Thread: 3.0: Elemental Weakness/Resistance?

Originally Posted by Meier

And Halvung EXP was amazing. It was nice to be able to do something out of the norm and with other fellow BLMs.

Except it led to BLMs apologizing for taking up space in parties, left them out of the main way of leveling (BLMs after 45-ish eventually were expected to solo their levels), or had to cure-bitch in order to justify their spots.

It wasn't all rainbows and unicorns. Actually quite the opposite.

Again, the job BLM has always been would be the master of Fire, Thunder and Blizzard spells. Which it just so happens to be in XIV. In games with the elemental wheel, excluding FFX, it was always more beneficial to cast your strongest spell as opposed to the elementally appropriate one assuming the spell wouldn't heal the enemy or the enemy in question happened to have a specifically high resistance. Even in FFXI.

I find BLM a lot more fun and engaging now than FFXI's BLM. It has a mechanic and a use for every spell. Giving them every element will see them getting bloated with skills that they won't even use except for very specific elementally appropriate fights. In Ifrit for example you will only use (using your toggle idea) tier 1 and tier 3 spells of whatever is strong to fire in this game and tier 1 and tier 3 spells of whatever is elementally neutral in this game. 4 spells, as usual but now you have 8 spells just sitting there which have absolutely no use in the fight (before you count all the AoE spells too).

And I'm rather curious now. You say Ifrit would be weak to Water and Ice but then say Fire melts Ice. Which is it then?

Dont see anyone trying to discuss, just mudfights ... keep going on!