Thread: 2.3 Info! New Classes Confirmed, New Summoner Pets!

Originally Posted by Merle

Yesssh, i forgot about Astral buff. Calm down

Thats not even including getting paralyzed. Melee have instant attacks thus they are slightly affected, as where a caster can be stunlocked for the entire duration. how many times before the turn 2 nerf when high voltage would hit the group and im almost 20 seconds unable to deal dps with my rotation because every time im close to casting a spell bam, paralyzed , cast again, paralyzed and again and again causing me to lose astral fire, or not doing crap at all. If anything i do love how the healers in my group give me priority on taking off any paralysis effects on me as they know how much it can potentially cripple a blm.

You may have issues with monk but the people who i play with decimate the dps as monk or dragoon, especially on these new turns. there is no comparing the dps both melee are very solid and in the hands of capable players they do much more than you think they can.

Originally Posted by Shadowzanon

You may have issues with monk but the people who i play with decimate the dps as monk or dragoon, especially on these new turns. there is no comparing the dps both melee are very solid and in the hands of capable players they do much more than you think they can.

I don't have issues with my monk, thanks. I'm more concerned about people not willing to let melees join their parties because is "easier" to stack melees. It happened in 1.0 and it was a damn nightmare

Originally Posted by Merle

Yesssh, i forgot about Astral buff. Calm down

Forgetting Astral buff isn't the least of the issues. It's the negligence of everything just to bring up something else that isn't being neglected.

Originally Posted by Merle

II'm more concerned about people not willing to let melees join their parties because is "easier" to stack melees. It happened in 1.0 and it was a damn nightmare

Wut? Either way making your own parties is an option.

Originally Posted by Gormogon

Wut? Either way making your own parties is an option.

Uh, my bad, i wanted to say "is easier to stack ranged". Yeah, i can make my own parties... if i don't care to have to wait around 2 hours to get a full party... how bad i can play 3 hours each day and i have to do dailies/roulettes... no.

And it has to be something, because you never see a party with 3 melees (Titan is the exception i see). Every single "hard battle" with more than one melee is always like "ugh... .2/3 melees... we're gonna wipe". Please, can you explain me that? People is just stupid and thinks melees are useless just because good melees are rare?

Originally Posted by Merle

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You're against a buff for a class that needs one because certain people don't want to party with melee? Those are two completely different situations with no correlation with each other. You will no doubt argue that "If they buff BLM, then people will be even less likely to bring melee". That's a straw man argument, though.

SE's focus for jobs is balance and they've done a very good job with it. They want every job to be viable in every piece of content. If BLM is becoming nonviable due to the way they're balancing their incoming content, then they will adjust BLM. However, SE does not control its playerbase for PvE content like they do with PvP. That is, they don't force 1 ranged and 1 melee (or 2/2) for their PvE content.

You have to find fault with the playerbase for your no-melee party issue, not the BLM job.

I'm only really interested in one class and that's seeing muskateer from the first time I came off the boat in Limsa back in v1.0. and loving this entire pose and its the reason I choose Limsa as my GC.

Hm... gun glass that swaps guns like a SMN swaps egis... complete with ability change depending on gun...
It's fun to theorize.

I just wish that SE would release this stuff for all of it's community, not just JP and we then have to rely on informal (though awesome) translators to help us out. :/

A class like Cervantes from Soul Calibur. Sword in one hand and gun in the other. Would be considered a melee/range. Get max damage with gun from 15 yalms or greater. Get max damage from sword from melee range

I've edited my original post to include notes from Day 2.