Muse => Maestro Class Idea

Muse => Maestro Idea
Supportive Healer
Weapon: Flutes, these aether-attuned flutes allow the user's songs to effect others in a literal sense.
Auto-Attack: Ranged Pierce damage, uses Intelligence instead of Strength or Dexterity
Armor: Clothing
Limit Break: Healer
Important Stats: Mind for healing, Intelligence for DPS, and MP for skill-casting cost.

I know what everyone is thinking: "Don't we already have Bard as our Musical-Fighter?". And you are correct, Bards are our Musical-Fighters. Fighter. While Bard currently focuses more on Archery with a sprinkling of support, this class would focus more on healing and supporting.
I also think this will appeal to the small minority who wanted Bard to have a more supportive-less-archery-based role (which I am a part of) but not alienate those who like Bard the way it is now.

Muse [MUS]
Musician who march into battle, playing music on aether-attuned instruments to rise their allies' morale.

Backstory
Guild Location: Old Gridania
Guild Master: Marcheterre Agache, the son of two decorated, Twin-Adder Sergeants who wants to prove himself and his craft. What crazy schemes will he drag you into to try to achieve this?

Skills and Mechanics

Casting
Muses can move while "casting" their songs (and only their songs) but their movement is slowed down by 50%.

Tempo
Using the ability "Elemental's Tempo", the Muse can attune themself to an element and effect several of their songs with it.
-Elemental's Tempo: Places a Tempo buff on the user. Using this ability multiple times will change what element is is using. The rotation goes Fire, Water, Lightning, Earth, Wind, Ice, and back to Fire. Instant cast time. 1 second recast but changes to 60 when Elemental's Carole, Threnody or Etude is used.

Songs effected by Tempos
- Elemental's Carole: A group healing spell that changes its effect based on what Tempo the user has. 2.5 second cast time. 30 second recast.
• Fire: Heals all party members with in 15 yalms of the user and places a barrier on them that will damage any foe that physically strikes them with an attack or skill for 20 seconds. Potency of 100.
• Water: Heals all party members with in 15 yalms of the user and places a Regen-like effect on them for 30 seconds. Potency of 150 for the heal and 100 for the Regen.
• Lightning: Heals all party members with in 15 yalms of the user and places a barrier on them that will absorb damage equal to the amount of HP restored. Potency of 100.
• Earth: Heals all party members with in a 5 yalm of the user and places a barrier on them that absorbs the next removable detrimental debuff placed on them. Potency of 200.
• Wind: Heals all party members with in 15 yalms of the user. Potency of 300.
• Ice: Heals all party members with in 10 yalms of the user and places a barrier on them that will absorb damage and convert it into a percentage of MP for 10 seconds (Damage x 0.01= MP%). Potency of 100.

- Elemental's Threnody: A debuff spell that changes depending on the user's Tempo, effecting foes continuously for 10 seconds. Only one Threnody can be up at a time, any new one will replace the old. 2.5 second cast time. 20 second recast.
• Fire: Decreases the Slash damage of all foes with in 10 yalms of the user by 10%.
• Water: When ever a foe damages a friendly unit (Player, Pet, NPC) that is with in 10 yalms of the caster, that unit will recover 5% of said damage.
• Lightning: Decreases the Pierce damage of all foes with in 10 yalms of the user by 10%.
• Earth: Decreases the Blunt damage of all foes with in 10 yalms of the user by 10%.
• Wind: Decreases the Accuracy of all foes with in 20 yalms of the user by 15%.
• Ice: Places a Heavy effect on all foes with in 20 yalms of the user.

- Elemental's Etude: A support spell that changes depending on the user's Tempo. 2.5 second cast time. 15 second recast.
• Fire: Increases the party's Physical Damage by 10% for 20 seconds.
• Water: Increases the party's Healing potency by 20% for 10 seconds.
• Lightning: Increases the party's Critical Rate by 15% for 10 seconds.
• Earth: Reduces Physical Damage the party receives by 5% for 10 seconds.
• Wind: Increases the party's Evasion by 10% for 20 seconds.
• Ice: Increases the party's Magical Damage by 10% for 20 seconds.

