New DPS skills

[Arkdra]

unlike the sch, the smn is not accompanied by any pets

It looks like a lightning skill so I'd bet on it being ramuh based and the shot doesn't have the pet because it's done in that weird interim period where the summon is disappearing and carbuncle is reappearing on purpose to hide ramuh.

[seolhyun]

It looks like a lightning skill so I'd bet on it being ramuh based and the shot doesn't have the pet because it's done in that weird interim period where the summon is disappearing and carbuncle is reappearing on purpose to hide ramuh.

maybe ramuh, shiva, leviathan after phoenix? but also fester and painflare have lightning in them already so it could just be an upgrade for one of those.

[Rongway]

maybe ramuh, shiva, leviathan after phoenix? but also fester and painflare have lightning in them already so it could just be an upgrade for one of those.

Fester and Painflare both display the blue Ability whirl. The action in the benchmark does not.

BLM
Thunder V?

Leading up to EW, Yoshi-P dodged the pressure of being the one to choose the JP tier V spell suffix for all of Final Fantasy for the rest of all time by just calling Fire V and Blizzard V the FF-coded equivalents of High Fire II and High Blizzard II. If this spell isn't Burst it'll probably just be High Thunder II or III, though it could be something not called Thunder at all a la Despair.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Fester and Painflare both display the blue Ability whirl. The action in the benchmark does not.



Leading up to EW, Yoshi-P dodged the pressure of being the one to choose the JP tier V spell suffix for all of Final Fantasy for the rest of all time by just calling Fire V and Blizzard V the FF-coded equivalents of High Fire II and High Blizzard II. If this spell isn't Burst it'll probably just be High Thunder II or III, though it could be something not called Thunder at all a la Despair.

Pretty much spot on regarding the Thunder name.

There is a good chance this is actually "Burst". Burst is the thunder-type spell equivalent of Flare, Freeze, Tornado, Quake, Flood, Holy and Doomsday (names taken from various FF and Bravely titles). Already exists in PvP, with a slightly different animation.

Of course chance it could just be "High Thunder IV" (implying there is also a High Thunder III) but I hope for better. Would be nice if BLM finally had the thunder equivalent to Flare and Freeze.

[seolhyun]

Fester and Painflare both display the blue Ability whirl. The action in the benchmark does not.

well it could be reworked also and not even function the same.

[ty_taurus]

Fester and Painflare both display the blue Ability whirl. The action in the benchmark does not.



Leading up to EW, Yoshi-P dodged the pressure of being the one to choose the JP tier V spell suffix for all of Final Fantasy for the rest of all time by just calling Fire V and Blizzard V the FF-coded equivalents of High Fire II and High Blizzard II. If this spell isn't Burst it'll probably just be High Thunder II or III, though it could be something not called Thunder at all a la Despair.

"Burst" is the FFXI name of the lightning elemental ancient magic, like "Flare" is for fire and "Freeze" for ice.

[Ggwppino]

maybe ramuh, shiva, leviathan after phoenix?

it's the good time for me to drop this game

[RyuuZero]

that SAM Skill looks like a Single Target Ogi.. but the Cone Effect at the end is strange

[Raikai]

maybe ramuh, shiva, leviathan after phoenix? but also fester and painflare have lightning in them already so it could just be an upgrade for one of those.

The thing is that the lightning at the end of the animation is very reminiscent of Ramuh's thunder orbs seen even in his ShB fight.

SMN- Similar animation and sfx as fester but with a thunder effect. Possibly this is what fester becomes when you summon Ramuh? Could just be a fester upgrade.

Maybe they made the awkward Fester/ED interact with the summons, which would be lovely becasue those actions feel like a relic of the past that doesn't fit the new SMN anymore.

[wereotter]

maybe ramuh, shiva, leviathan after phoenix? but also fester and painflare have lightning in them already so it could just be an upgrade for one of those.

it's a possiblity

take this with a grain of salt since I can't personally validate it, but someone on reddit posted some datamined info from the trailer, and it showed enkindle bahamut skill transforming to enkindle phoenix transforming into a third skill. If true, this is pretty huge.

it implies not only a third burst summon, but also potentially the death of the two minute DPS meta (unless the lego skills no longer take up a full minute) but also means that the new summons could be locked behind the third enkindle phase.