Things that need to change for the better

[origamikitsune]

The update was awesome, but it had some severe bad sides and a few other things that need tweaking.

1) Cure MP costs. They are much too high and before anyone says "But 11's were high!" yeah, but a cure 3 wasn't 135MP

2) Raises need to be on separate timers. What's the point of having 4 different types of raises, as a CON, if we can only use 2?

3) Stats need enhancing. Aside from VIT and MND, they do next to nothing.

4) Gear damage from death needs to be abolished or reduced. Every dungeon run, I come out with at least 3 pieces of broken gear. This is unacceptable considering people want close to 10k to repair something...

5) the r45 dungeon needs a slight nerf. "CRY MOAR!" no seriously, the ogre opens up with AoE spam and the mages are usually dead in the first 30 seconds of the fight which leads to #6. Also, fix it so that if you wipe and have to return, that the mobs don't pop until you're team is inside the room. It is VERY hard to recover from a wipe on that fight as you will probably wipe again before your team is back into the fight (Stupid ghosts..)

6) Enmity needs to be fixed. The current system is severely flawed. A GLA used 3 vokes and a couple of WS on a mob, I cure 3'd once...mob turned around and bam, 1 shot.

1.) I agree with this because... As it is, a minimum of two main healers are needed for something like the ogre. I can hope that there is a "trick" we still haven't learned, but unless you arc steamroll it, the number of casters needed is too high from an MP stand point. They both end that fight with zero MP and doing thing but curing. I believe that as Con is a Whm/Blm set up, they should be borderline if all they do his heal, and should require very good MP conservation and management when nuking as well. While an adjustment is in order, I believe it need only be a minimalistic adjustment to both MP and Hate; I still want it to be risky, but I want that versatility that Con has to offer.

2.) With separate death penalties for each raise, I agree, though I can see how that can still be OP. A minor adjustment to the penalties for weakness on low-level raises is in order.

3.) That is getting addressed already.

4.) I come out of three runs without any gear damaged, and that's with dying. Raise does not cause gear damage - returning when dead does. IMO, this is balanced.

5.) We open this fight in a way that the ogre does not do an AoE, and does not spam it. While I'm sure that others have figured out how to do this as well, we figured it out on our own, so I know other people can as well. When in doubt, search the forums for tactics. Its easy to avoid the opening AoE. In fact, its the easiest part of that fight.

6.) Don't cure 3. Again, using ogre as an example, we did it entirely with cure 1/2 and sac 1/2. In an emergency our con was able to pop a single Cure 3 if need be, but he didn't need to. Again, it comes down to tactics. MAYBE some minor tweaks, but I honestly thing the issue will actually be fixed with the introduction of Jobs, which will have more specialized abilities - hopefully like hate control. I suspect that the dungeons will get easier.

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