Final job guides

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Because AST has to deal with weaving the card mechanic.

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Not saying its bad for ast but it just makes whm even worse cause his same spells are not as fast despite being identical up to the same potencies

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Hrm. Blizzard 2 is finally getting a use/purpose separate from Freeze. That'll take some hotbar adjusting. Like most I had already deleted B2 basically... now I gotta find somewhere for Freeze instead. I know we're losing one button from Eno, but, Freeze isn't quite the same as a set-and-forget button... Might take some shuffling. Buu.

Other than that, I think I like the sound of BLM changes. Huzzah for a timer increase.

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Hard agree. B2 being useful after, what, 70 levels... wait, was it ever useful? That's gonna be interesting. I like that AOE seems to be getting dynamic again. BLM always feels more satisfying when you are exploding multiple mobs at once.

Also THANK YOU SE for making Eno passive! One less button for me to accidentally press lmao.

It seems I'm not the only one puzzled by just how little effort seems put into a lot of jobs, especially the healers.

>dragoon literally got no new buttons or changes apart from animations and firstmind thrust and a qol change in botd being a trait.
>healers are getting potency BUFFS on their healing despite downscaling. Sage is a 1 button spam to nobody's surprise given its 80% shb sch. Even more 1 button spam
>despite numerous complaints and yoshida himself stating put feedback on these forums, drk still has no stacks on blood weapon and living dead still not fixed. just because it might be strongest potency doesnt make it mechanically fun which is more important
>unless I'm misreading, nope, heat blast does not have stacks either. Mch ping still punishing
>role skills are still that instead of buttons unique to the jobs
>paladin's health regen is so busted its not going to die unless its either doom, one hit kill or a disgustingly strong tankbuster during their sword phase

I did note however, bard FINALLY can get buffed by their own songs again. If the songs were strong enough to actually see the difference without a parser, which they arent. At least parsers will like it

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Originally Posted by Recon1o6

>despite numerous complaints and yoshida himself stating put feedback on these forums, drk still has no stacks on blood weapon and living dead still not fixed. just because it might be strongest potency doesnt make it mechanically fun which is more important

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They also got Carve and Spit and Abyssal Drain put on the same cooldown.

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Originally Posted by Daralii

They also got Carve and Spit and Abyssal Drain put on the same cooldown.

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Carve and Spit did get a nice potency buff however. Still doesn't excuse one of the only sustains of of DK being so bad it only gains over CoS in packs of 4+

Why they didn't give heal potency to Carve and Spit while abyssal drain get both HP and MP? Seems weird stuff there...

WAR gets healing on Shake It Off, while DRK still has the worst party defence skill, which is also latest of them all.
I see how it is...

SMN still seems boring to play now so I guess I'm going with BLM for the story

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Originally Posted by Recon1o6

>healers are getting potency BUFFS on their healing despite downscaling.

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Potency buff or nerf doesn't mean much when you have the stat squish in mind. They are not necessarily stronger cuz potency is buffed or weaker cuz potency is nerfed. Healing/DPS may play relatively the same despite different in numbers between ShB and EW.

I'm really not one to nitpick and rant much. But sometimes some things in this world confuse me.

Like the division created between shield and regeneration healers. The same expansion this divide is made... WHM, the job most known for pure healing, gets extra charge to one of its single target shields and gains another ST shield. Sorry, this is kinda funny.

I can't wait to hop online and change all bars for SMN. Should have saved a screenshot of the old layout.