Cast Cure on Undead to Damage it

[kikix12]

Ifrit actually gets increased damage from ice in many (most/all?!) Final Fantasy games, so black mages instead of being "neutered" in that fight, would be glass cannons with no down-times for their heightened offense, as blizzard spells would deal increased damage just like fire spells do normally.

Also, due to how all jobs that have elements (not counting Holy since Holy and Dark are elements that are rarely resisted in Final Fantasy games...outside of undead absorbing the latter) have more than one element and usually two consecutive in the wheel, it's actually not terribly bad at all.

However, there is little to no chance of that in Final Fantasy XIV. The developers have proven to want to remove anything at all that requires planning or customization, and how materia is limited in stats (you can't add a stat that is already there at the "cap" for the item level, and seeing as that usually includes all the "good" stats you would want in the first place, your options to customize are actually barely more than zero), they prove to not want players have any part in making the games balance, outside of their playing skills.

As an RPG fan (and fan of Final Fantasy series) where there are many options at any stage of the game, this design is a real pain in the ass, but other than that, the game is very enjoyable...so meh. Gotta deal with it.

[Kahnom]

Undead enemies,huh ?
How about,Let's see,At some point in some 8-man content the undead adds spawn that invulnurable to any tanks and dps attack.
Those undead will automatically target MT and only healing spells from healer can damage them.
So both healers need to discuss before the fight who's gonna heal MT and who's gonna kill those undead.

[Joe777]

Sadly this game doesn't support elemental affinity or monster types, so this will not happen. Furthermore you cannot cast Cure spells on enemies anyway. This, however, isn't impossible and may make for an interesting fight:

I could see "Zombie" being an effect that causes the designated player to take damage from heals

[Celef]

I could see "Zombie" being an effect that causes the designated player to take damage from heals, not sure if they would be able to incorporate it to be cast on enemies now though.

That would actually be a fun debuff ^^
I'm all for a Cure that hurts undead mobs, I mean, come on, it's one of the oldest FF mechanics and a fun one ^^ (and my Cure would not be useless anymore when I mis TAB my targets.... ^^")

[Pyrii]

I remember back in Ragnarok Online this made Priests super-handy in undead areas/dungeons as their heals and AoE heals would do massive damage to undead as it was marked as "holy" element, sometimes one-shotting zombies. Thematically it's great, not sure how it fits in the FF lore though.

[Ilyrian]

By that token a Phoenix Down would have to 1 shot an undead mob/raid boss.

[Enkidoh]

Also the game's lore prevents such a trick - Cure spells are actually water aspected here (hence the fluid-like effect when you cast them, and water sprites materialize around the caster when it's cast, it's what those glowing blue orbs are) - they're not white magic at all but conjury, magic that comes from nature (the elementals of the Black Shroud specifically), not a deity.

Hence, no 'holy' effect (also most zombies in Eorzea are actually created by an alchemical potion and are not 'darkness' aligned, so that wouldn't even work anyway).

[Hycinthus]

The lack of elemental wheel makes it less interesting than in FFXI. Back then we really had to plan what spell to cast to elemental mob, even water creatures like Crabs are weak against lightning.

[Hycinthus]

Zombie debuff would be a fun raid mechanic. Any player not afflicted with zombie debuff will die in megadeath attack. However if they receive cure they will also take damage.

And to cure the debuff you have to /emote pray.

[KageTokage]

Zombie debuff would be a fun raid mechanic. Any player not afflicted with zombie debuff will die in megadeath attack. However if they receive cure they will also take damage.

And to cure the debuff you have to /emote pray.

They already used that for Forgall, actually. His Mega Death instakills anyone without gradual zombification on them, but you need to have only one stack of the debuff, as two stacks will make you lose control of yourself and start attacking allies.