Healing/Supportive Songs
- Healing Harmony: Heals a selected target. Potency of 400. 2 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Angel's Song: Continuously heals the HP of all party members with in 15 yalms of the caster but drains the caster's MP in the process. Potency of 100. 2.5 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Sentinel's Scherzo: Heals all party members with in 15 yalms of the caster and decreases damage done onto them by 5% for 10 seconds. Potency of 150. 3 second cast time. 60 second recast.
- Life's Anthem: Places a Regen-like effect on all party members with in 15 yalms of the caster for 30 seconds. Potency of 150. 2.5 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Hydaelyn's Hymnus: Resurrects a fallen character to weakened condition. This can be used in battle without a trait. 8 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Herbal Pastoral: Removes one detrimental effect from a selected target. 1 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.

Offensive Songs
- Hero's Rime: Damages a selected target. Potency of 140. 2.5 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Dark Requiem: Places a DoT on a selected target for 18 seconds. Potency of 40. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Battle Cry: Damages a selected target and places a DoT on them for 18 seconds. Potency of 60 for the spell, 25 for the DoT. 2.5 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
- Devil's Oratorio: Damages all foes with in 5 yalms of the caster. Potency of 100. 2.5 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.

Other Songs and Skills
- Adventurer's Dirge: Reduces the amount of Enmity a target has by 10%. 2.5 second cast time. 10 second recast.
- Foe's Lullaby: Places all foes with in 5 yalms of the caster to Sleep for 30 seconds. 2.5 second cast time. 3 second recast.
- Virtuoso: Add 25% more time to the next song the user casts (rounds upward, to the nearest second) but doubles its cast time. Instant cast time. 60 second recast.

Levels, Traits, and Cross Class

Level
1. Hero's Rime
2. Healing Harmony
4. Dark Requiem
6. Elemental's Tempo
8. Elemental's Threnody
10. Foe's Lullaby
12. Battle Cry
*Quest* 15. Herbal Pastoral
18. Devil's Oratoria
22. Hydaelyn's Hymnus
26. Life's Anthem
*Quest* 30.Elemental's Etude
34. Sentinel's Scherzo
38. Adventurer's Dirge
42. Angel's Song
46. Elemental's Carole
50. Virtuoso

Traits
8. Enchanted Mind I: Increases Mind by 2.
14. Enchanted Mind II: Increases Mind by 4.
16. Grim Requiem: Increases the potency of Dark Requiem to 60.
20. Maim and Mend I: Increases base action damage and healing done by 10%.
24. Enchanted Mind III: Increases Mind by 6.
28. Elemental's Revelry: Grants a 15% chance after Elemental's Tempo's 60 second recast is up, the user will recover 20% of their MP.
32. Encore: Grants a 25% chance that after casting any song, Healing Harmony will have 0 MP cost.
36. War Cry: Extends the DoT effect of Battle Cry to any enemy with in 5 yalms of the target.
40. Maim and Mend II: Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 30%.
44. Marcato: Grants a 15% chance that after casting any song, all healing song's healing potency will increase by 20% for 10 seconds.
48. Tenuto: Grants a 50% chance when Elemental's Carole, Elemental's Threnody, Elemental's Etude, or Life's Anthem is cast, its effect will gain 25% more time.

Cross Class
- Healing Harmony
- Dark Requiem
- Foe's Lullaby
- Battle Cry

Maestro (MAE)
Unlock: MUS 30 / CNJ 15
Cross-Class: CNJ and THM
Virtuoso who can coordinate their music with others, preferably someone who can play strings.

Backstory
Teacher Location: Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks
Teacher: Frydgohta Usynweitzwyn, a talented musician who is obsessed with finding a mysterious minstrel. Why is she so obsessed and to what lengths will she go to find him?
Relic: Hamelin

