Holy and Flare diminishing returns nerf

[Edellis]

Both classes were Mages. Wizards. They were meant to be aoe masters, because that was their identity. Our time to shine was during dungeon aoe pulls, while other classes could put out significantly more dps against single target bosses as a balance. That balance is gone now.

Haha, what? How? Even with diminishing returns, Flare is still going to put out more effective DPS than any single-target sans a limit break could ever hope to. Holy was nerfed alongside Flare, so literally nothing has changed in terms of BLM holding the AoE damage title.

Flare only has a potency of 300 with no Astral Fire. At Astral Fire III it's closer to 560 Potency, so that chart is wrong.

I'm really confused, if flare was really a issue, why didn't they nerf it back when they nerfed holy over a year ago? Also if your going to add diminishing returns to holy, restore the original potency on it. Honestly if they felt flare was OP you would of thought they'd have made a change to it long ago. 50% is a huge nerf imo. Also do we even know how the game is going to decide which mobs are going to get the reduced effects? Will it be random each flare? Like if we double/triple flare, are different mobs going to get the full effect each cast, or is it up to RNG? smh

It's most likely proximity based, but i don't really see how it matters either way. The first enemy is getting full blast.

And I don't think Holy really needs its potency back, it was still sufficiently powerful at 200 potency, and WHM later gets Assize which is essentially pre-nerf Flare with no proration that's off the GCD.

How does eonichen sound op, the only official news from se we have on it is it grants access to blizzard 4 and fire 4 and that's it. I haven't seen the official eonichen but what se has told us about it so far it's a worthless skill until lvl 60

It has changed since then, it makes no sense for Enochian to ONLY grant those spells when it's a level 56 skill. It does something else we don't know about. Originally it was said to be a level 60 skill.

Blizzard IV is 58, and Fire IV is 60. That's like getting Kassatsu on Ninja before you get a mudra.

For all we know, Enochian could boost flare past what it currently is. We'll know tomorrow.