Thread: 3.05 Job Balance Request Megathread

Originally Posted by m3eansean

There is also lag with Armor Crush (huton refresh) where if you use it with 1-2 seconds left, the server decides you don't get those 30 extra seconds of Huton, despite the attack connecting and visibly doing damage.

Pretty much the exact same thing can happen to mages. You can lose stacks and it sucks and then you have to do less DPS until you can get them back again. I've also had the "you did damage, it's in the combat log, but the game said "meh" situation.

I never said Black Mages had it worse than ninjas. From sheer volume, ninjas have it way worse. I may have been passionate, and it might have come off that way, but all I'm saying is that Black Mages have their own ways lag screws with them, similar to ninjas, in ways that ultimately are different from what happens to ninjas and it's pretty frustrating. The Flare thing is especially bad. The problem is that it used to be good, and then they changed it for reasons that no longer apply.

Imagine, say, Ninjas had a way to attack during mudras, but (for the sake of this thought experiment) only if the game somehow could see the future and knew you were casting Huton. And so they fix it, as they probably should have for 2.0, but in doing so, they made the mudra lag much worse. Then Heavensward comes around and you get armor crush so you're never really using Huton unless something went horribly wrong (I'm much less familiar with 3.0 ninjas, but I'm guessing that's probably the case). That change to mudras seems much more silly then, huh?