Thread: 3.0: Elemental Weakness/Resistance?

Because elemental resistance is stupid. Why not add blunt/striking/slash resistance too then? I'm sure people would enjoy old bosses having blunt and pierce resistance.

Originally Posted by Coatl

Because elemental resistance is stupid. Why not add blunt/striking/slash resistance too then? I'm sure people would enjoy old bosses having blunt and pierce resistance.

Slash/blunt/striking/piercing resistance and vulnerability already exist (First Coil T2, Dragon Kick, Phlebotomize, Storm's Eye), but elemental resistances would end up with SE having to completely rework how jobs like BLM play and completely re-haul their rotation, unless they gave BLM's an action that "reversed" the mechanics of Umbral Ice and Astral Fire.

Bosses with already-existing resistances and vulnerabilities that you don't need to apply via skill usage would probably also encourage people being more selective about exactly what jobs they want in a fight. For example, a boss with piercing resistance would have people not wanting DRGs and BRDs in their group, same goes with a Fire-based boss and BLM because Ice moves are not DPS material, or having an Ice boss and people only wanting BLM's in their party. This only works in BCT2 because you get to choose how you arrive to the boss and what vulnerabilities it will have, resulting in a path that favors melee users, and one that favors magic users.

Originally Posted by Coatl

There's nothing all that diverse about doing X more damage because your weapon is Y element.

Exactly.

I think BLM and SMN need an overhaul anyway. I mean, they're fine as is, but they could be better. I remember being pretty disappointed to learn that BLM was primarily fire damage. Was even more disappointed that all of the thunder spells were nearly identical. I just wanted to zap things...

Also, why give BLM Flare and Freeze but not Burst? Seems inconsistent.

Originally Posted by Tupsi

Wasn't that big of an issue in 1.x and in fact actually offered -gasp- options on your weapon selection (since they also had more than base stats!) with relic weapon obviously being the best.

Yeah, 1.x had both type of resistances. People usually took BLMs because it was the easy button.

In 1.0 had both resistance but BLMs had all the element spells so if u encounter an enemy with a elemental resistance you just change the spell. Now we can't do that because they separate the spells between BLM and WHM. The weapon resistance is more realistic since those didn't change much but elemental resistance as right now would be impossible unless a class/job rework yet again