Thread: 2.4 patch notes

lol so now that they give free self heal to DPS, can we get cleric stance back for healers? I mean they tweaked it now so that every jobs in frontline can DPS + Heal except for Healers themselves due to the last nerf.

If we're gonna be boring like GW2 and have every classes be DPS with a self heal we might as well go all the way for white mage and scholars.

For myself, I'm pretty much gonna be FORCED to pick up a back up class that I don't particularly enjoy playing in PVP in case I queue in and my team has like 4 white mages. I practically have to switch to a DPS or tank to balance out my team and make sure we can compete without dead weights. Most people might not even have the same luxury of having a geared back up class to swap to. At LEAST allow us to save skill specs for each of our class so we don't waste our time re-speccing skill when we want to switch.

This new patch is just gonna drive more people away from frontline slowly and worsen the quality of matches but w/e I'll let the in game population speak for themselves. Hopefully whoever's in charge of PVP grow some balls and come on the forum to discuss the way PVP balance is heading so we know to stop investing in classes that might be nerfed to oblivion in the future.

Originally Posted by Fyce

Aaaah... I love playing MNK in PvP.

*le Aura Blast + Blizzard II*

Soooo....at some point, I need to start doing FL's again because 'light farming' and ranking (currently rank 40). Buuuut: They made it so WHM (the role I not only main, but really only want to queue as due to light farming), is basically nerfed to the point that having more than one in each party is pointless. So I either have to knowingly say 'screw you all, my lights are more important than wins' and hardnose being a WHM if their are multiple in a group, or swap to SCH/SMN and hope I can be useful that way. I understand that they nerfed the stacking due to how the JA database is using WHM's in play....but man, that was a little cold, esp to other data centers that didn't rely on WHM stacking near as much...add to that the swiftcast nerfs and if anything, I see smn stacking being the 'new' thing in the near future (stacking DOT's that can only be removed via a single-targeted, single buff esuna'd AND now no 'stacked HOT's to compensate the health loss from stacked DoT's)....oh and SMN's can cast many of their DOT's faster than the other mages can cast their respective spells AND have 'spread' abilities etc to make the damage far worse.

Still, my biggest gripe isn't the HOT stacking loss, its that this coupled with the CS nerf (which effectively nerfed holy), there's little to no reason to WANT more than 1 WHM in your party now. No other job atm quite suffers this stigma.

I guess instead of the 'swan' look SE should have made WHM the 'duck' since all we are now is sitting ducks anyway.

To the BLMs, I know it sucks to get nerfed but you gotta remember that healer survivability got nerfed hard (which are your main targets). So maybe during their internal testing, the BLM double flare was too strong after unstacking the regens.

Originally Posted by Kinseykinz

having more than one in each party is pointless.

Okay. So go in solo Healer against me. I'm walking up to you, stunning, full swing, spirits after the stun, then stunning again (btw you're dead by now cause of the DPS hitting you).