Personally I feel that Raise/Resurrect spells are a tad too high in the leveling spread of Thaumaturges and Conjurers. With the current level cap, we basically play 2/3 of the game having to run back from the aetherite every single time we die. That's a bit too much.
I would lower the level of Raise/Resurrect to somewhere around the mid-twenties, like 24-26. That would be, In my opinion, much better balanced. Seriously, there's already too much running to do in this game :D
Yeah that's true, to pick an exemple... the other day a new ls mate beginner decided to walk to uldah from gridania but forgot to touch any aetherytes on the way and when he finally reached uldah...
He got killed by a peiste near the entrance :p and no one online was able to raise :x and so after waiting a while... he had to "return" to grid.
- Give it mid 20's and have it rez at less HP
- Give a better one at 50 and have it rez with a large chunk of HP
You do realize that the running is part of the death penalty right? It's one of the only things that helps make people think twice about dying, and it's a pretty lame penalty if you ask me.
I personally thought the loss of xp in FFXI was a GREAT death penalty and made for better players (typically). I however was not a fan of the level down...
I propose that if they reduce the level requirement for raise, then they should emplement xp loss (without level down) to compensate.
I agree that raise and reraise should be in the 20's I disagree that there should be XP loss upon death as to rank up @30 it's just as much SP as to level up 70+ in FFXI and we're almost gaining SP/XP at 2008rates in FFXI
I think they are perfect where they are. You have to play about half the total time to get them. That's fair.
Here's how to implement it:
-Conj/Thaum get it at level 10-20
-Can only be used by Conj/Thaum
-Switching to Conj/Thaum starts the cooldown of 1 minute before you can res someone
-Adding res to the action bar also starts the cooldown
-Death penalty is unchanged
This way, unless you ARE a conj/thaum, then you'd be better off having the person run back and start their weakness timer sooner rather than later.
Exp loss on death is completely unnecessary. Having to wait 2:30 before you can be useful again is more than punishment enough.
I also think they are fine, where they are.
I think raise should be around 25.
Learning Raise / Resurrection any where between ranks 26 - 30 would be nice.