Job Idea: Mystic

Mystic (MST)
Damage Reducing Off-Healer
Weapon: Prayer Beads
Attack Type: Blunt, Ranged Damage
Armor: Healer
Limit Break: All Creation (Healer)
Cross Class: Pugilist and Conjurer
Important Stats: Mind for Healing and DPS, TP for cost

Once a sect of monks who trained in seclusion through out the mountains of Ala Mhigo, a select few Mystics have ventured from their homeland once the Garleans concurred their land.
Mystics use their martial training to focus and manipulate the flow of aura to both attack and heal.
While in combat, Mystics will attune their own aether (or "Aura") to either the Umbral (Ying) or Astral (Yang) elements, altering the potency of their spells and the effect of some of their abilities.

As a Scholar can shield their allies from damage, the Mystic instead weakens the damage, either by weakening the attacker's power or strengthening the target's defenses.

Special Mechanics and Skills

Special Mechanics

Yin and Yang Attunements
Dedicating their lives to finding inner balance, Mystics follow the principle of YinYang, believing that that opposites are forever interconnected and complementary to one another.

Yin-Attunement: Deals with the Umbral element, the Moon, cold, treachery, and passivity. Doubles the potency of all the user's damaging Spells (but not Abilities). Does not effect Cross-Class Skills/Spells.
Yang-Attunement: Deals with the Astral element, the Sun, warmth, relief, and activeness. Doubles the potency of all the user's healing Spells (but not Abilities). Does not effect Cross-Class Skills/Spells.

When the Mystic Soul gem is first equipped, the user will start out in Yin-Attunement.
When level-synched, the user will be automatically switched to Yin-Attunement.
These attunements are permanent and cannot be dispelled or deactivated.

Healing Spells and Abilities
-Astral Prayer: Spell. Heal a selected target. Potency of 200. 2 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
-Cleanse: Spell. Removes a single detrimental effect from a selected target. 1 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
-Earth's Blessing: Spell. Heals all partymembers with in 15 yalms of the user and reduces all Damage they receive by 10% for 5 seconds. Potency of 100. 2 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
-Phoenix: Spell. Resurrect a selected target to a weakened state (Can be used during battle without a trait). Instant cast time. 10 second recast.
-Stillness: Spell. Heals a selected target. Additionally, places a barrier on them that will absorb damage equal to x1.3 the amount healed (Duration: 30 seconds). Potency of 125. 2 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
-Astral Blessing: Ability. Heal a selected target. Potency of 600. Instant cast time. 60 second recast.
-Clear Tranquility: Ability. Heal all partymembers with in 15 yalms of the user and decrease Damage they receive by 10% for 10 seconds. Potency of 400. Instant cast time. 30 second recast.
-Faith: Ability. Damage a selected target, then place Regen-effects on all party members with in 15 yalms of the target, healing for 50% of the damage done, spread out through 21 seconds (rounded up to the nearest whole number). Potency of 200. Instant cast time. 120 second recast.
-Phoenix Rising: Ability. Can only be used under Yang-Attunement and cannot be used if the user is in a Weakened condition. Resurrect a selected target to full HP, MP, and TP but places their Weakened condition on the user. Additionally, Path of the Soul will be placed in a 30 second cooldown. Instant cast time. 300 second recast.

Offensive Spells and Abilities
-Air Render: Spell. Damage a selected target and all enemies with 5 yalms of them. Additionally, spreads all Corruption and Delirium effects the selected target has onto all enemies hit. Potency of 50. Instant cast time. 10 second recast.
-Aurabolt: Spell. Damage a selected target. Potency of 75. 2.5 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
-Corruption: Spell. Deal unaspected damage a selected target for 21 seconds. Potency of 18. 2.5 second cast time. 2.5 second recast.
-Delirium: Spell. Places a barrier on a selected target that damages them everytime they attack for 18 seconds. Barrier cannot be replaced/overwritten. Potency of 50. Instant cast time. 5 second recast.
-Earth Render: Spell. Damage all enemies with in a 10 yalm frontal column. Potency of 50. Instant cast time. 2.5 second recast.
-Trepidation: Spell. Can only be used under Yin-Attunement. Places a 5 yalm AoE that will damage all enemies with in and lower their Damage Dealt by 5% for 21 seconds. Potency of 13. Instant cast time. 30 second recast.
-Quiescence: Ability. Damage a selected target and place Silence on them for 1 second. Potency of 50. Instant cast time. 30 second recast.
-Umbral Fist: Ability. Deal unaspected damage to a selected target. Additionally, damage the target over time for 24 seconds, recovering TP equal to the damage. Potency of 20 for the attack and 35 for the DoT. 2.5 second cast time. 120 second recast.

