Loss of drain on Blm...really?!

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Originally Posted by YanderePrincess

I mean, the number of times I've heard someone ask a question like that about something super important to a job kinda negates your reasoning there. Just because you weren't aware of it doesn't inherently mean it was useless. :P

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Drain was absolutely worthless. The heal on it wasn't even equivalent to a mook's auto attack. If you ever found yourself 'needing' to use it, you have bigger issues.

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Originally Posted by YanderePrincess

Hon, we didn't used to have a regen buff in solo content. This made certain solo content, even job specific quests, extremely challenging on certain jobs. It's really not that different from the fact that while Titan-Egi was pretty much always shit, the removal of Titan-Egi as an actual tank pet had people legitimately worried about how one would do quite a few of the solo duties in both the summoner job quests and MSQ as Summoner.

You're also ignoring the fact that more than half the general population of the game *are* in fact bad players (which is fine, they have a right to enjoy the game, too), and if there's any content that it's reasonable to give them an extra boost on, it's *solo* content that's intended for *everyone* to enjoy.

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Wasn't Drain and the solo content regen buff both introduced in Stormblood?

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As it was, it was a rubbish skill that either needed changing, or removing.

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I wouldn't have been adverse to it becoming more useful or impactful, but we'd then enter the territory of BLM's being far too universally overpowered. We already do a significant amount more dps than other classes, we already have the best shield in the game, we already have the best situational mobility skill (aetherial manipulation on a 10 second cd) and we already have one of the best downtime management mechanics (umbral soul).

To now want a sustain in the form of heals is a little greedy if you ask me.

If people have that much of an issue not having it... I don't see why Scathe couldn't be remade to Drain. Keep the instant cast/20% thing and add a small HP recovery. That way the flavor is preserved without much of a drastic change.

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Originally Posted by JowyAtreides

Wasn't Drain and the solo content regen buff both introduced in Stormblood?

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I honestly can't remember, exactly, but I don't think the regen buff was introduced until later on in Stormblood?

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Originally Posted by Videra

Drain was absolutely worthless. The heal on it wasn't even equivalent to a mook's auto attack. If you ever found yourself 'needing' to use it, you have bigger issues.

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I'm sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. Just because you never made positive use of it doesn't mean it was absolutely worthless. It was very rarely useful, which is why I don't really mind it being gone; but to say it was absolutely worthless is just flat out wrong, as is accusing people of being bad at the game just because they recognized situations where it was beneficial and you didn't.