Black Mage - the solution for everything?

[Duelle]

I think they dont need gimp BLM/THM or BRD/ARC... would be better if they add monsters specialized against these jobs, just like Colibries were anti-blm on xi, reflecting their magic, or monsters with high defense against certain weapons like arrows, that way there dont be always an unstopable job. put monsters around resistant to certain job weapon/spells/abilities/ wathever mixed altogueter. in XI monsters had diferent defense bonus against ceretain kind of weapon damage, they need make that noticeable in XIV too.

Colibri were a terrible thing. What we need is bosses with mechanics that challenge casters and ranged without punishing melee. It can be as simple as something like Shadow Crash (ground-targetted high damage/one-shot-capable attack that prioritizes ranged DPS unless there's no ranged DPS in the group). If you want to single out BLM, then add a boss with a mechanic where MP doesn't regen, even when in passive mode, and instead have adds that have to be killed to restore some of the casters' MP (problem with this mechanic is that the healer would also fall under this). There's ways you can encourage diverse comps without the mess created by TAU.

[Asiaine]

Colibri were a terrible thing. What we need is bosses with mechanics that challenge casters and ranged without punishing melee..

Bosses that resist magic might be interesting. Certainly will stop the BLM Burn Mania ^.^; I always thought the idea of a boss that would 'cycle' through weaknesses would be nice (sometimes weak to magic, melee, piercing, etc.) or have adds that had different resistances.

If we had a simple situation:
Boss weak to melee
Half adds weak to magic
Half adds weak to piercing

Would certainly encourage more diversity.

[Chardrizard]

Bosses that resist magic might be interesting. Certainly will stop the BLM Burn Mania ^.^; I always thought the idea of a boss that would 'cycle' through weaknesses would be nice (sometimes weak to magic, melee, piercing, etc.) or have adds that had different resistances.

If we had a simple situation:
Boss weak to melee
Half adds weak to magic
Half adds weak to piercing

Would certainly encourage more diversity.

You just defined Garuda. Except boss has no weakness, it takes damage from anything. But it has 2 adds which one weak to magic, one weak go melee.

[Asiaine]

You just defined Garuda. Except boss has no weakness, it takes damage from anything. But it has 2 adds which one weak to magic, one weak go melee.

Sorry, I should of been more specific: Those that are not 'weak' to something is resistent to something else. So Boss would resist magic, half the adds would resist magic.