The Future of THM

[Klive]

Correct me if i'm wrong since i'm not really sure but dont Scourge and Banish have a debuff that reduce magic defense for each of their respective sides of the elements(umbral/astral)? or does it only effect astral and umbral spells?. I know for certain they atleast reduce magic defense for thaumaturges own spells i just always thought they had an effect because of elements either being on the umbral or astral side.

I think SE would be making a mistake if Blm was made into a Astral/umbral only nuker because then you may as well just remove the elemental nukes altogether and reducing blm's elemental repertoire to two elements is quite an extreme dumbing down of the job. The only value elemental nukes have are being the best dd for their mp amount where as scourge and banish have debuff value.

Scourge does debuff umbral and Banish does debuff astral.

Considering they are putting the jobs in to make this more of a Final Fantasy, I fail to see them ever having a Black Mage with out elemental nukes... ever.

I have no idea which one will be BLM or WHM...so I will just level up both >.>

However I noticed something interesting.

In FFXI there is a mob called Vanguard Thaumaturge : http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_Thaumaturge
it's job is a BLM. >.> Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with XIV but I thought it was interesting. In XI SE seems to classify Thaumaturge as a BLM.

Not saying that for sure it will be BLM...I honestly have no idea, just something I noticed.

Interesting point. I have never seen that one before. Thank you for adding a researched point to the thread.