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Originally Posted by Xenitan

I don't possibly see how you're confused. They changed Manawall from blocking 2 physical attacks to absorbing a certain amount of physical damage because there's going to be a lot more magic-based attacks in the game. Duh. Gosh, how could you not understand?

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Manawall was only 2 hits. Everyone makes it sound like its 50 hits or something. TWO freaking hits. The reason he gave isn't a good one.

Let me make this bigger for you: TWO HITS.

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Originally Posted by Twilite

Manawall was only 2 hits. Everyone makes it sound like its 50 hits or something. TWO freaking hits. The reason he gave isn't a good one.

Let me make this bigger for you: TWO HITS.

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Your sarcasm detector is failing you.

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Originally Posted by Sleigh

Your sarcasm detector is failing you.

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Phew, I was worried my sarcasm generator was on the fritz.

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Originally Posted by Twilite

Manawall was only 2 hits. Everyone makes it sound like its 50 hits or something. TWO freaking hits. The reason he gave isn't a good one.

Let me make this bigger for you: TWO HITS.

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Now I can't teleport to people who get double meteor streams and see how much I can make them panic :(

It's a huge deal!

If they had to nerf it, why 20% lol, even manaward is 30%.

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Originally Posted by scarebearz

If they had to nerf it, why 20% lol, even manaward is 30%.

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As I said earlier, they stated that they changed Manawall from blocking 2 attacks to absorbing 20% of your hp's worth of physical damage because bosses will have more magical attacks and therefore this change will make the game more fun for you.

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Originally Posted by Xenitan

As I said earlier, they stated that they changed Manawall from blocking 2 attacks to absorbing 20% of your hp's worth of physical damage because bosses will have more magical attacks and therefore this change will make the game more fun for you.

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What does that have to do with Manawall though?

"Ah the boss will do more magic damage, so lets nerf BLM's physical shield."

It may not be totally useless now, but's it's pretty close to being.

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Originally Posted by scarebearz

What does that have to do with Manawall though?

"Ah the boss will do more magic damage, so lets nerf BLM's physical shield."

It may not be totally useless now, but's it's pretty close to being.

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I have no idea. I'm just repeating what we were told. Manawall was changed from blocking 2 attacks to absorbing 20% of your HP's worth of physical damage because magic attacks are more common now.

I think its more to do with manaward having a trait that boost it to 30 from 20% and the general weakness of the job being physical damage. manawall being 20% follows our armor (high magic res low armor). That's my best guess anyway

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Originally Posted by Xenitan

I have no idea. I'm just repeating what we were told. Manawall was changed from blocking 2 attacks to absorbing 20% of your HP's worth of physical damage because magic attacks are more common now.

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Less binary.

It now blocks the same amount of damage regardless. Before it could block 20 damage, or 2 billion.

Yaaaaay