Thread: Meteorologist class Suggestion

I want to suggest a new class idea i came up with! Meteorologist! Now imagine a class that gains strength based on the weather? Is it raining? then Water based spells (Rain, tsunami etc, would be stronger) If its sunny, firebased, such as comet, and if its thunder and lightning they can utilize Thunder in their Rain spell!, leave huge thunder cloud AOE, if its windy they can use tornado, or Maelstrom if its windy AND rainy!

Meteorologist should have a skill called Clear the Skys that randomly chooses weather for the meteorologist every 160 seconds, this way they can change the weather. for their skills

<THIS IS A DPS CLASS>

MAGE

Weapon of choice: Sexton, Atlas

Weather attacks:
Sunny= comet AOE (Comets rain down for 15-30 seconds)
Windy= Tornados (Tornados run randomly around doing DOT damage whilst monsters are in the Tornado, they are not stationary, they move randomly)
Rainy= Rain, rain falls down and does damage, a cloud pools and down pour happens.
Rainy+Windy= temporarily the Meteorologist can predict Wind + rain which creates a Maelstrom that heavy winds and rain form a formidable attack for 15 seconds.
Snow/blizzard= a snow based forcast that snow and blizzard coat the ground and freeze a monster randomly (not effective on bosses)
Fog: Rolling Fog aoe: causes blindness on enemy monsters, and does a dot potency, effective in large area, low Damage.

AOE Based attacks are weather based, depending on the weather.

Main attacks: Forecast: does 80 Potency, works like Physic, but the animation is based on the weather: so if its Raining they will cast a water animated attack, firey for sun, etc.

Buff: Clear the skys: changes the weather, C.D 360 seconds
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(credits Jpec07): They must have at least this one spell: "Clear Skies Ahead"

Description: On making this prediction, a storm begins to brew, and over the next thirty seconds grows in severity from severe downpour to typhoon-force winds, hail, lightning, and if it crits, a tornado.

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<THIS IS A MAGE BATTLE CLASS, that focus's heavily on AOE based on the weather!>

please consider, we need a new mage!

They should receive an OGCD PVP ability called "and now back to you Tim" which exits the opponent's instance of the game and opens a browser window with a link to today's world news...

basically the aoe attacks would be affected, they will still have normal attacks and dots

Originally Posted by Jhett_Magnum

Maybe if the weather had an effect on other classes like in Tactics. For example, Rain would make BLMs Thunder spread or increase the potency. Also I think you maybe thinking of a Geomancer.

ohhh i guess it would be called Geomancer huh..... well whatever i like the idea meteorologist/geomancer please, enough of the Melee dps, and Ranged, and healers, i want Mage next! summoner plays too dotsy, and blm is cool, but i want a new mage class, people are talking about a Samurai, or etc, what about the mages dood

Originally Posted by Konata_Izumi

ohhh i guess it would be called Geomancer huh..... well whatever i like the idea meteorologist/geomancer please, enough of the Melee dps, and Ranged, and healers, i want Mage next! summoner plays too dotsy, and blm is cool, but i want a new mage class, people are talking about a Samurai, or etc, what about the mages dood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_...character_jobs

Insofar as strict mage classes go, we're running out of FF lore to work with.

Do you know what we might enjoy, a Mage tank. We have mage DPS and mage Healers, but FF is one of the few series that could possibly pull off a mage tank. For example, a Red Mage could be a DPS with a selection of enmity-enhancing AoE spells and a few self-heals, they could wear new armor falling between dragoon and warrior in defense, and have a trait that gives them an enhanced chance to avoid damage. This would fit in with the overall history of red mage as a melee mage type.

Yah that would be cool red mage is really versatile.

I can definitely see them whipping out a Spellblade/Spellsword Job when Ala Mhigo finally rears its head, since Ilberd. I'd hope for it to be a tank, but we already have 3 tanks. 4 tanks would be almost too much - it wouldn't really have anywhere to fit in the meta. I think it'd work better as a sword-based dps class with ranged cast-bar spells alongside melee no-castbar combo skills (all of which based off the INT stat) allowing them to duck in for offense and pull away for spread mechanics and such.

Could make it where their main offensive skills are melee range, but they have dots and debuffs such that *require* them to be at range to cast. Couple that with a pair of skills on the same cooldown which allow hopping back and dashing in, and you can definitely make a really fun, dynamic caster class that I think I'd have to at least try out. D:

Would be a pretty interesting new caster without relying on the RNG inherent in the job you outlined in the OP.


//O-oh, you could even make them have a Fight or Flight style buff - a pair of them. One for Physical, one for Magical, so to maximize their damage, you want to be swapping between ranged and melee as your cooldowns come up, but it would also allow you to just sit in one form for a while to deal with certain upcoming mechanics. Getting too invested in this idea, though, so I should stop before I get to a point where any implementation that differs from this would make me disappointed...