PvP (should casters even bother?)

[ninthfantasy]

Meh, I'll accept the challenge. I like to think I can get good DPS out and be quick on my feet (thanks to many Titan HM runs). It'll be fun seeing how I can utilise spells to get one over on melee. Gonna do a lot of experimenting over the next few weeks! I've had a bit moan and grumble over the SMN nerfs, but gonna play around and see what I can do. :3

[Dhex]

Find a PLD buddy their Cover and Provoke are gonna help

[InuraBera]

Compared to most games out there, melee have very little in the way of consistent gap closers bar running at the person, so it will be interesting to see how this works out.

If it is anything like the general class quests, you will need to focus down the Black Mage of the group first, as they just cause havoc but are difficult even for a full blown healer to keep up when getting whacked, then onto healers before finally trying to deal with physical damage dealers and the tank. Burst is always useful in a PvP battle, while consistency can be a weakness unless you are focusing on purely hindering a player.

If a Summoner or Black Mage isn't prevented from casting, they will basically be able to ace a team I think. Glass cannons in the truest sense of the word with crazy spike damage - and range.

[Dreadlockrasta]

Time for everyone who hasn't already leveled a bard o level a bard.

[Gold_Jacobson]

It's going to take strategy.

Don't freak out so early.

[LiadansWhisper]

From a healing perspective, I'd have to say no.

I had been semi concerned that there weren't enough interrupts and stuns to effectively control healers/casters while focused, but this is honestly beyond stupid. This actually makes healers even more of bait than they are in WoW, which is really saying something.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I can easily see Bard and Smn being the two most powerful in Pvp.

With direct damage always interrupting a caster. Smn can wipe a party insanely fast by making titan attack whm and the summoner itself attacks a black mage if the party has one.

Bard can just run and shoot the whm.

[Sebazy]

Heres hoping it's an error in translation or something. I've got a long and successful history of pvp across a multitude of mmos and I'm certainly not tainting my track record by trying to play through stupid mechanics such as what this threatens to be.

[Lyrinn]

Does accuracy play any role in PvP? (I skipped over the PvP notes). I don't think it would be terribly bad if it was possible to miss because then it wouldn't be permainterrupt.

[KamikazeMan]

With BLM being my main job in the game, I'm trying my best to hold off on judging it till I experience it myself. Part of me keeps saying "Yoshida wouldn't completely screw over BLM. Right?.......right? RIGHT?!?!" o_o;

Plenty of times I've seen ideas that look amazing on paper, but were poorly implemented. Maybe this is one of those rare occasions when the idea looks bad on paper - err text- but implemented really well.