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

Hmmm I don't know how i feel about black mage being buffed, they already hit hard and have unlimited MP. If they should buff anything it should be invigorate, for its ridiculous cool down you would think it would at least fill up our TP bar back to 1000. That or reduce the cool down. In addition i feel if you buff one class your going to have to buff the others, lets say if they do buff black mage there is a possibility that people will only want to run with black mages over other classes.

If they tweak black mage to cast while they move then there needs to be a trade off like reducing their damage a tad bit to keep in balance with the other classes. Every class has some useless abilities i would rather the dev team work on making those abilities relevant rather than buffing one class.

Originally Posted by Buklohn

Hmmm I don't know how i feel about black mage being buffed, they already hit hard and have unlimited MP.

BLMs are glass cannons. The entire job is designed around them having low hp and high burst damage. The problem with that is that their spells have cast times that force them to stand in one spot in order to do their damage. On fights like Titan Ex where you are forced to move all the time, BLMs are basically worthless. Giving them the ability to move while casting, like you suggested, is an idea, but it is also a slippery slope.

When it comes to BLM, best new gimmick I can think of is a way to cast instantly at the cost of max MP. So maybe a stance called "Swiftstorm" which allows all spells cast through BLM to be instant but as long as the stance is active the max MP is lost, upon turning off the stance the max MP is regained based on the overall recast time of the spells used, so if they used 4 spells costing 500 MP each with a 3 second recast then it would take 12 seconds to regain the 2k max MP.

It would be a give and take kind of ability sure a BLM could in theory burn 6k max MP casting fire III at 500 MP 12 times but by doing that they are left with 0 MP for 36 seconds. Of course the numbers are inaccurate and real numbers would be something like 3-4 fire III if the BLM didn't aim for firestarter proc but the general idea would be to allow them to cast instantly but with what I believe would be a fair enough handicap to it.

Not sure how they'll fit in 2 more egis and manage to make them anywhere near special enough. At the end of the day you really don't have much more than damage or toughness to think about when picking an egi for party play or solo play.

Originally Posted by Deathscythe343

BLMs are glass cannons. The entire job is designed around them having low hp and high burst damage. The problem with that is that their spells have cast times that force them to stand in one spot in order to do their damage. On fights like Titan Ex where you are forced to move all the time, BLMs are basically worthless. Giving them the ability to move while casting, like you suggested, is an idea, but it is also a slippery slope.

I see your point but not being able to DPS while bosses do certain abilities is no different from a melee DPS having to lose DPS dodging AOE from the boss. Besides titan is more of an endurance test rather than a DPS race. The only class that can do that is bard. If black mages abilities become an instant cast or they are able to move while cast then i feel they will become too OP! hopefully they find away to make the class perform better without over shadowing the other classes.

Movement cast existed in 1.0 and was taken away because of consideration of pvp in the future and the imbalances it would cause, thus caused players to flare at Yoshi and ask if they will ever get it back at some point in the future, but sadly he said no.

Originally Posted by Caselia

thus caused players to flare at Yoshi and ask if they will ever get it back at some point in the future, but sadly he said no.

Because you guys were moving while casting. Noobs.

5. The debuff cast by the Gremlin in the Lost City of Amdapor can be dispelled by performing the emote "Comfort" or "Rally" on the affected person.

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This I gotta try.

Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Not sure Summoner or Black Mage needs to be buffed. They're already great. Making them better will just cause other jobs to fall behind. Sure, they have their problems but so does every other job. All jobs have their share of abilities that are next to useless.

I think that SMN and BLM need a little buff. BLM is not so good for SCOB. And of course SE saw that many summoners are using only Garuda-Egi in endgame contents and would be nice if all of our pets were useful.
And I would love to have Enkindle cool down decreased. T___T