit more mana (but still only one tick of Umbral I regen).
Bam! A new Blizzard II (unique to BLM, since Blizz II is cross classed now) and only 0.5 seconds longer.
We also got a nice bind included in it.

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Originally Posted by Seobit

Then pick the boots that give accuracy.

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Yeah, the ACTUAL allagan ones do that. After the patch we will have to take a worse item than the pre-nerf allagan ones.

The BLM will still have access to the better ones. How can you not see the problem ?

Why didn't they just make an other pair of allagan boots (and all the other allagan) to give BLM/x Job more choice ?

It is a terrible decision made by Square Enix. It is a really bad and pathetic one.

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Originally Posted by Shamirah

Yeah, the ACTUAL allagan ones do that. After the patch we will have to take a worse item than the pre-nerf allagan ones.

The BLM will still have access to the better ones. How can you not see the problem ?

Why didn't they just make an other pair of allagan boots (and all the other allagan) to give BLM/x Job more choice ?

It is a terrible decision made by Square Enix. It is a really bad and pathetic one.

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Yoshi P want's blm to be the only relevant caster job. =P

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Originally Posted by PriyaJugulataris

Yeah, I'm mad about the boots change, but you know what we get 450 myth a week, we're gearing up faster it's not the end of the world IMO. Black Mages are still gonna be used for Burst/AoE, summoners are still gonna be preferred for single target bosses, Bards are going to be wanted for support.

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Brd's support is usless as ppl gear up, and they got a utility nerf.
Its a casual gamer adjust, not a class balance.
Remove endgame and just make a lego FFXIV Version, they are half way there ^^)

Best ranged class is going to be monk.

Just, everyone go monk, i'm sure they'll have rocket punch fists soon.

Where are all the changes posted?

You can't run all monks you're going to nerf your LB (might not matter that much though). Best setup is probably mnk + drg if your group can handle double melee np, then any two of the remaining ranged dps, probably doesn't even matter which one. Bard if you need it I guess. In all honesty though anything that doesn't do doubles is still perfectly viable. As much as people hate nerfs, game balance is probably in a good place right now. Aside from monk. **** monks.

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Originally Posted by Leiron

Where are all the changes posted?

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Here they are.