What if casters had element resistance debuffs?

[Waliel]

I'd like to get some raid utility as BaeLM. Like I dunno.. Making it so Ley Lines give 50% of the buff the BaeLM gets to anyone standing in it or something in those lines.. Give us something Yoshida T.T

Please no. Never. I'd rather have it knock anyone 20 yalms away if they dare to approach it.

[Frizze]

Please no. Never. I'd rather have it knock anyone 20 yalms away if they dare to approach it.

Thatd be fun in a "mass chaos" sense the first time you got to a boss in a 24 man, 6 BLMs drop Ley Lines roughly simultaneously, and the rest of the party pinballs around for a min. Dont imagine id get many more raid invites after that though...

[Sylvain]

There is no point to give BLM fire weakness debuff if only him and RDM needs it ( and in the RDM fire dmg doesn't represent 90% of their dmg output)
It's like giving WHM a wind debuff

[Joe777]

There is no point to give BLM fire weakness debuff if only him and RDM needs it ( and in the RDM fire dmg doesn't represent 90% of their dmg output)
It's like giving WHM a wind debuff

That analogy is more off than you realize. A large chunk of BLM's DPS comes from fire attacks. The bonus would be that a few other jobs have attacks that would benefit too.

[HyoMinPark]

That analogy is more off than you realize. A large chunk of BLM's DPS comes from fire attacks. The bonus would be that a few other jobs have attacks that would benefit too.

There is only one other job that would slightly benefit: RDM. That’s it, though. Maybe a NIN if they Katon for AOE pulls, but unless the debuff is spread to each mob in the pull, the benefit would be minuscule.

[Sunako]

There is only one other job that would slightly benefit: RDM. That’s it, though. Maybe a NIN if they Katon for AOE pulls, but unless the debuff is spread to each mob in the pull, the benefit would be minuscule.

Actually summoner ifrit is fire damage as well.

[Joe777]

There is only one other job that would slightly benefit: RDM. That’s it, though. Maybe a NIN if they Katon for AOE pulls, but unless the debuff is spread to each mob in the pull, the benefit would be minuscule.

There is also Dragoon and their Dragonfire Dive.

[NovaLevossida]

No point in elemental resistance debuffs since I spam fire on Ifrit, don't care that Shiva is of ice when I get my MP back, and Ramuh procs Thundercloud regardless. It's niche and would serve little. A magic resistance debuff or magic attack up buff would make more sense. And if the aim of this is to increase BLM's effectiveness or appeal to group compositions, I'd rather they just buff up its damage so that SMN isn't outdamaging it with combat raise and raid buffs in its kit.

Please no. Never. I'd rather have it knock anyone 20 yalms away if they dare to approach it.

I actually mentioned last night in-game that I wanted a reverse Rescue to knock people out of my leylines.

[popotaro]

Please no. Never. I'd rather have it knock anyone 20 yalms away if they dare to approach it.

LMAO I was just trying to find something lol It's actually annoying to see a lot of scrubs staying in my leylines lol

[Joe777]

No point in elemental resistance debuffs since I spam fire on Ifrit, don't care that Shiva is of ice when I get my MP back, and Ramuh procs Thundercloud regardless. It's niche and would serve little. A magic resistance debuff or magic attack up buff would make more sense. And if the aim of this is to increase BLM's effectiveness or appeal to group compositions, I'd rather they just buff up its damage so that SMN isn't outdamaging it with combat raise and raid buffs in its kit.

It's not so much about the DPS as it is the utility to a group. Sure it would be easy enough to grant magic resistance debuff in general but that is something all 3 caster DPS could get and make them no different than they currently are. This discussion is more about the utility diversity than the extra DPS.