Thread: Patch 2.45 December 9th

Originally Posted by saber_alter

because this is a QoL thing rather than something that drastically changes gameplay.

this shaves off about 12-20 seconds of waiting period between encounters while healers buff the party, and that's it.

Buffing the whole party with one cast instead of 4 before every fight doesnt sounds like just QoL. Thats pretty big imo.

Originally Posted by atomicdeath

Buffing the whole party with one cast instead of 4 before every fight doesnt sounds like just QoL. Thats pretty big imo.

It's not a big change if it's outside of combat only. Still, I hope this means we'll be more likely to see reapplying SS before more pulls.

Originally Posted by atomicdeath

Buffing the whole party with one cast instead of 4 before every fight doesnt sounds like just QoL. Thats pretty big imo.

QQ if you add in the Egis abilities, SMN get 15 extra skills. I Main a healer and SMN is my main DPS, I'd much rather have Stoneskin II than another Egi at this point in time. Besides people would still use Garuda all the time because of contagion.

Stoneskin II makes me do a wiggle dance.

Huh, so it can only be used outside of battle. It's to save time and doesn't add anything to strategies. Still, this is a welcome and unexpected QoL addition.

Gonna be fun trying to hide in PvP for stoneskin spam. :b

Nah, Ninja does get one extra ability over other jobs, they get 2 lvl 15 abilities, which puts them 1 ability above other jobs (except SMN who has two abilities at lv. 4).

AoE Stoneskin was requested so many times and for a while now. We saw it coming, they confirmed it at fanfest. There is really no reason as to why people should ask why CNJ/WHM gets it. Yes, of course it affects battle since that's what SS is meant for. But not broken at all, just shaves off seconds. Not sure if there is anyway to exploit it since they made it so everyone in a party is forced in combat when bosses are pulled. Plus you'll instantly will get on the aggro charts the minute you cast SS. So I welcome this nice improvement. I'm sure WHM are happy for this. Not sure if SCH will benefit from it since I have no clue if it's cross-classable, which will be sadness since I play SCH rather than WHM. Ah well.