Other Spells and Abilities
-Enlighten: Spell. Effect changes depending on what Attunement the player is currently in. Instant cast time. 60 second recast.
Yin-Attunement: Increase the Critical Hit Rate of all partymembers with in 15 yalms of the user by 5% for 30 seconds.
Yang-Attunement: Increase the Healing Potency of all partymembers with in 15 yalms of the user by 5% for 30 seconds.
-Fervor: Spell. Decrease Damage the selected target receives by 10% for 15 seconds. Instant cast time. 60 second recast.
-Aura Charge: For 15 seconds, increase the amount of Limit Break generated by partymembers with in 10 yalms of the user by 5%. Instant cast time. 300 second recast.
-Condemn: Ability. Place a debuff on a selected target, depending on what Attunement the player is currenlty in, for 10 seconds. Instant cast time. 120 second recast.
Yin-Attunement: Increase Damage the target recieves by 10%.
Yang-Attunement: Decrease the target's Damage Dealt by 10%.
-Harmony: Ability. Makes the user's next Astral Prayer, Cleanse, Stillness, or Fervor effect all partymembers with in 15 yalms of the user, while increasing their TP cost by x1.3 (Duration: 15 seconds). Astral Prayer's Potency is change to 150, Stillness's to 75, and Fervor will only reduce half the Damage. Instant cast time. 5 second recast.
-Empowerment: Ability. For 10 seconds, all of the user's spells will be cost free and they will gain TP equal to what the cost was going to be. Instant cast time. 120 second recast.
-Heaven's Blessing: Ability. Grants the player both Yin and Yang-Attunements for 15 seconds. After both effects wear off, the player will be in Yang-Attunement and Path of the Soul will go into a 15 second cooldown. Instant cast time. 200 second recast.
-Path of the Soul: Ability. Switches the user's Yin-Attunement buff to Yang-Attunement and vice-versa. Instant cast time. 5 second recast.
-Prophesize: Ability. Place a 5 yalm AoE that will decrease a certain type of damage, depending on what Attunement the player is currently in, for 10 seconds. Instant cast time. 60 second recast.
Yin-Attunement: Decreases Physical Damage by 15%.
Yang-Attunement: Decreases Magical Damage by 15%.
-Tooth-for-Tooth: Ability. If the player is not in Yang-Attunement, they will be automatically switched into it. Lower a selected target's damage dealt by 10% for 20 seconds. Path of the Soul will be placed in a 25 second cooldown. Instant cast time. 80 second recast.

Skill Level and Traits

Skill Level
1. Aurabolt
2. Astral Prayer
4. Delirium
6. Path of the Soul
8. Fervor
10. Corruption
12. Condemn
15. Quiescence
18. Cleanse
22. Phoenix
26. Empowerment
30. Earth Render
*Quest* 30. Harmony
34. Stillness
*Quest* 35. Earth's Blessing
38. Air Render
*Quest* 40. Enlighten
42. Tooth-for-Tooth
*Quest* 45. Astral Blessing
46. Trepidation
*Quest* 50. Prophesize
*Quest* 50. Faith
*Quest* 52. Clear Tranquil
*Quest* 54. Umbral Fist
*Quest* 56. Heaven's Blessing
*Quest* 58. Aura Charge
*Quest* 60. Phoenix Rising

Traits
8. Enhanced Mind: Increase Mind by 2.
14. Enhanced Mind II: Increase Mind by 4.
16. Fervent Prayer: Fervor's cooldown is now 30 seconds.
20. Maim and Mend: Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 10%.
24. Aurablast: Aurabolt's potency is now 90 (180 under under Yin-Attunement).
28. Enhanced Mind III: Increase Mind by 6.
32. Enhanced Condemn: Condemn's cooldown is now 90 seconds.
36. Enhanced Corruption: Corruption now last for 30 seconds. Additionally, it will now reduce the target's Damage Dealt by 5% for 10 seconds.
40. Maim and Mend II: Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 30%.
44. Divine Judgement: Grants a 25% chance when Fervor is cast, it will reduce Damage the target receives by an additional 10%.
48. Cup of Life: Grants a 15% chance when Astral Prayer is cast, the user will receive a 10% increase to their Healing Potency for 10 seconds.

Mystic (MST)
Damage Reducing Off-Healer which has the same function as : SCH - Damage Reducing Off-Healer

Sorry but I don't agree with it because that's what scholars do already.

corruption" doesn't fit the class identity as a healer

Delirium" is already in use by DRK... etc etc

You are almost copying AST with "attunement system" Diurnal/ noct Sects, make your ideas unique.

Yin and yang doesn't work either because those names are already taken by NIN....

Is the game really that boring for you that you need to jumble a bunch of abilities sch and ast already have ?

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Originally Posted by Adventica6

Mystic (MST)
Damage Reducing Off-Healer which has the same function as : SCH - Damage Reducing Off-Healer

Sorry but I don't agree with it because that's what scholars do already.

corruption" doesn't fit the class identity as a healer

Delirium" is already in use by DRK... etc etc

You are almost copying AST with "attunement system" Diurnal/ noct Sects, make your ideas unique.

