Black Mage's quirky cross class abilities

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

It seems wrong to me for a black mage to be able to heal others.
Second wind is a good self heal and does not take from your MP pool.

[Jinko]

I'm happy in both the skills available for BLM and WHM, SE seem to have done a good job limiting spells and skills yet retaining some usefulness.

[Molly_Millions]

How do you expect to use Second Wind without Quelling Strike?

I just use it after I get hit, getting hit gives you tp.

[viion]

Jobs are party oriented so you are supposed to get Stoneskin, Protect and Cures from the WHM class which is supposed to now dish out that rather than... well still doing what it does now XD

Its a bit weird tho that out of the 5 cap there is only 5 useful skills anyway. Maybe in future tho, looking at the "big picture" and all that ...

[alienbaby]

fight ends, drop stone, buff and help cure. restone, Marco city again.

[fusional]

if you haven't already been using quelling strike on thm every cooldown, you are doing it very, very wrong

[electrikALIEN]

if you haven't already been using quelling strike on thm every cooldown, you are doing it very, very wrong

Or haven't been informed. Not like the tooltip is specific or anything...

[Krausus]

I learned something today!

But still... I'd gladly trade second wind and feather foot for cure, stoneskin and protect....

why? second wind heals for more than cure and doesn't require precious MP, I can certainly see the benefits of stoneskin and protect though.

[electrikALIEN]

why? second wind heals for more than cure and doesn't require precious MP, I can certainly see the benefits of stoneskin and protect though.

45 second cooldown and self cast only as opposed to 5 seconds and any friendly target.

Plus, that Second Wind is going to seem mighty valuable when you need to save it for Convert.

[DeadRiser]

fight ends, drop stone, buff and help cure. restone, Marco city again.

I REALLY hope it's not that easy to switch between class and job. I'll be very annoyed if this becomes the staple of all content....

OH and Quelling strike provides some TP, not a lot but still supplies some.

45 second cooldown and self cast only as opposed to 5 seconds and any friendly target.

Plus, that Second Wind is going to seem mighty valuable when you need to save it for Convert

Why would you want/need to heal someone else? That is the WHITE MAGES role. YOURS is to burst DD, not heal everyone else. If you get hurt pretty badly, you can suffice that with second wind and any more that needs to be healed comes from White Mage. Black Mages shouldn't be healing anyways. People are already getting classes and jobs mixed up...