Shocked at the reduction in mage damage, quadruple mp cost, and lowered resources

[Altano]

Time to find out, isn't it?

Certainly seems better than the alternative of spamming Sacrifice for regen aoe on the entire party every 10 seconds regardless of need and never once needing to look at the mp bar. Which, if I'm not mistaken, is all that being a healer could have hoped to be pre-1.18.

[Neptune]

Time to find out, isn't it?

Certainly seems better than the alternative of spamming Sacrifice for regen aoe on the entire party every 10 seconds regardless of need and never once needing to look at the mp bar. Which, if I'm not mistaken, is all that being a healer could have hoped to be pre-1.18.

Then they should have made a healer class. Now I'm going to be labeled as one of the non-healer Conjurers and I'll be sitting around LFP. Healing was never an issue for any mage, and no mage was ever defined as a healer. You're absolutely right that it's no fun to spam one spell.. Now you aren't going to be spamming it, you're going to be waiting to press Curaga II since you're only going to be able to cast it 7 times. Going to be spending a lot of time in passive mode, doing nothing, instead of being what a mage was described as on finalfantasyxiv.com

[Altano]

Then they should have made a healer class. Now I'm going to be labeled as one of the non-healer Conjurers and I'll be sitting around LFP. Healing was never an issue for any mage, and no mage was ever defined as a healer. You're absolutely right that it's no fun to spam one spell.. Now you aren't going to be spamming it, you're going to be waiting to press Curaga II since you're only going to be able to cast it 7 times. Going to be spending a lot of time in passive mode, doing nothing, instead of being what a mage was described as on finalfantasyxiv.com

Honestly, learning to use single-target spells won't be that bad if melee players are intelligent enough to follow directions and learn where to situate themselves to avoid AoE. If DD takes hate, which there should be much less of an excuse for now, they better be able to self-heal because your mp is reserved for either a) DD or b) keeping the tank on his damn feet. The extent to which this game has babied everybody from the beginning is insane, and a significant part of the problem the fact that in almost every case, death was not a threat thanks to spammable healing aoe spells. I can honestly say that as setting myself up as DD LNC I have never once thought about whether or not I would pull hate dropping TP move after TP move. The reason? Mages never run out of mp, and eventually enough AoE spells will be thrown around and tank will recover the hate. Nobody will die, we'll move on. There was no strategy. This needed to happen for the balancing of the game as a whole.

[Shai]

Then they should have made a healer class. Now I'm going to be labeled as one of the non-healer Conjurers and I'll be sitting around LFP. Healing was never an issue for any mage, and no mage was ever defined as a healer. You're absolutely right that it's no fun to spam one spell.. Now you aren't going to be spamming it, you're going to be waiting to press Curaga II since you're only going to be able to cast it 7 times. Going to be spending a lot of time in passive mode, doing nothing, instead of being what a mage was described as on finalfantasyxiv.com

You're going to make me cry, bro.

I love being main healer. I was looking forward to CON being transformed into WHM (with the Job System, not before it), but this is just unacceptable. You know, when I do 8-man versus Great Buffalo I often run out of MP, but it's because I'm actually doing a lot of shit. I'm curing. I'm DOT spamming. I'm interactive in setting up BRs. We typically have a main healer and then some "support" mages doing what I just described. Now honestly I'm going to be Curing and waiting for MP. I don't think I can go back to that. I don't want it to be like XI. I liked my "all-around" mage and I liked being active and aggressive in difficult fights.

I may have to main Gladiator, even though I do truly love healer and especially the way Conjurer was (until today) so incredibly versatile. Yes, it may get fixed in the future. "Passive casting" and "the Job System" may fix mages to be better, but what in the meantime?! I have been waiting so goddamn long to play some fun content in this game on the job I like (CON) and now it's like a broken toy. I look at it and wonder if they make a specialized glue to put it back together, and how much it will cost me.

I don't feel like I'm trolling or even being a cry baby. I think most people who enjoyed Conjurer (not so much Solo THM, because the "Emulate" nerf is totally fine with me, but Sacrifice nerf not so much since I'd use them on Conjurer) really understand where I'm coming from and legitimize how I feel about it.