Onward to Patch 1.19

[Neptune]

So... now that everyone expects me to be a healer cause I am Conjurer. Will I have to wait very long for Patch 1.19 to have the stats/damage formula adjusted?

I didn't raise Con/Thm to be a healer. Though, because of that, no one will invite me to the 50 raid instance because I refuse to be a healer. It's not fun to me.

I am really sorry to hear this. When I posted my initial reactions to the patch I hadn't even tried looking for party yet, but I predicted this would happen, and now that prediction is coming true. That is terrible!

If nukes are useless, nukes are useless regardless of if there is a blm job or not.

SE needs to add more utility for that role, simple as that. Should they wait and not implement anything before they're done? Sounds like a selfish request.

Your sig admonishes reason.. but have you stopped to think about the reason nukes are useless?

Hell, at least you're wanted for parties.

If your class doesn't start with the letters, G, A, or C, you're not getting a party.

This is terrible. The dev team is so obstinate about not using a test server right now, and this right here is 100% caused by not PTR'ing the test server thoroughly.

It would be much easier to bring balance to DoM with a hybrid healer, hybrid nuker and hybrid debuffer classes.

You're really testing my patience. What hybrid healer hybrid nuker class is already in the game? Why don't you think about the stuff you post?

Mages are still capable of doing pretty good damage, and the debuffs are pretty useful as well on tough fights. Are people telling you you have to only heal during Darkhold or are they just looking for healers (which you don't want to do). There is no reason that a CON/THM can't be in a DPS role during Darkhold, however with that in mind groups need healers and that role is in much more demand probably.

Two entirely different situations the way I see it. Form your own group and load it with 2 or even 3 other mages to heal, then you can DPS. However I'd be wary of grouping with any mage who absolutely refused to heal 100% of the time no matter what, just like in XI. I mean even BLM's were called on to heal in emergencies.

I'd also be wary to group with a melee DPS who refused to equip self cure/sacrifice or second wind to help with their own health.

In my own case, I am not a fan of being main heal. That is not the gameplay I enjoy. With that said it's within my gameplay to bail the party out of dire situations.. so I'm glad to back up heal.