SE hates Mages?

[Jinrya-Geki]

Rank 35 Conj tier 2 nukes + Profunity2

Vs helidor Dobylns (blue in a party of 3) 1400-1700dmg

The Drawf diremites (orange in a party of 3) 700-900dmg

Of course these are with regiments, I see nothing wrong with the dmg at all.

Basically if you want to do big dmg nukes on anything besides DC/EM mobs, you have to regiment. BUt droping 50% of a mobs hp in 1 nuke does not seem underpowered at all. This is another example of how people are just doing it wrong

How did you do that much to a dwarf diremite?
What is your Int and gear you a wearing? And what battle regiments did you synch with?
I used Purge, Profundity II, chainspell and the most I did was around 600 with all spells, as a 44 Con with any regiment I could think of with another person. I couldn't even do 200-400 to those until I ranked to 40 with 146 Int. With Velveteen gear and Magic Accuracy rings. I am sorry I think you are exaggerating the numbers a wee bit, unless you sacrificed all you stats into Int, then I might believe this.

[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.

[Xatsh]

How did you do that much to a dwarf diremite?
What is your Int and gear you a wearing? And what battle regiments did you synch with?
I used Purge, Profundity II, chainspell and the most I did was around 600 with all spells, as a 44 Con with any regiment I could think of with another person. I couldn't even do 200-400 to those until I ranked to 40 with 146 Int. With Velveteen gear and Magic Accuracy rings. I am sorry I think you are exaggerating the numbers a wee bit, unless you sacrificed all you stats into Int, then I might believe this.

Diremites in Copperbell mines;

Regiment was this

Glad Lumn Spire + attack buff + Cadence => Lnc with attack buff + acc buff + WS => Me with profunity II + Blood Rite II + Blizzard II. The dmg was right in that range unless I resisted, my int was very low I only did 1 reset from my glad build was 87.

[Dreamer]

Don't cast protect or shell for a week and see if you notice a difference. I assure you that you won't. My final post on this forum about protect/shell. Tired of the rank 20s screaming how it reduces 10309823092830928302938092 dmg from attacks. It reduces one point of damage. /10chr

I haven't really been able to test Shell, but when I was playing with Protect earlier it was negating a consistent 10% of damage from physical attacks.

[PrettyPrincess]

If SE hates mages I suppose that's why THM can solo things like Dodore and DoTs are one of the best methods to drop a NM's HP?

Not only Dodore, but they can solo/tank Goblin NM with all it's minions as well.. and FNMs? Forget about it. They are even easier to solo/duo as a mage.

Mages are not weak. You have no idea what you're talking about. They are actually quite overpowered especially with both ranked to 50.

this ^

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[Rau]

i have 50 VIT and the only time i get one shotted is when Great Buffalo does his Super stomp for, or the hate loss rush.

[Chardrizard]

i can tank great buffalo fine after hate loss until tank gets it attention back.

[Vanguard319]

As far as I can tell, the only real relevant complaint in the op is the AoE nerf, if SE wants to encourage mages and dds to use thier AoEs for large links/crowd control, that seems to be the most important issue to resolve, and the protect/shell nerf, if you are referring to the tier 1 spell, I guess it would seem weak at r50. As for soloing things in my level, my stats lean more towards the physical than magical, but my nukes tend to land for between 200~400 dmg. Might be the way I alloted my points for elemental affinity.

[Nephera]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KazOD98mqr4

yeah mages arent underpowered, you are probably doing it wrong, no offense.


They are kind of a pain to use what with aoe/single target selection being a bit akward and you needing a lot of slots on your hotbar but no not underpowered.

[Evangela]

why everyone keep comparing this Dodore killer guy to another normal gameplaying?

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...cicuid=1882333

this guy also alloted his points to 174 VIT and 0 point to INT, isn't it another proof that SE didn't made mages in the right way and need to get fix?