Black Mage Raise Ability

[Daws]

Was it Yoshida that said he didn't want the jobs all matchy matchy? I think we should just stick with that. If you want to rez so bad there are three healers and two dps to choose from.

[Maero]

No thanks, it should never be on a blm's toolkit and hotbar
We have multiple jobs that can raise already also, blm is destruction not life giving, haha

[Shiroe]

Actually there is magical damage buff called summoners contagion. It have 10% magical vulne with 25% uptime. Only physical damage buffs are brotherhood 5% with 16.6% uptime and embolden is average 6% physical damage buff with 16.6% uptime. Other buffs are buffs for everyone(if slashing/piercing not count). Contagion is stronger magical damage buff (for one person) than embolden and brotherhood combined. Only problem is we have 1 caster meta so black mages are not gonna see contagion very often on the boss.

how often do smb actually use garuda anymore? piercing and slashing are physically...., emolden and mnks buff can get combined...

casters get buffed way less and only if a smn is in the group and if the smn uses garuda and not ifrit..

[Sunako]

how often do smb actually use garuda anymore? piercing and slashing are physically...., emolden and mnks buff can get combined...

casters get buffed way less and only if a smn is in the group and if the smn uses garuda and not ifrit..

I use garuda if i team with another caster and ifrit if I m solo caster, that is pretty logical.

[Shiroe]

how often do smb actually use garuda anymore? piercing and slashing are physically...., emolden and mnks buff can get combined...

casters get buffed way less and only if a smn is in the group and if the smn uses garuda and not ifrit..

not to mention the drg buff, which will 99% of the time target a melee (if not tank or OT)

[Shiroe]

I use garuda if i team with another caster and ifrit if I m solo caster, that is pretty logical.

and 80% you'd be the only caster in raids.., well with the rdm boom, in other duties the % varies ofc

[prophecy4seen]

how often do smb actually use garuda anymore? piercing and slashing are physically...., emolden and mnks buff can get combined...

casters get buffed way less and only if a smn is in the group and if the smn uses garuda and not ifrit..

All summon damage was changed to magic damage some time ago. So majority of summoners are using Garuda. Ifrit is only used on pull to give his party buff. Contagion is one of the most important parts of a summoners kit. So most raiding summoners would still be using it

[Ciderfox]

Actually there is magical damage buff called summoners contagion. It have 10% magical vulne with 25% uptime. Only physical damage buffs are brotherhood 5% with 16.6% uptime and embolden is average 6% physical damage buff with 16.6% uptime. Other buffs are buffs for everyone(if slashing/piercing not count). Contagion is stronger magical damage buff (for one person) than embolden and brotherhood combined. Only problem is we have 1 caster meta so black mages are not gonna see contagion very often on the boss.

1 Caster Meta will always be a thing even if the best comp were to have a rdm, smn, and blm on the same group. As long as gear is shared by them you'll never see more than 1 caster per group, it would take too long to gear up.

[Waliel]

Could Always raise them as a zombie. Sounds like black magic to me.

That would be Necromancer territory, if we ever get one. Black Magic in FF is all about destruction and killing the enemy with as big fireball (or whatever the enemy happens to be weak to) as possible with the occasional sleep and blind thrown in, and has nothing to do with what you'd normally consider dark arts or magic, like raising the dead or curses.

[Shiroe]

That would be Necromancer territory, if we ever get one. Black Magic in FF is all about destruction and killing the enemy with as big fireball (or whatever the enemy happens to be weak to) as possible with the occasional sleep and blind thrown in, and has nothing to do with what you'd normally consider dark arts or magic, like raising the dead or curses.

blm bring the dead back as zombies xD...


with A) either a higher vun debuff, but more attack potency..

or B) the other way around (lower vun debuff, taking less damage, but a lowered attack potency)

making it RNG which A or B zombie mode you get after the blm rez