Shocked at the reduction in mage damage, quadruple mp cost, and lowered resources

[Neptune]

I have to say one thing I really enjoyed in this game was playing my Conjurer. The Nature's Fury ability, which lets you use aoe on your auto attack to burn up levequest targets was really fun.

I've soloed a few of the mid-tier NMs and it was hard to cure myself through the fights. I would run out of mp mid battle and have to sleep the NM and go into passive mode so I could regain my mp. And that's after I had siphon MP'd them to 0 mp.

I also really enjoyed curing in this game because in FFXI it was not fun playing the game of whack a mole, hitting targets with single cast cure spells.

But now with patch 1.18 I'm going to be having a lot less fun with my gametime.

-Nature's Fury recast time means I can only use my aoe attack twice a minute.
-Cure 3 MP cost has been quadrupled from 36 MP to 130, meaning I have less than 7 cures to use when soloing an NM. Some of these NMs hit for around 500 HP, meaning you would need one Cure 3 for every hit just about. Now, I doubt I'll be able to continue going on adventures by myself since I simply won't be able to cure myself through the damage.
-Since aoe has been removed from cures I'll now have to leave some of my abilities behind so I can assign Curaga spells to my action bar, and since 7 heals take priority over any kind of damage, I guess I'm playing a healer all of a sudden and I can forget about being a caster damage dealer
-Siphon MP no longer aoe means I have less resources to work with and improvise with out in the field

I must conclude it is no longer as fun playing my class, and it is not going to be possible to enjoy the same kinds of activities I did before patch 1.18. On top of that, even though I picked Conjurer for the elemental magic ability, I now am going to have no role other than healer in parties since I can do no more than 7 cures with my MP. Prior to patch 1.18 I could afford to throw out 7 cures and still use my other abilities but now I will be focused on healing, which means I won't be playing very much. That is not something I enjoy.

Well, how do you feel if you're a magic user? Did this change impact your playstyle or your enjoyment of your class?

[Rau]

Yeah, I can see my self being challenged, instead of just sitting back and aoe curing every 10 seconds.

[Verecund]

I like the shift to party play (though some of the changes definitely hurt solo leveling alot...). One thing I don't like is the lack of nothing to do while waiting for auto-attack to generate TP

[kukurumei]

I like the shift to party play (though some of the changes definitely hurt solo leveling alot...). One thing I don't like is the lack of nothing to do while waiting for auto-attack to generate TP

I don't know what you're talking about...

They left in light stab/thrust/slash/ and heavy skills from points. Then you have all these skills, it's a WoW spam a thon.

Stuff still dying left and right. Animation >skills available. Need more balance on those timers.

I'm hoping 1.19 they tone it down, and isolate more skills to classes. It's still a zerg a thon

System is good so far though. a lot more fluid then the old system.

I find MP costs fine. They lost all aspect of mana conservation and resting/swapping, and went into mana burn.

Now people are asking why they can't mana burn anymore.

[Neptune]

You sure like to cry alot. Get over it. Go play wow if you want easy.

Did it really seem like I wanted something easy to do? There's nothing about what I said I enjoyed that was easy. It was hard. What I don't like is having white mage shoved down my throat. There's too much emphasis on healing caused by this raise of mp costs. I want to be something like a BLM/WHM. Now I'm more like a WHM/RDM. I didn't sign up for that.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

it wasn't mean to solo ma pretty.... .

[Sav]

I imagine they want to make a lot of the NMs non-soloable. Otherwise, what's so notorious about them?

[Neptune]

I imagine they want to make a lot of the NMs non-soloable. Otherwise, what's so notorious about them?

The NMs are very much non-soloable. The fun comes in finding a creative way to solo them. In FFXI, that was RDM/NIN for a long time. Thinking outside the box and figuring things out. That was my forte.

[Altano]

The NMs are very much non-soloable. The fun comes in finding a creative way to solo them. In FFXI, that was RDM/NIN for a long time. Thinking outside the box and figuring things out. That was my forte.

RDM/NIN was hardly creative or "outside-the-box" thinking. Hmmm, what happens if I use the same strategy as a blink-tank post-37 while at the same time melee/DoT/nuking and using convert + refresh + haste + pro/shell + every other buff on the planet? That was as straightfoward as possible. I spent every one of my 8 years as a mage in XI and hated it in this game and refused to play it past rank 20 up until (possibly) now because it was stupidly easy. Thankfully SE is adding a challenge to being a skilled mage. About damn time in my opinion.