Quote Originally Posted by Riaayo View Post
Firstly I would like to point out you mention complaining about spell cost in 1.20 but then say Black Mage is no better than Thm, despite having convert which will effectively let a thm oom and instantly refill, threat generation aside. You might as well have halved the mp cost of blms spells for your entire first 2 bars of mp.

Secondly, you say Flare is useless because it is an AoE DoT simply because of Sleepga. To be honest, I'm disgusted to see Sleepga return to the game as it is a complete boring crutch of a CC tool and takes almost no thought strategy or planning to use against a multitude of mobs.

Burst's long CD does bother me but I am going to assume Convert's CD is very similar, and Burst is meant to be used after Convert to maximize damage.

You state it's stupid for Blm to be able to use Second Wind, but I can easily whack Ifrit in phase 1 to build my TP up even without Invigorate, and you have access to Quelling Strike off Archer which will reduce the threat off your nuke and give you some TP.


This community is going to have to buck up and start thinking outside of the heavily crutched box it's been use to in this game for a while. You won't have 8 emergency "oops" battle rez's anymore. You won't have every class with cure and second wind on their bar. You won't have Paladins with Sanguine Rite, or for that matter Black Mages than can AoE it onto the tank. And you know what? That makes the game harder and more fun, something people keep complaining they want.

People need to realize the day of "endure through the damage" is coming to an end and the days of "avoid the damage" have arrived. If you are dieing to damage, you need to stop standing in things, taking hate, standing still and not kiting a moogle, etc. As a DD you don't need to be healing yourself all the time, and if you're taking damage from anything other than an arena-wide AoE, you likely have no excuse other than you messed up.
Convert is nothing. It's the exaltation we should have kept. My complaint is that from the video that being Black Mage adds no damage to spell damage. I am not sure of how long the convert cooldown will be, if it's 10 minutes then all we got is a gimped version exaltation back. How is it gimped you might ask, uh you give up health to get 75% of you mp, where exaltation was the same amount without HP loss.

If convert does generate massive hate like it did in FFXI, using burst after, you are probably going to die. Alosi if Ancient magic spells share the same timer as before, then why use burst at all!? Why use it when you can convert then use freeze and lose enmity, and do more damage over time. Of course if convert doesn't generate any hate hen yes, burst would be more useful.


Yes, I didn't know quelling strike is useful for spells to generate tp. I thought if you couldn't use invigorate what good is going up to ifrit and smacking him for tp. Let's say for worst case scenario Ifrits at 25% health left, and you get caught by 1 eruption and live and have no tp for second wind. Healer has to stay focused on the tank, and you didn't have quelling strike/invigorate? But since quelling does work, that argue is out the window.