Art of War Thought?

[Ayer2015]

Personally I think Bio, Miasma, Fester, and Bane should all be moved from SMN to SCH. Let SMN be a summoner. Healers need to feel different from one another. Our devs worry far too much about job balance in savage raids to the detriment of the rest of the game. If people want the most optimized group comp, bring those jobs.... you can level them all on your character.

[Kazukiyashuo]

Hi, so something that I keep seeing is how underwhelmed people are with Art of War. Personally I love it, it is my favorite of the Healer AoEs. I know many people like Holy. I do not, so people have their own preferences.

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I remember being so excited to unlock Holy all those years ago when lvling my WMH (my first class ever and at launch. I stopped playing for a few years and decided to start fresh on a new account a couple years back cause I wanted the free sub month and I was going to start a new character anyways). I was so disappointed. It had a long cast time and then a long delay before it actually hit. It felt like it took a good 5 seconds to even do anything, and when it went off it was a big pink disco ball, not anything like holy looked like in any of the other FF games I had played where it was rays of light piercing enemies. It obscured view, was ugly, and felt super clunky. It was effective, but that was it. I hated using it.
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Anyways, Art of War. I like the animation. It is low to the ground and so does not cause visual clutter and I like the understated visual. I love that it is instant cast since it means that I can spam it when needed while still having my full array of oGCD tools. But I will admit that having it be a PBAoE is strange for the class lore. A tactician should not be wading ankle deep into the melee. I think a small change would make it feel way better.

What if it was still PBAoE if cast normally, but if cast on your faerie would radiate from them instead (or have a separate button that cast it on the faerie to avoid the weird pet targeting stuff). Your character would still cast it, the faerie would not, but it would radiate from the faerie like a focus.

At first I thought that it would be cool if you could cast it on any party member (but not enemies) and it would radiate from them... but that may be a bit unbalanced and would step on Gravity's toes because you would just always cast it on the tank.

Art of war is a blast. Its instant cast u can weave in skills and have excelent mobility. I dunno what else could someone ask

[Teno]

Art of war is a blast. Its instant cast u can weave in skills and have excelent mobility. I dunno what else could someone ask

Don't know if you played before art of war was added, but we used to have more fun, more engaging, better looking spells to casts. Nobody asked for art of war.

[Kazukiyashuo]

Don't know if you played before art of war was added, but we used to have more fun, more engaging, better looking spells to casts. Nobody asked for art of war.

More engaging ? Like 2 more dots ? Yeah that was very engaging and fun. I asked for art of war. Cheers

[GrimGale]

More engaging ? Like 2 more dots ? Yeah that was very engaging and fun. I asked for art of war. Cheers

Thanks for letting us know you're trolling.

[Quintessa]

Or maybe he's saying he doesn't subscribe to a hive mind mentality.

Yeah I wish there were more dots in addition to Art of War. 6.0 will inevitably come with beefier harder hitting mobs at 81, so we will need more damage tools than what we have now..

[Kabooa]

Or maybe he's saying he doesn't subscribe to a hive mind mentality.

Yeah I wish there were more dots in addition to Art of War. 6.0 will inevitably come with beefier harder hitting mobs at 81, so we will need more damage tools than what we have now..

Not really. Healers didn't exactly receive many new damage tools, but saw the largest ratio of increase in DPS this expansion. Final PPS has little to do with how many actions one has.

But I do hope Helaers get something neat.

[Kazukiyashuo]

Thanks for letting us know you're trolling.

yeah anyone with a different opinion than yours is trolling, i wont even explain to you why art of war is far better than 2 dots bane spread, your brain cant handle that. Adios

[GrimGale]

yeah anyone with a different opinion than yours is trolling, i wont even explain to you why art of war is far better than 2 dots bane spread, your brain cant handle that. Adios

you won't because you can't baby

[Foxkid]

yeah anyone with a different opinion than yours is trolling, i wont even explain to you why art of war is far better than 2 dots bane spread, your brain cant handle that. Adios

Don't think I've ever seen someone say "goodbye" so many times and keep coming back just to insult others then say "goodbye" again.