[dev1206] Class Reforms & Action Lists

[Cycloptichorn]

All level 50s will be noobs on the day on 1.20.

I can't wait! It's exciting.

I find the tears of the constant QQ'ers to be delicious.

[Griss]

All level 50s will be noobs on the day on 1.20.

I think most if not all players are going to be on there back foot for a while after the patch. Going to be interesting

[Krausus]

I think most if not all players are going to be on there back foot for a while after the patch. Going to be interesting

hehe I already know what cross class abilities I'm going to use and my combo/buff rotations =D

[Griss]

hehe I already know what cross class abilities I'm going to use and my combo/buff rotations =D

Oh yea i definitely have some ideas rolling around in my head. Just need the opportunity to get in and roll around in it to see what works and was dose not.

[Krausus]

Oh yea i definitely have some ideas rolling around in my head. Just need the opportunity to get in and roll around in it to see what works and was dose not.

yep cant wait ^^

[Ruri]

Oh yea i definitely have some ideas rolling around in my head. Just need the opportunity to get in and roll around in it to see what works and was dose not.

Can't wait to mess around as well Griss!

[Fendras]

Looking at the mage classes... Honestly, they look like good classes, I will say that.

The Black Mage and the class its derived from certainly look neat. It's interesting how the three elements seem to have their place: fire for crowds, lightning for spike damage, and ice for movement-altering utility. It's set up in a pretty easy-to-understand and familiar manner in which players can look at them and say "Hey, this is pretty familiar, I know what to do with these."

The White Mage and its original class seem to fit in with a woodsy place; the Aero-Tornado combo and the Stone-Quake combo (will those remain the spell names?) both look like they could be fun uses of my MP for when I'm not actively healing, and those are good, appropriate elements for nature-loving tree-huggers. Very druidic, not bad, but I'd have loved to see water, my favorite element, represented.

That being said...

I'm seriously concerned. Where's the class that "possesses the ability to call forth and command the latent aether within oneself through deep introspection" and has a mastery over "powers of life, death, and the beyond"? What happened to the class that "calls upon elemental forces present in nature"? Why is the job/class that's all about preserving one's life force and raising the dead based "where the voices of Eorzea's elementals are said to be most powerful" while the elemental nuker comes from a temple and ossuary, a place meant to serve as the final resting place of a person's remains?

If we're getting such drastic class changes in 1.20, it had better come with equally drastic changes to the guilds, the quests, the story...

[Holland]

All level 50s will be noobs on the day on 1.20.

Knowing these changes were going to be somehow drastic I refused to level other classes to 50. I think it will be very fun to try all these changes from low level

[Holland]

The list of changes looks great, the battlefield will now be filled with players running around fiends positioning properly for their WS's and combos. I like it how they gave every class something to do asides from simple auto-attack + WS. GLA(PLD) sounds that it will be awesome with that 50% HP heal xD.

@Kiote: You seem to be misunderstanding the term "Fundamental play style". On paper at least, the fundamental play style of all classes has been retained. GLA will still be tank, MRD, PGL and LNC will still deal damage in their own way (very creatively I might add) Arc still shows that will deal damage but turning more into support class like was specified, CON still seems to be the healer class and THM still seems to be the DD mage.

[Holland]

I wonder how this more dynamic play style for WS and Combos will affect Ifrit battle. The current strategy still allows players to move around Ifrit for their WS's ("From the right or left" "from behind") but LNC at some point might need to move to the front for at least one combo and at least one of his WS if I remember correctly.

One thing seems to be sure, GLA will never loose hate on Ifrit xD