Loss of drain on Blm...really?!

[TimeraiderGaranyi]

Wait.. BLM had drain?


The fact that i had to ask this question should tell you enough.

[YanderePrincess]

Wait.. BLM had drain?


The fact that i had to ask this question should tell you enough.

I mean, the number of times I've heard someone ask a question like that about something super important to a job kinda negates your reasoning there. Just because you weren't aware of it doesn't inherently mean it was useless. :P

[Acidblood]

Just because you weren't aware of it doesn't inherently mean it was useless. :P

True, but Drain was useless; it didn't even heal an equal level mobs auto attack. Though I suspect that was by design...

The issue with any sort of decent healing skill on BLM is of course that BLM essentially has infinite MP. This makes them unique from RDM and the Healers, all of whom will eventually run dry and be unable to keep up with neither healing nor damage vs. a serious threat (and if not; i.e. they are ‘overpowered’ and able to solo things they shouldn't; it is a simple matter of adjusting costs). PLD can also heal themselves, but only in bursts, and with a long MP regen time in between; BLM MP regen in UI is, by comparison, incredibly fast.

So make the heal weak? Firstly, weak by what context (remembering that weak is relative and changes with gear as the game progresses). Secondly, if it is ‘weak’ it is likely to be useless, as Drain was, and little more than button bloat (and I for one would rather have a useful ability... like Mana Shift).

So what about a cooldown? BLM already has Manaward, the cooldown of which could simply be lowered, or a charge added, if extra survivability was warranted (which IMO it isn't).

Oh, and BLM also has AoE Sleep, which can be far more powerful than any healing skill if the issue is open world survivability.

[Videra]

I mean, the number of times I've heard someone ask a question like that about something super important to a job kinda negates your reasoning there. Just because you weren't aware of it doesn't inherently mean it was useless. :P

Drain was absolutely worthless. The heal on it wasn't even equivalent to a mook's auto attack. If you ever found yourself 'needing' to use it, you have bigger issues.

[YanderePrincess]

Drain was absolutely worthless. The heal on it wasn't even equivalent to a mook's auto attack. If you ever found yourself 'needing' to use it, you have bigger issues.

I'm sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. Just because you never made positive use of it doesn't mean it was absolutely worthless. It was very rarely useful, which is why I don't really mind it being gone; but to say it was absolutely worthless is just flat out wrong, as is accusing people of being bad at the game just because they recognized situations where it was beneficial and you didn't.