SE hates Mages?

[Arcell]

- useless offensive magic

- Shell/Protect nerfed

- you can AoE a group of monster but you'll get exp/sp from only one

- 1000~1300 max hp, 3 hits or 1 skill hit from a monster cost your life (at this moment, when Shell/Protect nerfed)

- and you need 100+ vit allotment just to have little more hp, can take one more hit from mobs

- WTF is elemental allotment? I reassign them so many time and still can't see any different

- potato sack is your gear!! wear it!!

- no r50 weapon, no top rank unique weapon

- a piece of branch is your staff/rod!! use it!

- AM.... wait 25 sec, 100MP and deal 50 critical damage to the Great Buffalo

- 15~30 action bar slots need, but you have to live with the worst action bar in the MMO history

- when you want to scroll down to 2nd or 3rd action bar, you press UP or DOWN and it toggle your target type and then you die because your action bar and target type was fu--ed up

1. No.

2. Sure?

3. You don't understand how the claiming system works at all. You can AoE a group of mobs and get SP from all, provided they are all in the same group. Obviously if you AoE a bunch of single-group monsters you'll only get SP from one but a good player should know this already.

4.In an ideal party situation your HP doesn't really matter. If you have a good tank you shouldn't be pulling hate and get hit period.

5. See 4.

6. I'll kind of give you that one, it's a bit vague and even the team has admitted that all the point allotments don't work as intended.

7. Velveteen Cowl = Potato sack? Not quite.

8. That one I'll give you.

9. Well for Conjurer yes, it goes with their lore. Do Thaumaturge's metal weapons not count?

10. Everyone knows AM is a problem, I'll give you that.

11. Yeah maybe if you set every skill you have. Pick and choose, figure out what you really need for any given fight.

12. You will only change target type if your action bar isn't up period and only if you're in target mode b. If your action bar is up it will scroll between bars 2 and 3. That's user error on your part.

[Evangela]

12. You will only change target type if your action bar isn't up period and only if you're in target mode b. If your action bar is up it will scroll between bars 2 and 3. That's user error on your part.

that's what it should be. but I'm sure that I can toggle the target type while action bar is up, when I casting a spell and press UP or DOWN, it's really change target type! maybe it's a glitch that's why not so many ppl notice about it

and when would ppl stop talking about Dodore soloing? it's exploiting not the real power of mages

[Kaedan]

that's what it should be. but I'm sure that I can toggle the target type while action bar is up, when I casting a spell and press UP or DOWN, it's really change target type! maybe it's a glitch that's why not so many ppl notice about it

If you are pressing UP/DOWN after you've activated a spell but before selecting a target, then yes, that's how it's supposed to work...since you're supposed to select a target. >.>

[Evangela]

If you are pressing UP/DOWN after you've activated a spell but before selecting a target, then yes, that's how it's supposed to work...since you're supposed to select a target. >.>

then why don't just allow user to reassign that key? or move them to PgUp, PgDown since they are currently un-assigned

[solracht]

and when would ppl stop talking about Dodore soloing? it's exploiting not the real power of mages

Mages (thaumaturge) get the most spells that ignore the level difference between you and the target, making them ridiculous for damaging Notorious Monsters (or any high level enemy).

Thaumaturge gets a spell that pretty much makes you immune to magic damage in some encounters and it can be kept up all the time while on thaumaturge.

MP is almost infinite now.

Someone with conjurer and thaumaturge at 50 cannot die unless he is hit for over his maximum HP barring extreme cases (or unless he doesn't know what he's doing).


The fact that you have something against Dots and Shadowsear (otherwise you wouldn't have made this thread) doesn't mean mages are in a much worse position than others. In case you hadn't noticed, almost half of the spells any class gets are useless too, it's not exclusive to mages.

Life in Eorzea is great for Thaumaturges and Archers, and crappy in comparison for everyone else.