Thread: Stone Skin II in 3.0

Originally Posted by Coatl

Stoneskin is there to mitigate nuke dmg. FFS stop re-applying it after every trash pull!

There is no specifics on how stoneskin should be used.

The next Cure, Cure II, Benediction, Esuna or Stoneskin will be cast on every party member.

CD: 5mins

Originally Posted by alimdia

The next Cure, Cure II, Benediction, Esuna or Stoneskin will be cast on every party member.

CD: 5mins

8 party members with an 18% shield? <No thanks>

I think aoe SS should be a new spell, Stoneskin II. It would have a longer cast time (mitigated by swiftcast) and allowed on SCH and PLD. This would make a pretty good OT ability. Graniteskin traite would affect this spell too, so it wouldn't be as potent on other jobs.

Or, give a new caster the CC ability, Multicast. Works like the All materia of FF7, or the FF4DS Augment of the same name. When used, allows the next spell to be cast on multiple targets.

It kind of annoys me when whms think they have to stoneskin everyone before the pull. First aoe the boss does knocks stoneskin off everyone they medica and over heal thanks to stoneskin eating some of the damage. They had to cast the aoe heal anyway so all that time spent casting stoneskin goes to waste. If I see someone chain casting stoneskin I just pull the boss anyway.

They announced at one of the Fanfests Stoneskin will be changed to Stoneskin everyone in your party when out of combat. It was also meant to be in since 2.0 but they had some issues with a bug where White Mages could stay out of combat and spam Stoneskin.

They can make it so that stone skin 2 is an aoe but reduce the dmg mitigation like how succor is like Aldo. It provide an aoe shield but a less effective than also single target shield

Originally Posted by Zumi

It kind of annoys me when whms think they have to stoneskin everyone before the pull. First aoe the boss does knocks stoneskin off everyone they medica and over heal thanks to stoneskin eating some of the damage. They had to cast the aoe heal anyway so all that time spent casting stoneskin goes to waste. If I see someone chain casting stoneskin I just pull the boss anyway.

Please don't be that person.

Yes, it 'goes off on the first AoE', cool, then we can use less MP treating the wounds, nevermind ~2000 damage we blocked to you as a tank right at the start, nevermind dingus over there who just ate two stacked AoEs and by all rights should have died but because of Stoneskin lived and just saved us about 600 MP on raise costs.

You're basically giving your healers the finger by making our job unecessarily harder because you can't wait a few seconds.