Shadowbringers Job Actions Trailer

I think AST is playing much more into it's Time Mage part then it ever has. The idea in my head is that, all those cards that were applied within the first couple actions? Didn't actually take effect until it used that first big ground covering skill, essentially meaning they were time delayed. I also don't think we'll be able to put cards on everyone at 50% power/do 200% time/150% pot at half the time, that seems to be gone. Though certain classes were missing ablities in the video that are almost certainly not being taken away (like WHM's holy given it was used in it's intro, or WAR's Onslaught).

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

Wonder if there's going to be a lore reason for WHM seemingly shifting to using strictly light/holy attacks instead of earth/wind.

Gameplay wise, I assume it's mostly cosmetic and done to dodge around the fact that there's no spell tier higher then -ja currently.

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Probably something to do with the fact that we're going to the First and fighting Sin Eaters for the expansion. Which means, a whole lot of ambient Light and not a lot of ambient Earth/Wind aether...

That and it seems that Amdapori magic, that White Magic is derived from, has more focus on Light aspected abilities - Such as Holy - As opposed to being Elemental based like Conjury is.

Like, after becoming White Mages, we start getting more focus towards Light aspected skills as opposed to continuing to getting Elemental aspected skills (Aside from obligatory upgrades to Stone/Aero) and thus this is a continuation of that trend.

The interesting thing about Amdapori magic is also how they appear to have found a way to weaponise healing spells. This is shown during the fight with the Kuribu statue in The Lost City of Amdapor (Hard) where it at first just uses healing spells and then casts the "Reverse" buff on itself that turns its Cure spells into attacks.

Could it be that White Mage in ShB has learned the same technique and replaced Stone and Aero with Reversed versions of Cure and Regen?

It would go well with the theme of becoming a warrior of darkness. What's danker than perverting light magic into a weapon to fight light-aspected creatures with?

The video shows a bunch of combat effects, but says nothing about what the actions are, or what they do. No use to me.

So, when will the detailed info about the actions be released?

I'm really glad they're giving NIN an AoE combo that refreshes huton because having to worry about it falling off during AoE spam was pretty annoying.

PLD and DRK also look like they're getting more AoEs, which is good because WAR's AoE damage output was disproportionately high compared to them.

The only thing I was really disappointed about in the whole live letter / job action trailer, is that the SAM uses True North meaning positionals are still a thing. Other than that everything looks amazing.