Quote Originally Posted by CecMiller View Post
Somewhat unrelated, but something that has crept up on me again as I was playing Summoner after a short break.

With the removal of Contagion, there is no longer any magical party buff - However, physical only party buffs still exist. Why is this? Why do 2 physical party buffs exist (embolden and brotherhood) when magical only party buffs were removed? (rip contagion)

I think the best way to go about it is to make all the buffs "magic and physical" party buffs so people wouldn't "feel" less inclined to run with jobs that don't buff them for instance. Whilst I'd hope this isn't a pervasive thought, its one of the reasons that caused some jobs to be locked out in the 4.0 - 5.0 raid series ie. the lack of bringing buffs or the wrong kind of buff. I just dont see a reason why physical only party buffs can exist but magical ones cannot.

Either way, I guess we just wait now and see what happens. I'm levelling SMN again on my alt and I'm having the same frustrating experiences (Pets despawning, Energy DrainTtrance timing frustrations, Dot frustrations, Demi Bahamut AI etc)
That is odd, I would have thought they would have just made it a flat rate dps buff. Oversite perhaps?