Blood Mage Class [idea]

[AusarViled]

A sacrifice person!!! You kind of nailed it perfectly. BLM would loose some dps, you would loose about 2 hits before one was forced to switch to ice form, which would make the class even harder to play then it is even now, which is good since the rotation for BLM is super easy. This is spice of life. Since this class is already said to be hardest, making it harder won’t effect many people.

Regarding the healers, you would just use the ability as an emergency heal and not use it 100% of time. It’s an optional ability that one does not always have to have on. Kind of like the dark knight- he has reanimate like ability, how often does one use it? If you have a competent healer your not going to need it. As someone said, variety is the spice of life.

[Kes13a]

A sacrifice person!!! You kind of nailed it perfectly. BLM would loose some dps, you would loose about 2 hits before one was forced to switch to ice form, which would make the class even harder to play then it is even now, which is good since the rotation for BLM is super easy. This is spice of life. Since this class is already said to be hardest, making it harder won’t effect many people.

Regarding the healers, you would just use the ability as an emergency heal and not use it 100% of time. It’s an optional ability that one does not always have to have on. Kind of like the dark knight- he has reanimate like ability, how often does one use it? If you have a competent healer your not going to need it. As someone said, variety is the spice of life.

this may come as a bit of a shock...

but most players will not relish the idea of being your sacrifice on their dime.

its good to have ideas, but they should look at the bigger picture.. and that picture in an mmo is... you are playing with other people. in a single player game however, this would be a grand idea.

[DeaconMoore]

A sacrifice person!!! You kind of nailed it perfectly. BLM would loose some dps, you would loose about 2 hits before one was forced to switch to ice form, which would make the class even harder to play then it is even now, which is good since the rotation for BLM is super easy. This is spice of life. Since this class is already said to be hardest, making it harder won’t effect many people.

Regarding the healers, you would just use the ability as an emergency heal and not use it 100% of time. It’s an optional ability that one does not always have to have on. Kind of like the dark knight- he has reanimate like ability, how often does one use it? If you have a competent healer your not going to need it. As someone said, variety is the spice of life.

It's one thing to accidentally get rescued away from a mob, it's another to accidentally get mana drained by the tank. You playing a class that makes the game harder for others and is given a straight up "I can troll you" ability just isn't going to fly.

Variety is the spice of life, getting rolled over by your parties tank isn't variety.

[Artemiz]

A sacrifice person!!! You kind of nailed it perfectly. BLM would loose some dps, you would loose about 2 hits before one was forced to switch to ice form, which would make the class even harder to play then it is even now, which is good since the rotation for BLM is super easy. This is spice of life. Since this class is already said to be hardest, making it harder won’t effect many people.

Regarding the healers, you would just use the ability as an emergency heal and not use it 100% of time. It’s an optional ability that one does not always have to have on. Kind of like the dark knight- he has reanimate like ability, how often does one use it? If you have a competent healer your not going to need it. As someone said, variety is the spice of life.

BLM rotation is only easy against a target dummy. The moment you have to move it becomes exponentially more difficult and is why BLM is considered such a difficult job to master. You can't take a job like that and then throw in the randomness of the tank screwing up it's rotation whenever they feel like it. The 2 hits the BLM would lose would most likely be Fire IV...... yeah. Either that or half of the AoE rotation.

If this job was created it would make BLM hell and make the players rage on a frequent basis, and would probably put healers into therapy if they are the only mage in the party. If the damage was as high as you claim (so good 2 casts of Fire IV don't matter) then it would be horribly unbalanced next to the other tanks.

Not to mention

Multiple job prerequisites = already tried, tested and removed
Stance dancing = already tried, tested and removed
Multi-role = already tried, tested and they wish they could remove

I'm not seeing your chances of getting this idea over the line to be honest.