Jobs and Class, I am nervous now.

[Masamune1004]

How do you know things are being blown out of proportion before the patch is ever released?

Wow, just wow.

[darkstarpoet1]

Convert and Ancient Magic as well as Sleepga are quite invaluable. Convert directly increases DPS over THM.

Also, let's not forget that the BLM in that video was in THM gear - no AF. My gil is on the AF being very OP compared to any and every class gear in game atm.

not to say anything about the patch because we don't know anything until we test them, but the saying it will increase dps is jumping to a conclusion we can't really make, yet. remember as it is now a thm has to limit itself to keep from drawing hate from the tank. even if the tanking gets better with paladin then thm could theoretically still not be able go all out without drawing hate. if that is the case neither would out dps the other.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Convert and Ancient Magic as well as Sleepga are quite invaluable. Convert directly increases DPS over THM.

Also, let's not forget that the BLM in that video was in THM gear - no AF. My gil is on the AF being very OP compared to any and every class gear in game atm. Why? Because if they get the cross-class limitations right, they can make the AF best in slot undisputed when on job and still keep gear balance - because AF is job specific.

Let's say for the sake of sakefullness that Black mage can't use Chameleon, but Thaumturge can. You use Freeze to lower your hate, cool. But how long before you go back into red and have to wait, versus the Thm who can lower his hate every few minutes.

[Valmonte]

Jinrya-Geki took the time to post his concerns on unreleased content, that neither side knows anything about. criticism, i respect that.

[NoctisUmbra]

not to say anything about the patch because we don't know anything until we test them, but the saying it will increase dps is jumping to a conclusion we can't really make, yet. remember as it is now a thm has to limit itself to keep from drawing hate from the tank. even if the tanking gets better with paladin then thm could theoretically still not be able go all out without drawing hate. if that is the case neither would out dps the other.

There's not many fights in the game where a THM can sustainably go all out and draw hate. If a THM goes all out now, enough to draw hate, they're gonna spend that much time waiting for MP regen doing nothing.

PLD clearly will generate more hate than GLA. Most of GLA's hate generation is from native skills already, and PLD gives it a very potent heal as well.

There's no way Convert cannot increase THM's DPS - what's important is how well it will perform to that end. What effects that? The cooldown of Convert. That's one CD I'd be much more worried about being balanced than 15 minute Burst.

[NoctisUmbra]

Let's say for the sake of sakefullness that Black mage can't use Chameleon, but Thaumturge can. You use Freeze to lower your hate, cool. But how long before you go back into red and have to wait, versus the Thm who can lower his hate every few minutes.

Let's say for the sake of sakefulness that he can use Chameleon. Let's also say for the sake of sakefulness that Freeze has a CD as low as 5m, and reduces enmity as much as Chameleon.

Let's speculate on and on for the sake of sakefulness.

OR

Let's admit we don't have the information and that this is a pointless discussion other than to vent our anticipation of the patch. Now that, I don't have to say for the sake of sakefulness.

Jinrya-Geki took the time to post his concerns on unreleased content, that neither side knows anything about. criticism, i respect that.

OP's post isn't criticism. What he is attempting to criticize is not evident.

OP's post is much like that of paranoia. He's expressing fear of something he's not sure is there.

[Yves]

I will seriously shut up about it, and ask for your forgiveness if I am wrong about it. But how radically different can the video be in 4 days from the patch?

If I get proven wrong, and the mp cost is lowered, damage is vastly improved from Black Mage I will be ok with that. The video however doesn't show it.

I think you should try doing that until its out and we tinker with it. Think about it like being in bed with a freak for the first time, playa. Sure, maybe she wants to do some freaky-deaky but you neeeeever know! Ya hurr?

[darkstarpoet1]

There's not many fights in the game where a THM can sustainably go all out and draw hate. If a THM goes all out now, enough to draw hate, they're gonna spend that much time waiting for MP regen doing nothing.

PLD clearly will generate more hate than GLA. Most of GLA's hate generation is from native skills already, and PLD gives it a very potent heal as well.

There's no way Convert cannot increase THM's DPS - what's important is how well it will perform to that end. What effects that? The cooldown of Convert. That's one CD I'd be much more worried about being balanced than 15 minute Burst.

in any of the longer fights they can pull hate off the tank quite easily. it doesn't matter if it's darkhold, ifrit, moogle, the nm's, or the stronghold bosses. i'm not saying pld won't be vastly better and you are correct. it's just that even with the hate abilities i already spend half the fight standing and recovering mp even while almost full because i am in the red. even if i had convert on my thm i wouldn't be of any use using it at that point because one more combo would send me from the red to having hate on the mob.

i'm just pointing out that jumping to the conclusion that blm will be greater dps without us testing it compared to thm is the same as the op jumping to the other conclusion. we will know nothing for sure until we get those jobs with the patch and test them for ourselves.

[NoctisUmbra]

in any of the longer fights they can pull hate off the tank quite easily. it doesn't matter if it's darkhold, ifrit, moogle, the nm's, or the stronghold bosses. i'm not saying pld won't be vastly better and you are correct. it's just that even with the hate abilities i already spend half the fight standing and recovering mp even while almost full because i am in the red. even if i had convert on my thm i wouldn't be of any use using it at that point because one more combo would send me from the red to having hate on the mob.

i'm just pointing out that jumping to the conclusion that blm will be greater dps without us testing it compared to thm is the same as the op jumping to the other conclusion. we will know nothing for sure until we get those jobs with the patch and test them for ourselves.

It sure as hell ain't gonna be lower. Your scenario has too many variables - your hate management, your tank's efficiency, etc.

However, yes I agree. In the end, we'll know what we get when we get it.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Let's say for the sake of sakefulness that he can use Chameleon. Let's also say for the sake of sakefulness that Freeze has a CD as low as 5m, and reduces enmity as much as Chameleon.

Let's speculate on and on for the sake of sakefulness.

OR

Let's admit we don't have the information and that this is a pointless discussion other than to vent our anticipation of the patch. Now that, I don't have to say for the sake of sakefulness.



OP's post isn't criticism. What he is attempting to criticize is not evident.

OP's post is much like that of paranoia. He's expressing fear of something he's not sure is there.

Touche sir. But there is small bits of evidence to piece together something, and what we do know I don't like what I see.