Skills

30. Advancing March: Increases the Skill Speed and Magic Speed of party members with in 20 yalms of the caster by 30% for 20 seconds. 2.5 second cast time. 50 second recast.
• Additional Effect: Advancing March + Bard's Swiftsong: When in battle, Swiftsong's effect will not end until Advancing March's does.
35. Magick Ballad: Places a Refresh-like effect on any party member with in 20 yalms of the caster for 10 seconds. 2.5 second cast time. 180 second recast.
40. Valor Minuet: Increases the Physical Damage done by the party members with in 20 yalms of the caster by 10% for 20 seconds. 2.5 second cast time. 50 second recast.
• Additional Effect: Valor Minuet + Bard's Army Paeon: The affected will recover double the amount of TP.
45. Pianissimo: Turns the next AoE song (other then Elemental Carole and Angel's Song) the user casts into a single target spell, doubling its healing potency, extending any buffing effect by 25%, and doubles its cast time. Instant cast time. 120 second recast.
50. Nameless Finale: Lowers the Attack Damage of a selected target and any enemy with in 5 yalms of them by 10% for 20 seconds. 3 second cast time. 120 second recast.

Thank you to Tsuwu and Kuwagami for your feedback. :D

There, posted all of it. :B

Neat idea except scrap resistance buffing.

Would make it a practical requirement on new Primal releases.

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Originally Posted by Toodles

Neat idea except scrap resistance buffing.

Would make it a practical requirement on new Primal releases.

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That's why I paired the Resistance buffing with adding Elemental Properties to attacks and physical skills.

I love you for these. ;v ;

So kind of like a real BRD instead of a half assed BRD?

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Originally Posted by Mugiawara

I love you for these. ;v ;

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Thank you. ; A ; <3

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Originally Posted by Fated

So kind of like a real BRD instead of a half assed BRD?

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They're not "half-assed", they're just more...Offense passed...Kinda... >w>()

I expected Matthew Bellamy's picture when I opened this thread.
Seriously, they need to fix Bard and Ranger before thinking about it.

I like the idea, overall.

Can already tell you, this thing would have several useless skills and balance needed.

Lightning Tempo is useless.
Rez ability is unbalanced, unless they're replacing a healer.
Sleep ability needs a little balancing.

And the concept of adding elements, while it would be awesome, is sadly inapplicable to this game's combat system.
But those points aside, good Imagineering.
Keep it up, hopefully some of your ideas inspire a designer!

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Originally Posted by Tsuwu

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Thank you for the feedback.

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To cover you points:

Lightning Tempo
I guess I can see that, see has it's Etude only increases Accuracy and the only offensive Lightning abilities are the Thunder spells and anything Carole touches. I think I need to re-evaluate Carole's effect somehow...

Rez
I gave it to them a little early because I was worried that they didn't have enough healer stuff (they are healers, after all) and I didn't want to waste a trait on making it battle ready.

Sleep
The Sleep spell follows the same rules as THM/BLM's Sleep. I gave it to them the group sleep at 24 because I was worried that they didn't have enough to protect themselves when they solo.

Adding Elements
I know. I thought maybe the addition of Thernody would help but I need to rethink Carole's effect.

I really hope such a healer could come in game

a few comments that I hope could help to improve the concept ^_^

Sentinel's Scherzo : it's basically Succor. Rather than that, I could see a temp. buff of defense for a few seconds (let's say it would decrease damage taken by 5% for 10 seconds. Probably needs balance)

Battle Cry : honestly I'd see it as an AoE, attack enhancer (because of the name mainly >< ). Maybe something like "Creaking cord" or similar would fit.

Elemental's Thernody : I fail to see its use as the elemental resistances have no use now.

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Originally Posted by Kuwagami

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Thank you for your feedback.

To cover you points
Sentinel's Scherzo
I copied Succor because I needed a group heal and wanted better damage mitigation then Carole. You idea could be interesting, like Muse's equivalent of Media II or Succor.

Battle Cry
I had originally thought of making Battle Cry a buff or debuff but I needed another offensive song and/or DoT.

Thernody
I designed it to work with Carole's Element adding property and with BLM and WHM's spells and SMN's egi. I'm definitely going to rework this and Carole to be similar to Etude.

I had a couple of new ideas :

Foe's lullaby : transform it as a point blank sleep AoE, within 5 yalms. The idea is to keep up with the general concept of the class I understood (ignore me if wrong) of a healer specialized in supportive point blank AoEs

Horde's lullaby : is now rendered useless. Instead, and to give something new to a new healer, I could see something like "Panacea : Herbal Pastoral now prevents the next detrimental effect applied within 15 seconds to the target"

For cross class skills, I'd see Devil's Oratoria rather than the lullaby for balance purpose, but I didn't think hard about it.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

Thank you for your feedback.

