Thread: Patch 2.45 December 9th

Originally Posted by DoctorPepper

So basically, DRG is going to become the easiest job to play in the entire DPS lineup aside from BRD and they get to be the second highest DPS in the game as well. Way to go on the balance guys.. I don't even know what to say about that.

Dragoon, Monk, Ninja are all easy.

Playing them WELL is a completely different story.

Playing them well is just as difficult as Ninja, Monk, Summoner, Black Mage etc.

RIP succor, maybe.

Originally Posted by Alistaire

No, stoneskin II will be out of combat only.

Just like raise from low level conjurer? Ah good then.

I find this quite welcomed, though this is not a new thing since conjurer/white mage did have this back in 1.0 era, although handled differently through the skill called Sacred Prism which lets you AOE any selective spells including Regen too.

Kinda reminds me back in original Aurum Vale dungeon where the air there used to be filled with poisonous fumes that will saps health of anyone entering those fumed areas. This is where Sacred Prism + Regen works where 2 WHM needs to work in tandem to manage duration of buffs always continuous until all party member are out of fumed zones.

While I do wish Sacred Prism making a comeback, SS2 should do I guess.

Happy to hear DRG is finally getting buffed. Right timing too, before the Dragon oriented expansion. But jumping to conclusions about Dragoon suddenly being OP to Ninja is ignorant. The nerf could be as little as -10 to the attacks, and +5 for the DRG. I still think MNK will be DPS leader, too bad for QQ people possibly sharing equally the second spot. Might as well complain SMN does more damage than most melee.

Originally Posted by Buff_Archer

Well this will help healers unfortunate enough to pull Nexus parties in DF who pull before they can even cast protect, let alone stoneskin the tanks. Though wouldn't surprise me to see in trial roulette the main tank pulls after the beginning of protect and before the out-of-combat SS II can be cast.

Side note this should be available to SCH's, AND without taking up a whole cross class slot. SCH already has a weaker SS and that isn't changing, so why not enable this for what's the same QoL issue for both WHM/SCH. If an instance has two SCH's as healer, it doesn't matter that WHM's AOE SS is better if they're not there to use it in the first place.

Yeah, this change should really apply to the base Stoneskin spell for this reason. It'd really solve the issue for all jobs instead of just one.