Thread: To the Complainers... GTFO, 1.18 ROCKS!

Originally Posted by Jabo

As you can see i have a Rank 29 THM and a Rank 22 CON which i leveld in the first month of the game where getting to Rank 20 took a week. Plus i play in every MMO a Paladin and a White Mage. So healing is kind of the most important matter to me, regarding MMOs.

I did see that, so I know you certainly weren't main healer at Great Buffalo yesterday, or running through Rank 45 dungeon on your Conjurer in the last 12 hours. I, on the other hand, have been doing both and have been Rank 50 Conjurer since ... January or February. I'm not saying I'm better than you or anything, I'm just saying I'm speaking from a "I've been doing this *** and I know what it's like today compared to before 1.18" point of view.

You have Sacrifice, you have cure, you have Siphon MP. You also have Potions and you can put points in MND or buy MP gear, if you have a MP problem. Also it depends on what you are doing. Grind Party? Than you need at least a backup healer or a tank who can watch his HP a little? Behest and Leves? Never an MP issue. Soloing? Was never meant to be for grinding!

I use Cure, Sacrifice, Siphon MP - in fact 2 of 3 action bars are JUST filled with Cures now (thanks for removing AOE) and Prot/Shell and Raise. It's a tad ***. Yesterday Cure 2/3, Sac 2/3, Prot Shell and Raise all on 1 bar. Really freed up the other bars for - everything else I could do. Nuke, DoT and spam regular attacks, Siphon TP and Levinbolt/Flashfreeze, but hey who needs that *** now.

The only thing you listed I haven't used is potions or ethers and if they still heal as terribly as they did yesterday (100 HP and 50 MP or worse) then I probably never will. If they did increase the potency of items I'd be all for it as an offset to healing - man that would be great AND as a 43 Alchemist I could actually make something (besides shards) that people would actually buy! What a novel idea!

1.18 made every party member think for once what they are doing. The amount you could spam healing spells was ridiculous. It was so ridiculous that people stopped thinking of how they could improve their healing.
Now they have to thing more about their stats, their gear and their way to play.

I'm trying to impress upon you that if any of your mages are simply spamming cure without thinking in anything other than behest, they are doing you a vast disservice. It's simply not the optimal way to play mage. It actually took a lot of thought, a lot of strategy and a lot of MP management YESTERDAY. Now, all I do is watch HP and Cure and passive when I don't need to cure. That's the opposite of engaging gameplay and simply not a strategy I'm interested in.

Where are you getting that? I said people could and did spam cure. I didn't say it was all they were doing.
Also i talked from a healer perspective not a Gladiator one.

I'm saying if they did Cure spam, they were bad mages. Yep, I went there. DOT are (were?) by far the best damage you could deal to the R50 content. Ever since the shift from 15-man to 8-man teams, we always have at least 3 DOT up at any given time. Aside from that CON + THM opening a Battle Regiment setup for good WS burst, or could end with Magic Burst - there was so much I could do yesterday and now I simply can't because Cure 3 Costs 130 *** MP. Everything I could have done with that 100 extra MP I can't do today.

It's not a step forward. It's a tragedy really.