Yin and yang doesn't work either because those names are already taken by NIN....

Is the game really that boring for you that you need to jumble a bunch of abilities sch and ast already have ?

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Holy Jesus, Settle down. They're just expressing an idea and may not know the NAMES of other classes abilities. Keep it civil.

Can't speak to abilities (only my second week in FFXIV), but the general description sounds cool. Looking at classes/jobs it sounds in some ways a bit like a Monk variant with the hand-to-hand crossed with Scholar. Don't know if that's good or bad. Not sure what role gap there is, but I like the prayer beads and robes. From a roleplay perspective, maybe foresight (seeing attacks coming and having some ability that auto-matches it for defensive purposes), being able to step from one area to another (mini-teleport), and a major critical strike of spiritual energy with a long wind-up, perhaps something that also lands a major debuff on the target. Again, from the mechanics perspective of this game, I don't know FFXIV well enough and I can't say that style would fit or be needed/wanted, but that's the image that pops into my head :)

You definitely put a lot of thoughts into this, like the idea though using abilities that weaken the enemies shouldn't be a way to help slow the pain imo. O also the skills before lv 30 would have to be changed to keep with the way how classes change to jobs, so maybe add the healing spells at 30.

I threw in a Like because I think this concept sounds interesting. A martial-arts related healer would excite me. I would like to see its damage abilities be physically melee though rather than mostly spells. A healer in the middle of all the action might be interesting and having Mantra cross classes would be good.

Also physical moves that injure the monsters could be a way to reduce their outgoing damage, mitigating damage indirectly. A jab to the throat could provide silence but from the front. Slows and knock downs from behind.

A knockout for sleep. Just my thoughts without really putting a ton of thought to balancing in.

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That's because Damage Mitigation helps Off-Healer not have to focus on healing as much, so instead of making heal-based shields like a Scholar, I went with reducing the damage. Same thing, different ways of doing it.

I forgot Dark Knight had that ability, mine is only at 45. I got the name from Final Fantasy Tactics' Mystic job.

My Attunement System is more designed to act like Cleric-Stance then the Sects, with them switching between healing and attacking, versus AST's sects, which were designed to help them fit in the spot WHM (Regens) or SCH (Shields) would have had.

What level to Ninjas learn Yin and Yang? Here are their current skills/abilities they learn at each level:
30. Ten and Ninjutsu
35. Chi
40. Shukuchi
45. Jin
50. Kassatsu
52. Smoke Screen
54. Armor Crush
56. Shadewalker
58. Duality
60. Dreamwalker

And then their Ninjutsu are: Fuma Shuriken, Katon, Raiton, Hyoton, Huton, Doton, Suiton, and Rabbit Medium.

If you think you can create a more unique job that is also balanced, then by all means. I encourage everyone to make their own job ideas. I enjoy reading them :-D

So you want Fistweavers from WoW.

I like the idea of a Mystic on the surface, but it strikes me as extremely similar in concept to what a Shaman is/would be in Final Fantasy terms. On the surface, at 30,000 feet, it seems like a neat idea, but I think it would need to be fleshed out a bit before we saw it incorporated.

Air Render seems pretty broken strong. It basically craps all over Bane, which you have to blow an Aetherflow stack for.

It's interesting but maybe I am reading this wrong?

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Phoenix: Spell. Resurrect a selected target to a weakened state (Can be used during battle without a trait). Instant cast time. 10 second recast.

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This would certainly (of course assuming MP) make the Mystic the dedicated raiser in every group.

He is not allowing BLM cross-class so needed to find a way to swiftcast Rez or it would be the worst option to Raise.

I think instead the Mystic would need its own swiftcast that would need to be put on CD to Rez like the others.

Did miss the tidbit on no BLM but yeah, would certainly need to be a longer cool-down for an instant raise or have its own version of swiftcast I think.

Ironically enough, Mystic (MYS for short) was actually at one time considered as a fourth Disciple of Magic class back when 1.0 was still in development (and brief references to 'Mysticism' as it's skill/magic set was to be known as was actually hidden in 1.0's files, but dummied out and never ultimately used), so there is very much the possibility SE may one day go back and look at it again - so the OP's concept is good as any for it. :)

It is ok, but using TP for healing is not... just very limiting? TP is always 1000, never scale with level or gear. Also, pugilist as cross class... doesn't fit a healer, even considering is a Monk healer. Also, instead a Prayer beads, with is a bit weird, you can use a long Bo (it a long stick used on some martial arts). This will change from ranged to melee, but with more range than monk, and you can add some kind of melee combo for ofensive skills. Using TP for melee combat , and MP for healing/support, could be interesting.