Caster Classes All Nerfed...

[MariyaShidou]

the main reason is not that they hate speedrun. they probably hate mages. it's been like this since 1.0.

Talk about Garuda burn and Mog Holy burn...

[AjoraOak]

Agreed. I see no benefit in defending SE's poor choices. Heck...even on the JP forums they are outraged by this and calling the devs weak for these choices. Why remove thunder and not buff Ruin/RuinII? Why must things always go backwards....

Because CT, gotta go backwards... it's the new forwards!

[Ri_ri]

Mister Yoshida plays a BLM, so they get the most insignificant nerf while SMN gets the brunt of the bat.

[Sebazy]

Uh, pretty sure the skill will still be working fine. But if it is indeed broken, you can be sure SE will patch it quickly!

Kind of a strange change given that organised Virus rotations are a pretty central part of beating Twintania.

[MichuAmane]

They nerfed scathe because of Pvp. As it has been stated any dmg u take will interrupt ur cast. When ur swift cast is gone what will u use? Is there another instant skill that will dmg the other player? Granted scathe is not powerful but it is the only skill u can use and run. And u better run cause they are gonna hit u. Except for the bard who has you already. Bliz2 is part of a flare rotation which can be used. I don;t care about the potency it was just for umbral ice. I could care less about pvp, i assumed it would be fail for a caster. BUT SE SORTA MISREPRESENTED THEMSELVES. They implied pvp and pve would be separate, they are nerfing to balance pvp affecting our pve. This is a fail model (refer to Gw2). Plus with gcd and moving target interrupting casts and now dmg ALWAYS interrupts casts, how great will pvp be for a caster anyway. If even old games can manage to separate pvp/pve skills surely Se could too.

[Naunet]

Michu has it right for PvP. BLMs may as well just forget about participating in the arena, because all you're going to be able to do is cast a spell every 30 seconds without interrupt (Surecast) or instantly every couple minutes (Swiftcast). Outside of that you're, what, a Scathe bot? Silly. If a team is going up against another with a BLM, it takes hardly any effort to keep someone on that BLM to ensure they very rarely get a cast off.

[EvokerKeii]

im more pissed about the allagan boots getting changed now I need to go get damn blm myth boots ><

I'm also way more pissed about the boots change than anything. We have no good boots now.
Summoners should all protest by going barefoot.

[Kal-El]

Lustrate buff <3

[Lithera]

The problem isn't speedruns themselves but the exclusivity. How many speed run shouts do you see asking for MNK or DRG? or Hell even a WAR tank. Don't often see SMN either. PLD BLM BRD WHM is the lineup 90% of the time. THIS is what SE is trying to stop. The same thing happened in FFXI for years. For leveling you always had your TP burn parties but other than that it was Manburn ALL THE THINGS. Some Dynamis shells wouldn't take you if you didn't level BLM unless you were a tank. Dev team on XIV wants to nip this in the ass as early as possible. In any case the job balance is going to yo-yo with every patch for at least a year and then yo-yo again once the first expansion lands. May as well just make our suggestions and roll with it.

[Sylve]

dun nerf Holy's potency nerf their OMG SO BRIGHT BLINDING PARTICLE EFFECT ESPECIALLY WHEN MULTIPLE HOLY CAST ON MAH SCREEN!

Other players have spell effects?!