To cover you points
Sentinel's Scherzo
I copied Succor because I needed a group heal and wanted better damage mitigation then Carole. You idea could be interesting, like Muse's equivalent of Media II or Succor.

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The idea I put behind my suggestion was to create a new concept rather than to copy existing one. As we have Medica II which is an AoE regen (medica I serves as a good AoE heal too) and succor which prevents a part of future damage, a healing AoE which applies a buff (in this case, reduces damage taken. It could be increase damage done but it would not fit the idea of a healer, would it ? ) brings a new thing, an other option to consider when building a team

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Originally Posted by Fumijj_Gah

I expected Matthew Bellamy's picture when I opened this thread.
Seriously, they need to fix Bard and Ranger before thinking about it.

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This exactly, can't like it on mobile.. :/

I understand the OP. However, they ruined Bard. 2nd team wanted classical jobs in. They wanted a Bard and Archer was left so they gave us a crappy excuse how Bards use bows bla bla..

Let's hope they rework the entire job system for 3.0. This way they can implement jobs however they want instead of this odd 1.0 remnant we have to live with now.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

They're not "half-assed", they're just more...Offense passed...Kinda... >w>()

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Well they are neither Bard as you would expect it, nor "Hunter" the way you'd expect it.

It has the healer LB, although nothing as Bard has healer cross class abilities.

As much as I like Bard, it's neither fish nor meat.

I like your idea though :D

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Originally Posted by Kuwagami

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Foe's Lullaby and Horde's Lullaby
I had thought of making Foe's Lullaby a point-blank but thought that it would be too over powered compared to Sleep and Repose. Getting rid of Horde's Lullaby would free me up a trait slot... >w>

Panacea: Herbal Pastoral
I like this idea but not on Herbal Pastoral (I like having a basic Esuna spell). I'm currently reworking Elemental's Carole into a group healing spell that grants different buffs depending on the Tempo, I might use this idea there.

Cross-Class
I added Foe's Lullaby because I felt the other option lacking or too OP.

Sentinel's Scherzo
You're description is what I meant, a group heal that adds a damage reduction buff. I just compared its utility to Media II and Succor.

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Originally Posted by abzoluut

I understand the OP. However, they ruined Bard. 2nd team wanted classical jobs in. They wanted a Bard and Archer was left so they gave us a crappy excuse how Bards use bows bla bla..

Let's hope they rework the entire job system for 3.0. This way they can implement jobs however they want instead of this odd 1.0 remnant we have to live with now.

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They didn't ruin Bard, they just re-interpreted it...The wrong way... >w>

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

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Originally, Bard was Archer and Conjurer (that's why the Bard at the title screen cut-scene heals the Paladin), but they change it to Pugilist because Bards aren't a magic class and having Cure really does nothing for them.

As for why they still have the Healer's LB, I'm guessing it's because the other two DPS LBs don't fit with it. They aren't close enough to use the Melee DPS and they are magically inclined enough to use Meteor. Maybe if and when they add another ranged class, they'll add a Ranged DPS LB.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

Foe's Lullaby and Horde's Lullaby
I had thought of making Foe's Lullaby a point-blank but thought that it would be too over powered compared to Sleep and Repose. Getting rid of Horde's Lullaby would free me up a trait slot... >w>

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when you think about it, it's not really that OP. You need to go to close range to make it useful (you really want to avoid that as a mage if possible >_> ) so it's really more a solo option than a group option (BLM are here for the mass sleep) except maybe in PvP. But it's still putting oneself at risk doing it.

Update

- Radically changed Elemental's Carole and Threnody. Carole is now an AoE heal that grants various buffs, depending on Tempo and Threnody is a AoE debuff that changes depending on Tempo.
- Changed Sentinel's Scherzo to what Kuwagami suggested.
- Foe's Lullaby now effects all foes within 5 yalms of the user.
- Re-arranged the level skills and traits are acquired.
- Removed Horde's Lullaby trait.
- Added Elemental's Revelry trait.
- Tenuto now effects Elemental's Carole, Threndoy, and Etude.
- Retuned some of the remaining traits.

Update
-Retuned Elemental's Tempo.